Product Comparison

ACDSee Feature Comparison

ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate, ACDSee Photo Studio Professional, ACDSee Photo Studio Home, and ACDSee Gemstone Photo Editor all come with a full set of features to help you manage, view, edit, create, and share photos and documents. Watch the video for an overview of the Photo Studio line and use the chart below to see which ACDSee product is right for you.

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Features

Photo Studio
Ultimate 2024

Photo Studio
Professional 2024

Photo Studio
Home 2024

Gemstone Photo
Editor 12

Sports extensive digital asset management tools for optimal organization and efficiency
Ideal for active photo enthusiasts with a growing photo collection
Developed for professional and advanced amateur photographers who need total control of their workflows
Equipped for powerful RAW editing with support for over 650 camera models
Ideal for parametric photo manipulation using layers
Created for graphic designers and creative artists
Designed to perform complicated editing tasks quickly using Artificial Intelligence
Features

Photo Studio
Ultimate 2024

Photo Studio
Professional 2024

Photo Studio
Home 2024

Gemstone Photo
Editor 12

AI Keywords – effortlessly organize and search for your photos using AI detected keywords for your images
Improved Quick Search – all new search types allow you to quickly perform more complex searches and spend less time waiting for results
Advanced Search pane with the capability to perform AND/OR searches – build and store searches based on metadata, file properties, data, event, keyword, rating, location, and edited state
AI-driven People Mode for quick and easy identification of named and unnamed people in your photos
Find photos by searching names assigned to them using Face Detection & Facial Recognition in View mode
Import face data from Lightroom™ or Picasa™
Offers batch file processing, including renaming and resizing multiple files, using Presets
Easily connect using a QR code and wirelessly send photos and videos directly to your computer using the ACDSee Mobile Sync app
GoPro RAW file support – .GPR
Displays your Cloud Sync Drives, such as Dropbox™ or OneDrive™, as a node in the Folders pane, allowing you to navigate cloud content like any other folder
Customize hundreds of keyboard shortcuts in a variety of modes
Automatically advance to the next image when adding or removing metadata
Classify with Collections
Organize files using a combination of folders, keywords, ratings, color labels, metadata, and categories
Create as many ACDSee databases as you like, and quickly and easily switch between them
Metadata Presets Feature and Batch edit IPTC fields
Speed up workflow with native 64-bit support for Windows operating systems
Features

Photo Studio
Ultimate 2024

Photo Studio
Professional 2024

Photo Studio
Home 2024

Gemstone Photo
Editor 12

Database-driven Media Mode provides an uncluttered view of previously browsed and cataloged folders, perfect for easy sorting, grouping, and filtering
Automatically identifies faces in photos with Face Detection & Facial Recognition and suggests names once you have assigned a name one or more times
Freely preview what your images would look like with a variety of filters with the Auto Lens View
Support for over 100 formats, including image, audio, and video
Examine details with Zoom, Navigator, Magnifying Glass, and Histogram tools
Perform high-quality decoding on RAW images
View adjustments made in Develop mode, copy and paste the adjustments onto other images, or restore the image with the Develop Settings pane—all from within Manage or View mode
View, navigate, and print PDFs
View, navigate, and print Microsoft Office™ documents – even sheets on multi-tabbed Excel documents
Features

Photo Studio
Ultimate 2024

Photo Studio
Professional 2024

Photo Studio
Home 2024

Gemstone Photo
Editor 12

Non-destructive AI Masking options for Subject, Sky, and Background
Masking Pane – convenient panel for all your selection masks; options for copying & pasting masks, duplicating masks, and converting selections into masks
Make targeted pixel selections based on luminance, color, and skin tone
Parametrically reduce noise on specific parts of an image, while preserving details
Make targeted contrast adjustments with the color and tone wheels
Apply non-destructive Develop Presets, view your editing history, and take snapshots or your adjustments at any point along the way
Copy pixels from a source to a target area, then analyzes the target area and blends them with the Blended Clone tool
Color grade images non-destructively by importing and applying LUTs as Develop mode filters
Brush on or grade exposure, saturation, vibrance, white balance, light, contrast, clarity, and tonal range, as well as saturation, brightness, hue, and contrast-based color adjustments
Lightning-fast, GPU-fueled developing
Non-destructively process RAW, JPEG, TIFF, and more
Adjust the brightness and contrast of different tone bands
Fix barrel, pincushion, and fish-eye lens distortions and perspective distortions
Non-destructively reduce haze and restore skin tone
Add non-destructive photo effects
Apply hue-based brightness adjustments and saturation-based tinting in black and white mode
Features

