Reviews of ACDSee

1. 
   camfrog123

   Reviewing 11.0.113 (Jun 17, 2009)

   ninjeratu is (in my unpaid opinion) is being a little hard on a $39.99 product - I have used ACDSee since version 5 and I have loved the changes that it has brought (however 6 was an absolute disaster and was probably one of the worst software downloads I have ever paid for)
   
   ACDSee is unfairly compared to Photoshop - which it isnt, and it shouldnt be either - its a photo manager - not a photo editor... the beauty of this product is the fact that it can rate scale and search images / batch processing and many many more features that honestly you cant get with a free product like Picassa or Gimp.
   
   Yes this product has some bloat
   Yes it could be streamlined down a bit
   
   But its a solid product for the price and has some great features that allows me to sync with my Flicr account + much more
   
   I would like to see the PowerPack come back though - I would like to have FotoSlate back with ACDSee again
2. 
   ninjeratu

   Reviewing 11.0.113 (Feb 24, 2009)

   No, I'm sorry. The paid 5-star reviewers (quite a few of them here on FileForum nowadays) make a fatal flaw.
   They assume no one else try the latest versions and want to write their opinions. And the duped people who bought the latest versions will rate it 5 stars just beause they bought it and doesn't want to look like they've made a mistake.
   
   The latest incarnations of ACDSee are not worth 5 stars. It's a terrible editing and Photoshop wannabe, and at the same time a slow and horribly bloated browser. What's worth 5 stars with that? GIMP or Paint.NET are free if you want to manipulate or edit pictures - and they're good at it. XnView or a million other quick and light picture browsers are also free. Who in their right mind would pay for something that is just bad at both?
   
   ACDSee fell into that software trap so many other great products have fallen into .. Product's working so good they can't improve it. So they just add more and more features to attract customers (or so they think) and make sure the programmers have something to do beside drinking lattes...
   This might sound like "added value" - but it's not in this case. It started out as a software to browse pictures and was, hands down, the best. Version 5 is still one of the best picture browsers ever made. Fast, light and with enough features to make it a Must Have software.
   After that they just added more eye candy, more features and - let's face it - more bloat. ACDSee takes so long to load nowadays they had to add a new "quick" browsing mode to try and quiet their own paid customers who complained!
   I'm sorry, but this is not Photoshop but at the same time it is not a simple picture browser either. It's something in between and unfortunately neither is any good anymore. One is too limited to be useful, the other is too bloated and slow.
   But the GUI is pretty.
3. 
   uberfly

   Reviewing 11.0.113 (Feb 24, 2009)

   Fantastic for what it's built to do (which is SO much more than a file viewer). Better than all the freeware apps - just so much more polished and complete.
4. 
   csb.milky

   Reviewing 10.0.238 (Jun 6, 2008)

   The tag handling could be a bit more elegant but after all it's a great and fast tool to organize huge photo collections.
5. 
   wickedfeel

   Reviewing 10.0.238 (Nov 30, 2007)

   I think most of the idiots on here haven't tried versions 9-10. If they had, they would know how much the software has improved by reverting back to speed as the primary focus. I will rate the software for what it is, a powerful tool for professionals or people who have MANY photographs to manipulate, organize and keep track of. In my opinion, it is too expensive for what I need, so I stick with XNView (which I give a 5/5). But everything ACDSee is supposed to do (which is most everything), it does quite well. 4.5/5 stars here.

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