What's New
Take advantage of new features that make it a breeze to manage your growing collection of photos, get them looking their best, and share with friends, family and the world.
Easier than ever to use
Intuitive interface
Stay on top of your entire photo collection with ACDSee Photo Manager 12. The newly refined interface is now even more intuitive, helping you easily navigate between organizing, viewing, editing and sharing your photos. Quickly find the tools you need in four simple groups:
- Organize, find and publish your photos in Manage mode.
- Display and examine images at full size, at any magnification in View mode.
- Fix and fine-tune with easy to use tools in Edit mode.
- Store and share your photos through your free online account in Online mode.
Works on Windows 7
Enjoy support for Windows® 7. ACDSee 12’s interface, including dialog boxes, is optimized for use on netbooks with resolutions of 1024x600 and better.
Easier to organize
Tag your best shots
Visual tagging is a quick and easy way to identify your best photos for further review, editing or sharing, without physically moving them into different folders. Simply check the corner of any photo to tag it, then display all your tagged shots with a single click.
Identify edited images
Work faster with your edited photos. They now display an E symbol so you can quickly identify them at a glance. You can also group, sort and search for the images you have modified.
Easier to edit
Color your world
Get the best color possible with ACDSee 12's improved saturation tool for rich, true-to-life representation.
Bring out your inner artist
Add the wow factor to your photos. Use ACDSee 12's enhanced Selections tool to isolate a specific area for editing and artistic touches. Play with color, adjust lighting, or apply a creative effect.
Put the focus on your photos
Add clarity to your images with the improved Noise Reduction tool. Two new adjustment sliders fix luminance and color noise while preserving image sharpness.
Easier to share
Share and safeguard your photos
Showcase and protect your photos on the web. Simply drag and drop files from ACDSee 12 to your own online space on ACDSeeOnline.com. Your free account includes 2 GB of storage space.* Keep your images organized online as you do on your desktop with the same folder names and structure.
From ACDSeeOnline.com you can send your photos to Facebook®** , and order high-quality frameless wall prints from fotoflōt®. Plus, quickly share with friends and family via private and password-protected albums – they can even download full-size copies of your photos. Or showcase to the world with public albums. No matter what you do, your ACDSeeOnline.com photos are always safe. That's because your online space is powered by Amazon Web Services™, which also backs up Amazon.com and Amazon’s sites around the world.
Upload through FTP
Transferring images using an FTP server? You’ll like the new FTP Uploader in ACDSee 12. Create and manage FTP profiles and easily resize your images as you upload directly from ACDSee, saving having to create a new, resized copy to send.
*Terms and conditions apply.
**Facebook is a registered trademark of Facebook, Inc.
Profiles
"ACDSee lets me do what I’ve got to do to my images quickly and efficiently."
You can’t talk about longtime ACDSee users without mentioning Brian Wilson. Brian has had ACDSee for so long he can’t remember his first version.
"I’ve had ACDSee since, oh, I don’t know when. Someone recommended ACDSee to me a long time ago, sometime in the 90’s. I might still have my original version around somewhere."
Whether it’s out boating with friends on Chesapeake Bay or at one of the many volunteer activities around Virginia, this retired airline pilot and busy Kiwanis member is an avid amateur photographer.
"I have thousands of images. I’ve always had a camera of some sort and I’ve been messing with digital since it came out. I carry my camera along wherever I go."
And what’s Brian’s favorite thing about ACDSee?
"I like to keep it simple and other products just aren’t as user- friendly. ACDSee makes it easy to get the pictures on the computer. I just plug the card into the slot and import. Then rename and move things around and I can find everything. "
Brian also likes that there still more to learn.
"I haven’t got into the depth of the product. I mean, I would love to have some time to sit down to do all the tutorials. There is so much to learn about ACDSee."
As the Executive Editor and founder of Digital Home Thoughts, Jason Dunn is constantly on the lookout for the best technology on the market to share with his readers.
"As an avid digital photographer with just under 23,000 digital photos, it’s important that I have a great tool for keeping things organized. The search function is excellent and very fast, and when you have as many photos as I do, speed matters."
A long-time user, Jason appreciates the speed of ACDSee in both his professional work and at home.
"My favorite aspect of ACDSee over the years remains speed: speed of viewing, speed of editing, speed of batch processing, and speed of metadata manipulation. When I’m working on a product review for ‘Digital Home Thoughts’ or one of the other Thoughts Media sites, I need to quickly resize the images and change the file names to match a certain pattern before I upload them to my server. The tools in ACDSee allow me to do that."
