ACDSee Pro's development team is based out of Victoria, British Columbia and was originally led by Jon McEwan, and more recently by Nels Anvik, who oversaw ACDSee Pro 2.5 through to Pro 5. ACD Systems decided to separate its core release, ACDSee Photo Manager, into two separate products ACDSee Photo Manager, aimed at amateur photography enthusiasts, and ACDSee Pro which would target Professionals by adding a new package of feature sets. This early version of ACDSee is sometimes known as ACDSee Classic or ACDSee 32.ĪCDSee Pro was released on 9 January 2006 aimed at professional photographers. Development of this line continues, with version 20.0 released in 2016. Version 5.0 was released in 2002, and 7.0 in 2005. In 1997 32-bit ACDsee 95 was released for Windows 95. ĪCDSee was first released in 1994 as a 16-bit application for Windows 3.1. In 2012, ACDSee Free was released, without advanced features. The photo manager is available as a consumer version, and a pro version which provides additional features, and additional image editing capabilities. Each database and its associated thumbnails can also be loaded and saved as separate entities. ĪCDSee's database can be backed up, and exported/imported as XML or binary. The thumbnails generated by ACDSee are cached, so that they do not need to be regenerated, and stored on disk as a database. ACDSee started as an image organizer/viewer, but over time had image editing and RAW development (Pro version) capabilities added. Most of ACDSee's features can be accessed via keyboard.ĪCDSee displays a tree view of the file structure for navigation with thumbnail images of the selected folder, and a preview of a selected image.

Judging the image quality of a picture is fast due to next/previous image caching, fast RAW image decoding and support for one-click toggling between 100% and fit screen zoom mode anywhere inside the image. The newest versions of ACDSee incorporate modern Digital Asset Management tools like Face Detection & Facial Recognition (Ultimate 2019).ĪCDSee's main features are speed, lossless RAW image editing, image batch processing, editing metadata ( Exif and IPTC), rating, keywords, and categories, and geotagging. ACDSee was originally distributed as a 16-bit application for Windows 3.0 and later supplanted by a 32-bit version for Windows 95. Image organizer, image viewer and image editorĪCDSee is an image organizer, viewer, and image editor program for Windows, macOS and iOS, developed by ACD Systems International Inc.

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