ACD Systems announces the availability of new versions of its photo managers: ACDSee 14, ACDSee Pro 5, and an update of ACDSee Pro for Mac OS X
After PaintShop Pro X4 and Photoshop Elements 10, it is with the turn of ACDSee to know an update, or rather updates since the levelling relates to ACDSee and ACDSee Pro. The version general public passes directly to the 14 (superstition obliges…) and grows rich by some innovations, like the assumption of responsibility of the geolocalisation of the photographs, and their placement on a chart, in the line of what propose iPhoto and Aperture on Mac.

One also notes the recasting of the panel of the metadata which makes it possible from now on to personalize the fields to be posted. New special effects change to 20 the number of filters available: the Orton effect, definitely with the mode these times Ci (one also finds it in Photoshop Elements 10), a Lomo effect, as well as a joining of photographs (there still one of the new "receipts" of Photoshop Elements 10). Finally one will note the possibility of allotting labels of color to the photographs, and the addition of geometrical forms.

Acdsee 14 joining photographs


ACDSee Pro 5 takes again all these improvements, like some specific innovations. A new tool of stressing makes it possible more effectively to detect the edges of a subject, while the software obtains new pallets of correction of the colors with adjustments of colour and of saturation separated for tons clear and tons dark. Lastly, the new brush Dodge & Burn makes it possible to apply these two adjustments to specific zones of the image, there still while including or excluding let us tons them clear, average or dark, and by applying adjustments of saturation and vibrancy to the selected zones.

Acdsee pro 15 dodge & burn


Parallel to these 2 new versions, an update of the version Mac OS X of ACDSee Pro is born. Estampillée 1.9, it makes minor modifications: possibility of adding or of removing easily categories for management of the photographs, creation of new files dated during the application of batch processing, and export/division of the adjustments of an image. ACDSee Pro Mac also takes charges with it the mode full screen with OS X Lion since its last updates.

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ACDSee 14 and ACDSee Pro 5 are available since the site of the editor, in English only per hour when we write these lines, with the respective tariffs of 79,99 dollars and 239,99 dollars. The users of the previous models are entitled to reductions of 40% for ACDSee 14 and 60% for ACDSee Pro 5. ACDSee Pro for Mac OS X is as for him available to the price of 169,99 dollars. 

To download the TRIAL version click here