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Cyberlink PhotoDirector 9 – Complete Photo Adjustment & Design
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The definitive photo editing solution, PhotoDirector 9 features a wide range of easy-to-use tools built for creating stunning family photos, travel and landscape shots and perfect portraits. All delivered with an unrivalled set of supported RAW formats, lens profiles and now creating pictures from 360º photos and video. PhotoDirector is the best photo editor of the year. This is mainly because of CREATIVITY. You can make unforgettable photos that stand apart from the others. Millions of PhotoDirector fans are turning the ordinary into extraordinary!

PhotoDirector 9:

http://bit.ly/Promo2day_PhD9

Current version: 9

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Direct Download Link (trial version): 

http://update.cyberlink.com/Retail/Photo...loader.exe

Compare PhotoDirector Versions:

https://www.cyberlink.com/products/photo...en_US.html

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File Size: 363.16 MB 
 
Languages: English, Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, Spanish, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), German, French, Italian, Dutch

Release Date: 2017, September 20

License Type: 30-day trial version

Limitations of the FREE Trial:

Enjoy a 30-day trial of premium features from PhotoDirector 9 Ultra, including Video-to-Photo (after 30 days only photo capturing is supported), Face Tagging, Photo Stacking, Spot Removal, Brush/Selection Brush, Gradient Mask, Radial Filter, HDR Effects, RGB Curves, Split Toning, Levels, Auto Denoise, Lens Correction, Edit Tab Tools, Layer Editing

Installation and Activation:

Installation of the program is very easy. After you download the retail version or the free trial, simply double click on the installer and follow simple instructions till the program installation is complete. If this is the retail version you will need to activate online using the license key you have received after purchase

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Registration:

After activation of the program, you can optionally register the program online using a built in form. You will have many benefits from the company as a registered user

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User Interface:

The user interface is very friendly and easy to use. It is well arranged to help you especially if you are novice user. The user interface shows 4 main parts; photoDirector modules, adjustment panel, photo browser panel and photo viewer window.

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File menu:

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Edit menu:

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Phot:

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View Menu:

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Help menu:

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Premium features are available for 30 days, after which you will need to purchase PhotoDirector 9 Ultra to continue using them. After 30 days, non-premium features remain functional.
 
MPEG-4 video slideshow production is only supported on Windows 10/8.1/8/7 systems or hardware platforms offering independent MPEG-4 encoding
2K/4K resolution MPEG-4 video slideshow is not supported
H.265 video is not supported
Watermarks added to saved photos after 30-day trial has expired

Purchase:

Buy Now Link: 

http://www.cyberlink.com/store/photodire...581_-1_809

After purchase, you will receive an email including the license key and a alink to download the retail version

Camera Support/ Tested Camera Brands/ Raw Formats:

https://www.cyberlink.com/products/photo...en_US.html

Supported Formats:

Photo (Import):  

 JPG, TIFF, RAW*, PNG, PHI, BMP

Photo (Export):

JPG,TIFF, PNG, PHI, GIF

Video (Import): MP4, WMV

Slideshow :  MPEG-4, WMV

Minimum System Requirements:

Operating System: Windows 10/8.1/8/7 - Mac OS X v10.9 or later
Screen Resolution: 1024 x 768, 16-bit color
Memory: 2GB required, 3GB for 32 bit OS, 6GB for 64 bit OS
Hard Disk Space: 1 GB required  
Graphics Support: 128 MB-VRAM
Processor: Intel Core i-Series or AMD Phenom II
Internet Connection: Required for initial software activation, video codec activation and social media services

Key Features:

PhotoDirector for Family Memories:

While there are hundreds of family photo ideas out there, your family is one of a kind. PhotoDirector is designed to help you create stunning family memories, unique to you.

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Perfect Group Photos, Everytime
Use PhotoDirector’s Video-to-Photo Face Swap to instantly create perfect group photos from video footage. Ensure everyone is smiling, and all eyes are open!

More Lens Profiles:
PhotoDirector supports an ever-growing collection of more than 100 lens profiles that allows it to quickly and accurately fix common lens flaws.

Create Your Own GIFs NEW
Animated GIFs are a fun way to turn videos into short, creative images. They're perfect for sharing short clips on social media like Facebook, or can also be used on web pages and blogs to create more engaging content.

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Easier Photo Management
Instantly identify people in photos, then sort and store them for easy browsing later.

Intelligently Fix Photos Fast:
Automatically redistribute the tonal values in an image and get rid of unwanted color casts.

