Features
With even more ways to access
critical information, accelerate your
workflow, and perfect your photos,
you’ll be amazed by the results — and
the time you save.
Manage Mode
Folder Tree
-IMPROVED
Fluid
Folder Viewing
ACDSee
seamlessly displays your files in
the same style as you see them in
your OS’s folder tree, which means
no adjusting to change, and no undue
searching.
(No) Importing
For an
Instant Start
Connect
directly to the folders on your
computer — no importing into a
separate library. Organize and
catalog your photos as you get them
from your device for increased speed
and performance. Customize your
workspace to suit your style, switch
between multiple databases, and
access external editors with
seamless simplicity.
Batch
Whip up a
Batch
Perform a
range of workflow steps on batches
of images at once, including edits,
converting formats and color space,
resizing, naming, and much more.
Easily save them as presets to work
even faster the next go around.
Metadata
Get into
the Nuts and Bolts
Enjoy full
support for EXIF, IPTC, and XMP
metadata. Save time by creating
presets for ongoing use or for
sharing, and copying and pasting
metadata on the fly. You can also
strip out valuable details to keep
your proprietary information
private.
Search
No More
Senseless Searching
Find images
based on metadata, file properties,
date, event, keyword, rating, color
label, and GPS location. Build and
save detailed searches. Enter single
words or phrases, search only
specific folders, narrow it down by
your camera's file information, or
find that one special image with the
Quick Search bar.
Organize
Your
Slick System
Add ratings,
hierarchical keywords, categories,
and location data to your images.
Quickly identify photos for further
processing with visual tags or
customizable color labels.
Map
Global
Grouping
Find and
organize your photos by location,
instantly view the location of
images from GPS-enabled cameras, or
quickly fill in the information
yourself. Select a pin on the map,
choose “Reverse Geocode”, and ACDSee
will write the matching location
details into the corresponding IPTC
fields.
SeeDrive - NEW
See
Clearly, Even into the Cloud
Access and
manage your online images quickly
and easily, control privacy
settings, and share with your
family, friends, and the world — all
from the convenience of Manage mode,
with ACDSee SeeDrive.
View Mode
Gestures - NEW
Quite the
Gestures
Browse through
your photo collection with a flick
of the finger. ACDSee Pro 8 now
features support for Windows Touch
Gestures™-enabled devices.
Auto Lens View
- NEW
Through
Each Lens
Freely preview
what your images would look like
with a variety of filters on the fly
with the Auto Lens View.
Auto EQ - NEW
Commitment-Free Exposure Enhancement
Experience
your images with an instant exposure
boost as you view them with Auto EQ.
Secondary
Monitor Support
Double Up
With support
for a secondary monitor, you can see
a large preview of any image you
select, making the review process
feel even faster.
Develop/Edit Mode
Pixel
Targeting - New
Aim Your
Edits
Selectively
adjust pixels with a variety of Edit
mode tools by targeting specific
colors and tones within the image.
Even target skin tones! Combine
Pixel Targeting with the Edit Brush
for the ultimate in precision
editing.
1-Step EQ -
NEW
Responsive Brightening
Experience the
ease of effortless automatic
exposure adjustment with 1-Step EQ.
ACDSee’s patented LCE (Lighting and
Contrast Enhancement) technology
powers 1-Step EQ’s intuitive
improvements right as you open the
image.
Edit Mode
Fill
Tool - NEW
Get Your
Fill
Use the Edit
Mode Fill tool to select a color to
enrich with your chosen background
color for speedy enhancements.
History Window
- NEW
Turn Back
Time
View your
adjustment history with the Edit
mode History Window and return to a
specific adjustment, regardless of
how many changes you’ve made since.
You can also undo all of your
changes at once.
Filters - NEW
Evocative
Embellishments
For that
oft-needed dash of quirkiness or
nostalgia, apply a variety of brand
new effects without needing to go
through a cumbersome, technical
multi-step process.
Improved
Selections - IMPROVED
With a new
streamlined gui designed for
efficiency, the Selections and
Drawing tools are now more
accessible than ever, allowing you
to focus your adjustments exactly
where you want them, and add drawing
assets as you work.
Navigation
Window - IMPROVED
Get up
Close and Personal
The improved
Edit mode Navigator automatically
takes the guesswork out of zooming
into the smaller details.
