ACDSee Reviewer's Comments

ACDSee, the “TopTenREVIEWS Bronze Award” winner, is easy to use and has a wide range of organizing options. Importing, organizing, searching, editing, and sharing functions are well designed in this program. ACDSee has added new features to meet demand for online photo sharing sites. A progressive product with a technical interface, it ranks third behind its more user friendly competitors. 

 

 

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Feature Set:  

ACDSee offers one of the most efficient and quick organizing tools. Import photos from your digital camera or other device, and preview, sort or filter files in a simple drag–and–drop interface. Mouse over thumbnails for instant previews. Organize images by category or keyword; store and search by image captions, author information and notes.This product has batch processing to make sorting faster. Once organized, create slide shows, screensavers, and online photo galleries. ACDSee includes 30 preset edits and filters so images can be perfected before they are stored or published. Easily burn CDs or DVDs of your images for sharing and backup.

Bonus Features

1. Multi-word keywords make finding images easier
2. Apply effects like blur, saturation and color to selected areas of your photos
3. Integrated uploading to photo sharing sites like Flickr and Smugmug
4. Post a photo widget on your website or blog powered by free ACDSee Sendpix online album
5. Create PowerPoint presentations from inside ACDSee
6. Unzip files and start viewing and organizing archived items right away without leaving ADCSee

Ease of Use:  

ACDSee is a technical program and a good one for people that are working with online media. However, the typical user will spend more time learning to use this software than other photo organizing programs. 

Ease of Installation:  

No Problems.

Help/Support:  

ACDSee offers an adequate searchable help section built into the program along with online FAQs, user forum, online form and phone support. Email questions were answered in minutes.

Summary:  

ACDSee 10 is for those familiar with the technical aspects of organizing and editing photos. If you regularly work with Zip files, create PowerPoint presentations, and upload to popular photo sharing sites, you will use this software to its full capacity. Would you like something a little more friendly? Try our #1 and #2 rated products.