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Revision as of 05:45, 22 September 2009
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| Developer(s) | ACD Systems, Inc. |
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| Stable release | ACDSee 11.0.113 ACDSee Pro 2.5.363 |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | Image organizer |
| License | Proprietary, Shareware |
| Website | http://www.acdsee.com/ |
ACDSee is a shareware image organizer and viewer software for MS Windows developed by ACD Systems.
Products
- Photo Manager
With version ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 (ACDSee 11.0) and ACDSee Pro 2.5 unicode support has been added. Besides the usual thumbnail viewing of folders and file type conversion, key features of ACDSee include slideshow presentations, CD/DVD burning, HTML gallery creation, image folder synchronization, photo sharing sites uploading (Flickr, Smugmug and SendPix) and editing/indexing of image metadata such as Exif. It is also possible to do minor image manipulation like cropping, scaling and rotating. ACDSee 10 Photo Manager retails at US$49.99. ACDSee is available in separate versions for English, German, Dutch and French. There is also an enhanced version which is dubbed ACDSee Pro, which adds RAW image format post processing. It has an own version numbering (the current version is 2.5) and is offered for 90.99 US$.
- Photo Editor
This recently introduced product allows the user to perform tasks such as writing text on image, resizing, embellishments, and creating other visual effects. Like Photo Manager, Photo Editor retails for US$49.99.
- Print Studio
FotoSlate 4 Photo Print Studio was designed to aid in the preparation for print. A number of assistants has designed to preview print results without spending too much paper. The application also offers frames and calendar presets. The application retails for US$29.99.
Older products
- ACDSee Powerpack was a package consisting of the ACDSee image organizer and several additional programs:[1][2]
- FotoCanvas: an image editor
- FotoAngelo: a slide show creation software
- PicaView: an extension for viewing images in the explorer context menu
- ImageFox: an extension to view images in the file open and save dialog
- FotoVac: a mass image downloader for downloading pictures from usenet newsgroups
- FotoSlate: a software for enhanced printing features
- ACDSee Classic was ACDSee32 rebranded for customers that did not want to upgrade to the new feature rich products. It offered: image viewer, thumbnail browser, image organizer, slideshow presenter, format conversion, and JPEG lossless rotation features. The last version released was 2.44. No longer supported, but may still be available in some locations.
- ACDSee 32 was the original image viewing and organizing program, released as version 1.0 in January 1997. Version 2.42 was rebranded ACDSee Classic in March 2000. No longer supported.
Criticism
- Stability issues - ACDSee (including the last version ACDSee Pro 2.5) is prone to crashes. The software does not free up system resources correctly, causing exaggerated growth of the GDI and USER objects, which creates problems when many applications are opened.
- Poor quality interpolation algorithm for zoom levels close to 100%, causing clearly visible artifacts especially on sharp edges. The editor component of the application apparently uses other algorithms, which also have issues, since they do not calculate the correct sample centers, producing resized image that is slightly offset (shifted) both horizontally and vertically.
- ACDSee has faced criticism because Section 2.7 of its EULA ("Use Restrictions"), forbids the use of the software to display pornography, among other things.[3]
See also
References
- ^ A review of ACDSee 3.1 PowerPack
- ^ A review of ACDSee 5.0 PowerPack
- ^ Since version 7, the agreement has included a clause stating: "Use Restrictions - You shall use this Software in compliance with all applicable laws and not for any unlawful purpose. Without limiting the foregoing, Use, display or distribution of this Software together with material that is pornographic, racist, vulgar, obscene, defamatory, libelous, abusive, promoting hatred, discriminating or displaying prejudice based on religion, ethnic heritage, race, sexual orientation or age is strictly prohibited."
External links
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