Cyberlink PhotoDirector 7 Ultra

I have to admit that I am not good at figuring out how to use these types of programs. I get frustrated and give up on them if theyre difficult. The easiest way for me to learn something is to watch a tutorial, so thats what I looked for first. I clicked the help button and then the first item on the drop down list. That took me to the website where there were 17 tutorials which covered the basic how tos in a very easy to follow manner. So, within minutes, I was EASILY editing photos. So, if you have any problems, or want to learn this quickly, watch the tutorials!

I have played with many photo editing software programs over the years. This one is fairly straight forward and fairly easy to use. I had to hunt and peck for awhile as I was new to its layout. But, overall after you see the breakdown, etc. it is not too hard to navigate. It does have some powerful abilities, but in my opinion not as powerful as photoshop. Although, it does allow layers to be built and merged which is similar to photoshop. I did not see a quick way to control each layers transparency etc. as I am accustomed to in Photoshop. I originally opened the program with a photo to edit and simply wanted to flip it horizontally. I looked for a long time and only found a way to rotate it. Which is not the same at all. While continuing to feel my way around in the program, I ended up importing another pic and then discovered that via layers, you could flip the pic. It will take a bit more exploring and learning the programs abilities to get the entire ease of its use - but overall it does seem to be a strong and solid editing program for its price range.

This software was misrepresented in the Online reviews. It did not organize my photos in date order. Nor was it intuitive. Several settings were required to print a picture! I returned it to Amazon and had to eat the cost since Amazon does not credit opened software. I was not told this before I returned it, so at this point I am equally unhappy with Amazon.

When choosing between this and Photoshop & Lightroom it was real close, but ultimately not having to pay a subscription fee pushed me over to Cyberlink PhotoDirector. It has many of the same feat as Adobe, and Ive found it fairly intuitive. Plus paying less than $50 for it made it a steal.

This program is a joke, and is not user friendly

hard to understand but good program

I liked all the options in this software. There were a lot of filters you could use. You could transfer objects in and out and change things you dont like. You can work in layers.