ACDSee Photo Studio Professional Changelog

What's new in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2024 (27.0.1 Build 2637)

Oct 15, 2023

Fixed a crash caused by specific Embed ACDSee Metadata settings.
Fixed an issue that could cause ACDSee Keywords and Categories to retain their hierarchy when embedded to IPTC.
Fixed a keyboard shortcut not working correctly with some selection tools in Edit mode.
Fixed an issue that caused the Keywords pane not to display contents in some cases.
Corrected a text bug in Database Conversion.
Fixed an issue that caused some View mode keyboard shortcuts to be lost.

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2023 (17.0.0 Build 2627) (Sep 21, 2023)

AI Keywords, effortlessly organize and search for your photos using AI detected keywords for your images.
Embed ACDSee Keywords and Categories into IPTC Keywords and Supplemental Categories. Easily transfer your Keywords and Categories from ACDSee into IPTC and vice versa.
Filter the ACDSee Categories and Keywords lists in the Properties pane to quickly find what you want.
Automatic Import Options, import your options from ACDSee Photo Studio 2022 or newer.
AI Select Sky, Subject, and Background in Develop Mode for non-destructive editing.
New Masking Group in Develop Mode, find all your masking tools in one convenient place.
Copy and paste masks in Develop Mode, as well as duplicate masks, and convert masks into a Brush mask.
AI Select Background in Edit Mode, easily select the background of any image with a single click.
AI Select Sky and Subject have been added to Edit Mode.
Brush Settings for Flow, Opacity, and Jitter in Edit Mode.
In People Mode, added an option to display a thumbnail and customizable metadata fields when hovering over a face thumbnail.
Overhauled the Embed ACDSee Metadata process. Simplified the options and added the ability to skip the options and summary page.
Added RAW support for 21 new camera models.
Added or updated 150+ cameras and lenses in the Lens Correction feature.
Improved Auto Category for ISO by increasing its ISO max range up to 102401+.
Improved performance for Category Browsing: Selecting “include subcategories” no longer makes browsing run considerably slower.
Improved performance when Expanding All on a large ACDSee Category or Keyword list.
Improved HDR to remember the last preset used.
Added support for Display P3 color profile on HEIC/HEIF images.
Improved support for Google Pixel DNGs.
Improved support for HEIC and added support for HIF files.
Fixed an issue where Imported Date was not visibly read-only.
Fixed an issue where the results from Advanced Search were being unnecessarily re-scanned.
Fixed an issue where page orientation settings wouldn’t be saved after printing.
Fixed an issue in Photomerge – Panorama where clicking Auto-Crop would also select the checkbox for !! Remove Vignetting.
Fixed an issue when after uploading to Flickr, a Page not Found error would appear.
Fixed an issue that would cause uploading to SmugMug to stop working.

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2023 (16.0.3 Build 2348-53) (Aug 2, 2023)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2023 (16.0.3 Build 2348) (Nov 3, 2022)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2023 (16.0.0 Build 2324) (Sep 21, 2022)

Shape Selection Tool, use the Shape Selection Tool to make complicated selections with curves and corners.
Panorama Stitching, combine photos into a panorama image. Use options like remove vignetting to clean up the edges where the photos meet.
HDR, run High-Dynamic Range (HDR) to bring out the details in both the foreground and background.
Focus Stacking, apply Focus Stack to create an image with unparalleled depth of field
ACDSee Photomerge, quickly combine multiple images into one using a dedicated and streamlined UI. This includes Panorama Stitching, HDR, and Focus Stacking.
Advanced AND/OR Search, choose from numerous search criteria, including ACDSee Metadata and EXIF & IPTC fields. Built-in logic for AND/OR states let you narrow down results to a microscopic level.
With the newly designed Quick Search, you can now quickly perform more complex searches. Select from a variety of search types such as Contains All, Contains Any, or Starts with and Ends with.
ACDSee SendPix™, share your photos with family and friends.
Import Options, import your options from ACDSee Photo Studio 2022.
O Added RAW support for 18 new camera models.
O Added the Properties pane to Media mode, allowing you to assign and read ACDSee Metadata, EXIF, and IPTC. Also made other UI improvements.
O MS OneDrive™ and ACDSee integration improvements: Keep your OneDrive™ files online until you are ready to view or edit them, then download individual files or whole folders.
O MS OneDrive™ and ACDSee integration improvements: Easily move files from your PC into OneDrive™, and control whether OneDrive™ keeps local copies or offloads them to the cloud.
O Added New Develop mode Presets for Food photography and Vintage styling.
O Improved Quick Search and Advanced Search performance. Now faster than ever!
O WebP file format, added support for transparent and animated WebP files.
O Added support for different types of RAW files from the Nikon D6.
O Improved support for TIFF files including fixing blue and yellow color swap in some cases.
O Added 100+ cameras and lenses to the lens correction feature.
!! Fixed a grouping bug in Media mode; images and videos without EXIF Date/Time Original now fall back to grouping by Date Modified.
!! Fixed an issue where HEIC files appear blurry in a slideshow.
!! Fixed an issue where ACDSee did not decode Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 IV RAW files with the square setting.
!! Fixed a bug where the comma in the GPS coordinates is stripped out after you reload the same search.
!! Fixed a bug where you couldn’t delete a snapshot for certain file types after you develop the image.
!! Fixed a few random crashes in Develop mode.
!! Fixed a bug where clicking and dragging a preview in Develop mode while rotated results in a crash.

