ACDSee Pro 5 is a complete photo editor and photo management solution. Designed for professional photographers and advanced amateurs who shoot DSLR and work with RAW files, ACDSee Pro 5 offers a state-of-the art RAW processor for non-destructive photo editing and RAW image conversion. With Manage, View, Develop, Edit and Online modes, it is the only solution that allows photographers to carry out all essential tasks of the photography workflow and digital asset management (DAM) in one place. ACDSee Pro 5 quickly gets you back to doing what you do best: shooting amazing photographs.
Features:
Managing and Organizing
Take control of all your digital image assets
Whether you have thousands or tens of thousands of photos, an organized collection allows you to work smarter and faster. Your foundation for an effective workflow is digital asset management. ACDSee Pro 5 can handle both catalog- and browser-based workflows so you can manage your digital assets any way you like.
Hit the ground running
Why spend time importing your photos to a separate library when you don't have to? ACDSee Pro 5 connects you directly to the live folder tree on your computer so you can browse and work on your files without delay.
Streamline digital asset management
ACDSee Pro 5 is packed with time-saving photo management tools. Organize your photos as you import them from your camera or storage device. Catalog files for improved speed and performance. With NEW Batch Export, simultaneously perform a range of workflow steps. Convert formats and color space, resize and change filenames on batches of images. Customize your workspace to suit your individual style, and configure access to external editors with seamless simplicity.
Manage with flexibility
Organize your entire collection with ACDSee Pro 5's full support for EXIF, IPTC and XMP metadata. Set and edit information about your photos in accordance with IPTC Core 1.1 industry standards. Save time by modifying metadata for groups of photos at once, and creating presets for ongoing use. Add ratings, keywords, categories, color-labels (NEW!) and location data to your images for the ultimate in digital asset management.
Find images
Tap into ACDSee Pro 5's powerful array of search tools to quickly retrieve the photos you want. Find images based on metadata, file properties, date, event, keyword, ratings, color-labels and GPS location data. Build and save detailed searches. Filter, group and sort your results to quickly find that one photo you really need.
Ratings
Assign a rating of 1-5 to your images to help keep track of your best shots. The value you assign to your image in Pro 5 will be correctly applied in other applications you use; a 5 rating in ACDsee (the best!) is a top rating everywhere you upload.
Protect your Privacy (NEW)
Use the Remove Metadata tool to keep your proprietary information private by stripping EXIF and IPTC metadata to protect the details of your locations, camera settings and equipment choices.
Present and preserve your work
Share your shots through e-mail services such as Gmail™ and Yahoo! Mail Plus, and upload to flickr™, SmugMug, and Zenfolio. Conveniently optimize and upload images to web spaces you manage through FTP. Design and present slideshows of your images. Protect your work by archiving your collection to .zip folders or on disc, and backing up to external hard drives.
View
View your images, any way you want, fast
Put your photos front and center with ACDSee Pro 5's renowned viewing speed. View mode's flexibility lets you appreciate your images in full screen or examine the finest details at pixel level. From JPEG to RAW, you can count on ACDSee Pro to display your photos exactly the way you want, fast. And you’ll be viewing your images in real time, from their original locations.
Examine details
Get up close and personal with your photos. Study your images using an arsenal of Zoom, Navigator, Magnifying Glass, and Histogram tools. See your images at full resolution with a single click.
Tag your shots
Accelerate your workflow by marking images for culling, processing, or further workflow steps with one-click visual tagging.
See and sort
Organize images as you review them. Categorize, add ratings and color-labels, and edit metadata on the fly.
View them all
ACDSee Pro 5 supports over 100 different file formats, and RAW format support for new camera models is regularly added.
Stay focused as you scan
Flip quickly between images using the filmstrip window, and know exactly where you are within a large group of files.
Develop
Bring out the absolute best in your photos
ACDSee Pro 5’s Develop mode is your non-destructive workshop where you can process your RAW images and apply non-destructive adjustments to your JPG and TIFF files. With the flexibility of ACDSee Pro 5’s non-destructive editing, you’ll arrive at your desired result quickly and safely.
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ACDSee Pro 5 raw file processing
Get the best RAW results
See incredibly accurate default color, contrast and exposure right from the start of your RAW processing workflow. A wide RGB color gamut preserves your camera's vibrant colors for true-to-life representation. With color management control, you can be confident that what you're previewing reflects the desired color and tone of your RAW conversion.
Tune your images
Get the correct white balance, color, exposure and tonal distribution for your images in Develop mode. Add vibrance while protecting skin tones, and adjust saturation, brightness and hue on a color-by-color basis. Fine tune tonal distribution with the combined Tone Curves and Levels tool. Avoid color clipping during RAW conversion by leveraging your image's histogram.
Get it Straight
Adjust geometry, and fix perspective, distortion and lens vignetting with full control over pixel size and resolution.
Reduce Noise
Pro 5’s advanced noise reduction algorithm lets you control different aspects of noise with the luminance and color sliders.
Achieve HDR Results with a single exposure
Get amazing single-exposure HDR results from your RAW images using the Lighting tool, powered by ACDSee’s patentedLCE (Lighting and Contrast Enhancement) technology. Learn more about what LCE can do for your photos.
