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. ProsManage mode makes finding shots easy.
Innovative Light EQ and Color EQ controls. Lens-profile-based corrections. Very customizable interface. Lots of adjustable effects. Good noise reduction.
Good sharing and printing options. ConsNo facial recognition. Cluttered, inconsistent interface. Modes often don't contain expected tools. Bottom LineACDSee Ultimate offers powerful image editing tools without requiring you to pay a subscription fee.
But it lacks now-common features such as facial recognition, and it trails the competition in interface usability.ACDSee Ultimate 10 is not just a Lightroom or Photoshop alternative: It's both in one product. The company's ACDSee Pro tool is focused on nondestructive workflow and adjustment, as Lightroom is, but Ultimate 10 adds Photoshop-like layer editing, filters, and pixel-level photo manipulations. You get a decent selection of tools with this, but several of the more impressive capabilities found in our photo software Editors' Choices—Lightroom, Photoshop, and even Photoshop Elements—are missing, as I'll explain. Getting StartedACDSee Ultimate 10 sells directly from its maker for $149.99. If you only want workflow and adjustment features, without layer and drawing, you can get ACDSee Pro 10 for $99.99. You can also purchase the software as an ACDSee 365 subscription.
For $69 per year, you get the software plus 10GB of online photo storage. There's also a Home plan that ups the online storage to 50GB and 5 installations for $89 per year. These are reasonable prices, but consider that you can get and Photoshop for a $9.99-per-month subscription.
Ultimate runs on Windows 7 (SP1) through Windows 10. Mac users are served by the company's ACDSee Mac Pro 3 for $99.99 (deeply discounted to $29.99 at the time of review). Ultimate is a 152MB download, which is reasonable these days for a feature-packed photo application, though the installed software took up 356MB on my drive. You have to restart your PC to complete installation.When you start the trial, you only need to enter an email address; no credit card info is required.
Then you choose a startup folder (usually Pictures), pick a disk location for your photo database, and you're off and running. As with Lightroom, the app presents a tutorial wizard presented the first time you run the program.InterfaceACDSee Ultimate has five modes that you switch among with buttons at top right: Manage, Photos, View, Develop, and Edit. I appreciate that you can choose which modes show up, in the Options dialog.
Within each there is a left panel of controls and information. In the case of the Edit mode, the app has an additional right panel for layers. There are also buttons for the ACDSee 365 online component, a Dashboard for statistics about your collection, and a Message Center offering tips and techniques. The interface is flexible, but it can be a bit overwhelming. You can hide and show panels to taste, and even pull them out of the main application window and arrange them however you like. You can also pick any photo background color you like, though the default dark gray works for me. One minor annoyance is that you can only use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out of photo in View Mode.
I prefer to be able to do this from any mode. You can, however enter a specific zoom percentage and use a slider at bottom right.
Another quibble is that undo (Ctrl-Z) doesn't work for every operation. For example, most of the Edit mode's tools don't support undo.ManageIn the Manage mode, you can view your photo collection by dates or by folders, or switch to the Catalog tab to view Albums, People, Places, and Various (meaning whatever other keywords you've applied).Importing is served by an always-present Import button, and you can select ranges of photos to import, and you can perform file renaming and metadata edits as part of the process, which is handy. You can't, however, apply adjustment presets on import, as you can in Lightroom and PhotoDirector. The process is quick. It took the app just a few minutes to add about 1,500 images to the catalog from my hard drive. ACDSee has no problem importing popular raw camera file types, but when I tried importing from a relatively new, the files weren't rendered.The raw camera files from my Canon 5D were well rendered, on the other hand, though detail and color weren't as crisp as with.
Interestingly, right after I switched to Develop mode, the raw rendering improved in color tuning, though detail still trailed that produced by Capture One. Unlike Photoshop Elements, Lightroom, or Corel PaintShop Pro, ACDSee doesn't find and identify faces for you: You can simply apply a tag stating that the photo includes a specified person.
And there's no object identification like that offered by Photoshop Elements.The program has both a Places entry under Manage and a Maps choice in the tools menu, but they don't talk to each other. Places is like People—you have to manually include photos. But Maps actually shows you where your geo-tagged photos were shot, which can be a help when you're trying to find a particular image. Usually you remember where you shot it. Another way to find photos is by camera file type. So you can show photos only from Canon raw CR2 files or from Olympus and so on. You can also filter for lens model, focal length, aperture, and shutter speed, options that are also available in Lightroom.
That said, ACDSee Ultimate makes finding images easier than much of the competition, via a search box.Photos Mode, also available in ACDSee Pro, provides an overview of your entire photo collection, letting you zoom out from tiny date-arranged thumbnails to larger detail views in View mode. It could really be considered a Manage feature, but ACDSee gives it its own mode.DevelopTools in the Develop mode are more than adequate. You get the standard light and color adjustments, along with a Light EQ panel that lets you affect the tone histogram using two panels for Brightening and Darkening, with five separate tone range sliders. This can create an extreme HDR effect, or used more judiciously, a better-balanced image. Dragging the mouse up and down on top of the image increases and reduces adjustment, as well as moving the individual sliders.
