Photo Director any good

The problem is with a lot of cheap software is as you get familiar with it you soon want to do more than it is capable of doing and you end up spending more, I reckon you should just buy Adobe's Lightroom and get used to its functions.

It is very easy to use, and the are plugins and filters available for it, some of which are free and others which you have to pay for.
At first you would find all the functions you need in the software. Download Gimp the GNU Image Manipulation Program. If you want a free editing package to go with it. http://www.gimp.org/
 
It was being given away last year with a magazine, and I tried it before I bought Lightroom. In terms of manipulating images, lightroom has significantly more powerful tools that deliver more pleasing results in terms of colour and tone control. There is an erase tool that lightroom doesn't have and the latest version has a few more colour-changing tools too. If you want to do basic image processing then LR is, to me, the better tool.

If you're looking for basic image processing software then also check out DXO optics pro (free trial, and v8 is also free to the end of Jan IIRC) and Perfect Photo Suite 9 (free trial again) although PPS is MUCH more powerful than Lightroom with a greater degree of image manipulation, but lacks the cataloguing capability.
 
Perfect Photo Suite 9 is a nice piece of software, so is Corel's Aftershot Pro 2, this software also allows plugins, and it even allows selective colours on BW photos
 
photo director 5 is given away in one of this months magazine ( not sure if its allowed to post the link on here? )
 
DXO Optics Pro 8 + DXO Viewpoint is being given away with various magazines for both OSX and Windows.
 
If you use Google you can find companies that give away either licensed free software or trials
 
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