Black Friday Photography Course Bundle
Feature Comparison
ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2021, ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2021, ACDSee Photo Studio Home 2021, and ACDSee Photo Editor 11 all come with a full set of features to help you manage, view, edit, create, and share photos and documents. Use this chart to see which product is right for you.
| Features |  Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 |  Photo Studio Professional 2021 |  Photo Studio Home 2021 |  Photo Editor 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sports extensive digital asset management tools for optimal organization and efficiency | ||||
| Ideal for active photo enthusiasts with a growing photo collection | ||||
| Equipped for powerful RAW editing with support for over 500 camera models | ||||
| Developed for professional and advanced amateur photographers who need total control of their workflows | ||||
| Ideal for parametric photo manipulation using layers | ||||
| Created for graphic designers and creative artists |
| Features | Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 | Photo Studio Professional 2021 | Photo Studio Home 2021 (64-bit) | Photo Editor 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New & Improved Batch Resize with Presets | ||||
| New & Improved Batch Rename with Presets | ||||
| Import face data from Lightroom or Picasa | ||||
| GoPro RAW file support – .GPR | ||||
| Connect ACDSee Mobile Sync with a QR code | ||||
| Quick Search improvements – refine your search area | ||||
| Performance enhancements with up to 100% faster performance | ||||
| Find photos by searching names assigned to them using Face Detection & Facial Recognition in View mode | ||||
| Embed face data in images for safe keeping | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Create up to 5 image baskets | ||||
| Customize hundreds of keyboard shortcuts in a variety of modes | ||||
| Automatically advance to the next image when adding or removing metadata | ||||
| Wirelessly send photos and videos directly to ACDSee using the ACDSee Mobile Sync app | ||||
| Import only new content from your device | ||||
| Classify with Collections | ||||
| Organize files using a combination of folders, keywords, ratings, color labels, metadata, and categories | ||||
| Find files fast – build and store searches based on metadata, file properties, data, event, keyword, rating, location, and edited state | ||||
| Create as many ACDSee databases as you like, and quickly and easily switch between them | ||||
| Visually tag files with color labels | ||||
| Speed up workflow with native 64-bit support for Windows operating systems |
| Features | Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 | Photo Studio Professional 2021 | Photo Studio Home 2021 (64-bit) | Photo Editor 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automatically identifies faces in photos with Face Detection & Facial Recognition and suggests names once you have assigned a name one or more times | ||||
| Photos mode: Review photos from your Desktop or Pictures folder, OneDrive™, or entire collection | ||||
| 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 2021 | Photo Studio Professional 2021 | Photo Studio Home 2021 | Photo Editor 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Make targeted contrast adjustments with the color and tone wheels | ||||
| New UI and panes including Histogram Pane, Presets Pane, History Pane, and Snapshots pane | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Take Snapshots of your adjustments anywhere along the way | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Parametrically reduce noise, while preserving details | ||||
| Add non-destructive photo effects | ||||
| Apply hue-based brightness adjustments and saturation-based tinting in black and white mode |
| Features | Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 | Photo Studio Professional 2021 | Photo Studio Home 2021 | Photo Editor 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||
| 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 with Liquify | ||||
| Select and mask by color, brightness, or skin tone | ||||
| Record adjustments, categorize, use pre-loaded adjustments, import and export, and automate with ease with ACDSee Actions | ||||
| Extended editing capabilities with Photoshop™ plugin 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 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Combine images with different exposures to create one image with an optimal dynamic range | ||||
| Combine images with different focal distances to create one image with a greater depth of field | ||||
| Add layer effects between image, object, and text layers | ||||
| Add rulers and guidelines for precise positioning of layers | ||||
| Add text layers | ||||
| Add text on a path | ||||
| Add text in a frame or a box |
| Features | Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 | Photo Studio Professional 2021 | Photo Studio Home 2021 | Photo Editor 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quickly access file, camera, and database statistics on-the-fly |
| Features | Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 | Photo Studio Professional 2021 | Photo Studio Home 2021 | Photo Editor 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easily print documents and contact sheets | ||||
| Optimize and upload photos to FTP-managed Web spaces | ||||
| Upload photos to SmugMug, flickr™, and Twitter® |
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