Acdsee Photo Studio Ultimate 2018 Crack Free Download
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Simplify the process of migrating and sharing category and keyword metadata by seamlessly integrating your ACDSee metadata with IPTC and vice versa. Embed ACDSee Category and ACDSee Keyword metadata to your photos to share with friends and family. Import IPTC Keyword and Category data from received photos into ACDSee, ensuring seamless photo organization, regardless of their source.
I'm curious, does anyone here use ACDsee's Photo Studio? it compliments Affinity Photo nicely. I think of Photo Studio as being analogous to LightRoom and Affinity Photo to PhotoShop. Photo Studio has excellent DAM management capabilities, and a very fast database. I have hundreds of thousands of photos and videos cataloged, and I can search for media by name or metadata and get results in seconds. Unlike LightRoom, it integrates with the file system well (Windows 10). I also perform a lot of batch development and editing using Photo Studio, but do any heaving lifting in Affinity Photo, such as compositing or merging or stacking.
I tried ACD Photo the number one thing for me which is a deal breaker is the search capability. In comparison to the popup panel in Aperture, it's extremely weak. If you haven't seen it, here's a sample screen shot. I can add any number of arbitrary rules, dates, etc. This is very useful as I have photographed certain things and places several times over the years. It really is the best photo search panel I've used.
Like Adobe, ACDSee has been around since the early days of digital photography. Despite its comparative lack of name recognition, the company's photo workflow and editing software, Photo Studio Ultimate, has partisans who prefer it to Lightroom. The 2024 version of the app includes Photoshop-like layer editing, and some of its tools (such as its Light EQ adjusters) are particularly good. But it falls short of top competitors in initial raw camera file conversion quality, generative AI tools, effectiveness of some corrections, and interface usability. For all that, look to our Editors' Choice winner among photo workflow apps, Adobe Lightroom Classic.
No matter how you pay for the software, you need to sign up for an account and respond to a verification email. The program then restarts and has you choose a default photo folder. The next step is going through an introductory wizard with a quick start guide. It takes you through the program's setup and features and is thorough and helpful. After that, you're ready to edit photos.
After you decide which photo folders you want the program to monitor, ACDSee builds a catalog. It's a database that enables nondestructive editing, saving your edits separately from the original photo files. After editing, you simply export a version of the edited image. Lightroom uses a catalog in the same way. With either app, you can keep photos on whatever storage you like, and the catalog will keep track of its location. The catalog also stores any organization information you associate with a photo, such as keyword tags, ratings, notes, and more. As with most such software, ACDSee Photo Studio Professional prompts you to create a backup of the catalog file each month. If you're upgrading from an earlier version, you may need to convert your photo collection to the latest catalog version.
You can also use ACDSee as a Photoshop plug-in, convert Lightroom catalogs for it, and integrate with OneDrive for cloud storage. Once you finish the installation, ACDSee jumps you to its web video course for beginners hosted by the company's director of photography (and noted commercial photographer), Alec Watson.
ACDSee has a good many buttons, menus, modes, panels, and toolbars, all of which can be overwhelming. It uses the pleasing black (or very dark gray) background popular among pro photo and video applications. There's no accommodation for 4K and other high-DPI displays like my BenQ QHD monitor, so menus are tiny on these screens. At least the mode buttons at the top right are big enough to be easily visible and clickable.
Like many photo programs, the left sidebar has image sources, including hard drives, and ACDSee Mobile Sync, which sucks up photos and videos from your smartphone via the ACDSee Mobile Sync app. The company also has a full iOS photo editing app for $4.99.
An Import button atop the Manage mode lets you bring pictures in from devices, disks, scanners, or CD/DVD. On import, you can choose the disk folder destination and naming convention, but you can't apply adjustment presets, as you can in CyberLink PhotoDirector and Phase One Capture One Pro. If you just want to add photos on your hard drive to ACDSee's catalog, you can't do so in the import dialog; rather, you right-click the folder in Folders view and then choose Catalog files. Lightroom Classic lets you add photos from the same Import dialog. During import, you can see thumbnails of current files and a countdown of the number of files processed and left. Import with ACDSee Photo Studio was significantly slower than for other tested programs; see the Performance section below.