Advanced Color
A Whole
Spectrum of Color Improvements
(Non-destructive editing available)
A Whole
Spectrum of Color Improvements
(Non-destructive editing available)
Adjust individual or overall color
with Advanced Color tools. Subtly
fine-tune or dramatically change the
hue, saturation, and lightness.
Gradients
Progress
the Punch
(Non-destructive editing available)
Apply a radial
or linear gradient— while correcting
lighting, saturation, fill light,
contrast, clarity, add effects, and
more — to gradually progress outward
from a center point or subtly across
your photo.
Sharpening
Sharpen
Smarter
(Non-destructive editing available)
Suppress
sharpening halos, soften noise and
texture, target edges, control the
amount of sharpened pixels around
each edge, and specify the lightness
value the pixels within an edge must
be before they are sharpened.
Geometry/Repair Tools
Fix It Up
Just How You Like It
(Non-destructive editing available)
Reduce red
eye, adjust geometry, and fix
perspective, distortion, and lens
vignetting with full control over
pixel size and resolution.
Lighting
Take Your
Lighting out of the Dark Ages
(Non-destructive editing available)
Get amazing
HDR results by adjusting areas that
are too light or too dark with the
Lighting tool, powered by ACDSee’s
patented LCE (Lighting and Contrast
Enhancement) technology. Instantly
lighten shadows and reduce
highlights in one click, adjust
individual sliders, and change the
tonal range and color balance.
Brush
Selectively Adjust
(Non-destructive editing available)
The versatile
Edit Brush allows you to subtly or
dramatically apply any editing
effect to a very specific part of
your photo. Correct exposure, change
the color, adjust fine details, or
add trippy special effects here and
there. Dynamically alter your brush
size and feathering amount as you
go.
Split Toning
Tone it
up
(Non-destructive editing available)
Take complete
control over the balance of tones in
the shadows and highlights of your
image with Split Toning. Tint your
highlights with one color, and your
shadows with another to create a
vivid toning effect. Make hue-based
brightness adjustments to your
monochrome images, and add a
specific hue back to black and white
images with saturation-based
tinting.
Heal and Clone
Picture
Perfect
(Non-destructive editing available)
Erase flaws,
blemishes, and other unwanted
objects with the dynamic Heal and
Clone options. You can even copy and
paste an adjustment — such as the
removal of sensor-related dust spots
— onto multiple similar images.
365 Mode
ACDSee 365
Command
the Cloud
Fully
integrated with ACDSee Pro 8, ACDSee
365 provides you with hassle-free
access to other innovative software
solutions, sharing, cloud-based
photo management, and storage.
Backup, store, and stay organized —
your photos are ready for you,
whenever you need them. Access
ACDSee 365 directly through Manage
mode with the ACDSee SeeDrive pane.
SeeDrive - NEW
See
Clearly, Even into the Cloud
Access and
manage your online images quickly
and easily, control privacy
settings, and share with your
family, friends, and the world — all
from the convenience of Manage mode,
with ACDSee SeeDrive.
Plus More
PicaView - NEW
Right-Click with a View
Actively
preview your files through your OS’s
context menu, without having to open
them in an application, with ACDSee
PicaView. Take a sneak peak at the
EXIF information, and painlessly
launch images in ACDSee for further
editing.
Smart Indexer
- NEW
Set and
Walk Away
To maximize
efficiency, the Smart Indexer
catalogs folders and adds them to
the ACDSee Database when your
computer is idle. The Smart Indexer
knows when you’ve made changes and
automatically keeps everything
up-to-date, enabling you to get the
most out of your overall ACDSee
experience.
Color
Management
ACDSee's color
management system resolves color
matching issues that can occur
between different devices with
accurate color matching and high
quality results.
Archiving
To
Preserve and Protect
Safeguard your
digital valuables. Archive your
collection to .zip folders, DVD, or
Blu-Ray discs, and backup to
external hard drives or ACDSee 365.
Sharing
Share
Seamlessly
Distribute
your shots through e-mail, upload to
flickr™, SmugMug™, and Zenfolio™,
and send to Facebook™ in a snap.
Conveniently optimize and upload
images to web spaces you manage
through FTP. Design and present
slideshows of your images.
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