ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate (2021)


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Introduction
The world’s first digital asset manager and RAW editor with layers, ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 is an all-in-one photo editing software made “for photographers dedicated to their craft.” Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 offers RAW Image Processing, Photo Editing, Color and Repair Tools, Layer Based Editing, Facial Recognition, Light EQ, HDR, Focus Stacking and more.
Features
When it comes to image editing, there are basically just two camps—those who use Adobe Photoshop and those who don’t.
As the world’s premium, most comprehensive and preferred image editing tool, Adobe Photoshop may be considered the Rolls-Royce of image manipulation software, Alas, that pedigree also comes at a premium price—upwards of $250 per year through their Creative Cloud subscription program. It also contains massive tools used mostly by graphic/creative artists for complex pixel manipulation—something most photographers (who try to capture and present an image as realistically as possible) do not really need.
Enter alternative image editing software such as ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2021. Not only is it an editing software that is more streamlined to the needs of amateur and professional photographers such as photojournalists, but it is a lot cheaper and offers digital asset management capabilities which photographers require to keep their hundreds of thousands or even millions of photographs catalogued and organized. ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 also has the advantage of being a buy-to-own software with a perpetual license, unlike rival image editors which offer renewable subscription plans that tend to cost more with licenses expiring as soon as your subscription plan ends.
A software dubbed as made “for photographers dedicated to their craft,” ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 is considered by many users as one of the best value all-in-one photo suites in the market today with its combination of best-in-class photo management and powerful photo editing tools.
To find out how exactly ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 can meet your particular needs as a photographer, visit ACDSee.com’s Products section to check out Photo Studio Ultimate’s main features as well as new ones added for the 2021 update, including:
Comprehensive RAW Editor with built-in RAW image support for over 500 camera models including Nikon, Kodak, Sony, Samsung, FujiFilm, Pentax, Epson, Leaf, Contax, Phase One, Adobe, and many more. Get the most out of your images by developing them through ACDSee and utilizing non-destructive tools and effects.
Layered Editing. With Photo Studio Ultimate 2021’s Parametric Editing photo manipulation system, you can make edits to a photo without permanently altering the original. You can achieve complex adjustments and effects and go back to tweak them at any time using all sorts of layering options, such as Layer Effects with Blend Modes; Opacity, Adjustment Layers; Layer Masks; Text Tool; Focus Stacking; and HDR.
Face Detection & Facial Recognition tool which associates the faces in your photographs with their names so you can identify them for quick searching. The software will immediately learn which names to put to which faces, and even will suggest possible matches. Keep photos distinguished by client, family member, or person of interest, then embed face data in your photos for safe keeping. Furthermore, new to the software is the ability to import face and other data from Lightroom and Picasa to save the effort of renaming everyone in your images.
Digital Asset Management. ACDSee is renowned for its unrivaled file management capabilities for finding, sorting, moving, organizing, and sharing photos—everything you need for complete mastery over your photography workflow. No need for tedious uploading or importing of images. Add ratings, hierarchical keywords, tags & categories; actions & presets; location data, customizable keyboard shortcuts; batch file processing; customizable color labels; and more.
ACDSee Mobile Sync allows you to sync your photos ready for editing on your phone or tablet to your computer or vice-versa. Available for free as an iOS and Android app, ACDSee Mobile Sync is compatible with other software in the ACDSee family such as Photo Studio Professional 2021 and Photo Studio Home 2021.
As of this article’s publishing, ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 costs $89.95 (Full Price: $149.99) for the downloadable full access/license software package. Moreover, if you want to try out ALL of the software’s features before committing to purchasing the full package price, you can take advantage of the software’s FREE Trial Download for 30 Days available in ACDSee’s Products page.
Highlights
ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate’s 2021 version is their fastest, most features-packed version yet with huge performance enhancements to current tools, including new additions and improvements, such as:
Customizable Text options for better customizing your text, including its path. Write on a curve or follow a shape. Create digital photographic ads and inserts. Meanwhile, with Text on a Path, you can set a path for your text to align to. That path can be straight across or even curvy. You start with three path control points, but you can add more for text that moves uniquely according to your needs. The Text Frame Tool, on the other hand, adds your text to a field in a frame. You can increase or decrease the frame size for writing significant copy. The text layers are non-destructive too, giving you the freedom to work with confidence.
Three user-friendly Tone Wheels that make split-toning highlights, midtones, and shadows easy. You can begin rotating the wheels to reach your ideal settings or use the eyedropper to find a color from your original image and start editing the color from there.
New Develop Mode UI and Panes enhance your editing by logging a history of the edits you make by making it possible to backtrack on your edits until your original image appears for a new edit. Meanwhile, the Preset Manager allows you to create and categorize a library of presets, save any developments on your edited images, then open a new image and run your preset on batch images or any other images you load into the software.
Improved Quick Search with new toggle options makes finding images in large databases much faster.
Improved Watermarks with more accuracy—particularly beneficial for applying watermarks to a batch of images—by setting them by an anchor point, represented as nine dots across the image. You can also choose to set your watermark as a new layer or have check marks for setting the transparency and alpha channel of the watermark.
Improved Crop tool with relative positioning functionality allows you to crop multiple images in seconds. The new and improved version features relative positioning so you can crop more than one image at the same time. You’re free to adjust the crop presets as you like: by pixel, percentage, vertically, or horizontally.
Refine Selection to shift or soften edges as well as create a buffer margin which can maximize the effect of tools like Smart Erase (which remove sections of your photo), leaving no artifacts.
New & Improved Batch Resize tool with huge capability expansion upgrade, lets you resize multiple images to any dimension, following pixels or percentages, along the short or long edge, or as a print size. It also lets you save a new preset so you can go back to it next time you need to resize a photo the same way.
New & Improved Batch Rename is ACDSee’s improved process for renaming multiple images following an order of operations, making the process highly customizable to your particular naming convention requirements. You can even add metadata, multimedia attributes, image attributes, and file properties to your templates for even more control.
GoPro Support previously unavailable on ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2020, now you can work directly with GoPro RAW images and perfect your shots by editing straight from within the software.
Also included in your software package is unlimited and FREE access to the highly talented and close-knit ACDSee Community of users and experts. Watch the latest ACDSee professional Tutorials (conducted by noted Director of Photography, Alec Watson), check out Peer Reviews, read their Blog, stay on top of the Latest Updates, and more by joining their enthusiastic community where ACDSee users go to share, learn, discover, and inspire. ACDSee Workshops, meanwhile, are monthly segments demonstrating in-depth one of the fantastic features and tools ACDSee has to offer, while showing you some practical (and fun!) ways to use them on your own photos (Workshops run approx. 1 hour – 1.5 hours each); while the ACDSee Ancestry Series is an exclusive, special three-part series documenting the full transformation of a dull, forgotten film negative into a lively, full-color photo using ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate.
Finally, tell your friends about ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 through the ACDSee Referral Program and for every person that you refer who purchases one of ACDSee’s products using your unique referral code, they’ll send you USD $10 of in-store credit. You can log in and see your credit at any point. Just sign in to acdID and click “My Account”.
Conclusion
At just under a hundred dollars for a fully-licensed, buy-to-own, all-in-one image editing and digital asset management software with powerful, non-destructive layer-based tools; ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 offers tremendously good value and affordability compared to other similar image editor packages out in the market today. If you’re a photojournalist, portrait photographer, or amateur photog not looking for complicated bells-and-whistles but want the best in both refinement tools and file management, ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2021 should be on the top of your photography arsenal.
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