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 ACDSee Pro Photo Manager 10 screenshot |
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| Developer | ACD Systems, Inc. |
| Latest release | 10.0 / October 1, 2007 |
| OS | Windows |
| Genre | Image organizer |
| License | Proprietary, Shareware |
| Website | www.acdsee.com |
ACDSee is a shareware image organizer software for Windows developed by ACD Systems.
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Products
- Photo Manager
The current version is 10.0 (build 239). 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 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$49.99. ACDSee is available in separate versions for English, German, Dutch and French. There is also an enhanced version which is dubbed ACDSee Pro. It has an own version numbering (the current version is 2.0) and is offered for 129.99 US$.
- 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.
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
Criticism
As of November 2007, ACDSee has no Unicode support. For example filenames containing Asian characters may not display correctly. However, it does have multi-byte support. When user has proper locale setting with his/her OS, characters will display correctly.
