What's New
Improved Workflow
Manage, view, process, and publish your images
The new Manage, View, Process, and Online modes simplify and accelerate your photography workflow, allowing you to easily access the features you need and publish your images. In Process mode, use the non-destructive developing capabilities along with the editing tools with which ACDSee Pro users are familiar. Previously, ACDSee Pro users could only access the RAW Processor if they had a RAW image. Now in ACDSee Pro 3, you can take any file format (RAW, JPEG), and perform all of your non-destructive developing in Process mode.
“Yes, the UI changed but just spend a bit of time and you'll quickly find out that an existing user rapidly understands it and that, in reality, the changes are evolutionary and not revolutionary. Well done ACDSee!”
- Vincent, Amateur Landscape Photographer
ACDSee Pro 3’s interface is also customizable to your preferences. You can select either the Charcoal or Silver display theme, and you have the option to display icons in the Organize pane in Manage mode and the Edit pane in Process mode.
Try ACDSee Pro 3 on your netbook – the interface is now compatible with resolutions of 1024x600 or higher.
Manage mode
Browse, sort, and organize in Manage mode. The simplified toolbar with drop-down menus help you to find the most commonly used tasks. You can combine different tools and panes to perform sophisticated search, and view thumbnail previews of images. Usability improvements include radio buttons for ratings, and category check boxes to quickly categorize images. Publish your images easily using the FTP, Email, SmugMug, or Zenfolio uploaders.
View mode
View your images using a variety of image viewing tools. Use the Properties pane to display image information such as EXIF or IPTC data, and add captions to your images as you view them. View mode features a new filmstrip, which lets you easily flip between images without having to return to Manage mode.
Process mode
Perform all image adjustments in Process mode. The Process mode has two panes: Develop and Edit. Use the Develop pane for non-destructive editing on RAW, JPEG and other supported file types. Use tools in Develop to adjust an image's exposure, white balance, color profile, sharpen, and much more. Use Edit to fine tune your image using pixel-based editing tools such as red eye removal.
Online mode
Use Online mode to upload your images to the new online image sharing and storage site: ACDSeeOnline. In Online mode, you can easily drag and drop your photos into an album on ACDSeeOnline without having to go through a Web site.
Revolutionary New Process Mode
In Process mode, you can perform a variety of image corrections (tune color and light, enhance details, crop) in real time without waiting for an adjustment to apply on an image. You can view at any time the final image with and without each adjustment to view the effects of your changes, and return to each adjustment to further fine tune your image.
Develop and Edit
ACDSee Pro 3 Process mode is a combination of non-destructive image correction tools in Develop, with pixel editing tools easily accessible in Edit.
Develop
Start your image processing in Develop. Develop allows non-destructive developing of RAW, JPEG, and other supported file formats. Use Develop to adjust geometry (crop, rotate, lens corrections), improve detail (sharpening and noise reduction), and correct light and color. Take the adjustments made to one image and apply them to many other images that need similar correction with a click of your mouse. ACDSee Pro 3’s Develop tools provide faster RAW processing, and an accelerated non-destructive processing workflow for all other supported file types.
Edit
Use Edit to add final touches to your image. Use pixel-based editing tools to add final touches to your image—fix red eyes, and add borders, text, watermarks and other creative effects. You can easily revert back to a previous change when editing your image. Use Selections in combination with the accessible edit tools to apply corrections to a specific part of an image quickly and easily.
Vibrance slider
Use the Vibrance slider to boost saturation in your images. The Vibrance slider purposely avoids the saturation of skin tones.
Advanced Color
Adjust saturation, hue, and brightness on a color by color basis. In the examples below, only the color yellow has been adjusted. Advanced Color is located in the Develop pane, in the Tune tab. Advanced Color is also available in the Edit pane, where you can use it in combination with Selections to adjust color to a specific part of the image.
Improved Noise Reduction
Add clarity to your images with Noise Reduction. Two new adjustment sliders fix luminance and color noise.
Improved Selections
Easily access Selection while making image adjustments in Edit. Make a selection on an image and quickly access any Edit features such as Special Effect to adjust the selected part of the image.
Enhanced Publishing Capabilities
ACDSee Online
ACDSeeOnline.com is an image sharing and storage service. Using the Online mode, upload and browse through your images on ACDSeeOnline.com without having to launch an Internet browser. Organize your photos into folders, manage your images in your account, and control privacy settings and resolution for individual image or groups of images. You can use ACDSeeOnline.com to simply store your photos, or you can use the service to share your photos in a variety of ways, including sending to Facebook®* , printing with fotoflōt®, or e-mailing albums to clients or friends.
SmugMug Uploader
The SmugMug Uploader now has advanced options to let you create new albums, add keywords and resize images.
