Edit
Bring out the best in your photos
Once your global non-destructive adjustments have been completed, add finishing touches at the pixel level to create brilliant images. Remove flaws, repair red eye, and add watermarks, text and vignettes with ease. Edit specific areas of images with Selections tools, and experiment with peace of mind knowing you can revert to your Developed photo or your original image at any time. Simultaneously apply edits to multiple photos, for the ultimate in express editing.
Eliminate flaws
Easily remove red eye from your photos. Full controls in the Red Eye Reduction tool allow you to adjust the color and the intensity for a natural look. Plus magically erase flaws, blemishes and other unwanted objects with the Photo Repair tool’s powerful Heal and Clone options.
Achieve the best light and color
Rescue photos that are too light or too dark with the Lighting tool, powered by ACDSee’s LCE (Light and Contrast Enhancement) technology. Instantly lighten shadows and reduce highlights in one click, or adjust individual sliders to fine tune every aspect. Change the tonal range and color balance of your photos with easy-to-use adjustment tools. Learn more about what LCE can do for your photos.
Take your photography to the edge
The new Split Toning tool gives you complete control over the balance of tones in the shadows and highlights of a given scene, opening up a world of creative possibilities. Create sepia or tinted black & white, or add a tinted color to highlights and another to shadows to create a dramatic toning effect.
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.
Frame your work
Add vignettes to your images and get creative results by blending the vignette with blend mode and opacity adjustments.
Put your photos to work for you
Using the new Drawing Tools palette 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. The Text Overlay tool adds to the creative and practical possibilities.
Stake your claim
Claim ownership of your images by adding watermarks. Pro 5’s Batch Edit tool makes it simple to apply watermark overlays to groups of photos at once.
