ACDSee 8 Photo Manager 8.1

• Popularity:

  #2 in Digital Photo Tools (out of 749 products)

• Editor's Rating:

  4.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  3.5 stars (out of 179 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  6,407,966

• Requirements:

  Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP

• Limitations:

  30-day trial

• Date Added:

  September 13, 2005

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version ACDSee Photo Manager 9 build 108 ACDSee Photo Manager 9 build 55 ACDSee 9 Photo Manager 9 ACDSee 8 Photo Manager 8.1 ACDSee 8.0 ACDSee 7.0 ACDSee Standard 6.0 ACDSee Standard 6.0.3 ACDSee Standard 6.0 ACDSee 6.0.2 ACDSee 6.0 ACDSee 5.0.1 ACDSee 5.0 ACDSee 5.0.1 ACDSee 4.0.2 ACDSee 4.0.1 ACDSee 4.0 ACDSee 3.1 SR-1 ACDSee32 3.1 ACDSee (32-bit) 3.1 ACDSee (32-bit) 3.0 ACDSee32 2.42 ACDSee (32-bit) 2.41 ACDSee (32-bit) 2.4 ACDSee (32-bit) 2.3 ACDSee (32-bit) 2.22 ACDSee32 2.1 ACDSee32 2.0 ACDSee for Windows 95 1.0 beta 9

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Publisher's description of ACDSee 8 Photo Manager 8.1

From ACD Systems:

ACDSee 8 Photo Manager allows you to organize your photos like an expert. Get razor-sharp search tools that let you sift through thousands of pictures effortlessly, find the best ones, and sort them into intuitive categories. Find your one photo in a million, and easily manage the rest. Count on powerful organizing tools--such as customizable folders--that make it fast and easy to manage, preserve, and enhance the memories you hold dear.

Version 8.1 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

Editor's review of ACDSee 8 Photo Manager 8.1

• 4.0 stars

• ""

The latest version of the well-established ACDSee Photo Manager offers a convenient built-in burner, a sophisticated photo-transfer feature, a long-awaited tool for creating movies and VCDs, and plenty of new editing gadgets, filters, and effects. The pleasant surprises begin with the installer, which still asks for an e-mail address to unlock the 30-day trial, but now lets you opt out of the developer's offers and newsletters. The program itself retains its attractive and functional interface. We found it easy to control the size, the exposure, the color, and other aspects of an image (or a batch of images). Though the array of panes and buttons might seem intimidating, the help file is thorough and well written. Naturally, you can use ACDSee to share your images via e-mail or the Web. You also can export image data to text or database files--a particularly useful feature for design houses. Beyond that, the database feature lets you catalog images to reduce load time. The search tool, however, could stand improvement. Given a fragment of a filename, it did a good job finding files but a poor job locating subfolders. That flaw aside, ACDSee's power and professionalism elevate it well above most of its competitors.

User reviews of ACDSee 8 Photo Manager 8.1

• Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 179 votes
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• 3 stars

  1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

  Version: ACDSee 8 Photo Manager 8.1

  "As an image viewer, slideshow and picture disk creator - unbeatable."

  by James L. Mason on July 17, 2006

  Pros: Very fast, compatible with every image format under the sun, will play videos and animations and will even deal with archived files, but...

  Cons: The price isn't justified by packing it with image editing tools - Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop are image editors, ACDSee isn't and it shouldn't try to be

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• 5 stars

  8 out of 8 people found this review helpful

  Version: ACDSee 8 Photo Manager 8.1

  "at $49.99 USD - Well Worth the Money"

  by Huebdoo on September 26, 2005

  Pros: Huge Feature set, I like the updated layout from Version 7. Healing brush a big bonus for this product!!

  Properties Pane has been expanded for better viewing of the Database, File, Exif and IPTC data this is good stuff for those who want more in-depth info

  Huge leap forward over version 6

  Cons: I find it slower in some cases than 7 in viewing images. I totally disagree with the fact that I need to submit an email to get the full 30-Day Trial (I dont like being forced to receive emails)

  I dont like the way it takes over all your image (picture and video) file formats for viewing during install. ACDSee is not NOT what I would suggest a fast video viewing utility and they should either speed it up the loading or drop the video support all together.

  I would like to see the older version 3.1SR1 updated and sold at a lower price. 3.1SR1 was and still is probably the fastest image viewer in history. For those like myself that want a bare-bones image viewer without all the slideshow and video viewing stuff.... just give me a fast-small file sized product that I can view my images quickly and easily.

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• 4 stars

  1 out of 3 people found this review helpful

  Version: ACDSee 8 Photo Manager 8.1

  "EXELLENT........BUT"

  by jabirkaleeth on January 13, 2006

  Pros: JUST 1 CLICK ON FOLDER TO VIEW ALL PICTURES EVEN INSIDE THE SUB FOLDER

  Cons: TRY TO USE PICASA2 OR IRFAN VIEW IT WORKS MORE BETTER

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• 2 stars

  10 out of 13 people found this review helpful

  Version: ACDSee 8 Photo Manager 8.1

  "The next iteration bloatware"

  by edcallahan on September 13, 2005

  Pros: There is a slight superficial progress in usability from the previous version.

  There are features that may be useful sometimes, if they work, but are hardly indispensable.

  Cons: The User Interface in this version still contains many space-wasting elements compared to v5.

  For example in the Thumbnails Pane fit less thumbnails compared to v5.

  Many of the features (in this version) are already available in more advanced form(s) in specialized products (some of which are free) or in the OS.

  For example: Batch Rename, Duplicate Finder, screen capture, Compare Images, Quick Search, synchronization (so robocopy can't do the job?).

  An example of "Batch Rename" using OS built-in functionality:

  cmd /v:on /c "set k=0& for %i in (*.jpg) do ren "%i" template!k!.jpg & set /a k+=1"

  (the above one-line command will "Batch Rename" all jpg files (from the current folder) to template[number].jpg; that command will work even if ACDSee is not installed - amazingly!)

  What happened with the old (but verified) philosophy: keep it simply coz it may has bugs?

  Maybe the reliability and usability are less important (for ACD Systems) than the "features".

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• 4 stars

  3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

  Version: ACDSee 8 Photo Manager 8.1

  "Originally, the perfect solution"

  by itelllc on November 23, 2005

  Pros: When this was first rolled out this was the perfect product, and free :-). If i could have kept thatr version i would have been most happy customer

  Cons: Updates have forced me to unistall. Bring back the original and regain your standing!

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