User Guide

Chapter 1 Welcome
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Quickly identify your best photos with the new tagging feature.
When you acquire photographs from a fashion photo shoot, for example, you can tag each image with
a mark that denotes whether or not you wish to keep it.
Tagging is a fast, and time-efficient way to sort through preferred photographs, helping you keep
your hard drive and memory cards uncluttered by making image deletion a simpler process.
With a single keystroke you can tag and un-tag images from within the Browser or the Viewer. Tagged
images appear with a check mark and remain tagged across sessions.
A tagged category in the Organize pane allows you to search and view all your tagged images
whenever you want. Selecting and unselecting tagged images is a single click operation.
Use the histogram to adjust your photographs with pinpoint accuracy.
Now you can view a histogram when browsing through thumbnails, viewing full size images, or
editing your photographs. The Histogram displays a graphical representation of the distribution of
intensity levels of pixels for each color channel in an image, so you can immediately identify what
aspects of the image need to be edited as you browse through your thousands of photographs.
With the Histogram you can make adjustments to brightness curves. Use the Curves tool to change
the tonal range of an image in the Histogram, which displays a visual representation of the color
information levels in the image, based on the selected channel. Click and drag the line to manipulate
the curve. Simply click and drag the line to manipulate the curve. Select the RGB color channel to
adjust the entire range of the image, or select a specific color.
Quickly edit and retouch images with professional tools.
ACDSee Pro provides all of the most common photo editing tools in one single application, so you
don't have to import images to a more difficult editing software just to make necessary changes to
your photographs.
Remove noise from images with the new hybrid Median Noise Reduction tool, all using 48-bit (16 bits
per channel) editing functionality. Be creative with over 15 new special effects like vignette, old,
stained glass, and more.