ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2022 v15.1.0.2910

ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2022  with the explosion of digital photography, doesn’t everyone need a secret weapon? Compact and efficient by design for both the novice and skilled photographer! ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2022 breaks the shackles of repetition and combats the agents of bland by unleashing a world of creative control and endless possibilities.

ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2022 offers incredible time-saving tools such as the all-new Media mode for interacting with the ACDSee photo database; and People mode, an AI engine that seamlessly places a name to a face. Add a bevy of new selection tools to an already robust Layering Editor, and you have a secret weapon for building your photography empire in an overcrowded digital world.

Digital Asset Management & Productivity

• People Mode
  AI-driven mode for identifying and managing people in your portfolio.
• Media Mode
  ACDSee database-driven view for accessing previously browsed folders in Manage Mode and cataloged folders.
• SVG File Format Support
  Support for SVG files has been added to ACDSee Photo Studio.
• Improved High ISO Support
  ISOs above 200,000 are now supported in cameras by Canon, Nikon, Pentax, and Sony.
• Performance
  Fast launching, mode-switching, working with keywords & categories, RAW decoding, and database maintenance, ACDSee let’s you focus on the task in hand.
• Batch Resize
  Resize multiple images to any dimension, following pixels or percentages, along either edge, or as a print size.
• Batch Rename
  A dynamic and efficient process for renaming multiple files. The options are almost endless.
• Presets & History Pane
  A dedicated Develop Mode pane to enhance your editing process. Create and categorize a library of presets or take snapshots and view your full edit history.
• Watermark Tool
  Add watermarks with more accuracy – particularly beneficial for applying watermarks to a batch of images.
• Crop Tool
  Relative positioning functionality allows you to crop multiple images in seconds.
• Quick Search
  Toggle options for Quick Search makes finding images in large databases much faster.
• GoPro Support
  Work directly with GoPro RAW images, and perfect your adventures.
• ACDSee Mobile Sync
  Wirelessly and instantly send photos and videos directly to ACDSee Photo Studio from your mobile device by scanning the QR code on your monitor! The app is available on iPhone and Android.
• Online Support
  Find the help you need as you work with our new context sensitive online help. Press F1 while performing any function in ACDSee to be taken to the relevant online help page.
• Import Face Data
  Import face data from Lightroom and Picasa and save the effort of renaming everyone in your images. Facial Recognition will then find any matching faces in your ACDSee database.
• Facial Recognition & Face Detection
  The Face Detection & Facial Recognition tool will find the humans in your photographs so you can name them for quick searching. ACDSee will immediately learn which names to put to which faces, and suggest possible matches when needed.
• Keyword Management
  ACDSee comes pre-loaded with a variety of usable sample quick keyword sets. Export keyword lists and share them with other users. Save countless hours of manual entry by importing established keyword lists.
• Duplicate Finder
  Find duplicates across a variety of folders and locations. Rename or delete detected duplicates to keep your file collection under control.
• Multiple Image Baskets
  Create up to five image baskets to gather and hold images and media files from all over your hard drive. Name individual image baskets and use them to easily view, edit, or share their content.
• Cloud Access
  Get files from the team over Dropbox ™ or OneDrive ™ or back up existing work with direct access to cloud sync root drives within Manage mode.
• File Viewing
  Flip through your PDF and Microsoft Office™ documents— even sheets on multi-tabbed Excel™ documents. Rank your digital assets based on importance. Discard and back up accordingly.
• Actions
  Create an Action by recording your editing process, categorize and manage your Actions, and batch apply any of 125+ pre-loaded Actions to multiple images at once.
• 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.
• 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.
• Appearance
  ACDSee Photo Studio is completely customizable. For enhanced workflow efficiency, you can tear off, move, stack, dock, and hide panes and toolbars anywhere you like.
• Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts in Manage Mode
  Whip through your management process with customizable hot keys available for every stage of your workflow.
• 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.
• Location Data
  Add photo locations from anywhere in the world to your photos. You can then recall and view that information for reference at any time. Use the map to select groups of files for further workflow steps, and select photos for display in View mode.
• RAW Support
  Take full editing control of your RAW images with built-in support for over 500 camera models by saving them as a .acdc file, to preserve your layers and allow for future non-destructive adjustments.
• Photoshop Plug-ins
  Import and apply Photoshop plug-ins for further creative freedom.
• Compatibility
  Enjoy comprehensive support for all of the most popular image formats. ACDSee also provides comprehensive color management.
• Support for HEIF
  Decode HEIF files – a high efficiency media container format type for images and image sequences – in ACDSee Photo Studio.
• GPU Acceleration
  ACDSee’s GPU-accelerated layers engine and adjustment layers, as well as quality performance for speedy filter application, will get you finished faster.

