User Guide
Chapter 1: Getting started
Chapter 1: Getting started
Welcome to ACDSee Pro 3
Welcome to ACDSee Pro Photo Manager 3, and congratulations on choosing the industry-leading digital photo management software.
ACDSee Pro is the essential application for importing, organizing, viewing, enhancing, and sharing your digital photos and other
media files.
ACDSee Pro imports photos from your camera to your computer, categorizes and rates your files, and manages 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 Pro includes a variety of powerful searching
tools and a Compare Images feature to eliminate duplicates.
View mode quickly generates high-quality displays of your images. You can run slideshows, play embedded audio, and display
multiple-page images in any of the more than 50 image and multimedia file formats.
Also, ACDSee Pro includes a wide variety of image processing 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 Pro contains extensive
context-sensitive Help to assist you as you move through the application.
ACDSee Pro is a fast, powerful, and easy-to-use image management system that everyone from beginners to professionals can use
and enjoy.
What’s new in ACDSee Pro Photo Manager 3
Improved Workflow
Manage, view, process, and publish your images
The new Manage, View, Process, and Online modes simplify and accelerate your photography workflow, allowing you to easily
access the features you need and publish your images. In Process mode, use the non-destructive developing capabilities along with
the editing tools with which ACDSee Pro users are familiar. Previously, ACDSee Pro users could only access the RAW Processor if
they had a RAWimage. Now in ACDSee Pro 3, you can take any file format (RAW, JPEG), and perform all of your non-destructive
developing in Process mode.
If you cannot find a menu item from a previous version of ACDSee Pro, see Where
is it now to find it.
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