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2022 (15.1.1 Build 1982) (May 15, 2022)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2022 (15.1 Build 1972) (Mar 24, 2022)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2022 (15.0 Build 1922) (Jan 6, 2022)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2022 (15.0 Build 1919) (Sep 23, 2021)

Added RAW support for the following camera models:
Nikon Z fc
Olympus PEN E-P7
Panasonic DMC-GF8
Pentax K-3 Mark III
Sony A7R IIIA (ILCE-7RM3A)
Sony A7R IVA (ILCE-7RM4A)
Sony HX95
Sony A1
Fujifilm GFX 100S
Fujifilm GFX 50s II
Fujifilm X-E4
Fujifilm X-A20
Hasselblad H4D
Hasselblad H4D-60
Hasselblad CFV II 50C/500
Hasselblad Lunar
Canon EOS M50 Mark II
New Features:
People mode, putting a name to a face just got easier with an AI-driven mode for identifying and managing people in your portfolio.
Media mode, browse and filter at lightning speed with ACDsee’s new database-driven view for accessing previously browsed folders in Manage mode and cataloged folders.
Support for SVG file format has been added to ACDSee Photo Studio 2022. Only supported on Windows 10 and 11.
Channel Selection, make selections based on an image’s Color Information Channels.
Pixel Targeting in Develop mode allows for the selection of distinct tones, colors, and skin tones.
Color Wheel has been added to Pixel Targeting, allowing for precise adjustment of an image’s colors.
Squareness slider added to Radial Gradients for customizing the shape of the radial gradient selection.
Luminance Range targets luminance for the selection of distinct tones, colors, and skin tones.
Added Noise Reduction to the Develop mode Develop Brush for brushing noise reduction on parts of an image.
Improvements:
High ISO support added for Canon, Nikon, Pentax & Sony.
Selection Preview Button, preview the selection mask with one click.
Improved Noise Reduction, a new algorithm under the hood, plus Luminance and Tone sliders for greater results.
Improved Curve Control with precise curve control through numerical display of curve points.
Improved Gradient Control with greater control over linear and radial gradient edges.
Batch Rename default preset uses the name from the first file in the batch.
Fixed a problem with Fuji X-3 Raw file appearing to be a bit darker in Develop mode.
ACDSee 2022 can now decode and develop compressed Fuji X-S10 RAW file.
Added more cameras and lenses to the lens correction feature.
Known Issues:
Actions Browser can only be invoked in one instance of ACDSee in Manage mode.
Drag and drop from mobile devices to Windows Explorer does not work but dragging and dropping from mobile devices within ACDSee is supported.
In some cases, in Windows 7 and 8, when the camera is connected to the computer via a USB cable, the Import tool may fail to display media files and will not copy them. In these cases, we recommend copying items from these devices to your computer with Windows Explorer or importing media through a card reader.
Watermark shows an incorrect preview in certain scenarios.
It is recommended that you restart ACDSee after importing a Lightroom database.
Reset Layout does not reset multiple image baskets.
Keyword fields are limited to 64 characters.
If a video cannot be decoded, it will not be returned by the Video Special Items search.
UTF-16 files missing a byte order mark cannot be imported as a keyword list.
Pasting files in View mode may produce unexpected results.
365 mode does not support multiple image baskets.
If you close the Recording Actions dialog, it is hidden until the next Action recording.
GPR thumbnail may not display when importing from or browsing in a camera device.
Importing images from a network location with the option of “Preserve subfolder names” may not import images properly.
Database conversion and database export/import do not transfer keyword and category keyboard shortcuts.

