User Guide

ACDSee Pro 3 User Guide
Restoring originals and develop settings
You can also restore an edited image back to its develop settings, if you wish to discard work done in Edit. You can read more
information on how
changes are saved in ACDSee Pro.
Restoring the original image
You can discard all your changes and revert to the original image.
To revert an image back to the original in Edit:
In Edit, select File | Restore to Original.
To revert an image back to the original in Manage mode:
1. In Manage mode, select the image.
2. Select Tools | Process | Restore to Original.
To revert an image back to the original in View mode:
1. In Manage mode, select the image and click the View mode.
2. Select Tools | Process | Restore to Original.
Restoring your Develop settings
You can discard your Edit settings and revert to the Develop settings for your image.
To revert an image back to Develop settings in Edit:
In Edit, select Tools | Process | Restore to Developed.
Using blend modes and opacity
When using a tool in Edit, at the top there is a blend mode and opacity tools. These tools give you creative control and let you
combine the two to create a new image. You can apply blend modes and opacity to an entire image or to a selected part of an image.
Opacity
The Opacity slider changes the opacity of the edited image. It gives you control of how much of the edit should be visible on the
image.
Blend modes
The ability to control how the edits and the image merge, means that other blend modes besides opacity can be used to affect the
final image.
Normal Pixels in the edited image are combined with those in the original. Only opacity affects this blend.
Screen Combines the edited image color with the inverse of the original photo color, resulting in a color that is the
same or lighter.
Multiply Combines the edited image color with the original photo to produce a darker color. Multiplying any color with
black produces black; multiplying any color with white leaves the color unchanged.
Dodge Combines the edited image color with the original pixels in the photo to produce a lighter color.
Burn Combines the edited image color with the original pixels in the photo to produce a darker color.
Overlay Preserves the shadows and highlights of the lower layers while applying either Multiply or Screen blend mode
based on the original image area's color values.
Difference Subtracts the edited image color from the color of the original photo. Any white in the edited image produces a
true negative of the color in the image, while black produces no effect.
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