Download Acdsee Photo Editor 2012

The photo manager is available as a consumer version, and a pro version which provides additional features,[3] and additional image editing capabilities.[4] In 2012, ACDSee Free was released, without advanced features.[5]

Download Acdsee Photo Editor 2012

ACDSee Pro 2 (Mac) is available beginning June 19, 2012 online for suggested retail price of $139.99(US). Existing ACDSee Pro (Mac) users can upgrade for a suggested retail price of $79.99(US). A free 30-day trial is available online at acdsee.com. ACDSee Pro 2 (Mac) runs as a 64-bit application on Mac OS, Snow Leopard and Lion (10.6 and 10.7). Full system requirements, online tutorials and more information on ACDSee Pro 2 (Mac) can be found at acdsee.com.

Lightroom is by all means a PRO tool. Happy?I had to wait for hours to go go through all my photos (several hundred thousand) and to make an unacceptably huge database file with all the unimportant (unimportant to me) info for all those images. This approach is similar to Aperture's as well as iPhoto's (which isn't a PRO tool, I'd call it jokeware).ACDSee on the other hand concentrates on those images I am interested in. This makes it faster and more simple to use - for me at least.Of all the programs I have tried ACDSee suits best my needs, and Lightroom is the PRO tool that keeps annoying me (me, me, not you, not you).I made my first statement in response to other claims that acdsee is useless and so on.I am aware of the color management issue and I'm not happy about it, but I'm not a professional, so I'm managing somehow.There are though other things in acdsee that are bothering me.Yet above all I find unacceptable that on OSX there is no good image browser.

Apologies accepted. I see, you now intend to even surpass me in politeness and choice of words!Yet you still sound like someone is trying to force you to switch to acdsee.I'm too curious how I came to my conclusion.It is a rather overwhelming argument you are using: so many are doing it - then it must be right!I never said that LR is a bad software. I said acdsee can do the category assigning job in a more straightforward way. And I'm not talking about acdsee for osx, that one is horrible, really uncomparable with the win version.So have you ever worked with acdsee on windows? Or would it have hurt your pride :)The image editing capabilities of LR are much better than those of acdsee, but that's not a problem if using parallely a good image editor.And I will try out LR one more time. I can do that. I'm not competing in the Pride UltimateFightingChampionship.

There are plenty of reasons for enthusiast photographers to consider this RAW-processing package, too though, including excellent organization tools, speedy performance, and a unique focus-peaking preview that helps you identify the sharpest shots in your batch of photos. Like Lightroom and DxO Optics Pro, it also offers an extensive selection of noise-reduction, lens-correction, color-correction, and custom-printing tools. If its relatively high cost gives you pause, you can always download a free trial version and see how you get on.

I have tried a good many photo editing programs over the years. Image editor pro from www.DigiGalaxy.net is a good software for creating graphics and editing photos. Overall this is powerful and affordable software that is designed to support anyone from a casual home user who wants to make their photos look really good, to the power users that want to make detailed adjustments and create graphics from scratch. Their direct link is

I'm considering to switch from Adobe CS5 to another package. Before I jump in the deep with one package I would like to know if it meets this two conditions:1. I don't want to have all my photo's (about 70.000) to be imported and cataloged in a program. As they are organized in folders I just want to use a filebrowser in stead (just like Bridge does).2. Using Bridge for a long time I've added plenty Keywords to my photo's and don't want to do that all over again. So the program should support this keywords.My question is, which photo organizer/editor (not Adobe) meets this requirements?Thanks in advance!

I'm an enthusiast from a photographic computer arts background and have used GIMP and Photoshop extensively - mainly GIMP as it is opensource. Some of the emerging photo editors can be great for achieving fast effects at a low budge as wellt. I came across one called Smart Photo Editor that I was able to use to apply effects added by other people to the package. Saved me a lot of time and with very good results so consider checking out these packages as well.

I've been using for years Picture Window Pro for advanced post processing that raw converters are not capable (yet). When launched it was the fastest photo editor out there and with the 64bit version it still is. One has to see how speedy transformations of 48bit of 2 GB images are and how low the memory print is (to the point threads about PS dedicated hardware always make me laugh). The dark room paradigm workflow - one image per phase - is also very intuitive and powerful. It still is the only photo editor I know of capable of transformations in color neutral HSL and HSV spaces. This gem really deserves more of the photo community mind share.

I downloaded your raw file and put it through Photo Ninja. Removing both the chroma and luma noise was a trivial matter for Noise Ninja. Did you use it at all? I would be happy to send you a screenshot showing the NN settings that I used, if you will PM me. Also, the EXIF indicates that the photo was taken at ISO 100. I am very surprised to find so much noise at such a low ISO.

Definitely a poor excuse for a photo editor. To see how bad it is you have to register and get a code to use it. It's basically a teaser so that they can send you a news letter to buy their other products.DON'T BOTHER WITH THIS PIECE OF JUNK.

Free version has no editor, no thumbnail preview, and if you left the Gama 1.2 checked, photos would look too light. Frankly I see no use for this. The FastStone image viewer has editing, thumbnail view, and all the goodies for free. Another program is XNview, which does it all. For photos and paint, the free PhotoFiltre is great. The best photo manipulation software is PhotoScape, and it is FREE. Love the PhotoScape more than say Picasa, which is pretty good as well.

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