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2021 14.0.1 Build 1721 (Feb 26, 2021)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2021 14.0.0 Build 1705 (Sep 24, 2020)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2020 13.0.2 Build 1417 (Jun 26, 2020)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2020 13.0.2 Build 1415 (Apr 9, 2020)

New Features:
Added name suggestion feature to Face Detection and Facial Recognition tools
Added the ability to embed ACDSee face data in images, as well as to import embedded ACDSee face data using a dedicated command or the Catalog Files tool
Produce HDR images
Produce images with the ideal depth of field with the Focus Stack tool
Add text as layers, customize font, size, color, style, justification, opacity, and much more
Resize the canvas to expand around layered content or add solid backgrounds
Added ability to display rulers and guidelines in Edit mode
Snap layers to the top, bottom, sides or corners of the canvas
Add Layer Effects between image and text layers
Repair imperfections with the Blended Clone tool in Develop mode and Edit mode Repair tool
Auto-align and auto-blend stacks of images
Create your own LUTs
View PDF and Microsoft Office ™ documents
Cloud Sync Drives available in Folders pane to support Dropbox and OneDrive
Create up to five Image Baskets
Video and Suggested Names added as search options in Special Items section of Catalog pane
Improvements:
Improved keyword management
Added ability to import and export keyword lists
Provided default Quick Keyword sets
Streamlined Batch Convert File Formats tool
Improved Duplicate Finder tool
Added Blur Radius in Frequency Separation tool
Added a toggle to turn mask on and off
Improved all sliders in Develop mode and Edit mode
Improved performance of Batch Export
Improved performance of Develop mode
Improved memory usage in Edit mode
Improved Catalog Files feature
Improved Embed ACDSee Metadata Reminder feature
Added RAW support for the following camera models:
Canon 8000D (T6s, EOS 760D)
Fujifilm GFX 100 (Uncompressed RAW only)
Fujifilm X-T30
Fujifilm X-T100
Fujifilm XF10
Hasselblad CF-132
Hasselblad CFV
Hasselblad CFV-50
Hasselblad CFV-50c/500
Hasselblad CW
Hasselblad H3D
Hasselblad H5D-40
Hasselblad H5D-50c
Hasselblad L1D-20C
Hasselblad X1D II 50c
Olympus TG-6
Panasonic LUMIX DC-FZ1000M2 (DC-FZ10002)
Panasonic LUMIX DC-G99 (DC-G90, DC-G91, DC-G95)
Panasonic LUMIX DC-ZS80 (DC-TZ95, DC-TZ96, DC-TZ97)
Sony A6400 (ILCE-6400)
Sony A7R IV
Sony DSC-RX100M
Sony RX0 II (DSC-RX0M2)
Sony RX100VII (DSC-RX100M7)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2019 12.1 Build 1186 (Feb 4, 2019)

Develop Mode Brush Additions. Brush on boosts in vibrance, saturation, hue, brightness, and contrast, color overlays. Or tweak temperature, tint, and tone curves in parts of your image without affecting others. Or apply them in gradual progressions using linear and radial gradients.
Improved Black and White. In Black and White mode, increase or decrease the contrast of each individual color, and specify the brightness range that the contrast adjustment will target.
Color LUTs. Seamlessly color grade your images by importing and applying LUTs as colorful Edit mode filters.
Colors in Contrast. Adjust contrast in specific tones and target precise brightness ranges to bring out contrast details in highlights or shadows.
Support for HEIF. Decode HEIF files – a high efficiency media container format type for images and image sequences – in ACDSee Photo Studio.
Auto Advance. Adding metadata prompts ACDSee to automatically advance to the next image, allowing you to organize entire folders without moving your hands from the keyboard.
Develop Settings Pane. View adjustments made to your images in Develop mode, copy those adjustments and paste them onto other images, or restore the image – all from within the convenience of Manage mode or View mode.
Import/ Export Develop/ Edit Presets. Distribute your presets to others by exporting, or relish in others’ work or processing you did in the past by importing.
Import/ Export Actions. Share your actions with other users by exporting them as convenient, compressed packages, or receive actions made by friends, enjoying the limitless creative potential of recorded actions.
Luminosity Selection. Create selections based on the brightness in your images. The brighter a pixel is, the stronger a selection will be on that pixel.
Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts in Manage Mode. Whip through your management process with customizable hot keys available for every stage of your workflow.
Print Improvements. Compensate for your printer’s idiosyncrasies with exposure, contrast, and sharpness settings built right into the Print dialog.

