ACDSEE Pro-2

dstar · 01-14-2008, 10:25 PM

I want to ask everybody ,who has experience work with this software share feedback.
Thank you so much

*shahnavaz* · 01-14-2008, 11:13 PM

I have used Acdsee Pro2. And i am quite happy with it. I am not an expert of any kind but felt acdsee pro2 to be very simple to use. You can see most of my pics @ Picasa Web Albums - Shahnavaz. They all are pp using this software.

little laker · 01-14-2008, 11:43 PM

I was one of the beta testers, and loved it.

I'm presently using ACDSEE Pro 1, but only downgraded because it came for free with something I bought. And it still does everything I want it to.
I was about to buy #2 otherwise.

wiseman · 04-09-2008, 08:51 PM

I have been using ACDSee Pro2 for several months. I like it but have no basis for comparison since I do not have other RAW handling software.

I find the software to be plenty fast. This is the case even though I have an older AMD Athlon based desktop PC.

It does batch image processing well.

It does batch setting of metadata well.

It has ability to let you customize many features to your liking.

You can browse and edit PEF RAW files without converting them to TIFF or JPG. With the RAW Processing (as in lightroom?), the changes you make to the RAW file are saved as a set of instructions and the original RAW file is kept intact. This also means there is no absolute need to save your processed images as TIFF or JPG files.

One problem is that it does not pickup the Pentax lens info to display in the EXIF. So, unless you enter the lens used in some other EXIF or IPTC field, you cannot sort or catagorize based on lens. Oh Well.

*falconeye* · 04-10-2008, 03:56 AM

Originally Posted by wiseman

One problem is that it does not pickup the Pentax lens info to display in the EXIF. So, unless you enter the lens used in some other EXIF or IPTC field, you cannot sort or catagorize based on lens. Oh Well.

I use ThumbsPlus Cerious Software - The Home of ThumbsPlus! .

Basically because it is blazingly fast even with 100000 images. It has the same features as described above (maybe except for the RAW editing) and the same limitation (no lens metadata).

Anybody here knowing both and wanting to comment on differences?

Mikhail · 04-10-2008, 02:51 PM

I was a LR user.. switched to ACDSee + CS2... after a month I gave up and switched back to LR (+CS2). The most annoying thing personally was keywording and the like, maybe because I was use to LR but it seemed so much more effort than needed, and I was not a fan of the file tree browsing.. takes up way to much screen space but I need it, much prefer LR's way of doing..
But it is a very good programme but didnt suite my needs. I think there is a trial available is there not? Give it a try or at the very least the free version.

Thanks