Photography Workflow Course by Alec Watson
ACDSee Photo Studio 2021 Product Comparison is Coming Soon!
Feature Comparison
ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2020, ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2020, ACDSee Photo Studio Home 2020, 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 2020 |  Photo Studio Professional 2020 |  Photo Studio Home 2020 |  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 2020 | Photo Studio Professional 2020 | Photo Studio Home 2020 (64-bit) | Photo Editor 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2020 | Photo Studio Professional 2020 | Photo Studio Home 2020 (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 2020 | Photo Studio Professional 2020 | Photo Studio Home 2020 | Photo Editor 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2020 | Photo Studio Professional 2020 | Photo Studio Home 2020 | 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 | ||||
| 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 |
| Features | Photo Studio Ultimate 2020 | Photo Studio Professional 2020 | Photo Studio Home 2020 | Photo Editor 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quickly access file, camera, and database statistics on-the-fly |
| Features | Photo Studio Ultimate 2020 | Photo Studio Professional 2020 | Photo Studio Home 2020 | 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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