And unlike Photoshop, it has nondestructive workflow and collection organization features.

Still, it goes beyond Lightroom with drawing tools, face-beautification tools, blur, and cartoon effects. But PhotoDirector lacks some powerful features Lightroom and Photoshop have, such as Subject Select and geotagged maps. You even get some impressive AI-powered image abilities like style transfer, content-aware removal, sky replacement, people masking, as well as with GIF animation. You get Photoshop-like tools such as adjustment layers, masks, text kerning, and guided edits. PhotoDirector does, however, give Adobe a run for its money in terms of photo workflow and image editing. We highly recommend PhotoDirector, though our Editors' Choice photo applications remain Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and Elements.

CyberLink's PhotoDirector combines the photo workflow features of Adobe Lightroom with functions found in Photoshop and adds hand-holding help features like those in Photoshop Elements, making it an all-in-one photo editing application for photo enthusiasts.

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