Photo Editing Tools

• Pixel Targeting in Develop Mode
  Updated Pixel Targeting in Develop mode allows for the selection of distinct tones, colors, and skin tones.
• Color Wheels in Pixel Targeting
  The Color Wheel added to Pixel Targeting allows for precise adjustment of an image’s colors.
• Squareness Slider for Radial Gradients
  Customize the shape of the radial gradient selection.
• Luminance/Color Range
  Targets luminance for the selection of distinct tones, colors, and skin tones.
• Noise Reduction in Develop Brush
  Brush noise reduction on parts of your image in Develop Mode.
• Selection Preview Button
  Preview the selection mask with one click.
• Improved Noise Reduction
  New algorithm under the hood, plus Luminance and Tone sliders for greater results.
• Improved Curve Control
  Precise curve control through numerical display of curve points.
• Improved Gradient Control
  Greater control over linear and radial gradient edges.
• Color Wheel
  Focus on precise colors throughout your image to manipulate with a new level of precision. Accurately brighten grey skies and dull reflections.
• Tone Wheels
  User-friendly tone wheels make split-toning highlights, midtones, and shadows easy.
• Refine Selection
  Use Refine Selection to shift or soften edges which can maximize the effect of tools like Smart Erase.
• Blended Clone Tool
  Use the Blended Clone tool to copy pixels from a source area to a target area. ACDSee analyzes the pixels in the target area and blends them with the copied pixels for the most seamless repair yet.
• Red Eye Tool
  Automatically remove red eyes from the faces in your photos.
• Repair Tools
  Non-destructively smooth away blemishes and flaws without strenuous, targeted color corrections or blending.
• Smart Erase
  Brush over unwanted objects with the Smart Erase tool and watch them disappear instantly. The Smart Erase tool fills in the area naturally.
• Skin Tune
  Use the Skin Tune tool to even tone and restore glow in your subjects, as well as brighten and smooth.
• Chromatic Aberration
  Heal colored fringes on the borders of high contrast areas with the Chromatic Aberration tool.
• Add Border
  Add a border to your favorite photos. Customize the color, texture, and thickness to suit your shot.
• Add Vignette
  Add a vignette and adjust the size, color, and opacity to perfectly complement the mood of your photo.
• Special Effects
  Instantly transform your photo with special effects that can turn images into a pencil drawing, collage, Bob Ross-style painting, and many more unique looks.
• Tilt-Shift
  Use the Tilt-Shift effect to create emphasis on specific subjects in your photos, or make your photos look like miniature landscapes.
• Add Grain Tool
  Give your images an old, film grain look with the Grain tool.
• Rotate
  Rotate your images at preset or custom angles in Edit mode. You can save your settings as a preset for future use.
• Flip
  Flip your images both vertically and horizontally in Edit mode.
• Perspective Correction
  Easily adjust the perspective of your photo so large or far-away objects are the correct size.
• Distortion Correction
  Correct barrel, pincushion, and fisheye distortion in your photos.
• Lens Correction
  Automatically correct barrel and pincushion distortion by applying the fix calibrated for the distortion inherent to the lens you used.
• Resize
  Resize your image by adjusting its dimensions in pixels, percentage, or actual/print size. While resizing, you can also choose an aspect ratio and a resampling filter to adjust your resized image’s appearance.
• Liquify
  Retouch images by moving pixels, not changing them, for limitless photo manipulations.
• Exposure
  Use the Exposure tool to automatically or manually adjust your image’s exposure, contrast, and fill light. Target specific areas of your image using the Edit Brush or Gradient tool to limit where the exposure adjustment occurs.
• Contrast
  Adjust contrast in specific tones and target precise brightness ranges to bring out contrast details in highlights or shadows.
• Levels
  Use the Levels tool to precisely adjust the contrast and light levels in your images.
• Auto Levels
  Automatically correct the exposure levels of your images. Auto Levels makes the darkest image pixels darker, and the brightest pixels brighter.
• Light EQ™
  Adjust areas in your image that are too dark or too light, without affecting other areas of the photo. You can also simultaneously brighten dark areas that are too dark, and darken areas that are too bright.
• Dehaze
  Restore contrast, detail, and lost color to your images. This tool is especially useful for images that have been captured through a haze.
• Dodge & Burn
  Use the Dodge and Burn tool to lighten or darken areas in your photo without affecting other areas. The tool is often used to lighten underexposed areas or darken overexposed areas.
