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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $169.99 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows XP/Vista
- Date added: September 29, 2009
- Total Downloads: 233,053
- Downloads last week: 2,023
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 30 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on June 17, 2009
With its professionally designed and visually appealing interface, ACDSee Pro makes a good first impression. While novice users might be overwhelmed initially, the tools to organize and view images proved easy to use.
This program's sleek interface looks sharp and well-designed. Four main areas dominate the screen. The middle section, and largest, is for thumbnails of your photographs and allows you to view an entire folder's worth of shots at once. The lower left side gives a larger preview of any thumbnail you click on, as well as a small graph of its color composition. Above this box is another dedicated to navigating your computer's file trees to find the pictures you want to appear as thumbnails. Finally, the right side of the screen is dedicated to the program's options. Here you can choose to bundle, rank, and categorize your pictures.
Although the interface was beautifully designed, it was a bit overwhelming at first. It takes little time to get acclimated, though, and we found it easy to add images and create categories to organize them. Although ACDSee Pro doesn't have the full range of editing tools found in full image-editing programs, it does allow you to resize shots, batch rename, convert to PDF, and create DVDs. Less experienced users might need to refer to the Help file the first time around, but each option proved fairly easy to understand and use.
If you've already got a full image-editing program, but aren't happy with its organizational options, ACDSee Pro works well. Its cost will deter the casual photographer, but serious enthusiasts with large collections will appreciate what this tool has to offer.
Publisher's description
From ACD Systems :Experience ACDSee Pro 3 - the best value in photography software - for organized files, perfected photos and more time behind the camera. ACDSee Pro is the photography software with the flexibility to adapt to the way you work, helping you accelerate every aspect of your workflow. Manage, view, process and publish your images with speed and ease.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.0 build 355 provides a ground-breaking new image processing workflow, faster RAW processing, free online photo storage, an ftp uploader and a refined interface.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 30 votes
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Version: ACDSee Pro 3.0 build 355
"Excellent photo manager, superb photo editor"
Pros: The workflow in ACDSee Pro 3 is the best you will find anywhere. From loading photographs to viewing, sorting and editing them, this program is simply the best. The editor is very powerful and offers suberb tools for managing lighting and colors.
Cons: I've used it for 3 months (I was testing publicly available the Beta), and cannot identify any serious flaws, as long as you accept that it doesn't try to do everything.
Summary: Workflow and photo management is a joy. The editing tools are superb.
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Version: ACDSee Pro 3.0 build 355
"A very powerful organizer & can edit/process images."
Pros: Very powerful organizer
Ability to edit images (the lighting/color/shadow/etc) without starting a CPU intensive image-editor.Cons: No plugin support
Summary: ACDSee Pro 3 has the ability to easily organize your photos. ACDSee managers view your entire file structure so there is no need to "bring" in your images or set "watches." ACDSee Pro 3 adds the ability to process or develop your digital images. ... read more >>
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: ACDSee Pro 3.0 build 355
"ACDSee Pro 3 ? The Worst Customer Service Experience!"
Pros: Full Featured - ACDSee Pro is a fraction of cost of competition from Apple and Adobe.
Cons: ACD Systems company policies are terrible. Upgrades are very expensive.
Summary: Caveat emptor, I?ve just had my worst customer service experience in recent memory.
Having just recently started to get serious with my photography hobby, I?ve been looking around for some good photo management software. I ran across a fa... read more >> -
Version: ACDSee Pro 3.0 build 355
"Fastest way to manage, process and edit photos"
Pros: Great for cataloging photos, has most basic tools for quick fixing a photo and implements some unique features like light and color equaliser
Cons: If you don't read trough the help file you might miss a feature
Summary: ACDSee Pro 3 is a new step in this product development. It now implements nondestructive image processing not only for RAW files but also jpegs and other image types. It has a newly developed user interface and there are many ways of doing the same ... read more >>
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