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2018 11.0 Build 785 (Sep 1, 2017)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 10.0 Build 624 (Sep 15, 2016)

Shrewd Brushing:
Non-destructive option available. It has become edge-aware! This clever brush allows you to brush on exposure, saturation, fill light, contrast, sharpness, and clarity adjustments in Develop mode, and in most tools in Edit mode, while targeting specific color and brightness ranges.
Non-Destructive Special Effects:
As an antidote to boredom, you can now parametrically add color overlays, a number of photo effects, and map colors to shadows and highlights respectively. Fine-tune how these effects interact with the image with the opacity adjustment and two dozen available blend modes.
Clear it up:
Non-destructive option available. Parametrically rescue photos captured through dust, smoke, vapor, or other particles while preserving details. Specify the level of detail to be saved while restoring contrast and lost color.
Flawless and Radiant:
Non-destructive option available. Without the foundation, the concealer, or even painstaking brushing, you can non-destructively smooth away blemishes and flaws with the Skin Tune tool, which automatically aims at skin tones
Quiet Down:
Non-destructive option available. The very latest improvements in noise reduction make it now possible to preserve detail while still removing grainy noise artefacts. You can even set the level of detail to retain.
Optimized Workspace:
Tear off, move, stack, and dock panes and toolbars, such as the Edit mode toolbar or Filmstrip, anywhere you like — including your second monitor — and savor your enhanced workflow efficiency.
Dashboard Definitude:
Reap the benefits of ACDSee Pro’s Dashboard and enjoy on-the-fly stats on your files, database, and camera usage.
The Big Reveal:
With performance boosted, get an even better perspective on your collection by filtering Photos mode to display files from specific areas of your hard drive, your Microsoft OneDrive, or your entire collection. Set Photos mode to reveal orphans in sepia, and display pop-ups with customizable metadata.
Adaptable Brushing:
You can now right-click to quickly switch between drawing with foreground and background colors with the Brush tool.
Plus More Blend Modes:
Non-destructive option available. Combine any of our new blend modes with opacity adjustments for even more creative control over the look of effects and adjustments.
More Improved Features:
Improved stability
Updated lens correction profiles
Improved lens detection
Beefed up speed and performance, with GPU-enhanced Develop mode

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 9.0 Build 439 (Sep 25, 2015)

