![]() ![]() They accomplish similar goals with different degrees of finesse. This pane actually consists of three tools: Basic, Light EQ, and Advanced Options. The Lighting pane in ACDSee Pro 2 deserves special comment as representing the best and worst of this mixed bag of a program. If you go back to the White Balance pane to continue tweaking the sliders, the color-matching cursor is still active, and if you’re sloppy with your pointer, you might click the picture and change the white balance accidentally. But the strangest thing is, you can’t really surrender the tool, except by clicking on another pane. I worked with the program for a little while before I noticed that this action turned the cursor into a color-matching tool. ![]() In ACDSee Pro, however, you click the White Balance pane in the Tune panel. In most other Mac programs, you click an eyedropper icon to activate the tool, and then click the image to use it to deselect the tool, you click anywhere outside the image. It works, but I found the way you activate this tool odd. I disliked the fact that I could not hide the sliders panel at the left of the film strip on the bottom to view my image full screen, at least not without saving edits that I might or might not be committed to.Īlthough the program offers no auto white balance button, you can click the White Balance pane and then use the mouse to click a neutral color in the image this is like using the eyedropper tool in many other programs. Develop mode in ACDSee Pro is a mixed bag: It has advanced tools such as split toning, but lacks basic ones like automatic white balance or automatic black and white. And overall, the more time I spent developing photos in ACDSee Pro, the more I missed Lightroom (or Aperture, or PhotoNinja). It even lacks some basic features found in Google’s free Picasa (automatic toning like Picasa’s “I feel lucky” tool, automatic white balance, one-touch black and white). It also lacks a number of useful advanced features found in those other programs-as well as in its counterpart, ACDSee Pro 6 for Windows-such as selective editing. The program’s Develop mode shares certain advanced features with high-end programs such as Aperture and Lightroom (tools to correct lens or perspectival distortion, chromatic aberration, or fringing). This workflow copies selected photos to the desktop, converts them to black and white, adds a little clarity (via a predefined Develop preset), and then resizes them. With ACDSee Pro 2’s batch-workflow tool-which is reminiscent of Automator-you can define a group of steps that you want done and then apply them to a bunch of photos all at once. The program is particularly useful to people who regularly need to perform the same processing actions on large quantities of images and then want to export those files to the same place, always with the same settings for dimension and image quality. Still, once you figure it all out, the batch workflow can be flexible and powerful. And the batch-processing user interface is the closest thing ACDSee Pro has to an export option, something I found hard to get used to. ![]() It’s more like the Mac OS X Automator utility than Aperture’s lift and stamp commands-that is, the user interface makes you think like a programmer rather than like an artist. ![]() Admittedly, the user interface for ACDSee Pro’s batch-processing feature is a bit geeky. Instead, it relies on your computer’s native file system for basic organization to view images, you simply navigate your way through the folder pane on the left and click a folder that contains images.īecause ACDSee Pro 2’s batch-processing feature provides access both to image-adjustment presets and to file-manipulation commands such as copy, move, and resize, ACDSee makes it possible to do in one step a series of actions that most other Mac programs-including Lightroom and Aperture-do in two. But like Google’s freeware app Picasa, ACDSee Pro does not require you to import images in order to view them. No need for a special import.Īperture, and Lightroom, ACDSee Pro 2’s Manage mode lets you view thumbnails, find images in almost any way you can think of, select images and edit metadata, and, of course, delete images. Click a folder to view its images in the center of your screen. In ACDSee Pro, the image browser, in a pane on the left of the screen, displays your computer’s folder hierarchy. ![]()
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