ACDSee is the ideal photo editor and photo manager for the home or business user, with all the features you need to organize your photo collection, edit and add effects to your images, and share your photos online. Quickly find and organize your image files, get a perfect result every time with easy-to-use photo editing tools, and unleash your creativity with super-simple special effects. Then share your images through e-mail, social media or your own personal space on ACDSee Online.com. Go ahead, inspire yourself!
Reviewing 5.0.110 (Dec 18, 2011)
Spyware, read this:
http://community.acdsee....to-turn-off-the-spyware?
Reviewing 4.0.93 Beta (Oct 20, 2010)
First, I've used ACDSee Pro for years. Second, DxO Optics is my main processing program. Third, I don't like Lightroom though I have it and use it occasionally. ACDSee Pro is a great program. The best for browsing. Very good for processing though it lacks some of what DxO offers.
ACDsee Pro is $120. DxO is $170 to $299. Lightroom 3 is $285 at Amazon today.
ACDSee Pro is 61 MB. DxO is 105 MB. Lightroom is 162MB.
The only reason to use DxO over ACDSee Pro is that DxO automatically corrects for my specific camera and lens combination. I haven't used ACDSee beta 4 enough to see if it has added that feature but it used to require manual correction.
ACDSee pro is not bloated. It is a great piece of software. Always has been and still is. I process thousands of photos and use it regularly to catalogue, view and process raw files. I'd say you can't go wrong with this program.
Reviewing 3.0.355 (Oct 31, 2009)
At this price and this many years in development this software is just not anywhere near worth the price. I feel stupid because I keep renewing it thinking it's going to be better. I have been running the trial now on Windows 7 64-Bit and it literally takes about 30 seconds to open the application itself. The viewer is quick but this application is just absolutely silly in how slow it is to load.
Reviewing 2.5.335 (Oct 17, 2008)
Getting more and more bloated and lumbered by an indexing system you can't turn off, even if you try to disable it by excluding all your folders.
If you find it getting slower and slower - and you will - you have to delete the database, something you probably didn't want in the first place.
Searching is an absolute abortion. Try searching for all the images within nested folders, then moving and renaming them. You'll give up before you figure it out. Used to be simple.
They really have lost the plot with this once excellent program.
I read here http://www.reviewmaze.co...professional-photo.html that Acdsee pro 4 offers defringing and vingnette correction. Has anybody tested these features? I see there are not plenty of new features directly related to editing images in the 4th version so I'm wondering is it worth buying.