PhotoDirector for Travel

Believe it or not, creating great travel shots isn't that hard. And you don't need expensive cameras and lenses. PhotoDirector's one-click presets instantly improve your images.

Total 360º Photo Editing:
PhotoDirector makes it easy to create spectacular images with photos taken using 360º cameras. It's a whole new perspective

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Your Own Little Planet:
Turn your photos into a world of their own in just a few quick clicks with the new Little Planet feature. Watch the demo video above to see just how easy it is.

Panoramas from 360º Shots:
Creating panorama images has never been easier. With a 360º image and PhotoDirector you're well on your way to creating truly panoramic shots.

Hide Tripods:
Ensure that your 360º photos are picture perfect. Cover your tripod or selfie-stick with a range of options so they don't distract from the focus of your image.

Stunning Photos from Video:
With PhotoDirector you can take the perfect picture from your videos. With just a click you can capture a razor-sharp still image that you can use to create your own perfect timelapse, group photo, multi-exposure or layered image.

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Intelligent Content-Aware Editing:
Remove objects or people from photos simply by brushing over them or move objects from one part of a shot to another. PhotoDirector instantly fills spaces using an intelligent algorithm that blends perfectly with the surrounding background.

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One-click Presets:
Create impressive photos with creative presets featuring HDR, black & white, and split tone ranges as well as presets designed for portraits & landscapes.

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Photos with Motion:
Motion Stills are an amazingly creative twist on standard photographs. Brush over sections of a video clip to retain movement in that area only. Other parts appear frozen in time!

PhotoDirector for Landscapes:

Give yourself the best chance of landing great photos with PhotoDirector's easy-to-use tools for creativity and correction in landscape projects.

Layer Editing Made Easy:
Express Layer Templates contain all the layer components that make up complex images. With more blending modes, they're an easy way to put together stunning images.

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More Blending Modes:
Blending layers offers amazing creative possibilities for combining multiple photos into a single breathtaking image in a way that is effortless.

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Sharper Images, Better Clarity:
Dehaze your images and remove haze, fog and smog to reveal crisp landscape views. Defringe your images to get rid of distracting color fringes, for a sharper look.

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RAW Format Support:
PhotoDirector not only supports JPEG and TIF files, but also a broad range of popular and proprietary RAW file formats from the world’s leading digital camera manufacturers.

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Creative Overlay Templates:
Combine semi-transparent images with your photos to create unique shots instantly.

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PhotoDirector for Portraits

PhotoDirector is packed with unique portrait tools that help bring out your subject's unique characteristics, turning average photos into exceptional ones.

Radiant Skin
Make every face perfect with skin smoothening to remove wrinkles, blemish, shine, eye bags and red eye removal.
 
Face Retouching
Take off extra pounds with an easy slider to reshape faces for a slimmer look. Enlarge the eyes too for added attraction.

Adjust Skin Tone
Intelligently adjust skin tone in your portraits for the look you are after. Give your subjects healthier looking skin or a perfect tan in moments.

Body Reshaper Tool
Unique Body Shaper tool lets you quickly apply adjustments to the body’s natural contours. Give your photo shoots a professional feel.

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Other features:

Perfect portraits:
Easy-to-use retouching tools make pro-like enhancements of portraits, selfies, and group shots achievable for even complete beginners.

Filters, effects & blurs:
Get that unique look and feel you're after with PhotoDirector's unmatched library of photo adjustments.

Photography essentials:
For the advanced photographers PhotoDirector offers extensive support for a vast selection of commercial camera lenses, bodies and RAW formats that streamlines the editing process.

DirectorZone and Cyberlink cloud: These are built in features that allows you to connect online directly to the director zone website where you find many tutorials, presets and many more or to the cloud space where you store your photos. The cloud space will be available with purchase so that you have space to store your photos.

Latest features and updates:

360º Photo Editor:
Fix 360º photos using the straighten and tripod removal tools.
Apply color, lighting, and others adjustments to 360º photos.
Use 360º photos to create panoramas.
Create new little planet photos

More Photo Adjustment Tools:
Brighten the colors in photos using the dehaze feature to make them clearer.
Remove color fringing on high contrast edges with the defringe feature.

New Creative Tools:
Auto create panoramas from imported video clips.
Output multi exposure photos as animated GIFs.
Create motion stills - animated GIFs on a still photo background.
Produce classic animated GIFs quickly from your imported photos.

More Advanced Layer Tools:
Add drop shadows and borders to layer objects.
Distort photo objects for more creative layer composites.
10 new blending modes for layer projects.

