Sinperium

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Cyberlink PhotoDirector 2011 Beta

Free Software

Cyberlink PhotoDirector 2011

This is a slideshow/image adjusting program from Cyberlink (you often see their oem DVD/BlueRay software bundled with PCs and devices).

I beta'd AutoFX's Pixtivity some years ago and it was very nice and basic. I wasn't expecting much from this but when I looked under the hood, Canon and Nikon provided some of the presets and adjustments and they are quite stunning.

Additionally, the program site has free user created presets you can download as well--plus the program let's you create your own.

The program allows you to create slideshows and to edit color, brightness, size effects, etc. and allow you to direct upload to some social networking sites. It will retail for $99.99 but if you enroll in the beta and respond with a report by the June 20th, the release version will be given you for free.

I do graphics as a job and have a lot of "stuff" for this but this is very nice.

This was an "invite" beta but it appears anyone can plug-in and I found a public page for it--here's the link:

http://www.cyberlink.com/stat/events/enu/2011/Q2/photodirector2011/index.jsp

FYI--this is made for anyone but it has professional format image file support that's quite extensive.

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Disturbedcomputer

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DrJBHL

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Seems to be a bit of a pain. I don't like how the cropper works, and the save results doesn't seem to keep the original in a separate folder as Corel's PSPPhotox2/x3 do...

Seems a bit kludgy.

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Sinperium

Join Date 02/2010

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Things to mention in the beta report.

When companies put out simple approach apps like this they always lack features or versatility of the pro tools...but for so one on a budget or just starting to work with graphics, this can be helpful and, the price is right. Good quality on the filters and conversions and a nice basic set of presets. Free is good. I didn't need the free graphics program you just posted but it is great for someone starting who doesn't have Photoshop and the like. My first paying graphics were done with Paintbrush in Windows 3.0 using images scanned in with a 150dpi, 4" hand scanner and then followed with cutting and pasting -- as in, " with scissors and glue on paper". Gimp was my first layered graphics app and I worked my way up on freeware and betas. I always appreciate them.

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2of3

Join Date 10/2006

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Quoting Sinperium,

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My first paying graphics were done with Paintbrush in Windows 3.0 using images scanned in with a 150dpi, 4" hand scanner and then followed with cutting and pasting -- as in, " with scissors and glue on paper".

Been there, buddy. The business I worked for in the early 90's had books of scrap art that they used to make posters and newpaper ads. I was the one who "took them out of the dark ages" and scanned all the graphics (like you, with a hand held scanner) and saved them onto disks. I got pretty good at running the scanner over the image at a constant rate to prevent distorting the image.

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