ACDSee Actions — Automate with Ease:
Save your precious time on repetitive tasks with ACDSee Actions. Record literally any steps you make in Edit mode and apply them to other images, essentially recreating an entire editing process with a single click. Preview the results your recordings would have on any image before applying. Export your recordings to as many files as you like in an array of file types. While Batch Edit only contained a handful of adjustments, you can now record and batch-apply any of Edit mode's 200+ adjustments. Recreate the end result without having to take the time to go through or even relearn each step, and then share them with friends, family, or fans!
Distortion Doctoring with Lens Correction:
Correct barrel and pincushion distortion in digital photographs with the ultimate accuracy: automatic correction specific to the lens used to take the photo. ACDSee Pro 9 lists the possible lenses for your camera's make and model and applies the correction specially formulated to fix the particular distortion inherent to that lens — even fixing chromatic aberration. Map this correction to your lens and set Develop mode to correct every time, no attention required.
Classify with Collections:
Group your photos in one place for a simple take on highly complex organizing and easy searching. Create Collections to fast-track the right photos to the right workflow, such as printing, batch editing, sharing to web, developing, or accumulating for a slideshow. Build hierarchies within Collection Sets for further structure to help you drill right down to the photos you want. Or construct Smart Collections containing a search, which you can return to at any time. Utilize an extensive list of search variables, including relative dates, date ranges, metadata, and file properties. Smart Collection's search will update its findings as files are added to the database — zero effort on your part.
Photos Mode — Your Aerial View:
Experience the entirety of your photo collection by date. Gain new perspective on your memories by browsing it by year, month, or day. Conveniently locate your place in giant collections thanks to pop-up dates showing you exactly where you are in time. View it all together, or just the photo collection stored on your Microsoft OneDrive™. Quickly move from this panoramic chronoscopic view to organizing, viewing individual files, or taking them directly into Develop mode for non-destructive adjustment, or add adjustment layers in Edit mode for limitless creativity.
4K Support — Your Resolution Revolution:
Distinctive, clear, crisp. These are just a few of the words used to describe ACDSee's new high DPI support. View your images on 4k monitors in sharp, uncompromising detail no number of words can describe.
Snapshots — Your Adjustment Freeze Frame:
Develop mode now offers even more non-destructive freedom. As you make adjustments, take snapshots at any time to save your work up to that point. Continue to edit as desired, but you can return to the version in your snapshot at any time. Share your image with snapshots with other ACDSee Ultimate or Pro users, allowing them to learn how you achieved each effect.
Dehaze — Taking Your Murkiest Images Out of Obscurity:
When dust, smoke, vapor, or other particles becloud the clarity of your image, look to the Dehaze tool to restore contrast, detail, and lost color. Particularly prevalent in the sky, a haze can take the focus away from your subject and overshadow fine detail. Give your images clear skies, and your subjects the spotlight they deserve.
Skin Tune — Flawless and Radiant:
Forget the concealer. Forget the foundation. Forget the painstaking color targeting and precision repair work. All you need now is the Skin Tune tool, which targets skin tones so you don't have to. Avoid messing with the other colors in your image. You can use the Skin Tune tool to even skin tone, restore glow, and smooth away blemishes and flaws without a lot of messing around. No makeup. No expense. No hassle.
Extended Editing Capabilities with Photoshop Plugin Support:
Expand your creative scope with the ability to import and apply Photoshop plugins to your Edit mode adjustment workflow. Effectively create your own filters and use them in combination with best-in-class photo editing tools, special effects, and targeted repairs for limitless opportunities.
New Filters — Apply Some Magic:
Take any old photo and turn it into something extraordinary. With an ever-expanding roster of brand new effects to choose from, it's easy to give the mundane a splash of mystery, mood, or otherworldliness without having to go through a long list of complex steps.
Painless Color Matching:
Pick up that exact shade you need with the Eye Dropper tool. Populate the outline and fill of your drawn shapes with any color from inside your photo or from outside the app itself.
Easily Convert from Lightroom to ACDSee:
Is it time to make that big transition? Tired of importing your photos into an application instead of the application just reading them straight off your hard drive? Well, we can make that change over a little smoother, a little less painful, and a lot less work. A few clicks and your Lightroom database will begin importing into ACDSee, keeping your Lightroom collections intact, viewable and editable in ACDSee's Collections tool, and allowing you to maintain and still benefit from your long hours of rating, keywording, and labeling even after you've transitioned to ACDSee.
Gradient Flexibility:
Create a gradual blend of multiple colors across your image or drawn shapes. With linear and radial gradients now added to your drawing tool arsenal, you can shade in a straight line or blend outward in a circular path from a central focal point. Adjust opacity and choose from a long list of blend modes for complete creative flexibility.
Microsoft OneDrive Integration — Your All-Access Pass:
With your OneDrive folder now integrated as a root node, you can instantly access your cloud content from Manage mode, Photos mode, and from 365 mode. This allows you to organize, view, edit, and share, any of your image collection no matter where it's stored, without moving it out of the cloud. Include the entirety of your OneDrive collection alongside your hard drive collection when viewing by date in Photos mode.