Smarter Sharpening
A new user-controlled edge detection mask slider lets you focus the sharpening effect more to edges and textures without amplifying any pre-existing noise in areas with little detail.
Split Toning
The new Split Toning tool gives you complete control over the balance of tones in the shadows and highlights of a given scene, opening up a world of creative possibilities. Create sepia or tinted black & white, or add a tinted color to highlights and another to shadows to create a dramatic toning effect.
Perfect every color
Adjust saturation, brightness and hue on a color by color basis with Advanced Color, and leverage the information provided in the Histogram and Clipping Display overlay windows to perfect your images.
Contrast control
Gain the ultimate in contrast control with the combined Tone Curves/Levels tool. Use the Luminance Histogram to apply curves or to adjust the black-point, midpoint and white-point.
Edit
Bring out the best in your photos
Once your global non-destructive adjustments have been completed, add finishing touches at the pixel level to create brilliant images. Remove flaws, repair red eye, and add watermarks, text and vignettes with ease. Edit specific areas of images with Selections tools, and experiment with peace of mind knowing you can revert to your Developed photo or your original image at any time. Simultaneously apply edits to multiple photos, for the ultimate in express editing.
Eliminate flaws
Easily remove red eye from your photos. Full controls in the Red Eye Reduction tool allow you to adjust the color and the intensity for a natural look. Plus magically erase flaws, blemishes and other unwanted objects with the Photo Repair tool’s powerful Heal and Clone options.
Achieve the best light and color
Rescue photos that are too light or too dark with the Lighting tool, powered by ACDSee’s LCE (Light and Contrast Enhancement) technology. Instantly lighten shadows and reduce highlights in one click, or adjust individual sliders to fine tune every aspect. Change the tonal range and color balance of your photos with easy-to-use adjustment tools. Learn more about what LCE can do for your photos.
Take your photography to the edge
The new Split Toning tool gives you complete control over the balance of tones in the shadows and highlights of a given scene, opening up a world of creative possibilities. Create sepia or tinted black & white, or add a tinted color to highlights and another to shadows to create a dramatic toning effect.
Special Effects
Apply and fine-tune a range of pre-set effects quickly and easily with the Special Effects palette, now including:
Lomo Effect
Apply the popular Lomo effect to give an edgy, retro feel to your photos.
Collage Effect
Creatively display your photo in a collage of prints.
Orton Effect
Give an ethereal, pastel-like touch to your portraits and landscapes.
Frame your work
Add vignettes to your images and get creative results by blending the vignette with blend mode and opacity adjustments.
Put your photos to work for you
Using the new Drawing Tools palette to add lines and shapes such as squares, circles and arrows to draw attention to certain elements in your image. You can also adjust the width, feathering and blending of your brush to create subtle or dramatic drawing effects. The Text Overlay tool adds to the creative and practical possibilities.
Stake your claim
Claim ownership of your images by adding watermarks. Pro 5’s Batch Edit tool makes it simple to apply watermark overlays to groups of photos at once.
Online
Publish your work
Easily share and protect all your files with your free ACDSee Online account, including 10 GB of storage space*. Drag and drop images - including your RAW files - from ACDSee Pro 5's Online mode to your free, personal space in the cloud. Use ACDSee Online as a backup source or share your images with select contacts, Facebook and twitter or the rest of the world.
Manage your photos online
Simply drag and drop select images or folders directly from ACDSee Pro 5 to your ACDSee Online space. You can also set up automatic uploading of content from specific folders. Complete other workflow tasks while your files upload in the background. Easily organize your photos in your online space account using hierarchical folders. You can even apply the same organizational structure you have on your desktop.
Display beautifully
The simple, clean, advertising-free interface of ACDSee Online puts the attention squarely on your photos. Nothing will detract from the beauty of your images.
Stay Organize
ACDSee Online's iPhone & iPad app automatically sends your images up to a dedicated folder in your own ACDSee Online space in the cloud, which you can access from any computer or your mobile device.
See Everything
Access and browse your entire ACDSee Online library on your iPad and iPhone. Never be caught without a picture of your family and friends, your pet or your amazing vacation again.
Control access
By default, your photos on ACDSee Online are private and secure. Keep them under lock and key, or create public albums to share with the world. You also have the option of setting passwords to grant access to a select audience, and giving them the ability to download images at full-size.
See your Stats
ACDSee Online lets you see view counts, views by day and highest ranked photos, at absolutely no charge.
Share socially
Extend the reach of your photos. From ACDSee Online, you can e-mail selected photos or entire albums. Upload to Facebook or tweet about your album on Twitter. Display your photos in full-screen slideshows and order prints directly via MyPix. Showcasing your photos has never been this effortless.
Store safely
Your images are safe on ACDSee Online. The service is powered by Amazon Web Services™, the same reliable and secure infrastructure that backs Amazon.com and its worldwide network of sites.
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, Windows Vista®, or Windows® 7 operating system.
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 7+
TiVo® Desktop Software - to publish images to your TiVo
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0c - for Microsoft DirectX file format support, and to create slide shows and screen savers
QuickTime6.0 - for QuickTime file format support
Ghostscript 8.0 - for PDF support
Windows Media® Player 9.0
