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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.
Like Adobe, ACDSee has been around since the early days of digital photography. Despite its comparative lack of name recognition, ACDSee's professional photo workflow and editing package, ACDSee Photo Studio Professional, has long had partisans who prefer it to Lightroom. ACDSee continues to develop its software, and face recognition is the biggest add for the 2019 version. Some of the program's tools, such as its Light EQ adjusters, are particularly good. It's also one of the faster photo workflow apps, but it still falls short of competitors like Editors' Choice Adobe Lightroom in initial raw camera file conversion quality, effectiveness of corrections, and interface usability.
No matter how you obtain the software, you need to sign up for an account and respond to an email verification. The program then restarts, has you choose a default photo folder, and then you're ready to edit photos. The next step is going through an introductory wizard with a quick-start guide. This takes you through the program's features, and is thorough and helpful.
After choosing your photo folder, you get the option of building a catalog. This is a database that enables non-destructive editing, saving your edits separately from the original photo flies. After editing, you simply export a version of the edited image. Lightroom(9.99 Per Month at Adobe) uses a catalog in exactly 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 you do 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.
I like the clear icon design for mode switching, compared with CyberLink PhotoDirector's basic text buttons. The 365 button next to the mode buttons lets you upload photos to ACDSee's cloud storage. Photos and View only differ in the number of images you see on the screen (lots for the former, one for the latter). Like Lightroom and PhotoDirector, ACDSee Photo Studio Professional now lets you customize which modes appear in the interface (aside from Manage, which, for obvious reasons, is required) in Tools > Options > General > Mode Configuration.
The program supports touch gestures, which I tested on my touch-screen PC, pinch-zooming and swiping through photos in a folder. I found, however, that these interactions weren't very responsive or reliable. Lightroom Classic's touch support is way ahead of ACDSee's in this regard. Also, buttons and menu choices are too small for the occasional screen tap. The app displayed just fine on a 4K-resolution screen in my testing, however.
As you might expect, importing and organizing happens in the Manage mode. You can choose to rename files on import and to enter metadata, such as keywords. You can't, however, apply adjustment presets, and in general the import is less robust than what Lightroom and PhotoDirector offer. Unlike Lightroom, ACDSee Photo Studio Professional doesn't require you to import: as with DxO PhotoLab, you can simply open a photo file wherever it sits and it will be added to the app's database.
ACDSee can open video and music, as well as photos, but I wish it were easier to tell the program only to display photos in Manage view. Lightroom makes it easier to see just your last import. ACDSee supports raw camera formats from most popular professional and prosumer models. The support is updated regularly for new cameras, though it's slower to support new models than competitors are. For example, there's no support for the Canon EOS R.
Organization options include ratings, color-labels, captions, and categories (such as People, Places, and Various). You don't get nearly as much help in entering keywords as you do with Lightroom; you're on your own for creating grids of preset keywords. You can also group photos into Collections and Smart Collections. In order 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. An image basket lets you hold photos you want to work with in a temporary tray below the main display area.
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. I found the feature inconsistent, sometimes including photos taken nowhere near where you clicked on the map. Lightroom does a better job with maps, though, with thumbnail slideshows right on the map showing photos shot at the location.
Face detection has come to ACDSee with the 2019 version, but as with some other organizing features in the program, it's not as well-thought-out as in some competing products, such as Lightroom and PhotoDirector. The program automatically finds faces in your collection. To see them, you need to be in Photo mode (not Manage mode, which would make sense to me), and then enable the Face Detection pane. You see the detected face, and you may notice that the space under the photo lets you type a name. The program did find other photos with the same person's face, but it doesn't clearly take you through the process as other software does.
ACDSee handles cropping fairly well, but the tool isn't included in Develop mode (you have to go to Edit mode). It now defaults to 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.
New for the mode is the Smart Erase tool. This 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 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 contrast more than I'd like. I do like that it offers a brush for applying dehaze just to selected areas of the photo. One difference from Adobe's tool is that that lets you add very 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. The screenshot above compares the dehaze tools in ACDSee, DxO, and Lightroom (left to right), all set to 50 percent.
Noise removal is in the Edit mode, and it does smooth out noise, but there's no Auto option, so you have to eyeball it. There is, however, an interesting View option that only shows the noise, not the photo, in gray scale. ACDSee throws in 10 LUTs for use with the new LUT tool, and they're fun to try, with names like Elegance, Film, and Tinsel. You can also import LUTs in CUBE and 3dl formats. The updated Black & White conversion tool is indeed powerful, with brightness sliders for eight colors. I would like to see presets for the B&W conversion, however.
ACDSee posted a 2:19 (minutes:seconds) time on the test. That is respectable compared with other programs I've tested. ON1 Photo RAW took 1:49 for the import to complete, Lightroom took 2:35, Capture One took 2:41, and PhotoDirector led with 1:03. AfterShot Pro took 1:04, but that was just for adding photos to its database and creating previews, without actually moving the image file data.
ACDSee Photo Studio Professional's 365 mode is the starting point for sharing. In fact, the mode embeds a web browser into the application, where you sign into a cloud account. 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 in 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 offer things like EXIF or even full-size viewing.
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