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ACD Systems launches ACDSee 16 with more tools and introductory price

May 30, 2013 at 19:30:13 GMT
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ACD Systems has announced the latest version of its ACDSee photo management and editing software for PC. ACDSee16 gains a range of editing and organizational tools, including features that simulate out-of-focus regions and tilt-shift lens effects. The latest version is available at a reduced price ($50), for a limited time, with existing users being about to upgrade for $30. A 15-day free trial is available from the company's website.


Press Release:

NEWEST VERSION OF ACDSEE 16 CONTINUES TO SET THE STANDARD IN PHOTO MANAGEMENT AND EDITING SOFTWARE

Seattle, WA – May 30, 2013 – ACD Systems International Inc. today announced ACDSee 16 photo management and editing software for photography enthusiasts to stay organized, perfect and share images, and save time when handling their growing photo collection.

“ACDSee 16 makes it easier than ever for photographers to manage, edit, share and achieve stunning results with their photos,” said Doug Vanderkerkhove, Founder and CEO of ACD Systems.  “With seamless uploading to Facebook, reverse geocoding and creative editing tools, ACDSee 16 adds incredible value to an already rich feature set that’s not available in similarly priced software.”

New features in ACDSee 16 include:

  • Facebook uploader - Upload photos directly from ACDSee to Facebook, fast. Create a new album or select an existing one, add location and description details, and specify the privacy level.
  • Reverse geocoding - Select a pin on the map, choose “Reverse Geocode” and ACDSee will write the matching location details into the appropriate IPTC fields, using the embedded latitude and longitude information to lookup the nearest readable address or place name.
  • Info Palette - Access key shooting information while managing, viewing, and editing photos. The Info Palette conveniently displays technical data alongside any photo, including white balance, metering mode, exposure program, and whether the flash fired. Plus see the ISO, f-stop, shutter speed, exposure compensation, focal length, and more, all in one spot.
  • Gradient tool - Apply a gradient to any editing effect to subtly progress across a photo. It’s especially useful for images that aren’t evenly exposed, or that need fine tuning in select areas.
  • Lens blur filter - Attain a realistic bokeh effect with the Lens Blur filter. Choose the shape and adjust the bokeh frequency and brightness to emulate the pleasing visual artifacts that naturally appear around bright, out-of-focus areas of a photo.
  • Tilt-shift effect - Simulate the popular Tilt-Shift effect to transform a photo into a miniature-scale model. Rotate the lens plane, adjust the bokeh frequency, brightness, and sides, and increase saturation to get the perfect scene.

ACDSee 16 also offers these key features to help photographers organize, perfect and share their images:

  • Organize with ease - Create categories, add hierarchical keywords and phrases, and rate photos. Tag images and assign color labels, and bring them all together for further editing or sharing.  Save time by organizing photos as they’re imported from a camera or storage device.
  • Find any photo - Find any photo fast. Enter keywords, search only specific folders, narrow it down by metadata, or find that one special image with the Quick Search bar. Build and save detailed searches for ongoing use.
  • View images fast - Zoom through the latest shots, examine details, and enjoy full-size views without waiting, thanks to ACDSee’s renowned speed.
  • Brush on edits - Experiment with intuitive editing tools and creative filters that deliver professional results. Use the Edit Brush to quickly apply any editing effect to a specific part of a photo. Correct exposure, enhance color, adjust details, or add a special effect.
  • Get the best light and color - Rescue photos that are too light or too dark with the Lighting tool, powered by ACDSee’s patented LCE (Lighting 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, white balance, and color balance of photos with easy-to-use adjustment tools.
  • Photo sharing and backup - Drop images straight from ACDSee 16 to the ACDSee Online cloud for safe backup, storage, and sharing via email, Facebook, and Twitter. Each ACDSee Online account includes 10 GB of storage space with the option to upgrade to unlimited storage for only $39.99/year (US).

Pricing & Availability
ACDSee 16 (MSRP $69.99 US) is available online for a limited time special introductory offer of $49.99 (US). Existing ACDSee users can upgrade from $29.99 (US). A free 15-day trial, full system requirements, and more information about ACDsee 16 can be found at acdsee.com.

Comments

Total comments: 35
peevee1
By peevee1 (1 day ago)

Can it read RAWs from recent models and auto apply lens-specific corrections?

