Search lets you find images by any criteria. The Calendar pane organizes and displays images by date.
The efficiencies include batch editing of IPTC and Exif metadata, file names, rotation, resizing, color cast removal, sharpening and more.īut when you want to focus on a single image, Pro provides all the tools you need to make highlight and shadow adjustments, fix common problems from skin blemishes to lens flare, heal (maintaining color, lighting and texture) or clone problem areas, crop, rotate, resize, apply over 40 filters and correct perspective and lens distortions.īesides ratings, Pro helps you organize your images by date, format, size, metadata and keywords. You can manage the various window panes, view files with non-standard image extensions, customize the Properties tab, create custom Info Tips, set ratings as easily as tagging images and create contact sheets. You can choose which buttons are displayed on the File List toolbar. You can also customize the interface so it makes sense to you. Using the Browser, Viewer or Compare Images tool, a single keystroke lets you tag or untag an image. Tagging lets you quickly identify your favorite shots. And a histogram is displayed for each image. There are underexposure warnings so you can adjust threshold values. You can lock photos so the zooming and panning you do to one affects them all. That includes Raw files and Adobe's DNG format, too.Ī Compare Images tool shows each of up to four file's properties below the thumbnail, highlighting differences in bold.
There's full ICC and ICM profile support and conveniences like visual tagging to help you manage your collection of images.ĪCDSee's heritage is instant full screen viewing of thumbnails in over 100 different formats. And those photos can be Raw files or JPEGs.
The company's photo products include its $39.99 ACDSee 9 photo manager and the $129.99 Pro version, its $69.99 ACDSee Photo Editor and its $29.99 FotoSlate 4 Photo Print Studio.ĪCDSee Pro lets you view, process, edit, organize, catalog, publish and archive your photo collections. Additionally, ACD Systems has been honored with numerous awards and industry recognition from leading business, technology and trade publications, corporate and photography associations and shareware sites. Today Daimler Chrysler, Boeing and NASA rely on ACD Systems for asset management and technical illustration solutions.
(formerly Linmor Technologies Inc.) and technical illustration software developer Deneba Solutions Inc. The company currently counts close to a million downloads per month of its software.ĪCD Systems diversified its business in 2003 by acquiring 410124 Canada Inc. As a shareware program, ACDSee quickly built a global user base now estimated to be over 25 million users. The company hoped to make a name for itself with the fastest software JPEG decoder on the market.Īfter a good bit of research and development, ACDSee was born, quickly evolving into a dominant player in the image viewing and management market.ÊACDSee became the de facto JPEG decoder/viewer for Mosaic, the very first Web browser. changed its name on Apas it evolved into a software developer for the nascent CD-ROM cataloguing industry. Initially incorporated in 1989, ACD Systems Ltd. Let's take a look at the company and its flagship product ACDSee Pro, the premium edition that handles Raw formats. And certainly, if you prefer to edit the pixels, it's an excellent choice. According to Paul Ellis, ACD Systems product technology manager, "Non-destructive JPEG editing is something that we are considering forÊa future release." Meanwhile, it's otherwise a complete toolbox at a very reasonable price, suitable for anyone from student to pro. If you're shooting primarily Raw format, look into them, too.ĪCDSee is evolving, too. If you are shooting dozens of images at a time or doing lots of batch processing on your images, you should look into the workflow solutions that offer metadata editing. It compares not to Aperture and Lightroom but to Photoshop Elements. With the exception of Raw processing, ACDSee changes the pixel data, like traditional image editing software. Products like Lightroom and Apple's Aperture have changed how images are edited, leaving the pixel data alone in favor of appending a recipe of changes to the metadata header of the image file. Like Lightroom, it has relied on user feedback to evolve into a particularly useful tool.īut the photo workflow software category is not just evolving anymore.
The Imaging Resource Digital Photography NewsletterĪCD Systems ( ) calls ACDSee Pro a "photo manager." Designed to streamline a photographic workflow, it competes on the Windows platform only with Adobe's Lightroom.