New Develop Mode UI and Panes

New panes enhance your editing process. Create and categorize a library of presets. Take snapshots and view your full edit history.

Improved Batch Resize

Batch resize lets you take multiple images and resize them to any dimension, particularly useful for multi-image projects.

Improved Quick Search

New toggle options for Quick Search makes finding images in large databases much faster.

Added GoPro Support

Work directly with GoPro RAW images, and perfect your adventures.

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.

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.

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.

View Mode

Use View mode to simply view your images in a slideshow, pan around large images, play video and audio files, detect faces and assign names, and much more.

Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts in Manage Mode

Whip through your management process with customizable hot keys available for every stage of your workflow.

Map Feature

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.

Tone Wheels

User-friendly tone wheels make split-toning highlights, midtones, and shadows easy.

Refine Selection

You can now use Refine Selection to shift or soften edges which can maximize the effect of tools like Smart Erase.

Red Eye Tool

Automatically remove red eyes from the faces in your photos.

Repair Tool

Non-destructively smooth away blemishes and flaws without strenuous, targeted color corrections or blending.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Auto Levels

Automatically correct the exposure levels of your images. Auto Levels makes the darkest image pixels darker, and the brightest pixels brighter.

Tone Curves

Change the tonal range of your image using the Curves tool. Select the RGB color channel to adjust the entire range of the image, or select a specific color. You can also delete points on the Tone Curve, giving you full control.

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.

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.

Noise

Add or remove 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.

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.

Pixel Targeting

Select and mask by targeting specific brightness ranges and colors within your image — even skin tones.