Acdsee Photo Manager 9 Download
Hullen Vilius
Fast-track your photo editing with software that skips straight to the fun part. Load images into ACDSee Photo Editor 11 and jump straight into GPU-accelerated layered editing with pixel-based precision targeting tools, filters, and adjustments. Photo Editor 11 is now stocked with RAW support for over 600 camera models, blended cloning, the ability to create your own color adjustments, enhanced control over text and layers, and dozens of new features to give you the flexibility to actualize composites, manipulations, polished photography, and compelling graphics with ease.
The photo manager is available as a consumer version, and a pro version which provides additional features,[3] and additional image editing capabilities.[4] In 2012, ACDSee Free was released, without advanced features.[5]
ACDSee Pro was released on 9 January 2006 aimed at professional photographers. ACD Systems decided to separate its core release, ACDSee Photo Manager, into two separate products; ACDSee Photo Manager, aimed at amateur photography enthusiasts, and ACDSee Pro which would target Professionals by adding a new package of feature sets. ACDSee Pro's development team is based out of Victoria, British Columbia and was originally led by Jon McEwan, and more recently by Nels Anvik, who oversaw ACDSee Pro 2.5 through to Pro 5. The original ACDSee software was created by David Hooper, who also added a number of features to ACDSee Pro, such as Lighting correction (formerly known as Shadows and Highlights) and Develop Mode (in version 2.0). ACDSee Pro is written in C++, with the interface built using MFC.
ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2024 is the complete solution for photographers and creatives of all levels. The software comes fully loaded with new and improved features, boosted by Artificial Intelligence (AI), to help you organize, search, and edit your photos with minimal time and effort.
From beginner to professional, ACDSee Photo Studio for Mac 10 is the total package for photographers and visual artists on the Mac platform. The software boasts time saving Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven digital asset management features to keep your photos organized, as well as a full suite of editing tools to enhance your photography.
Basic viewing capability is lightning fast; it finds and display all photos in a folder nearly instantly. You can view your photos in an Explorer style view, while seeing a more detailed view of a highlighted thumbnail, and being given an extraordinary amount of information about each photo, including aperture data, focal length, file size, image type, shutter speed, and much more. You can also sort, group, and filter your photos in just about any way you want as well.
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 2023 version of the app includes Photoshop-like layer-editing capabilities, and some of the program's tools, such as its Light EQ adjusters, are particularly good. But it falls short of top competitors in initial raw camera file conversion quality, import speed, effectiveness of some corrections, and interface usability. For those, look to our Editors' Choice photo workflow app, 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. This is 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 offers 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 offers a full mobile photo editing app for $6.99.
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 has improved. You can now create hierarchical keyword groups or choose from a selection of topics, such as Landscape, Wedding, and Portrait, but it's not as big a selection as some competitors offer, and there's no AI object identification like that in Adobe Photoshop Elements' Organizer.
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 this 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 and is now available in Develop 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 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 offers 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 barn swallow 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.
A new feature for the 2023 version are photo merging options: Panorama, HDR, and Focus Stack. I tried the panorama, and it did an excellent job stitching together shots of the Montreal skyline. You can choose to crop to a rectangle.
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.
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