Photo Viewer Acdsee

[Nadal Braymiller]

Whenyou open ACDSee Professional for the second time, you will see a dialog window that asks if you want to make ACDSee your default photo viewer. Follow the prompts to change your default photo viewer. If you do not see this dialog, follow the instructions below.

A side note: previewing RAW files is, of course, much slower, especially if you set up ACDSee to render its own high-quality previews rather than just use the embedded JPEG. In this case, it will first show the embedded preview and then switch to own render. All of this takes much more time. If you need a quick way to view RAW files as they are and discard any embedded JPEG previews, nothing beats FastRawViewer.

ACDSee Quick View is a lightweight image viewer that is launched for the single purpose of viewing images when the rest of ACDSee Pro 8 functionality is not yet necessary. So, when you first double-click on an image file somewhere in your hard drive, instead of launching ACDSee Pro 8, which can take a couple of seconds, the image is shown through Quick View, which starts up almost immediately. By default, it does not display images in full-screen mode, nor show them on a white background, as can be seen from the screenshot below:

Clicking on the preview itself will launch ACDSee QuickView much like a simple double-click on the file would, which is neat. However, the brilliance is that you can see relevant EXIF info as well as the image itself simply by right-clicking on it (video playback works, too). More than that, you can customize the size of the preview by going into options, and specify whether the preview should be located in the main menu or sub menu (which helps shrink the main menu). You can also hide the EXIF information, or hide the preview itself and only keep the EXIF.

Another brilliant panel is called Catalog. It makes cataloging (hence the title) a breeze as you can simply drag-and-drop images onto a colour label, rating or category to assign it to selected images. More than that, selecting that colour label, keyword, EXIF entry, rating or any other parameter in the Catalog panel will instantly display all images that have the said parameter assigned to them. From my experience, it works flawlessly and makes searching for specific images very, very easy.

Edit mode is mostly meant for JPEG image files and the majority of features found there support this. Using Edit mode, the following is possible among other things: adding text to an image, increasing or decreasing brightness or contrast, adding borders, usage of all sorts of Photoshop-borrowed selection tools (Lasso and Magic Wand), a bucketload of effects and filters for you to ruin your photographs with (I am only partly serious, of course), B&W conversion and more. It also has some rather RAW-specific tools, too, such as Exposure slider and White Balance adjustment, but even these are actually designed for JPEG.

At the core of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is Camera RAW, a plug-in for converting RAW files. The said plug-in has been dressed in a new set of image management and organizing clothes, and released as a standalone software. It works fairly well, but the origin of Lightroom is obviously seen in its strengths. It started off as a post-processing tool for RAW files, and that remains its strongest, most convincing feature. Not that organizing image files is tedious, oh no. As a photo manager, Lightroom has just enough functionality. Not groundbreaking, but enough to be satisfactory.

A student and a wedding photographer with a passion for cinematography and writing. You'll see me buying film even when there's no food in the fridge. Follow me on Google+, Facebook or visit my wedding photography website to see some of my work.

One thing that is not so nice about Acdsee is that everytime a raw file is developed, Acdsee stores a copy of the developed file as jpeg in hidden folder named Developed besides an XMP file in the same folder as the raw file. It is really crazy that it cannot be disabled, but the argument as far as I know, is that it speeds up viewing, but it takes up huge amounts of space.

I am now spending 90% of my time editing using LR + Photoshop + Nikk plugins not because they are the best but because I have taken the time to get good training on them (kelby training for a year). If any companies wants to replace LR they will have to find a way to train (free) their users with very efficient videos that will includes the same training files as the ones used on their videos. There is no way I will jump to different softwares without being able to get proficient rapidly.

Moreover, it is very nice to avoid constant import and export of files to/from a catalog that one must do in Lightroom. Also nice that there is no need to do a separate back up of the XMP-data in ACDSee, which is not the case with Lightroom. In Lightroom you instead have to remember to back up both the catalog and the XMP-data.

50 year high school reunion coming up and I need to create a slideshow. I personally have almost 300 photos plus however more others will have to offer. Windows Photos doesn't have a random shuffle feature anymore. Anybody know of a safe (free ?) 3rd party photo viewer that has random shuffle? I don't think that I need any other bells and whistles. We are such a cool class that we had reunions every 5 years with a class size of over 700.

Thanks everyone. It took me some 2 hours to set up the ACDSee program, put all of my photos into one folder, delete the rejects, and start a slideshow. Seems to work just fine, but will have to see what happens if I make a 1000 photo slideshow. I will check out the other photo viewers after I take a nap.

ACDSee is an image organizer, viewer, and image editor program for Windows, macOS and iOS, developed by ACD Systems International Inc. ACDSee was originally distributed as a 16-bit application for Windows 3.0 and later supplanted by a 32-bit version for Windows 95.[1] ACDSee Pro 6 adds native 64-bit support. The newest versions of ACDSee incorporate modern Digital Asset Management tools like Face Detection & Facial Recognition (Ultimate 2019).

ACDSee's main features are speed, lossless RAW image editing, image batch processing, editing metadata (Exif and IPTC), rating, keywords, and categories, and geotagging. Judging the image quality of a picture is fast due to next/previous image caching, fast RAW image decoding and support for one-click toggling between 100% and fit screen zoom mode anywhere inside the image. Most of ACDSee's features can be accessed via keyboard.

ACDSee displays a tree view of the file structure for navigation with thumbnail images of the selected folder, and a preview of a selected image. ACDSee started as an image organizer/viewer, but over time had image editing and RAW development (Pro version) capabilities added. The thumbnails generated by ACDSee are cached, so that they do not need to be regenerated, and stored on disk as a database.[2]

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 was first released in 1994 as a 16-bit application for Windows 3.1. In 1997 32-bit ACDsee 95 was released for Windows 95. 1999 saw the release of ACDSee 3.0. Version 5.0 was released in 2002, and 7.0 in 2005.[6] Development of this line continues, with version 20.0 released in 2016.

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.

In August 2012, ACD Systems released ACDSee Free, which retains all viewing features for the most common image formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TGA, TIFF, WBMP, PCX, PIC, WMF, EMF); it lacks a thumbnail browser, and support for RAW and ICO formats.[5] A reviewer at BetaNews found it "fast, configurable and easy to use".[5] The version runs on Windows XP or newer.[7] The product was discontinued in August 2013.[citation needed]

ACDSee is a viewer program that allows you to organize large amounts of photos on your PC; edit them with basic editing features such as crop, resize and red eye reduction then share them online.

The organize feature allows you to track of all your photos, easily label each file/photo and group them into albums and allows you to index your photos to search them.

The original release of ACDSee in 2006 was named

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First and foremost, Photo Studio Ultimate 2018 is an image management software. It started off as a lightweight viewer and organizer and has not lost the idea over the years. But powerful metadata and organizing capabilities are now complemented by some very useful post-processing tools for both RAW and graphic image files. More so in this high-end version than any other (and there are plenty, which explains the mouthful of a name).

As I have mentioned before, ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate was created to address all the needs of a working professional photographer or artist. As such, it incorporates powerful image management tools as well as those meant for post-processing images and specifically, RAW files.

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