

That’s a pretty common format to be omitting these days. On the other hand, I was nonplussed that the PhotoDirector 6 wouldn’t import a. Yes, you can take the one photo where junior isn’t crying and put his face in the one photo where you’re not exasperated to fool the grandparents.

PhotoDirector 6 has gained a very intelligent and effective (but rather slow) panorama builder that handles photos of the same subject that don’t necessarily share a horizon line, and a face swapper that allows you to utilize or merge the best expressions from a series of photos. It’s a simple thing, but it makes solving color problems in video much, much easier. The split-tone editing allows you to adjust color and levels separately for highlights and shadows.

The results compare quite well with what I’ve seen from ProDAD’s Mercali and VirtualDub/Deshaker. The video stabilization works considerably better than previous iterations, producing fewer compensation artifacts such as jumps and black borders. As I shoot a lot of iffy video, I headed first to PowerDirector 13’s improved TrueTheater video image stabilization and ColorDirector 3’s split-tone video editing.
