ACDSee is the essential application for acquiring, organizing, viewing, enhancing, and sharing your digital photos and other media files. ACDSee's Browser lets you copy photos from your camera to your computer, categorize and rate your files, and manage photo collections of any size - from a few hundred to a few hundred thousand. Choose to view thumbnail previews of any size, or use a detailed list of file properties to sort your files. Can't find a particular photo? No problem - ACDSee includes a variety of powerful searching tools and a Compare Images feature to eliminate duplicates. ACDSee's full-featured image viewer and media player quickly generates high-quality displays of your images and media files. You can run slide shows, play embedded audio, and display multiple-page images in any of the more than 50 image and multimedia file formats. Also, ACDSee includes a wide variety of image editing tools you can use to create, edit, and touch-up your digital images. Use tools such as red-eye reduction, crop, sharpen, blur, and photo repair to enhance or correct your images. Image management tools, such as exposure adjustment, convert, resize, rename, and rotate, can be performed on multiple files at the same time. The user interface is completely customizable, and provides quick access to tools and features. You can customize the screen layout, the order of images, toolbar display, and many other options to suit your preferences. ACDSee contains extensive context-sensitive Help to assist you as you move through the application. ACDSee Pro Photo Manager is a fast, powerful, and easy-to-use image management system that everyone from beginners to professionals can use and enjoy.
ACD Systems公司的執行總裁Mark Franklin這樣描述ACDSee Pro 2.0：它是業界最強大的軟件平臺，可以查看、處理、編輯、管理和發布圖片，ACDSee Pro 2.0包含新的工具，如RAW處理和色彩分離。ACDSee Pro 2.0 公開Beta版可以免費使用至2007年9月30日。我清楚ACDSee Pro 2.0和ACDSee 9.0系列的區別，從界面和功能來看就是ACDSee 9的下一代產品？ACD要洗心革面重新開始的標志？
功能：
1、新: 可以在Windows Vista下運行。
2、RAW查看和編輯功能
3、新: 通道混合器
4、分類和標簽
5、最快的圖像瀏覽器
6、批處理
7、編輯
8、圖像比較
9、IPTC 支持
10、水印
11、自定義功能
【RAW是什么？RAW是一種數碼照片格式，相當于數碼底片，ccd感光的原始數據數據，對于300萬像素的數碼相機，一個RAW文件保存了300萬個點的感光數據。嚴格來說，一個RAW 文件還不是一張照片，因為還必須提供相應的參數，比如色溫（白平衡），銳度，對比度，經過相機內的軟件處理，才能成為一張照片。一般來說，一個RAW文件包含以下信息，ccd的感光數據，拍攝時相機設置的參數。所以RAW格式的圖片幾乎是保持了一張照片的原始風貌，沒有經過什么壓縮的處理。】
New in Public Beta:
- Works on Windows Vista
- Processing and viewing images is faster than ever, and has been optimized for performance on multi-core processors.
- Better demosaicing and white balance.
- Images can be rotated and cropped in a single step.
- Quickly reapply RAW processing settings like White Balance and Exposure by copying and pasting.
- Export RAW images to multiple image formats and resolutions in a single step.
- RAW Image Proxies can now be generated in the background. This makes browsing and viewing and zooming RAW images much faster.
- Export to PowerPoint allows you to export images directly from ACDSee into a PowerPoint presentation. The arrangement of images is configurable as are the image captions and slide titles. This feature works with PowerPoint (2000, 2003, or 2007) and more...
Note: ACDSee Pro 1 and ACDSee Pro 2 Beta can run side-by-side. Therefore, if you have ACDSee Pro 1 installed, there is no need to uninstall it before installing the ACDSee Pro 2 Beta. ACDSee Pro 2.0 Public Beta and use it free. Application expires when beta test period ends September 30th, 2007.
Download: ACDSee Pro 2.0 Public Beta