![]() ![]() There were also folders for several applications and unused libraries. This opens with the contents of the user's Pictures folder. This tight integration with the Finder may be a risk for some.Ī number of images - as well as my two Aperture libraries and two iPhoto Libraries - were shown in the main (Manage) panel. The + icon at the bottom of this pane allows us to create a new Folder, while the - icon beside moves any highlighted item to Trash. I returned to the original display in the panel using the left (back) arrow in the top toolbar. I was not able to enter any of the folders in User accounts. I used this to navigate onto the hard disk and then into the other Users section. To the left was a Finder like sidebar which listed all folders, drives and accounts it was able to access. The main panel of the application was in three sections. When I started it, I was offered the option to sign up for a newsletter, which I usually decline, but accepted this via the ACDSee site as this is a developer I have not seen on OS X before. Version 1.1.004 of ACDSee downloaded fairly quickly and the 4.2 MB application was installed with no delays. I rarely open iPhoto these days and concentrate almost all my photographic work within Aperture, with some plugins ( iWatermark and BorderFX) and some third party software like Posterino and Comic Life as well as some special effects apps (see above). In some ways this application is redundant for me. I downloaded this $4.99 application and installed it on my MacBook Pro. ![]() The initial sight of the screen shots in the App Store, reminded me of the PC interface as well as the organising screens in iPhoto. I passed on this free app, as I did on another app from the same developer, ACDSee Duplicate Finder: a search tool for $4.99 that (as the name suggests) seeks out duplicate files and allows the user to make decisions as to how these may be dealt with (such as deletion) and perhaps save some disk space.Īlong with these apps, was a third ACDSee, a photography application which looked much more interesting to me. This was an app called ACDSee Photo Flash which fixed darker photographs, such as the Exposure and Shadows tools in Aperture. ![]() With too much time on my hands over Xmas, while browsing the Mac App Store, I saw the name ACDSee in the free apps section. Workflow software like Apple's Aperture and Adobe LightRoom are higher end applications for organising photographs with some editing tools. New applications like Analog and CameraBag both do an excellent job of adding effects to images, while others like the excellent Graphic Converter are useful for editing. There have been a number of other graphics programs developed for the Mac from the consumer end. This was so widespread that it looked to me, from the rose-tinted world of OS X, that this must be the de facto leader in photography sorting software, much like iPhoto is on the Mac. One of the applications that I would often see on my students' PC computers was a graphics program with the catchy name of ACDSee. ACDSee: Digital Asset Manager for the Mac ![]()
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