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 8.0 Build 262 (Sep 25, 2014)

Pixel Targeting - NEW:
Selectively adjust pixels with a variety of Edit mode tools by targeting specific colors and tones within the image. Even target skin tones! Combine Pixel Targeting with the Edit Brush for the ultimate in precision editing.
PicaView - NEW:
Actively preview your files through your OS’s context menu, without having to open them in an application, with ACDSee PicaView. Take a sneak peak at the EXIF information, and painlessly launch images in ACDSee for further editing.
1-Step EQ - NEW:
Experience the ease of effortless automatic exposure adjustment with 1-Step EQ. ACDSee’s patented LCE (Lighting and Contrast Enhancement) technology powers 1-Step EQ’s intuitive improvements right as you open the image.
Smart Indexer - NEW:
To maximize efficiency, the Smart Indexer catalogs folders and adds them to the ACDSee Database when your computer is idle. The Smart Indexer knows when you’ve made changes and automatically keeps everything up-to-date, enabling you to get the most out of your overall ACDSee experience.
Edit Mode Fill Tool - NEW:
Use the Edit Mode Fill tool to select a color to enrich with your chosen background color for speedy enhancements.
SeeDrive - NEW:
Access and manage your online images quickly and easily, control privacy settings, and share with your family, friends, and the world — all from the convenience of Manage mode, with ACDSee SeeDrive.
History Window - NEW:
View your adjustment history with the Edit mode History Window and return to a specific adjustment, regardless of how many changes you’ve made since. You can also undo all of your changes at once.
Gestures - NEW:
Browse through your photo collection with a flick of the finger. ACDSee Pro 8 now features support for Windows Touch Gestures-enabled devices.
Filters - NEW:
For that oft-needed dash of quirkiness or nostalgia, apply a variety of brand new effects without needing to go through a cumbersome, technical multi-step process.
Auto Lens View - NEW:
Freely preview what your images would look like with a variety of filters on the fly with the Auto Lens View.
Auto EQ - NEW:
Experience your images with an instant exposure boost as you view them with Auto EQ.
Folder Tree -IMPROVED:
ACDSee seamlessly displays your files in the same style as you see them in your OS’s folder tree, which means no adjusting to change, and no undue searching.
Selections -IMPROVED:
With a new streamlined gui designed for efficiency, the Selections and Drawing tools are now more accessible than ever, allowing you to focus your adjustments exactly where you want them, and add drawing assets as you work.
Navigator Window -IMPROVED:
The improved Edit mode Navigator automatically takes the guesswork out of zooming into the smaller details.

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 7.0 Build 137 (Sep 28, 2013)

Repair photos, non-destructively:
Non-destructively erase flaws, blemishes and other unwanted objects with powerful Heal and Clone options. You can even copy and paste an adjustment — such as the removal of dust spots — onto multiple similar images.
Radial and Linear Gradient tools:
Non-destructively apply a radial or linear gradient as you correct exposure, saturation, fill light, contrast, and clarity, to gradually progress outward from a center point or subtly across your photo. Copy and paste settings from one photo to another or apply in batches, and blend multiple gradients for even more compelling results.
Sharpen/Blur brush:
Use a brush to non-destructively blur or sharpen a specific area of your images. Choose your brush size and the amount of feathering, and add a linear or radial gradient to help you achieve exactly the look you want.
Detail Brush:
Similar to dodge and burn, fine-tune your images by accenting specific details with the stroke of a brush. Emphasize areas by brushing multiple times for a stronger effect.
Home base for your databases:
Create as many ACDSee databases as you like, and quickly and easily switch between them.
Twice as nice:
Increase your viewing real estate. With added support for a secondary monitor, you can see a large preview of any image you select during the review process, without missing a beat.
Copy and paste metadata:
Save time by copying and pasting metadata on the fly, from one image to another. Easily select among IPTC, GPS, and ACDSee metadata.
Info Palette:
Access key shooting information while working with your photos. The Info Palette conveniently displays a host of data alongside your image, 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.
Tilt-Shift:
Apply the Tilt-Shift effect to transform your photo into a miniature-scale model. Rotate the lens plane and adjust the bokeh frequency, brightness, and sides to get the perfect scene.
Locate your location:
Use embedded latitude and longitude information to lookup the nearest address or place name. Select a pin on the map, choose “Reverse Geocode” and ACDSee will write the matching location details into the corresponding IPTC fields.
Direct to Facebook:
Quickly send photos from ACDSee to your Facebook account. Create a new album or add to an existing one, specify location, write description details, and choose your privacy level.
Lens blur:
Attain a realistic bokeh effect with the Lens Blur filter. Choose from a large number of shapes 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.

