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ACDSee 9 released
Vancouver-based ACD Systems International this week released version 9 of their popular ACDSee Photo Manager software for both the consumer and Pro lines. The big news is the Quick View feature, which allows for almost instantaneous opening of pictures in your library, both in ACDSee and in Explorer. Neat. I'm not quite sure how they're doing it, but I assume it involves storing a screen res bitmap somewhere. Also included are Showroom, which allows you to view slideshows from the desktop with various effects, and a Shadow/Highlight tool that promises to "save photos you would've probably deleted." Of interest to Pros are three new features: Calendar Events View organizes shots based on the date and time in the EXIF/IPTC data so you can quickly find pics from certain jobs, Auto Categories tags photos based on embedded data, and Private Folders allows you to password protect photo sets. Great for hiding the porn on your work computer or making sure your girlfriend doesn't accidentally find out what you've been doing with the camera phone while she sleeps. No word, though, on whether the password protection involves encryption, so if you're carrying the prototype pics of your company's next super secret product around on your Thinkpad, you may want to look for something stronger.
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Subscribe to commentsAlmonimusSep 17th 2006 10:35AM
Quote: "...released version 9 of their popular ACDSee Photo Manager software for other the consumer and Pro lines."
Are you sure it's for the PROs? because they still have the PRO version. Looks as if they're pointing at 2 markets.
FrankSep 17th 2006 6:50AM
What I really like is that ACDSee now automatically matches photos up into convenient categories based on their camera information, IPTC data, ACD database information, and file properties.
RPSep 17th 2006 2:12PM
I have a Canon camera with the auto-rotate feature, where it detects the camera's orientation.
Windows Explorer displays the thumbs properly.
Old versions of ACDSee displayed the thumbs/image properly.
ACDSee 9 does not.
Also, it shows my entire "R:" drive with little red "do not enter" circles on each folder. I can't make them go away, even after removing all of the "exclusion" folders.
Still seems buggy, guys... glad they had a trial.
ChrisSep 21st 2006 11:57AM
They are Victoria-based, not Vancouver-based. (Or Saanichton-based, if you want to be really pedantic.)