Photography Workflow Course by Alec Watson
PHOTO STUDIO PROFESSIONAL 2020
Full List of Features
Digital Asset Management & Productivity
Improved 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.
Improved Keyword Management
ACDSee now comes pre-loaded with a variety of usable sample quick keyword sets. Export keyword lists and share them with other users. Save countless hours of manual entry by importing established keyword lists.
Improved Duplicate Finder
Find duplicates across a variety of folders and locations. Rename or delete detected duplicates to keep your file collection under control.
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.
Improved Batch Convert
Convert masses of files into other formats from one convenient, accessible dialog.
PDF Support
View, navigate, and print PDFs. Sift through and rank PDFs based on importance. Discard useless ones or back them up to the cloud.
Improved Slider Look
Sleek, modern-looking sliders now give you more control over your adjustments.
Actions
Create an Action by recording your editing process, categorize and manage your Actions, and batch apply any of 125+ pre-loaded Actions to multiple images at once.
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.
Appearance
ACDSee Photo Studio is completely customizable. For enhanced workflow efficiency, you can tear off, move, stack, dock, and hide panes and toolbars anywhere you like.
Photos Mode
View your entire image collection by date using Photos mode. Cataloged images are displayed by the date they were taken, as indicated in the images’ EXIF data.
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.
Develop Settings Pane
View adjustments made to your images in Develop mode, copy those adjustments and paste them onto other images, or restore the image – all from within the convenience of Manage mode or View mode.
Import & Export Develop & Edit Presets
Distribute your presets to others by exporting, or relish in others’ work or processing you did in the past by importing.
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.
ACDSee Mobile Sync
Wirelessly and instantly send photos and videos directly to ACDSee Photo Studio from your mobile device. The app is available on iPhone and Android.
Photoshop Plug-ins
Import and apply Photoshop plug-ins for further creative freedom.
Compatibility
Enjoy comprehensive support for all of the most popular image formats. ACDSee also provides comprehensive color management.
Performance
Get down to work right away with rapid launching. With quality performance for speedy filter application, ACDSee will get you finished faster.
Support for HEIF
Decode HEIF files – a high efficiency media container format type for images and image sequences – in ACDSee Photo Studio.
Photo Editing Tools
Blended Clone Tool
Use the Blended Clone tool to copy pixels from a source area to a target area. ACDSee analyzes the pixels in the target area and blends them with the copied pixels for the most seamless repair yet.
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.
Smart Erase
Brush over unwanted objects with the Smart Erase tool and watch them disappear instantly. The Smart Erase tool fills in the area naturally.
Skin Tune
Use the Skin Tune tool to even tone and restore glow in your subjects, as well as brighten and smooth.
Chromatic Aberration
Heal colored fringes on the borders of high contrast areas with the Chromatic Aberration tool.
Add Watermark
Claim your work as your own with adaptable watermarks. Save time by batch applying your watermark to several photos with a single click.
Add Border
Add a border to your favorite photos. Customize the color, texture, and thickness to suit your shot.
Add Vignette
Add a vignette and adjust the size, color, and opacity to perfectly complement the mood of your photo.
Special Effects
Instantly transform your photo with special effects that can turn images into a pencil drawing, collage, Bob Ross-style painting, and many more unique looks.
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.
Rotate
Rotate your images at preset or custom angles in Edit mode. You can save your settings as a preset for future use.
Flip
Flip your images both vertically and horizontally in Edit mode.
Crop
Use the Crop tool to remove unwanted parts of your images, or to reduce the image canvas to a particular size.
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.
Lens Correction
Automatically correct barrel and pincushion distortion by applying the fix calibrated for the distortion inherent to the lens you used.
Resize
Resize your image by adjusting its dimensions in pixels, percentage, or actual/print size. While resizing, you can also choose an aspect ratio and a resampling filter to adjust your resized image’s appearance.
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.
Contrast
Adjust contrast in specific tones and target precise brightness ranges to bring out contrast details in highlights or shadows.
Levels
Use the Levels tool to precisely adjust the contrast and light levels in your images.
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.
Light EQ™
Adjust areas in your image that are too dark or too light, without affecting other areas of the photo. You can also simultaneously brighten dark areas that are too dark, and darken areas that are too bright.
Dehaze
Restore contrast, detail, and lost color to your images. This tool is especially useful for images that have been captured through a haze.
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.
Color EQ
Use the Color EQ (hue, saturation, contrast, and brightness) tool to adjust overall colors in your image or each color individually. The advanced tools can subtly fine-tune and enhance colors, or completely change individual colors in your images.
Color Balance
Adjust your image’s color values using the Color Balance tool. Adjust individual color vibrance, saturation, hue, and lightness, as well as RGB channels.
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.
Sharpen
Sharpen your photos by enhancing medium and high contrast edges.
Blur
Apply different kinds of blur to your photos.
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.
Detail Brush
Use the Detail Brush to cumulatively highlight important details in your photo, and remove the emphasis off others.
Develop Mode Brush
Brush on adjustments in parts of your image without affecting others, or apply them in gradual progressions using linear and radial gradients.
Split Tone
You can tint shadows and highlights respectively using the Split Tone tool.
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.
Polygon Selection Tool
Select around edges and irregular shapes in your photos with the Polygon Selection tool.
Blend Modes & Opacity
Use a Blend Mode while applying your edit. Choose from 25 Blend Modes, like Overlay and Multiply, and adjust the opacity of that Blend Mode to affect your final image.
Text Tool
Add text to your image. Customize font, size, color, style, justification, opacity, and much more.
System Requirements
To activate your software, to validate your subscriptions, or to access online services, you will need a valid email address and an internet connection.
Intel i3 or better processor recommended
2 GB RAM (6 GB RAM or more recommended)
512 MB Video RAM (VRAM)
DirectX 10 compatible graphics adapter
1024 x 768 display resolution (1920 x 1080 recommended)
2 GB of available hard disk space
Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 9+
Microsoft® DirectX® 10 or higher
Windows Media® Player 9.0
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RAW File Support
Supported File Formats
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