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 6.0 Build 169 (Sep 26, 2012)

Super Fast Performance:
High resolution images require high amounts of handling power. Speed up your image processing and zoom through your workflow tasks, thanks to ACDSee Pro 6’s native 64-bit support for Windows operating systems.
Hierarchical keywords:
Save time and stay on top of your growing collection by creating keyword hierarchies that span from the general to the very specific. For example, say you’ve created this structure: Transportation | Cars | Vintage. When you assign an image of a Model-T to the Vintage keyword with a check of a box, it automatically gets added to the higher keyword levels. Click on a keyword in the Catalog pane or use Quick Search to display all of the files assigned to that keyword. Create as many levels as you need to fully and accurately classify your assets.
Improved color management:
Achieve a consistent color workflow. Reworked from the ground up, ACDSee Pro 6's color management system resolves color matching issues that can occur between different devices with much more accurate color matching and higher quality results. Plus, multi-monitor support is now included.
Burn to Blu-Ray:
Quickly and easily archive your images to Blu-Ray discs, directly from within ACDSee.
Non-destructive adjustment brush:
Make non-destructive adjustments to select areas of your images using a versatile brush to precisely get the look you want. Subtly or dramatically correct exposure, add clarity, boost vibrance and more.
Improved noise reduction and sharpening:
Rescue your high ISO images with ACDSee's significantly improved noise reduction technology to get smoother and more natural results, while retaining as much edge detail as possible. Plus, the new Detail slider adds control over the sharpening process by feathering or softening the sharpening halos.
Better black and white:
Take your monochrome images to a whole new level of creativity with the dedicated black and white mode. Make high-quality non-destructive hue-based brightness adjustments and experiment with saturation-based tinting that allows you to add a specific hue back to a black and white image.
New processing tools
Target midtones to make intuitive adjustments to your images – give a little extra definition to details with the Clarity tool, or get dreamy with Soft Focus. Use Cross Process to add a surreal, retro look. Or draw attention to a cropped portion of your image with Post-Crop Vignetting, complete with feathering, radius and roundness controls. Plus, you can now non-destructively reduce red-eye.
Advanced color improvements:
Adjust individual or overall color in your images with improved Advanced Color tools, built on a higher quality algorithm that uses modern color models for higher quality and more perceptual color adjustments. Add in more intuitive controls, and you can subtly fine-tune or dramatically change the hue, saturation, and lightness, for remarkably better results.
Brush on edits:
Quickly brush on any editing effect or adjustment to a specific area of your photo, complete with size and feathering controls. For even more flexibility, combine your edits with different blend modes for the ultimate in control and creativity.
Blur smartly:
Apply the new Smart Blur filter in Edit Mode as a creative effect, or to reduce the noise in your image. Smooth out the grain and noise patterns between edges while still retaining the sharpness and important details of your shot.

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 5.0 Build 110 (Oct 3, 2011)

Photo Developing:
Smarter Sharpening:
A new user-controlled edge detection mask slider lets you focus the sharpening effect more to edges and textures than non-textured areas.
Split-toning:
Take your photos to the edge in either Develop or Edit mode using split-toning to create sepia or tinted black & white, Or add a tinted color to highlights and another to shadows to create a dramatic toning effect.
Photo Editing:
Dodge and Burn:
Target shadows, midtones or highlights for lightening or darkening with the Dodge and Burn tool, or selectively add vibrance, saturate or desaturate areas of interest.
Drawing Tools:
Put your photos to work for you using drawing tools to add lines and shapes such as squares, circles and arrows to draw attention to certain elements in your image. You can also adjust the width, feathering and blending of your brush to create subtle or dramatic drawing effects.
Special Effects:
Apply and fine-tune a range of pre-set effects quickly and easily with the Special Effects palette, now including:
Lomo Effect:
Apply the popular Lomo effect to give an edgy, retro feel to your photos.
Collage Effect:
Creatively display your photo in a collage of prints.
Orton Effect:
Give an ethereal, pastel-like touch to your portraits and landscapes.
Workflow:
Color Labels:
Use color labels to quickly identify groups within a large number of photos for processing. As your review your photos, quickly mark ones for different stages of your workflow. For example, assign files to color labels you have named such as upload, print, reject, develop or edit and then click a color label in the Organize pane to quickly display all of the files assigned to that label. Or use them in combination with the Group by, or Filter By features to refine your list. Color labels, like tagging, categories and ratings, are a way to set aside, organize, and group your photos without moving them into different folders.
Batch Export Tool:
Save a group of photos to your specifications faster than ever with the updated ACDSee Pro 5 Batch Export tool. The batch export tool allows you to create presets for easily exporting groups of files to specified folders, file names, formats, colour spaces and dimensions.
Remove Metadata:
Use the Remove Metadata tool to keep your proprietary information private by stripping EXIF and IPTC metadata to protect the details of your locations, camera settings and equipment choices.