Zenfolio Uploader
Using the Zenfolio Uploader you can now log into your Zenfolio account and select which gallery you want to upload your images to, or even create new galleries. Before uploading your images to Zenfolio, you can choose to resize your images.
FTP Uploader
Using the new FTP Uploader, you can now upload your images to an FTP site directly from ACDSee Pro 3. Simply create a profile for your FTP site, select the destination folder, then select any image resize options and upload your images.
Send Email Wizard
Using the Send Email Wizard, you can email images directly from ACDSee Pro 3 using your desktop email, web-based email, or an SMTP server.
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Profiles
"ACDSee Pro is deeply integrated with my daily photography workflow, and I rely on it to process thousands of photos I take for world events. It's flat-out the easiest to use, fastest, and most natural application for the work I do. When it comes to quickly organizing, renaming, viewing and editing my photos so I can share them with and deliver them to clients after a shoot, ACDSee is the best tool for my digital photo management."
Serge Timacheff is a highly successful sports event photographer and author based in Seattle, Washington. Over the years he has carved himself a niche in this competitive field as an internationally renowned fencing photographer. He and his studio are standardized on ACDSee Pro for everyday photography workflow including archiving, managing, editing, and producing images provided to individuals, media, businesses, and organizations worldwide.
"Typically after a photo shoot I will have anywhere up to 1600 photographs on a flash cards. After I download them onto a hard drive, the next thing I need to do is organize, prioritize, rename, and review my photos quickly before batch-processing my top picks; for this, ACDSee Pro is the natural choice."
Once all his shots are on the computer, he begins the task of organizing them. Because he will be making multiple changes to photographs as he moves through his workflow, it's essential he has an archival folder of traceable original images in case he needs to use them later.
“With ACDSee Pro 3.0, now my workflow is even more deeply integrated with my business and needs. Its intuitive design and enhanced features allow me to easily edit more detail and produce publishing-ready images quickly.”
ACDSee Pro makes this easy by automatically creating an original image folder that isn't deleted or overwritten when changes are made to the original shots. In this way, Serge can use ACDSee Pro to create archival folders or DVDs that he trusts will not get lost, and are instantly searchable whenever he needs to view them.
When he's viewing and selecting photographs, he doesn't have to click on the images he wants to see. Instead, ACDSee Pro saves him valuable time by allowing him to mouse over photographs, click on the ones he wants, and instantly copy images to a designated folder.
"It's essential that I be able to quickly take several thousand photos and boil them down to the ones I can send to their various destinations, like my clients at Corbis, the International Fencing Federation, photo press agencies, or my online galleries. With ACDSee Pro I can rename, select, and then quickly get photos to their proper folders. There is no other program I have found where I can do this so easily, and that adapts to my workflow style so seamlessly. ACDSee Pro gives me optimal access to all my photos, and allows me to identify and name them in a way that useful to both myself and the client—whether that’s using a basic file name convention or extensive metadata tagging."
Serge uses the quick renaming and batch renaming functions to categorize his photographs into specific, easily searchable categories. For example, he'll rename images by athlete's name, date, event category, and medal bout (e.g., Gold/Silver/Bronze), and add keywords and metadata tags like IPTC metadata to further differentiate his thousands of shots.
“Since 2003, I have taken more than one million images of world championship and Olympic fencing. Using ACDSee Pro, I can locate virtually any one of those shots in only a minute or two and get them to clients anywhere in the world.”
When he needs to find photos based on any of these criteria, he uses the Quick Search bar to instantly retrieve the desired shots-across folders and categories.
"It's all about the familiarity. With ACDSee Pro you always know you're getting a quality product, and while the versions might change, there's never a steep learning curve involved."
"I’ve been a longtime ACDSee Pro user. Latest version is top-notch image workflow software. I’ve tried them all and this is my favorite"
Peter Pereira was educated to make computers run but he was born to make people think. As an 4SEE Photo Agency client, Peter is in demand all over the world. "I'm on assignment overseas often and the last thing I want to worry about is my workflow."
In Peter's hands, the camera captures more than what is in plain sight. The spirit of the scene imbues his photographs. His work reveals the despair, the faith, the futility, the hope, the defeat, the triumph that the mind's eye understands to be the life force behind what the camera has frozen for all time.
"My workflow must be second nature. When you’re on assignment, in difficult conditions, you’re limited to as little gear as possible and maximizing the way you process what you photograph is critical. ACDSee Pro gives me the ability to quickly view thumbnails, select photos worthy of transmitting, and batch process without having to switch between applications. The combination of batch processing and the built-in database make all of my work instantly available, no matter where I am in the world."
