ACDSee Pro 5 Q&As

Hello. I have made some good photo editing to one of my photos that is in.DNG format. Is there a way to save just the various actions that I made as a seperate file? (eg increased exposure, added saturation etc.) I need to save just these settings for later use. Can this be done in some way? --To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour...

Hi PaintShop Pro X5 can save files with editable layers only in its native PSP format. I cannot get ACDSee to handle those files properly, despite ACDSee including a plugin for PSP files. The thumbnail is not displayed, nor are the metadata. Does anybody successfully use PaintShop Pro together with ACDSee? Regards, --Stéphanehttp://gallery.lumieredargent.comhttp://blog.lumieredargent.com

My main problem is that I do everything on RAW files in Lightroom then export to JPEG’s which I then work on further on an ad-hoc basis ..  so I may change the cropping or the rating or the keywords etc for a certain use I end up with two progressively different populations of files and that is something that I have not philosophically or organisationally managed to solve yet ..  What do you people do .. do you keep all on Lightroom, do you just work on RAW, or do you somehow synchronize the...

I'd like to move from a PC to MAC.  My major barrier is transferring my massive ACDSee Pro database to software that will provide the same functionality.  There has been substantial criticism of the MAC version of ACDSee, and even that move would require embedding metadata in the photos.  1) is embedding metadata in photos straight forward, simply choose the option and wait until all the photos are updated?2) will iPhoto and Aperture easily read the metadata (categories, titles, notes,...as...