User Guide

Chapter 8 Editing
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RAW image processing
About RAW image processing
A RAW file is like a negative. RAW files contain all of the data that was collected by your digital
camera's sensor when you took a photo. If you tried to view a RAW file without processing, it would
appear almost completely black. It is therefore necessary to develop, or process, your RAW files to
produce a photo.
You can use the RAW Processing tool to select exposure, color, and image sharpness settings for your
RAW files. You can select and save unique settings for each RAW file, or you can select and save
generic settings as presets. If you save generic settings as presets, you can apply those presets to
numerous RAW files using the Batch RAW Processing tool.
You cannot use the RAW Processing tool to change your original RAW files permanently. The RAW files
remain intact after processing to preserve all the data captured by your camera. The processing
settings that you select for a particular image are saved to the database and associated with the
image. This means that the processing settings for a particular image can always be reapplied,
although this can take some time.
Other options Preserve last-modified
date
Select this option if the original image has a last-
modified date, and you want the edited image to
have the same last-modified date.
Copy database
information
Select this option if you want to copy database
information for the original image and enter it
into the database for the edited image.
When output file
already exists
Use this option to determine what ACDSee
should do if the destination folder contains an
image with the same file name as one of the
edited images:
• Ask: Select this option if you want to choose
different options (skip, rename, overwrite)
depending on the image.
• Skip: Select this option if you want ACDSee
to stop processing that image, and begin
processing the next image.
• Replace: Select this option if you want
ACDSee to replace the image in the
destination folder with the edited image.
• Rename: Select this option if you want
ACDSee to rename the edited file.