The new ReTouch tool solves an age-old cloning problem – matching the scale and perspective of your clone source. It’s not quite in the same league as Lightroom, say, but it may be all that most photographers need. This is boosted by support for additional EXIF and IPTC data tags. Before, they were useful perhaps for short term tasks but little more, but the new ability to organize and structure Projects means that overnight the PhotoLibrary module has changed from being a simple Adobe Bridge style folder browser into a proper organizing/cataloguing tool. Previously, you could only have a simple linear list of Projects. One of the key new features in PhotoLab 6 is the ability to ‘nest’ Projects in the PhotoLibrary window in a hierarchical folder system. PhotoLab 6 is primarily a high-end raw processing and editing program, but some steady evolution through successive versions means that its turned into something more.

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Version 6 now includes perspective correction controls (at last!) but there's also a DxO ViewPoint 4 standalone program for much more advanced corrections – and once installed it integrates with the PhotoLab 6 interface.

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