Peter’s images have graced the pages of The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, MSNBC.com, CNN.com, ABCNews.com and other international media outlets. Named the New England Press Association - Photographer of the Year twice ('04 and '07) and, in 2006, the National Press Photographers Association Region 1 Photographer of the Year, Peter has also won five Publick Occurrences Awards ('04 -'08) for Superior Achievement in Photojournalism by the New England Newspaper Association.
“Organizing large numbers of images by date or name in a manner that makes them easy to find for future reference is imperative for me. ACDSee Pro gives me the ability to do this using the batch tool or individually as needed into folders labeled and tabbed for easy reference.”
Tim Schumm is one of Canada’s foremost visual artists, exhibiting his large scale landscape paintings throughout Canada and the western United States. Tim’s interest in photography and painting was sparked in his early 20's when he spent most of his days in Banff as a rock and mountain climber. The drama of the landscapes he was experiencing led to his desire to communicate the excitement of extreme environments. He continues to travel to unique destinations not frequented by the average tourist, seeking the world’s most expressive subject matter.
Tim has been using ACDSee as a browser for years. With the introduction of ACDSee Pro, he now uses it for all his photographic operations.
“After a full day of shooting 500-700 images in the field, ACDsee Pro comes into action as I boot up the laptop to upload up to 8 plus gigabytes of digital images.”
ACDsee Pro helps Tim to quickly access the images from his card reader, immediately scan the thumbnails for the best compositions and delete the images that don’t make the grade. “The speed with which the images become available using ACDsee Pro is unparalleled.”
"The new Develop mode expands nicely on the already excellent RAW processing capabilities of Pro 3, allowing me to get even better results in even less time than before. Having this facility now available for JPEG too is unexpectedly wonderful! "
Marc Sabatella is a vital part of the ACDSee community. Whether you know him as a professional jazz musician and educator, a visual artist, part of the pro 3 focus Group or as one of the busiest Moderators on the ACDSee forums, you must admit there are many facets of Marc’s life.
"My family moved to North Palm Beach, Florida when I was young and my first photography experience was with my father's old completely manual 35mm SLR. I went through a series of cameras before getting more serious about photography for my honeymoon trip to Europe in 2005. That's when it really started for me."
It soon became obvious to Marc that he needed an asset management solution. “You know, I don't actually remember for sure how I discover ACDSee. I was just starting to think image management, and in my online information searches came upon trial versions of several applications. ACDSee was the one that spoke to me immediately; it was what I relied upon to actually view my photos while struggling to understand how to use the other programs.”
“The non-destructive RAW processing is the Pro tool I couldn’t live without. And my favorite thing to do with Pro? Spending time to rate my images. The time I take looking at my images to give them all ratings means I get to really look at every picture I take – something I didn't always do before. It helps me enjoy my own photography more. And the fact that when I'm done, I can then configure my view to show me only my highly rated photographs immediately makes me look like a far better photographer than I am!”
Now as an ACDSee Evangelist and Forum Moderator, Marc offers these tips for getting the most out of ACDSee Pro. “When it comes to your RAW/DAM workflow, spend as much time as it takes to developed a system that works for you, and then stick with it consistently. With Pro 3, I like to rate all my images from a shoot first, then assign keywords in batches by selecting groups of related images, paying special attention to the more highly rated mages. I then look at those highly rated images and do whatever processing I might need in Develop mode. I often copy settings from highly rated images to similar but less highly rated images, and process the latter individually only as necessary. When I am satisfied with how things look, I run Batch Set Information to copy my database entries to IPTC, and then I generate medium resolution JPEG "proofs" of my highly rated images to keep on my laptop, after which I can move the originals to an external hard drive. With Pro 3, I can do all this in a matter of minutes for a day's worth of images - it's the most efficient application I know of for this purpose."
"I haven't found a better program than ACDSee Pro to blaze through my workflow. I can fly through a thousand-picture assignment and have a tight edit sent to a client in no time."
David Honl is an American photographer based in Istanbul, Turkey. He regularly covers the war in Iraq and culture throughout the Middle East. You may have seen his work in Newsweek, National Geographic, People Magazine, on ABC News and VH1, or in any number of major publications.
David does a majority of his post-capture work in the field and ACDSee Pro is perfect for his on location workflow. On his PC, he uses Pro to ingest and caption all his work before he starts any pixel-level editing. He also uses ACDSee Pro to edit metadata, a crucial workflow step for photojournalists.
“I've found its robust features an ease to use. Not only can you edit IPTC and EXIF info, you can now do batch processing of RAW adjustment settings (non-destructive) including levels, curves, color temp/tint, white balance, and very useable noise reduction and sharpening controls.”
For David, ‘on location’ ranges from the Iraq war zone, to a studio shoot with actress Juliette Lewis, to a Kurdish protest in Turkey. In addition to his photography work, he shares his 20+ years of experience with other photographers through his articles and workshops.
