PHOTO STUDIO ULTIMATE 2021
The Creator’s Companion
ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 is for photographers dedicated to their craft. With a focus on improved performance and precision editing, this year, choose ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 as your sidekick.
Digital Asset Management
Develop Mode
Layered Editing
RAW Editing
Facial Recognition
Light EQ™
Repair Tools
Color Tools
Focus Stacking
HDR Image Creation
Our Fastest Version Yet
We’ve made some huge performance enhancements this year to let you focus on the task in hand and perfect your images.
UP TO 100% FASTER START UP
UP TO 50% FASTER MODE SWITCHING PERFORMANCE
UP TO 100% FASTER WHILE WORKING WITH KEYWORDS & CATEGORIES
UP TO 20% FASTER RAW DECODING PERFORMANCE
UP TO 40X FASTER DATABASE PERFORMANCE
Alec’s Favorite Feature
Watch as Alec Watson shares how to use his favorite feature of ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2021: Tone Wheels!
Text on a path and text in a frame
Customize your text, including its path. Write on a curve or follow a shape. Create digital photographic ads and inserts.
Refine Selection
You can now use Refine Selection to shift or soften edges which can maximize the effect of tools like Smart Erase.
Tone Wheels
User-friendly tone wheels make split-toning highlights, midtones, and shadows easy.
New & Improved Batch Rename
An improved process for renaming multiple images in response to customer feedback. The options are almost endless.
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.
New & Improved Batch Resize
Relaunched with a huge capability expansion, our Batch Resize tool lets you resize multiple images to any dimension, following pixels or percentages, along either edge, or as a print size.
Improved Quick Search
New toggle options for Quick Search makes finding images in large databases much faster.
GoPro Support
Work directly with GoPro RAW images, and perfect your adventures.
Improved Watermark
Add watermarks with more accuracy – particularly beneficial for applying watermarks to a batch of images.
Improved Crop
Improved crop tool with relative positioning functionality allows you to crop multiple images in seconds.
Face Detection & Facial Recognition
- ACDSee’s Face Detection & Facial Recognition tool will find the humans in your photographs so you can name them for quick searching.
- The software will immediately learn which names to put to which faces, and even will suggest possible matches.
- Easily control the queue of images to be scanned for faces.
- Save hours of tedious manual skimming by searching photos by unnamed, auto-named, and suggested names.
- Keep photos distinguished by client, family member, or person of interest, then embed face data in your photos for safe keeping.
- NEW! 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.
Digital Asset Management
ACDSee has unrivalled file management capabilities. Finding, sorting, moving, organizing, and sharing—everything you need for complete mastery over your photography workflow is right here, at your fingertips. No uploading or importing your images. Add ratings, hierarchical keywords, tags, categories, location data and customizable color labels.
Keywords, Categories, & Tags
Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts
Batch File Processing
Duplicate Finder
Multiple Image Baskets
Actions & Presets
Layered Editing
With our layered editor, you can achieve complex adjustments and effects and go back to tweak them at any time. Find out more about parametric photo manipulation.
Focus Stacking
HDR (High-Dynamic Range)
Text Tool
Layer Masks
Adjustment Layers
Blend Modes, Opacity, & Layer Effects
Develop Mode
Develop mode is unique to ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate and Professional and offers advanced editing features that are non-destructive. This year, new panes streamline your process for applying Presets, taking Snapshots, and viewing your Histogram and Develop History.
Presets
Blended Clone Tool
Smart Erase
Color Correction
Pixel Targeting
Skin Tune
Comprehensive RAW Editor
- ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 has built-in RAW image support for over 500 camera models.
- Get the most out of your images by developing them through ACDSee and utilizing non-destructive tools and effects.
ACDSee Light EQ™
This patented technology in ACDSee Photo Studio makes it possible to adjust lighting in specific areas in images without affecting others. You can simultaneously lighten areas that are too dark, and darken areas that are too bright. If the foreground subject is backlit, you can easily lighten that subject up without blowing out the background.
Improved ACDSee Mobile Sync
With ACDSee Mobile Sync, you can wirelessly and instantly send photos and videos directly to ACDSee Photo Studio from your mobile device! Simply scan the QR code on your screen with your phone to easily sync with your computer. Available on iPhone and Android, the ACDSee Mobile Sync app keeps track of which photos have been sent, so you don’t have to.
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® or AMD® processor with 64-bit support
Intel i5 or better processor recommended
4 GB RAM (8 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
Microsoft® Office 2010 or above
Builds
Product Documentation
Helpful Links
Migrate from Photoshop & Lightroom
RAW File Support
Supported File Formats
Video Tutorials
ACDSee Product Comparison
ACDSee Competitor Comparison
ACDSee SDK
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