More PhotoDirector Improvements:
Import and export user interface improvements.
IPTC profiles for batch metadata editing.
Page size layout profiles for easier printing.

Let’s discuss the use and features of the program:

Importing Photos:  

The first step when using CyberLink PhotoDirector is to import your photos into the program. CyberLink PhotoDirector supports a variety of different photo file types, including most camera RAW file formats.

CyberLink PhotoDirector supports the following photo file formats:

Photos: JPEG, PNG, TIFF.

RAW photo formats: the program supports the import of most camera RAW photo formats.

You can import photos into CyberLink PhotoDirector from your computer's hard drive, a digital camera, and also from removable devices, such as memory cards and portable hard drives.

Select one of the following import options Photos, Folder, From Camera, From Cloud. You can enable select subfolders and exclude possible duplicates. Advanced Import Options are available such as rename, apply presets and many more

You can import videos files into CyberLink PhotoDirector, and then capture selected video frames. These video frames are imported as new photos into the library, where they can be adjusted, edited, and much more.

CyberLink PhotoDirector is comprised of six main modules:

Library, Adjustment, Edit, Layers, Create, and Print.

Photodirector Library:

You can open the photo library by a simple click of the Library button at the top of the window. Imported photos are stored in the photo library. You can easily organize them in a smart collection, folder, album, and by keyword tags. The photo library has two tabs: Project and Metadata. The project database keeps track of photo location and information. The metadata section lets you view the detailed embedded information for the current photo or photos that are selected

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Adjustment:

The adjustment module includes many built in features that help you to easily touch up and make adjustments to the photos in your library. You can apply presets, crop and rotate photos, apply gradients, remove spots, red-eye, and make other corrections. You can also adjust white balance, sharpness, color, and much, much more. Adjustment module has two tabs, manual and presets

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Edit:

The Edit button allows you to touch up the faces in your photos, apply effects, remove objects and backgrounds, create panoramas and multi exposure photos, apply watermarks and frames on your photos, and much more. This section includes People Beautifier, Photo Effects, 360º Photo Editor, Object Removal, Extract or Compose, Photo Merge, Frames & Watermarks.

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Layers:

Layers are a background photo, and any photos, graphics, text, and shapes you add on top of it. Each layer you add onto your selected background photo will be located in below it in the Layer Manager. If it is not transparent or blended, it may cover it. The Layers button lets you easily perform advanced photo composing to create stunning images using multiple images, text, and mask layers.

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Create:

This built in tool has many useful features. You can use your photos to create amazing slideshows with background music, animated GIFs, and Motion Stills. The process is very easy. Simply, select the create button, then click on one of the three available options and add your images. Finally, follow simple on screen instructions to complete

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Once you have finished adjusting and editing your images or creating new photo composites with layers, you can save and export them to create new photo files, or share them on Facebook or Flickr. In addition, you can easily print them; many options are available for you such as print one at time, print multiple photos on a single sheet of paper, and also add watermarks to your printed photos.

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The photo browser panel allows you to browse all the photos in the project library. You can select a collection, folder, album, tag, etc. in the library panel. All the included photos display in the photo browser panel. The browser will help you to search for photos, stacking photos, entering 360 editor, create virtual photos

The photo viewer window displays a preview of a photo selected in the photo browser panel. Any adjustments you make to photos are viewable in the photo viewer window as well. When you import photos, the program automatically creates and saves your new project in the .phd file format. The file menu options allows you to create a new project or open an existing one.

PhotoDirector preferences (settings):

Use the program preferences to set the UI language, project backup frequency, file handling, and more.
 
General Preferences:

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Project Preferences:

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DirectorZone Preferences:

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File Handling Preferences:

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Improvement Program Preferences:

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CyberLink Cloud Preferences:

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Hardware Acceleration Preferences:

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You can use the online LEARNING to help you doing what you need. Visit here:

https://www.cyberlink.com/learning/photo...ctor-ultra

Conclusion

PhotoDirector is the best photo editor software with a comprehensive set of tools and easy-to-use features that make it easier than ever to professionally edit, organise and adjust photos. In addition, you can download thousands of FREE users created presets from the largest creative editing community (DirectorZone).
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Thanks for excellent review, tarekma7.
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very well detailed review thanks
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Well wrote review which explains it all.
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Best review! Thank you.
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I hope our members show more interaction if you want to have good giveaways

You can download the software, read the review, try to use, comment with your experience and so on
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Thanks for the nice review
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