• White Balance
  Instantly give your photos more warmth or coolness, or use the White Balance tool to remove unwanted hue from your images.
• Color EQ
  Use the Color EQ (hue, saturation, contrast, and brightness) tool to adjust overall colors in your image or each color individually. The advanced tools can subtly fine-tune and enhance colors, or completely change individual colors in your images.
• Split Tone
  Split Tone allows you to tint shadows and highlights with non-destructive edits.
• Black & White
  In Black & White mode, increase or decrease the contrast of each individual color, and specify the brightness range that the contrast adjustment will target.
• Color LUTs
  Use ACDSee’s built-in Color LUTs to seamlessly color grade your images, or import and apply LUTs as non-destructive filters.
• Sharpen
  Sharpen your photos by enhancing medium and high contrast edges.
• Blur
  Apply different kinds of blur to your photos.
• Add Noise
  Add noise in your photos while preserving details that you want to retain.
• Clarity
  The Clarity tool adds subtle definition to the details in your image. Use it to enhance the contrast of midtones in your images, without overpowering the shadows and highlights.
• Detail Brush
  Use the Detail Brush to cumulatively highlight important details in your photo, and remove the emphasis off others.
• Develop Mode Brush
  Brush on adjustments in parts of your image without affecting others, or apply them in gradual progressions using linear and radial gradients.
• 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.
• Polygonal Selection Tool
  Select around edges and irregular shapes in your photos with the Polygonal Selection tool.
• Layered Editing Tools
• Channel Selection
  Make selections and masks based on the image’s Color Information Channels.
• Channel Filtering
  Modify a targeted color channel and blend the edit with existing color channels in the image.
• Selection Basket
  Gather and hold complicated image selections for applying to future images and masks.
• Improved High-Dynamic Range (HDR)
  More flexible and powerful HDR tool for producing high-quality merged images that no longer rely on external image data.
• Improved Focus Stacking
  Produce merged images with sharper details and less artefacts.
• Text Tool
  Customize font, size, color, style, justification, opacity, and much more, while layering, blending, and adding effects for the ultimate composites.
• Text on a Path
  Customize your text, including its path. Write on a curve or follow a shape.
• Text in a Frame
  Add a dynamic text layer that updates within a customizable frame. Great for digital photographic ads and inserts.
• Layer Effects
  Add inner glow, shadows, a bevel, an outline, or blur between your image and text layers. Save as a .acdc file and continue editing your layer effects at a future date.
• Align & Blend Layers
  Auto-align or auto-blend layers of images taken in a burst to achieve one optimal version of the subject.
• Multi-Select Layers
  Pull groups of images into the Layers pane and select one, some, or many.
• Layered Color LUTs
  Develop your own LUTs using an infinite combination of colorful adjustment layers. Use your LUTs as Edit mode filters, Develop mode filters, or additional adjustment layers.
• Geometry
  Snap objects, text, and images to the top, bottom, sides, or corners of your canvas while moving. Display a grid for precision situating.
• Canvas Resize
  Resize the canvas to expand around your layered content or add solid backgrounds for limitless photo manipulations.
• Rulers & Guides
  Customizable rulers and guidelines make placing layers, text, and objects foolproof. Snap layers to guidelines. Lay as many guidelines as you like. Control the unit of measure, color, and visibility.
• Copy/Paste Layer Masks
  Copy color images and paste them as luminance masks on other layers, including adjustment layers.
• Adjustment Layers
  Use adjustment layers to change exposure, levels, curves, white balance, split tone, and more.
• Blend Modes & Opacity
  Choose from 25 layer Blend Modes, like Overlay and Multiply, and adjust the opacity of that layer to affect your final image.
• Negative Adjustment Layer
  Create a negative out of your image in just one click.
• Pixel Targeting
  Select and mask by targeting specific brightness ranges and colors within your image — even skin tones.
• Gradient Map
  Completely change the look of your image by adding a Gradient Map adjustment layer and set your shadows and highlights to different colors.
• Posterize Effect
  Reduce the number of brightness levels in your image by applying a Posterize adjustment layer. The lower the value, the fewer colors used in the image.
• Frequency Separation
  Separate your image into high frequency and low frequency layers to remove imperfections while retaining detail.