User Guide

ACDSee Pro 2.5 - User Guide
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When you click on an auto category, ACDSee searches for images belonging to that category.
For example, imagine that you use more than one camera. You can expand the Photo
Properties and Camera Model groupings, then select the category representing your camera
model. All images captured with that camera model will display. Similarly, imagine that your
brother captures a lot of images and sends them to you. You can expand the Photo Properties
and Photographer groupings, then select your brother's name from the list of photographers.
All images captured by your brother will display.
Below are some tips for searching with auto categories.
Identifying commonly used search categories
If there are certain auto categories in the Photo Properties grouping that you use frequently,
you can save time by adding them to the Commonly Used grouping. Some Photo Properties
groupings are available in the Commonly Used grouping by default. You can add as many auto
categories as you want to the Commonly Used grouping, and you can easily remove any
grouping from the Commonly Used grouping when you no longer need them.
To add an auto category grouping to the Commonly Used grouping:
1. Expand the Photo Properties grouping.
2. Right-click the auto categories grouping that you want to add to the Commonly Used
grouping, and select Add to Commonly Used. The grouping is added to the Commonly
Used grouping.
It remains visible in the Photo Properties grouping as well.
To remove an auto category grouping from the Commonly Used grouping:
1. Expand the Commonly Used grouping.
2. Right-click the auto categories grouping that you want to remove from the Commonly
Used grouping, and select Remove from Commonly Used.
The grouping is removed from the Commonly Used grouping.
Refining your auto category search
You can refine your auto category search by selecting more than one auto category. For
example, imagine that you are learning to combine aperture and shutter speed settings to
properly expose images in a variety of lighting and you want find images taken at specific
settings. If you click in the box to the left of the f/16 aperture auto category and the 1/30 s
shutter speed auto category, ACDSee will search for images that belong to both of those auto
categories.
When you select more than one auto category you can further control the search by selecting
Match All or Match Any from the Match Any/All drop-down at the top of the Organize pane. If
you select Match Any, ACDSee will display any images associated with the selected auto
categories. If you select Match All, ACDSee will display only those images that are associated
with all of the selected auto categories.
You can also refine your auto category search by selecting a category or rating. For example,
imagine that you clicked on the Photographer auto category and found over 1000 images.
However, you only want to see the best images by that photographer. Click 1 in the Ratings
area of the Organize pane. Only the images by that photographer with a rating of 1 will display.