Review: ACDSee 9 Photo Manager

ACDSee Photo Manager 9 Rating: out of 5. Based on features, easy-of-use and value for the money.

System requirements: Hardware Intel Pentium 4-class or equivalent. 256/512 MB RAM 100 MB free hard disk space Software Windows® 2000 or Windows® XP (Home and Professional editions) Microsoft® Internet Explorer™ 6.0

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With ACDSee 9 Photo Manager, the software company's newest release of their best-selling photo manager software, users get faster viewing, organizing, enhancing and sharing capabilities. Once again, ACDSee leads the pack with a feature-filled program that is easy
to use and offers excellent value for the money. Among the new features in ACDSee 9 are Quick View mode, Desktop Showroom, the Shadow/Highlight tool, Auto Categories, Calendar Events and View Private Folders.

New Features in ACDSee Photo Manager 9

Quick View Mode: see your photos onscreen instantly, either when opening images in an
e-mail attachment, or double-clicking on a JPEG from Windows Explorer.

Shadow/Highlight tool: Saves shots that you may have thought unsalvageable. This tool makes it simple to instantly and automatically correct photos that are either too dark or too bright. Haven't we all taken poorly exposed photos that we dispair how to fix them without washing out the background? This tool will be invaluable for many of us. Users can also fix red-eye with a single click using an improved red-eye reduction tool.

ACDSee Showroom: A fun and easy way to see your photos. Just set a folder path to your favorite pictures and a movable window appears on your desktop that displays your photos either in sequence or random.

Auto Categories: ACDSee 9 organizes your photos for you. When using the Get Photos command from your camera, ACDSee will automatically put your pictures into categories based on their camera information, file properties, keywords, size, date taken.

Calendar Events View: Automatically organizes your images based on the date they were taken. They're displayed in an organized event list and you can add your own unique descriptions.

Private Folders: Make specific photos or folders confidential by moving them to your own password-protected Private Folder.

I've been using my wishlist features a whole lot more, and have been doing a lot of work in ACDSee getting organized. It is surprisingly inspirational to organize this stuff - I forget how much COOL stuff I have purchased in the last few years!
                                                  - AmyK

It's so nice to be organized. I can't believe how much easier my life is since I got Acdsee
                                                  - Picknwildflowers

ACDSee Photo Manager 9 Also Includes:

• Quick Search Bar to find your photos fast. Just type in a word and ACDSee returns matches in image captions, author information and notes, as well as filenames, keywords, categories and folders.
  
  
• Create Video or VCD (video compact disc) features. Create slide shows with music and watch them on your TV or PC.
  
  
• CD and DVD burn features. TheBurn Basket lets you drag and drop files or folders. Create new folders within the Burn Basket. It estimates the amount of space you have left on the disk so you can see if you have enough room to add your current project.
  
  
• Photo editing tools: A photo repair tool with clone and healing options fixes blemishes, flares, scratches, etc. Eliminate red eye with one click, use custom angle rotations and automatically crop your selections, select from 27 filters and effects.
  
  
• Add text - You can add text anywhere you want and enhance it with styles and special effects. Select talk and thought bubbles or straight text.
  
  
• Batch processing: rename, resize, rotate and flip, and adjust exposure on a group of photos at the same time. The Batch Set Information feature lets you to update image description caption, date/time, author, notes etc. info, and view previews of new values for any number of images simultaneously.
  
  
• HTML albums with page layout controls make posting and sharing your photos on the Web fun and easy.
  
  
• Sync feature that lets you to synchronize folders on your PC with network folders or an external hard drive in case of local hard drive failure (a nice benefit!).

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