Cyberlink PhotoDirector 7 Ultra

The key functionalities offered by the Cyberlink PD7 Ultra are available in Adobe Photoshop Elements, but the design is more friendly on the eyes. Cyberlink needs lower their price to be comparable to Elements before they will find a successful product.

I wanted an easy-to-use software product for simple editing. This one makes tinting pictures easy, but doesnt have the ability to do cropping or resizing. Extremely difficult to use. It also crashed my internet. Took it back and spent the extra bucks on Adobe.

Incredibly slow software, frustrating to use (unintuitive), buggy (cant find faces in photos that clearly contain faces, meanwhile thinking a pair of shoes is a face).

Very disappointed given the ratings the software enjoys. My major complaint was that you can only download a single folder at a time. I have nearly 10,000 photos over 127 folders. I was dumbfounded to find I couldnt select all the folders at once. Even a small folder took considerable time to download. To download them all would have taken hours if not days. Because of this issue I did not get to check out all the other features. I downloaded a 30 day trial which was a wise decision. Other interested buyers should do the same.

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!

The PhotoDirector 7 Ultra offers many features that I have found very useful in curating various photo heavy accounts. The ability to cut and color correct, as well as prosaic stuff like adding watermarks simply and easily are great features. And there are so many features in this program, I could spend many more months discovering them. Unfortunately, Ill have to do just that: discover through trial and error, because the documentation for this program is confusing and sparse. I also find the interface to be counter-intuitive and often frustrating.

It is prob fine for someone who knows what there doing and I dont so that is the reason for a 3 rating I just found it very hard for me

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.

I enjoy this program, I still havent learned every detail but I am not giving up. I like the program overall. It will edit raw photos. It will organize by date, it will save my projects. I have no real complaints. I uploaded images I have edited in photo director 7.

I wanted to use this to fix some very old photos and preserve them. In the process, I realized that this PhotoDirector has a ton of features and options. Yet, I still struggle with finding the right one, to get just the right look. Perhaps because Im not a professional, but the process is not always intuitive. My favorite trick is the add and remove object, very nice way to clear out cluttered snapshots. Also, really like the ability to layer several shots. Lots of possibilities there.