ACDSee’s speed is just as important for Jason’s home photos. "Accessing a folder with just under 1000 images is just as fast as a folder with 10 images – and that’s without cataloguing the files first. ACDSee is smooth and fast. There’s no delay switching from one photo to another in full screen mode, even when those photos are 70 megapixel (no, that’s not a typo) photo collages."
Jason is particularly excited about the SmugMug upload feature. "I’m a Smugmug user with a gallery (photos.jasondunn.com) customized to match my personal blog (jasondunn.com). Being able to upload right from within ACDSee after I’ve finished working with the files is a big plus."
Photographer, digital scrapbooker and software engineer, Heidi Vanyo not only knows what she needs in a photo management package but also as the owner of Solutions by Heidi and Digiscrapinfo.com, she helps others understand what they need to get organized.
"In 2007, I discovered how easy it is to use ACDSee Photo Manager to organize all the images that I’ve collected for digital scrapbooking. As many soon discover, once you start digital scrapbooking, you may realize that you don’t know what you have. I went through a few different organizers trying to find a solution and didn’t need to try another once I found ACDSee Photo Manager."
ACDSee Photo Manager easily worked with Heidi and her workflow.
"It not only allows me to keep my kits organized but also view a wide variety of image types. I work with png, tif, psd, abr, and font files and I can view all those files with ACDSee. ACDSee Photo Manager also allows me to customize the organization of my digital kits and, despite having so many images, still maintain speed and functionality."
Heidi didn’t stop there.
"Besides organizing my digital scrapbooking images, I use it to organize my digital photos. I have a collection of 8000 personal photos from over the last 11 years. In addition, I have been scanning in photos from my childhood and my ancestors. It’s amazing the amount of images that I have collected over the years and without ACDSee Photo Manager, all the images would be very difficult to maintain, organize and view."
Does Heidi recommend ACDSee Photo Manager?
"ACDSee Photo Manager is very powerful photo software that allows you to organize your images your own way! I highly recommend you try it out."
Amateur photographer, avid digital scrapbooker and busy mom Christine Campbell can’t live without ACDSee.
"I started out in the scrapbooking world eight years ago. I wanted to a hobby and at the same time I wanted to be able to create a record of my children as they grew up. After a while of paper scrapbooking, I stumbled on digital scrapbooking or ‘digi-scrapping’ as it’s called, and got hooked on collecting.
Just from participating in forums I found a huge amount of freebies - backgrounds, page kits, elements, word art, fonts. Like a kid in the candy store, I had to have them all! And like the kid in the candy store, I felt sick when I saw how much stuff I had grabbed. Pieces and parts, kilobytes and megabytes, pngs and jpgs were scattered all over my computer.
The program that changed my digi-scrap life was ACDSee Photo Manager. I tried using other organizers to see if I could make sense of the mess I had created, but because of issues with each program I was not very successful.
Then I heard about a program everyone was using. Not only the scrappers, but the designers were raving about it too. I’d heard so much positive feedback about all the great things that Photo Manager could do. Then I found there was a 30-day free trial and decided to give it a shot.
Once I started organizing my virtual scrap supplies, I was completely addicted! I found so many files I didn't even know I had, it was truly like going shopping for free! And because I was able to find elements and papers so much easier and faster, literally with one or two mouse clicks, I was able to spend more time actually scrapping. Plus, when I use Photo Editor with Photo Manager, I can grab what I want from the Manager and drag it directly into the Editor and get right to work.
Now I can view my pictures, gather my elements and papers and create a layout that looks amazing in no time. Because, in the end, I don't want to be just scrapping pictures of my family, I want to be creating the memories."
As a scrapbooking and photography enthusiast from The Netherlands, Petra appreciates ACDSee’s ease of use.
"I’ve been using ACDSee Photo Manager for over three years and I’m loving it. All of ACDSee’s products are so user-friendly and effortless. I run both ACDSee Photo Manager and ACDSee Photo Editor for my digital scrapbooking. They’re the easiest way to organize and use all my digital scrapbooking kits. Being organized in Photo Manager means I can easily get on to a project; dragging and dropping all my scrapping supplies into Photo Editor."
"I love how I can easily edit and process my photos. From the shadow/highlight tool, which really helps me to light up my photos on any spot, to the Red-Eye reduction - with one simple click the red eyes are gone! I love how easy it is."
"I also love that after tagging all my scrapbook kit elements I can easily find anything I want to use on my layout, that all of my alpha’s are categorized by color and type. I can easily see and customize my font previews, which is so cool because it gives me a better view of what the final look will be like."
