What you are about to read is the result of testing ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 under Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7. In order to introduce ACDSee, I may tell you that it is a powerful image viewer with a classic appearance, inherited from its illustrious predecessors. ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 is undoubtedly a solid option to view, edit and organize not only photographs but also video and audio files. As a graphics viewer, ACDSee is unsurpassed in its ability to decode and display images as quickly as possible, even several times faster than many other viewers.

ACDSee is compatible with an impressive number of formats and it comes equipped with many useful tools, it also runs surprisingly smooth and quickly in most PCs. Some improvements were applied to this version such as copying or recording original versions on CD / DVD, which, I think, are really interesting developments.

ACDSee's excellent support for metadata joins fairly advanced editing capabilities, with a lot of filters and a series of wizards that create from thumbnails of all photos contained in a folder to Powerpoint presentations. A series of filters can help you to organize your content in different ways: category to which the image belongs, personal value, information stored in metadata (author, camera, date …), size, file format, etc. If you work with compressed files, you will appreciate how easily ACDSee Photo Manager allows you to browse them as folders. So, let’s see how it behaves when installed and run under Windows 7 environment.

Installation & First Run
The setup procedure was not complicated but somewhat long and implied too many decisions to take and some additional options to choose from. Anyway, regarding what we want to test today, which is incompatibilities and hitches, ACDSee installation, presented not a single one. Read the rest of this entry »

As a well-known and popular digital organization and photo sharing software, ACDSee was released it new version ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 lately in October. ACD systems improved this powerful photo manager every detail to bring an efficient, convenient and professional experience for the enthusiasts. Let's look into some of its highlights and find out what on earth it brings to us.

Designed for both amateur and professional users
Whether process family photos or design elements for creative projects, you will take advantages of its flexible, optimized reactive speed and affordably price. Based on the consistent features of digital image viewing, managing, editing, and sharing, new features designed to deal with users’ growing digital images. You will not worry about wasting time when you organize and share your memories with families and friends. The designers thought everything for you.

Complex searches
Now you can build a complex search with the Search Pane ACDSee 2009. We can search fold name, file name, location and metadata. Without doubt, save your searches could save much time if you have a huge amount of digital photos to organize. You just need to set the search content and store it or choose a file property for future use. Read the rest of this entry »