An “improved interíace* is also listed among the new íeatures, but the only difference we spotted was that the metadata browser is now located on the left rather than the right of the screen.Ī major new íeature in the previous update was the ability to apply effects to limited parts of a photo, with a choice of brush strokes or a linear gradient to define the area in question.
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There*s a Metadata submenu under the Tools menu for embedding keywords and ratings, but this is of limited use as the embedded data is in a proprietary format that isn’t recognised by Windows, other photo software or hosting Services. There’s support for the WebP format, an alternative to )PEG developed by Google, but we’ve yet to encounter a WebP file in the wild. This seems out of place in consumer-oriented software, though. ACDSee 17 can save and recall multiple catalogues, which could be useful for people who keep distinct libraries.
The new management features in version 17 don’t add up to much. We weren’t able to get Flickr uploads to work in our tests. There’s a big button for uploading photos to ACDSeds overpriced 365 Online hosting Service, but uploads to Facebook, Flickr and Smugmug are tucked away in a menu. The program will show all photos with an f/2 or f/2.8 aperture, but there’s no option to show values in between. Some meta data filters have arbitrary fixed values. You can*t search for a camera between two dates, for instance.
It*s possible to filter by multiple criteria, but the Calendar and Folders browsers are separate to the other meta data filters. There’s no option to reveal a photo in Windows Explorer, a íeature we use regularly in other photo-management software. Photo management isn^ without its írustrations, though. The five-star rating System is useful for filtering large groups of photos to pick your favourites. Keywords are easy to add and let you quickly locate photos when you can’t remember the date or íolder location. Once the software is aware of them, photos can be browsed and filtered by a vast range of criteria induding capture date, camera settings, camera and lens model, map location, user-defíned keywords, ratings and labels. We like the ability to browse to any folder on the hard disk without having to import photos into the catalogue actively. However, there are lots of people who shoot ]PEGs and will beneíit from ACDSee photo management and editing facilities, which are a big step up from free software such as Google Picasa. It can handle both JPEGs and Raw files but, from our point of view, the lack of non-destructive editing makes it unsuitable for working with Raw files. ACDSee 17 forces you to commit to edits, either by overwriting the original file or saving as a new one.
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The key difference is that ACDSee Pro can períorm non-destructive edits, so you can go back and tweak photos while always working from the original image data. A slender update, but it offers sophisticated colour correction at a reasonable price.ĪCDSEE17IS a photo manager and editor, and a cut-down version of ACDSee Pro 7 (see Reviews, Shopper 313).
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