The Color EQ panel works similarly, except with eight sliders for hues. There's also a Soft Focus slider which does a nice job of simulating lens de-focusing. Lower in the same panel are Effects (think Instagram filters), Split Tone, Vignette, and Output Color Space (sRGB, Adobe, and so on) sections. Each section includes an Enable button, so you can see what the photo looks like without a certain adjustment group applied. Both standard Gradients and a Gradient Map effect can be applied to your photo; the latter replaces highlights with one color and dark areas with another.I was happy to see that ACDSee now offers lens-profile-based corrections for chromatic aberration and geometry. It correctly identified several camera/lens combinations, and it found a profile for my with an 18-130mm lens.
Though it did improve the warped sides of the image, the automatic correction wasn't perfect, since walls at the side of the image were still curved. Fortunately, you can manually adjust the correction.Lens correction also can attempt to remove chromatic aberration, and for a shot from a, ACDSee did just as well as. With a photo from the T3i, it was no contest, however; Lightroom almost completely removed color fringing, while ACDSee only changed the color of the distortion.
ACDSee implemented noise reduction very well, on the other hand, allowing me to smooth out noise without losing detail. There's even a Preserve Detail Threshold slider.Oddly, there are no autocorrect choices for lighting or color in Develop mode, and some options that seem to belong in Edit mode—Repair for red-eyes and blemishes and brush effects—are in Develop mode. Red eye and blemish correction worked well, though more automated eye selection is available in other software. For autocorrect, you have to use the Edit mode. EditIt's in the Edit mode where you find the powerful Photoshop-style tools, including layer edits, text, filter effects, geometry alterations, and more. You can even automate your editing procedures after saving them as Actions (or use canned Actions for edits such as Auto-Light, Classy, and Hipster).
Included here also are some corrections that I would expect to be in Develop, such as tools exposure, color, and detail, along with the auto-correct options mentioned in the last section.The Auto Levels tool jacked up the contrast too much for my taste, but thankfully you can reduce its effect with a slider control. Dehaze works as well as equivalent tools in competing software, and is also adjustable. The controls for Light EQ and Color EQ, which you'll remember from the Develop mode, make another appearance in Edit mode; they're useful enough that it makes sense to include them in both modes.Text options are sufficient for most needs, though you don't get Photoshop's detailed glyph options.
You can, however, modify fonts with distortion effects like ripple and furry edges.In Edit mode, you get Photoshop-style selection (including a magic wand), fill, gradient, and drawing tools. The selection tools worked well, especially the Magic mode, and selection mask preview was a helpful capability. But the drawing tool, for example, is much more limited compared than Photoshop's—you can only change feathering, nib width, and opacity. Forget about Photoshop's realistic brushes and 'erodible' pencils.
There is a good selection of distortion filters, however, such as Bob Ross (a puffy painting effect), and many artistic, colorizing, and distortion effects, all of which are highly adjustable.Once you're done with Edit mode, there's no going back to Develop mode. When I tried doing this, the program wouldn't let me switch to Develop, popping up a message saying, 'Layered images cannot be developed.' Photoshop has a nice capability of letting you use its Camera Raw module as a filter, something that would be good for ACDSee to emulate. Sharing and OutputLike many media software companies, ACDSee hosts online storage for your digital assets. In this case, the service is called SeeDrive, which is basically a Web browser within the program for accessing your stored assets.
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You can get 20GB of storage for $20 per year or 100GB for $60. I wish, however, that there were a non-SeeDrive sharing tab. As it is, right-click options let you email, FTP, or send the selected image to Facebook, Flickr, SmugMug, and Zenfolio. You can create an album and set privacy from the upload dialog.
Captions you enter in ACDSee are preserved on Facebook, which is a plus, and not always the case with photo editing software.The software's printing options are pro-level. You get a choice of contact sheets and many layout options, along with soft proofing and gamut warnings.The program is very stable, never once crashing on my test PC, a 4K all-in-one PC. That still can't be said for all media editing software, which tends to make high demands on computing resources.The Ultimate Photo Software?Good reasons to get ACDSee Ultimate 10 include its excellent Light-EQ, Color-EQ, and noise-reduction tools. It may also do everything you want from Lightroom and Photoshop without requiring you to pay a monthly subscription fee.
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Much the same could be said for Corel PaintShop Pro, however, and it costs less and now offers face recognition, which isn't available in ACDSee. There are certainly things to like about ACDSee Ultimate, but it just can't compete with our Editors' Choice picks Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.