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 4.0 Build 198 (Mar 30, 2011)

Improved RAW processing for best possible color preservation:
ACDSee Pro 4 has a new approach to RAW decoding and processing allowing for significant improvements to exposure, contrast and default color quality. In order to preserve all the colors cameras are able to capture ACDSee now decodes the RAW image into the wide ProPhoto RGB color space. Better handling of color management in Develop mode allows you to select your choice of Output Color Space while correctly applying appropriate ICC color transforms for correct color reproduction on screen.
Vignette correction:
Lens vignetting is a limitation of the camera lens' ability to equally distribute light, resulting in the corners of some images appearing darker than expected. The new Vignette Correction in Develop mode provides a simple way of correcting this artifact.
Chromatic aberration correction and defringing:
Chromatic Aberration, a lens artifact that results in fringes in high contrast areas of some photos, can now be corrected. The new Chromatic Aberration tool in Develop mode corrects both forms of this problem, and is especially useful for photos with architectural details.
Save photo locations on Map:
The new map view, available in Manage mode, lets you easily geotag items, view items on the map, use the map to select groups of files for further workflow steps, and use the map to select images for display in View mode.
IPTC Core 1.1 support and improved metadata handling:
ACDSee Pro 4 has added support for all IPTC Core 1.1 fields including Creator contact information. Metadata handling has also been reworked to address past issues with mapping fields between EXIF, IPTC, and XMP. Your IPTC, EXIF, and XMP metadata is accurately represented while ensuring backwards compatibility with Pro 3.
New tools for viewing and managing metadata:
View and modify industry standard metadata for multiple photos at once in the new Metadata Panel available in the Properties pane. The Metadata Panel also gives you direct access to metadata presets to save you from having to enter the same information for multiple photos. You can also now customize multiple metadata views to display the metadata fields of your choosing.
Improved workflow flexibility:
ACDSee Pro 4 gives you more control of your workflow by offering flexibility in the way files are saved in Develop mode. In particular, you are now prompted to save when you click Done, move to the next image, or change modes. Or you can select the Auto Save check box so that changes are saved automatically as they were in Pro 3. Save As now automatically switches to the newly saved image and displays in the filmstrip. You can use Save a Copy to create multiple derivatives from the same source image. You can also delete images while you are in Process mode.
Easy access to external editors:
ACDSee Pro 4 makes it easier to quickly access configured external editors in Manage and View mode. Once configured, the external editors are listed in the toolbar customization dialog where you can add individual buttons and customize keyboard shortcuts.

ACDSee Photo Studio Professional Changelog

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New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2021 14.0.1 Build 1721 (Feb 26, 2021)

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New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2020 13.0.2 Build 1417 (Jun 26, 2020)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2020 13.0.2 Build 1415 (Apr 9, 2020)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2019 12.1 Build 1186 (Feb 4, 2019)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2018 11.0 Build 785 (Sep 1, 2017)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 10.0 Build 624 (Sep 15, 2016)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 9.0 Build 439 (Sep 25, 2015)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 8.0 Build 262 (Sep 25, 2014)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 7.0 Build 137 (Sep 28, 2013)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 6.0 Build 169 (Sep 26, 2012)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 5.0 Build 110 (Oct 3, 2011)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 4.0 Build 198 (Mar 30, 2011)

New in ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2.0 Public Beta (May 4, 2007)