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write2alan
By write2alan (5 days ago)

I can't wait for ACD Systems to make a version for the Power Mac and Intel Mac.

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tickleddpink
By tickleddpink (4 days ago)

They actually do have a Mac product - ACDSee Pro 3. I'm going to give it a try. http://www.acdsee.com/en/products/acdsee-pro-3-mac.

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Vincent He
By Vincent He (1 week ago)

I'm a Nikon user and have been using ACDSee Pro + Capture NX2 + ColorEfex for years. I usually don't do a lot of editing in ACDSee Pro. But their light control tool is really good. I mainly use it as a organizer and viewer because I want to save all my edit in NEF.

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tell the truth
By tell the truth (1 week ago)

YAAAAAA ! Never adobe for me now !!! Thank you ACD , I will be checking you out .. Maybe yo can get Scott Kelby to have teaching classes for your software products !!

4 upvotes
LensBeginner
By LensBeginner (1 week ago)

If you're looking for an Adobe replacement then I think you'll be better of with ACDSee Pro.
YMMV.

4 upvotes
3LPC Photography
By 3LPC Photography (1 week ago)

ACDsee is so under rated. I actually like its treatment of raw files more than LR. Just wish it could write into DNG files and read what's in the DNGs. Then I would actually consider switching to it full time.

Very fast and it's editing tools are great.

Under rated very much. Watch for their deals. They often offer amazing discounts.

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fuego6
By fuego6 (5 days ago)

I asked for this back in Pro 2 and was told it wasn't ever coming.. sad really.

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CameraLabTester
By CameraLabTester (1 week ago)

I'm gonna pop some pixels...

I got $50 in my pocket...

.

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StrokerAce23
By StrokerAce23 (2 days ago)

I see what you did there. Like.

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Glen Barrington
By Glen Barrington (1 week ago)

ACDSee Pro 6 is a Developer/workflow tool similar to Lightroom but is less database centric which means it's FAST. (I am moving to it from Lr) It opens dng but won't write to it

The newly released ACDSee 16 is a raw aware organizer not unlike FastStone. By RAW aware, I mean it can open and do the normal organize stuff to a raw file but it can't process it. It's code will likely be the foundation for the organizational portion of ACDSee Pro 7 when it comes out.

ACDSee Photo Editor 6 is a pretty good (but not perfect) photo editor. It offers full 16 bit editing functionality, opens raw (incl dng) and auto converts to a 16 bit, bit mapped image file.

I like ACDSee Pro 6 well enough to move to it from Lightroom and I look forward to the advancements that Pro7 will offer. I'm currently using ACDSee Photo Editor 6. It has great potential, butit needs some work.

ACDSee does do a terrible job in naming their products. Don't know why.

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BlackZero
By BlackZero (5 days ago)

Agree with their product naming strategy. There was an ACDSee V6 back in 2004/5 and there is another ACDSee (Pro) 6 in 2013.

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tommy leong
By tommy leong (1 week ago)

went to their website
TOTALLY confused by their products..

ACDsee Pro 6
ACDSee 16
ACDsee photo editor 6

Except Photo editor 6 ( which as the name susggest) , what are the difference between them ?

crap, the company itself sounds like they do the same thing yet not the same ..

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Glen Barrington
By Glen Barrington (1 week ago)

Tommy see my post above yours. I swear! The REPLY button wasn't there a minute ago!

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LensBeginner
By LensBeginner (1 week ago)

ACDSee is the basic, mainstream photo viewer.
ACDSee Pro is more advanced, with 64bit native RAW support and so on.

See here:
http://files.acdsystems.com/english/support/wpm-en-2011.pdf
(a little outdated, but it gives you an idea)

The good thing about them is that if you want to use them only as a viewing tool you can completely switch off the database and disable thumbnail caching (indirectly: just exclude all of your hard disks).

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yabokkie
By yabokkie (1 week ago)

I'm using an old version of ACDSee on my notebook for fast browsing and simple edit on the run. would like to buy a slightly updated version just to say I like it but the powerful new ones scare me away.

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Glen Barrington
By Glen Barrington (1 week ago)

Check out ACDSee Free.

