User Guide

Chapter 9: Customizing
Setting options
Setting the General options
You can adjust settings in the ACDSee Options dialog box to customize update connections,
display helpful tips, set the format for date displays, set automatic rotate options, and control
the display of certain image types.
To access the General options:
1. Click Tools | Options.
2. In the Options dialog box, click General.
3. On the General options page, set or change any of the options described below.
4. Click OK to apply your changes and return to ACDSee.
General options
Enable gamma
correction
Applies the specified amount of gamma correction when viewing or
previewing images.
Automatically
check for updates
Automatically checks for program updates.
Show screen
capture help tips
Displays the Help Tips dialog box when using the screen capture tool.
Automatically
stretch wallpaper
to fit screen
Stretches small images to fit the entire desktop when you set them as
your wallpaper.
Disable image
animation
Displays only the first frame of an animated image in the Browser's
Preview pane and in the Viewer.
Automatically
rotate JPEG and
TIFF images based
on EXIF
orientation
Automatically corrects the orientation of TIFF and JPEG images (based
on their EXIF data) when displayed in ACDSee.
Status bar date Specifies the date to display in the status bar for a selected file.
Default system
format
Uses the default system format when displaying the date and time in
information overlays.
Custom format Uses the specified format to display the date and time in all
information overlays. Select a format for both Date and Time from the
drop-down lists.