Review by Nancy Famolari

I have used Photo Director Five for a year. It is adequate photo editing software with some nice features. Photo Director Six, however, is more sophisticated and gives new ways to enhance and manage your photos. The user interface hasn’t changed much. If you’re familiar with Photo Director Five it’s basically the same: a large window for your photo, editing tools run down the left side, and thumbnails of your photos for editing across the bottom.

The installation and registration went smoothly. I use the Windows version for Windows 7, but it also works on Mac.

The new tools I particularly like are body shaper, face swap, and the ability to remove unwanted figures from the photo. Body shaper is great fun. It allows you to pull in the outline of a figure, an easy way to lose fifty pounds. The face swap is handy for selecting the best facial expressions for a group photo from several versions of the picture. Being able to remove unwanted from your photo is a great way to clean up the background.

The slide show is easy to set up, just drag the photos from the thumbnail list at the bottom into the picture section above. You can sequence them any way you want. My only criticism is that it’s a very basic slide show. Cyberlink Power Director has more interesting slide shows. However, this slide show is adequate to display your photos.

My favorite feature of the Cyberlink products is the extensive presets that can be used to give your pictures different HDR effects, enhance the scenery, change skin tone, and a number of others. Additional presets can be downloaded from Cyberlink.

Photo Director Six is a useful tool for editing photos and relatively inexpensive. I recommend it for quick editing. I like some of the features better than either Adobe Photoshop Elements, or Corel Paintshop Pro.