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dennismullen
By dennismullen (1 week ago)

Why can't you revise ACDSee Classic? Nothing has topped it yet.
ACDSee Free is missing right click edit, slideshow, explorer view.
All other viewers are way too bulky. I still use ACDSee Classic!

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fuego6
By fuego6 (5 days ago)

Irfanview has topped it.. by far!

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BlackZero
By BlackZero (5 days ago)

Google Picasa does a pretty good job in case of Photo Viewing.. pretty quick.. but Viewing only..

1 upvote
David Chien
By David Chien (3 days ago)

Use Acdsee <2.x still because it's fast, light and simple. No bloat. Acdsee Free isn't as light, missing basic functions, and key mapping's different. Full screen, pic to pic works differently, too re: zoom lock and sizes. Only downside is that it can't handle Chinese/Japanese file names/paths, so the closest free alternative is xnview, which has the ugly feature of a caching database you have to configure not to cache photos. But, keyboard settings and full screen make sense.

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macker
By macker (1 week ago)

What about RAW Support for XPro1??????

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Glen Barrington
By Glen Barrington (1 week ago)

Not yet
http://www.acdsee.com/en/support/raw-formats

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le_alain
By le_alain (5 days ago)

I Use ACD SEE Pro for my Xtrans X20 with no problem;

Just use "dng convert" to convert RAF into DNG 6.6, open, edit, save
But you get Adobe demosaic, which is better now, but not the best
;)

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HowaboutRAW
By HowaboutRAW (1 week ago)

Quote: "'With seamless uploading to Facebook,'". Because nothing says photo-editing like FBook. Not.

How about improving the raw extraction software, so people think of ACDSEE as a serious alternative to Adobe Camera Raw?

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Glen Barrington
By Glen Barrington (1 week ago)

You need ACDSee Pro 6 I'm moving to ACDSee from Lightroom. It is every bit as good as Lr.

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HowaboutRAW
By HowaboutRAW (1 week ago)

Glen Barrington:

Except ACDSee 15 is listed as doing raw extraction above. And then ACDSee 6 Pro doesn't do raw extraction real well either. So if ACDSee wants to attract those thoroughly annoyed by Adobe's behavior, ACDSee best get its raw extraction software in order.

NB: Lightroom includes very good raw extraction software. So to claim that ACDSee is every bit as good as Lightroom ignores the problematic raw extraction of ACDSee whatever.

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fuego6
By fuego6 (5 days ago)

That's the problem with having 2 products - they can't develop them side by side and only one is ever up to date... These features should have been added to Pro 7 WAY before they got added to 16 (seriously.. 16 versions already!) - now we have to wait months for it to get into Pro 7... sigh....

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Glen Barrington
By Glen Barrington (4 days ago)

Technically, ACDSee 16 (and 15)Does do raw extraction, it will open it and convert it to a 16 bit, bitmapped image, but it won't do any raw development, it's a straight out of camera conversion.

ACDSee Pro 6 IS a serious alternative to ACR and Lightroom.

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HowaboutRAW
By HowaboutRAW (3 days ago)

Glen Barrington:

Quote: "ACDSee Pro 6 IS a serious alternative to ACR and Lightroom."

No, I tried ACDSee Pro 6 and it is NOT a serious alternative to extracting with good raw extraction software like ACR, PhotoNinja, Aftershot, DXO, or CaptureOne.

It's better than freeware (ufraw, rawtherapee), but it's not great raw extraction software. So specifically it would not be an alternative to Lightroom, unless you simply want the organizer.

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fuego6
By fuego6 (1 week ago)

Bloatware city... but - cheap if you need an editor.

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Glen Barrington
By Glen Barrington (1 week ago)

It's an organizer not an editor.

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LensBeginner
By LensBeginner (1 week ago)

the editor is... wait for it... ACDSee Photo Editor! :-)

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pntxdave
By pntxdave (1 week ago)

Look up Tom60634 Jan 4th 2012. This guy told you who makes the best software alternative to photoshop and it ain't this one. It's called PhotoLine. Read and learn. VorsprungdirkTechniK.

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HowaboutRAW
By HowaboutRAW (4 days ago)

pntxdave:

And remind potential PhotoLine users that its raw extraction is awful, so not really an alternative to PhotoShop.

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