Photo Studio
Ultimate 2024

Photo Studio
Professional 2024

Photo Studio
Home 2024

Gemstone Photo
Editor 12

AI Sky Replacement – take your skies from simple to stunning with a single click
AI Object Selection – eliminates the need to make intricate selections manually; roughly outline an object in your image and the AI makes a precise selection for you
Multi-document interface (MDI) for editing multiple documents at the same time
AI Face Edit to make adjustments to a variety of facial features, including eyes, mouth, nose, jawline, and more
Shape Selection Tool allows precise control over your selections, including curved and straight lines
AI-powered one-click selection tools including Sky Select, Subject Select, and Background Select
Combine images together into one larger landscape or portrait image (Panoramic Stitching)
Combine images with different exposures to create one image with an optimal dynamic range (HDR)
Combine images with different focal distances to create one image with a greater depth of field (Focus Stacking)
Store selections and apply them as layer masks or active selections at any time
Make selections based on an image’s Color Information channels
Modify a targeted color channel and blend it with the image’s other color channels
Quickly brush any editing or special effects onto selected areas of photos
Control brightness and contrast on a color by color basis in Black & White mode
Seamlessly color grade your images by importing and applying LUTs as colorful Edit mode filters
Add watermarks
Improved crop functionality
Non-destructive cropping
Make targeted contrast adjustments with the color and tone wheels
Refine selections for improved editing accuracy
Import and export Develop and Edit mode presets
Adjust contrast in specific tones and target precise brightness ranges to bring out contrast details in highlights or shadows
Remove unwanted objects with Smart Erase for a natural fill
Move pixels without changing them using the Liquify tool
Record adjustments, categorize, use pre-loaded adjustments, import and export, and automate with ease with ACDSee Actions
Extended editing capabilities with Photoshop™ plug-in support
Selectively adjust pixels with a variety of Edit tools by targeting specific colors and tones within the image
Target brush strokes and selections to specific color and brightness ranges
View your adjustment history and return to a specific adjustment
Layered Editor for graphic design, move layers non-destructively, delete selected pixels
Make layer masks from selections, feather, invert, copy and paste, and keep track of your masks with overlay options
.acdc file format for reopening images in Edit mode in the future
.gsd file format for reopening layered images in the future
Blending modes and opacity adjustments for combined layers
Smooth out flaws without losing texture with Frequency Separation
Create color LUTs out of adjustment layers
Align and blend layers
Add layer effects between image, object, and text layers
Add rulers and guidelines for precise positioning of layers
Add text layers dynamically, on a path, or in a frame
Features

Photo Studio
Ultimate 2024

Photo Studio
Professional 2024

Photo Studio
Home 2024

Gemstone Photo
Editor 12

Quickly access file, camera, and database statistics on-the-fly
Features

Photo Studio
Ultimate 2024

Photo Studio
Professional 2024

Photo Studio
Home 2024

Gemstone Photo
Editor 12

Use SendPix™ to send your photos to friends and family; ACDSee will automatically convert your RAW images to JPEG so everyone can view them everywhere
Easily print documents and contact sheets
Optimize and upload photos to FTP-managed Web spaces
Upload photos to SmugMug and flickr™

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Photo Studio Ultimate 2024

· Digital Asset Manager (DAM) · RAW Editor
· Layered Editor · 15-day Free Trial

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FREE TRIAL

Photo Studio Professional 2024

· Digital Asset Manager (DAM)
· RAW Editor · 15-day Free Trial

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FREE TRIAL

Photo Studio Home 2024

· Digital Asset Manager (DAM)
· 15-day Free Trial

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FREE TRIAL

Gemstone Photo Editor 12

·  ACDSee RAW Editor ·  Layered Editor
·  Multi-Document Interface (MDI) · 30-day Free Trial

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FREE TRIAL

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