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  • SKU: ACDSEEPRO


Photography software for organising and sharing digital photographic assets. Adjust and customise meta data, search images and groups of images and enable fast viewing and categorised browsing.

ACDSee Pro has everything you need to manage, perfect and present your images. Carry out digital asset management and all the essential tasks of your photography workflow in one complete, amazingly fast solution. Achieve stunning results, stay organised, save time. ACDSee Pro delivers total photography control.

Key Features:

  • Digital Asset Management: Organise any way you want. Add metadata, ratings, keywords, categories and location details to your images. Quickly identify photos for further processing with visual tags and color labels. Make use of powerful search tools to find photos based on almost any criteria. With ACDSee Pro, even the wildest of libraries can be tamed.
  • Non-Destructive Freedom: Get set for worry-free, go-for-it creativity. ACDSee Pro non-destructive environment means your original images always stay intact. Preview your changes instantly, hide, reveal or switch up adjustments and save different versions of your photos.
  • RAW Processing: See incredibly true-to-life color representation and contrast. Get the correct white balance and exposure and fine tune tonal distribution. Boost vibrance while protecting skin tones and adjust saturation, brightness and hue on a color-by-color basis. Avoid color clipping during RAW conversion by leveraging your image's histogram.
  • Super Fast Viewing: Count on ACDSee Pro to display your photos, including the largest of RAW files, exactly the way you want, fast. View your images in real time, from their original locations, since you never have to import them into a separate library first.
  • Patented Lighting Technology: Improve areas that are too light or too dark with the Lighting tool, powered by ACDSees patented LCE (Lighting and Contrast Enhancement) technology. Instantly lighten shadows and reduce highlights, change the tonal range and color balance and experiment with single-exposure HDR effects.
  • Brush On Selective Edits: Brush on any editing effect or adjustment to a targeted area of your photo, complete with size and feathering controls to get the exact look you want. Tune your images, sharpen, reduce noise, erase unwanted objects and more.
  • Powerful Batch Processing: Save an incredible amount of time. Set ACDSee Pro to perform a range of workflow steps on batches of images at once. Convert formats and color space, resize, change filenames, add watermarks and easily save them as presets to work even faster the next go around.
  • Advanced Color Control: Take full control of your images with Advanced Color tools to subtly fine-tune or dramatically change hue, saturation and lightness. And a dedicated black and white mode allows you to make hue-based brightness adjustments to your monochrome images and to add a specific hue back in.
  • Present and Protect: Whether you share socially, present online, or email directly to clients, showcasing your photos has never been this effortless. And you can count on ACDSee to help you protect all your valuable work, both offline and in the cloud.

ACDSee Pro - Features

Organise up front

With the new Import Photos feature, organize your photos as you acquire them from your camera or other storage device. Save time by setting categories, keywords, EXIF, IPTC and more as you import new images. Simultaneously rename, auto-rotate, delete, set the destination and create backup copies.

Quickly view and sort your collection

View, sort, cull and compare your photos in a fully customizable interface with unrivalled speed and ease. Select any thumbnail to see a larger preview, or double-click to fill the screen. Sift through thousands of shots and identify the ones you want to keep using one-click Visual Tagging. Compare up to four images at once in greater detail to select your best shot.

Browse your existing collection instantly. Unlike other photo applications, with ACDSee Pro 2.5 you dont need to import files that are already on your system and connected devices.

Manage your digital assets

Catalog and retrieve your photos with flexible tools custom built for professional photographers. Organize your photo collection with complete control access and adjust existing IPTC and EXIF information.

Embed your own custom metadata, including categories, keywords and ratings directly into your images' XMP fields. You can even embed data in file formats that dont include IPTC or EXIF fields, including PNG, PDF and GIF.

Retrieve photos with spot-on precision. Browse your live folder tree, leverage your EXIF, IPTC and custom metadata, view images by date or event.

Save frequently used and complex searches. Find that one photo out of thousands using the fast and powerful Quick Search bar. Filter, group and sort results for an even more customized experience.

Experience improved portability of images with ACDSee Pro 2.5s UNICODE environment. View images with file names or metadata that include characters which are not part of your local systems language settings.

Develop your images to the highest standard

Perfect your images with state-of-the-art non-destructive RAW processing and advanced pixel-level editing. Take control of every aspect - from white balance to sharpness. And with background RAW processing, you can continue your workflow while ACDSee Pro completes your adjustments.

Edit with the peace of mind of knowing your originals are never altered or lost.

Fine-tune dark and light areas independently using sliders, or with a single click on the photo - the patent-pending Shadows/Highlights tool actively analyzes your photo to automatically apply optimal settings. Instantly fix common photo defects such as blemishes, flares, lens scratches and other imperfections with the Photo Repair tool. Save time by globally adjusting hundreds of photos at once with the batch processor.

Use selection tools to apply adjustments including blur, saturation and color to defined areas of your photos. Add a finishing touch to your photo with a custom border, drop shadow or edge effect.

Present, protect and archive your work

Easily create contact sheets and high-quality prints with optimized print templates. Share selected shots with your clients through e-mail, online galleries and beautifully presented slide show.

Auto Slide shows and screensavers are now enhanced with pan and zoom, black and white, and sepia options, plus support for music files.

Add watermarks to all your photographs in one step to reflect your copyright.

Archive your collection to .zip folders, CD or DVD, and automatically synchronize multiple folders with your external hard drives.

What's new in ACDSee Pro 3

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.

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.
  • Edit
    Use Edit to add final touches to your image. Use pixel-based editing tools to add final touches to your imagefix 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
    ACDSee Online is an image sharing and storage service. Using the Online mode, upload and browse through your images on ACDSee Online without having to launch an Internet browser. Organize your photos into folders, manage your images in your account, and control privacy settings for individual image or groups of images.
  • 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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ACDSee Pro - System Requirements

Hardware

  • Intel Pentium III / AMD Athlon processor or equivalent (Intel Pentium 4 / AMD Athlon XP or equivalent recommended)
  • 512 MB RAM (1 GB RAM recommended)
  • 250 MB free hard drive space (1 GB recommended)
  • High Color display adapter at 1024 x 768 resolution (1280 x 1024 recommended)
  • CD/DVD Burner - for creating CDs and DVDs

Software

  • Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista operating system.
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.0 (6.0.0 recommended)
  • Microsoft DirectX 9.0c - for Microsoft DirectX file format support, and to create slide shows and screen savers
  • QuickTime 6.0 - for QuickTime file format support
  • Ghostscript 8.0 - for PDF support
  • Windows Media Player 9.0 or later