User Guide

ACDSee 12 User Guide
Use the editing tools to apply adjustments to the entire image or to selected parts of the image.
Add final touches to your image such as borders, text, and special effects.
Use the tools to fix red eye or remove flaws from your image.
Discard your edit changes and revert back to the original.
You can easily group your images in Manage mode so that you can find the images that have been edited. Use the Group By
feature and select Edited State.
To open an image in Edit mode:
Do one of the following:
In Manage mode, select an image and click Edit.
In View mode, select an image and click Edit.
Edit mode contains the following groups:
Selections Select a specific area of an image to edit.
Repair Repair red eye, or remove flaws using the Heal or Clone tool.
Add Prepare photos for publishing by adding text, borders, vignette, or artistic effects.
Geometry Rotate, flip, crop, and resize images.
Exposure/Lighting Improve lighting and contrast by adjusting the Exposure, Levels, Auto Levels, Tone Curves, and
Lighting tools.
Color Apply color corrections to white balance, hue, saturation, and lightness.
Detail Increase sharpness, remove noise, or apply blur to an image.
Using Online mode
About Online mode
You cannot take an image from Online mode and open it in Edit mode for editing. To edit an image, select an image in
Manage or View mode and open it in Edit mode for editing.
You can use Online mode to upload your images to ACDSeeOnline.com. ACDSeeOnline.com is an image sharing and storage service
available to ACDSee 12 users. With Online mode and ACDSeeOnline.com, you can upload and browse through your online images
without having to launch an Internet browser.
Online mode has two parts: ACDSeeOnline.com and Transfer. In ACDSeeOnline.com, you can browse through your images in your
ACDSeeOnline.com account and modify your account settings. In Transfer, the screen splits into two. The bottom part of the screen
displays the images in your computer, and the top part of the screen displays your ACDSeeOnline.com account. You can simply click
and drag images in your computer displayed in the bottom part of the screen, and drag them into the top part of the screen to
upload the images to your ACDSeeOnline.com account.
ACDSee Online converts all images to JPEG when they are uploaded from ACDSee 12.
Creating an account
To create an ACDSeeOnline.com account:
1. In Online mode, click Create Your Account.
2. Enter your information into the form.
3. Click Create My Account.
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