![]() ![]() There’s a face-recognition option similar to that of Photoshop Elements, but PhotoDirector doesn’t have a Places option that can use GPS data to display your photos on map. You can also create Smart Collections, which automatically locate photos using criteria such as rating or date, and can even locate photos that use specific camera settings, such as shutter speeds, or a flash on night-time shots. Click on the Library tab at the top of this panel and you’ll see options for creating albums and adding keywords. PhotoDirector uses most of its screen space to display your photos, putting all its editing and organising tools into a panel that runs down the left-hand side of the screen. PhotoDirector’s organising tools aren’t quite as extensive, but they’re quick and easy to use, and are built into PhotoDirector itself rather than into a separate program. OpenCL support means that the program can use your PC’s graphics card to speed up many tasks, and Cyberlink also gives you 20GB of free online storage for backing up your photos. There are some under-the-bonnet improvements in this version of PhotoDirector as well. However, Photoshop Elements does a better job of explaining how this feature works, and our initial attempts with PhotoDirector quickly had us looking through the program’s help files for assistance. There’s also a new Photo Composer, similar to the merge feature in Photoshop Elements, that allows you to take elements from one photo and insert them into another. You could take a 4×2 grid, and PhotoDirector will figure out where each fits and stitch them together. We particularly like that photos can be a mixture of landscape or portrait shots, and that they don’t have to be in a horizontal or vertical line. There’s nothing original about this, of course, but the Panorama tool in PhotoDirector is easy to use and does a good job of filling in the gaps between overlapping or poorly aligned shots. A major addition this time around is the new Panorama tool that allows you to stitch multiple landscape shots together to produce a seamless ‘surround view’ panorama. PhotoDirector hasn’t been around for quite so long, so it’s still adding new features with each update. But, just to show that Adobe hasn’t completely run out of ideas, Photoshop Elements does gain one completely new feature and now provides the ability to personalise your Facebook profile by creating a custom cover photo for the main heading of your profile page. ![]() Even basic features such as the Crop tool have been fine-tuned, now displaying previews of four different crop settings for you to choose from. This has now been refined with more precise selection tools that make it even easier to select complex elements – including entire people – from one photo and then add them to another. One of the most powerful features in Photoshop Elements is Photomerge, which helps you to combine elements from multiple photos within a single image.
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