![]() Having tried the beta version of the software, the questions I was faced with were who the target user is and whether the new features available in the software are enough to attract them. Gemstone seemingly follows in the footsteps of ACDSee’s Photo Editor 11 - also a stand-alone editor - but compared to the earlier version, brings Multi-Document Interface (MDI) as one of its selling points. See below for our original hands-on with the software are below.ĪCDSee’s Gemstone Photo Editor 12 beta was announced earlier this summer with the potential to deliver a powerful RAW editor that can perform complex non-destructive adjustments. However, the question we raised when we tested the beta regarding Gemstone’s primary target audience still stands in the finished version. The editing tools are powerful enough and have a wide variety of tasks, albeit they can’t yet compete with the engine of Adobe Photoshop. The finished Gemstone product delivers as a decent editor, especially for those who want to pay for the product once and don’t want to enter into a monthly financial commitment. Having said that, any tools or effects where users can adjust opacity, such as the Skin Tune tool, are responsive and transition smoothly as you move the opacity slider. That aside, the tool itself works well for the most part. That may not seem too disruptive, but if you have to work fast and erase numerous parts of the image, it quickly becomes irritating. Product was discontinued in August 2013.As noted in the first look at the beta version below, the Smart Erase tool - an alternative to Adobe Photoshop’s Spot Healing Brush - still shows a processing window every time a user performs an action.Īlthough the loading window has since upgraded to a dark mode one, it doesn’t change the fact it’s frustrating to wait those extra one or two seconds. A reviewer at BetaNews found it "fast, configurable and easy to use". In August 2012, ACD Systems released ACDSee Free, which retains all viewing features for the most common image formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TGA, TIFF, WBMP, PCX, PIC, WMF, EMF) it lacks a thumbnail browser, and support for RAW and ICO formats. ACDSee Pro is written in C++, with the interface built using MFC. The original ACDSee software was created by David Hooper, who also added a number of features to ACDSee Pro, such as Lighting correction (formerly known as Shadows and Highlights) and Develop Mode (in version 2.0). ACDSee Pro's development team is based out of Victoria, British Columbia and was originally led by Jon McEwan, and more recently by Nels Anvik, who oversaw ACDSee Pro 2.5 through to Pro 5. ACD Systems decided to separate its core release, ACDSee Photo Manager, into two separate products ACDSee Photo Manager, aimed at amateur photography enthusiasts, and ACDSee Pro which would target Professionals by adding a new package of feature sets. This early version of ACDSee is sometimes known as ACDSee Classic or ACDSee 32.ĪCDSee Pro was released on 9 January 2006 aimed at professional photographers. Development of this line continues, with version 20.0 released in 2016. Version 5.0 was released in 2002, and 7.0 in 2005. In 1997 32-bit ACDsee 95 was released for Windows 95. ĪCDSee was first released in 1994 as a 16-bit application for Windows 3.1. In 2012, ACDSee Free was released, without advanced features. The photo manager is available as a consumer version, and a pro version which provides additional features, and additional image editing capabilities. Each database and its associated thumbnails can also be loaded and saved as separate entities. ĪCDSee's database can be backed up, and exported/imported as XML or binary. The thumbnails generated by ACDSee are cached, so that they do not need to be regenerated, and stored on disk as a database. ACDSee started as an image organizer/viewer, but over time had image editing and RAW development (Pro version) capabilities added. ![]() Most of ACDSee's features can be accessed via keyboard.ĪCDSee displays a tree view of the file structure for navigation with thumbnail images of the selected folder, and a preview of a selected image. Judging the image quality of a picture is fast due to next/previous image caching, fast RAW image decoding and support for one-click toggling between 100% and fit screen zoom mode anywhere inside the image. The newest versions of ACDSee incorporate modern Digital Asset Management tools like Face Detection & Facial Recognition (Ultimate 2019).ĪCDSee's main features are speed, lossless RAW image editing, image batch processing, editing metadata ( Exif and IPTC), rating, keywords, and categories, and geotagging. ACDSee was originally distributed as a 16-bit application for Windows 3.0 and later supplanted by a 32-bit version for Windows 95. Image organizer, image viewer and image editorĪCDSee is an image organizer, viewer, and image editor program for Windows, macOS and iOS, developed by ACD Systems International Inc.
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