PhotoDirector 365

Manage images, fix photo problems and get creative

- George Cairns

£49.99 annual subscription/£13.99 monthly subscription FROM cyberlink.com NEEDS macOS 10.14 or later

For decades now, Adobe has been the king of the image-editing castle. Lightroom enables you to organise, fix and share your photos while Photoshop lets you to edit them creatively using extra tools such as layers, text, and filter effects. Over the years, various challengers have risen up to try and seize a chunk of Adobe’s territory and PhotoDirector 365 may have a fighting chance of success.

PhotoDirector 365’s key strength is that it combines Lightroom and Photoshop-style tools into one app. PhotoDirector 365 enables you to make Lightroom style selective adjustments using graduated filters. It then lets you add new layers of content to the edited image to create the type of work you might produce in Photoshop. While Lightroom and Photoshop users subscribe to those apps for around £120 per year, you can subscribe to PhotoDirector 365 for less than half that price at £49.99. Subscribers to PhotoDirector 365 also receive new tools to download every quarter, keeping it fresh and functional. As a subscriber you can download a host of extra assets such as art filters, template layouts, and even stock photos.