Applying keywords to your photos for organization is especially impressive, since it's now automatic, powered by image AI. The software automatically applied keywords to a collection of photos, letting me instantly show all photos containing buildings, birds, people, and so on. I found it extremely accurate, down to knowing the difference between a duck and a goose. You can transfer these auto-generated keywords to your photos' IPTC metadata so that users of other software can see them.
You can also group photos into Collections and Smart Collections. To create a new collection, you right-click on the blank area in the left folder panel. It works, but it's not very intuitive. The Collection pane wasn't even enabled after installation; I had to turn it on from the Panes menu. Image baskets let you hold photos you want to work with in a temporary tray below the main display area. You can now create five image baskets, which appear as separate tabs.
One fun organization feature is maps. ACDSee Photo Studio Professional can use GPS encoding in files that have it to show the images on a map. You can also drag photo thumbnails onto the map to create pins for their locations. There's no mode button for it as there is for People, and it's not even enabled by default. You have to go into the Panes menu and check its check box. The program highlights thumbnails shot in the location you select a pin on the map; I'd prefer it. Lightroom does a better job with maps, though, with thumbnail slideshows right on the map showing photos shot at the location.
ACDSee handles cropping fairly well (if you can find the Crop tool) and is now available in Develop mode (though you can't summon it with the C shortcut, which only still works in Edit mode). It defaults to an unconstrained aspect ratio, which I prefer. I also like how you can hide the area outside the crop, and how spinning the mouse wheel changes the photo's angle. You can also straighten a photo with a guideline, but there's no tool for auto-straightening based on the horizon like Lightroom's. Note that the straightening tool is found in Develop mode's Geometry section.
The Smart Erase tool (only in Edit mode) is equivalent to Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill tool and does a decent job of automatically removing unwanted objects from a photo. Note the removed gray tape on the right side of the floor in the nearby image. Lest you think that this kind of tool is gimmicky or just for hobbyists, you should know that Andreas Gursky's Rhein II, the most expensive photo sold ($4.3 million) up till 2014, used digital manipulation to remove people and objects.
The Dehaze tool worked well enough on my test winter landscape shot, but it tends to jack up the color saturation more than I'd like. I do like that it has a brush for applying dehaze just to selected areas of the photo. Adobe's similar tool also lets you add realistic haze; ACDSee's slider can only remove haze. DxO PhotoLab does the best job at haze removal out of the box with its automatic corrections, and it doesn't introduce a color cast, as Adobe and ACDSee do.
You can also target color ranges for selection. Using Noise Reduction illustrates how it works. In the photo below, I want to keep more detail on the catbird and smooth away the noise on the out-of-focus green background. Targeting the green pixel range in the color wheel enables me to do it. The same method of selection can be used for other types of edits simply by tapping the Pixel Targeting button.
In everyday photo manipulation, ACDSee feels responsive and not as sluggish as Zoner Photo Studio (though Zoner has very good import speeds, as we'll see). Switching between modes, however, feels slower than it should.
Storage plans are still not especially generous, though they've improved since last year. You get 2GB free and pay $89 per year for 200GB or $69 for 50GB. To be fair, those plans do include application updates. Once you log in, you can upload photos via the Transfer sub-mode, including by drag-and-drop. As in Lightroom Classic's Publish Services view, you see online photos on the top of a split gallery thumbnail view and local ones at the bottom. You can drag and drop images to the ACDSee's online storage, called the SeeDrive.
At www.365.acdsee.com, you can see all your synced photos, and the public can see them too if you allow it. The attractive, dark image pages show tags and allow comments and downloading. There are some appealing photos on the Popular page, but if you're looking for a social photography experience, it's hard to beat Flickr. Instagram, though very popular, is a different beast, more about social networking than photography, and doesn't have things like EXIF or even full-size viewing.
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