Personally, I want my DAM application to really shine at data tagging, searching, scripting, sharing images and working with users to tailor specific items to their workflow. Certainly a single program that can 'do it all' would be wonderful - but at the moment - it just doesn't exist. Editing capabilities is a nice plus - but there are programs that are dedicated to that as well and do a very nice job of it.

It is a personal choice, so what is best for one might not be best for another.ĭon't forget to look beyond the photo editing tools however - that really isn't the primary reason most folks use a DAM application.Ī DAM application is used to Data Management - ie: importing, tagging, and finding your images when you need them, quickly and efficiently. In this, & its GUI, PhotoDirector is up there with the best of them. They each allow albums or collections to be created, but it's in the finer filtering adjustments that you find the differences. In this way, it has similarities with others you've mentioned. Of course, there are unbiased reviews & others with 'strings attached'.Įssentially, PhotoDirector is photo workflow software for cataloguing & editing. It's part of CyberLink's forum policy NOT to run comparisons with competing products, but you'll find plenty of reviews that do just that. For my purposes, PhotoDirector meets about 95% of my needs so it has become my 'go to' tool.

As you'd know, some can do what other cannot. I've used quite a few of the other photo editing programs to which you've referred, & still do. I know there are trials for these programs but I really don't have the time to do 5 trials and would like to narrow my search a bit. I'm a little perplexed at which product is the best.just when I thought I had a list of programs to try out, (Zoner Photostudio 14 Pro version, Photoshop Elements or Lightroom) I see Photodirector 3 is now available. I have the home version of Zoner Photostudio 14 which is MUCH faster and easier to work with than Paintshop but doesn't have as many features. I'm currently using the 30 day trial of Paintshop Pro X4 and I find it to be capable but also the interface is not very friendly and it is also pretty clunky and slow. Brightening, adjusting colors, cropping, resizing, touching up and removing items, adding borders etc, are all things I need to do to the photos before putting them in my movies. I enjoy making movies with PowerDirector that feature photos and videos and often need to edit the photos I work with.

I'm a casual photographer with an interest in preserving family photos and taking pictures of my growing children. I'm currently using Picasa to manage and edit my photos.

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