A well-rounded solution for the multimedia image maker, ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2020 Plus Pack from ACD Systems combines three editing applications to suit both photo and video needs. ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2020 is included for advanced photo editing, raw file development, retouching, and digital asset management; ACDSee Photo Editor 11 provides more streamlined photo editing tools for fine-tuning the look of images and raw files; and ACDSee Video Studio 4 is a versatile video editing applications, supporting an array of moving image content, 4K video, and screen recording needs with flexible output capabilities. These three programs are designed for Windows operating systems and are ideal for photographers and videographers looking for a complete and efficient post-production workflow.
ACDSee Photo Studio Professional 2020
Editing and Adjustment Features
- The Blended Clone tool can copy pixels from a source area to a target area with automatic blending in the target area for a seamless look.
- Color grade your images by applying LUTs as non-destructive filters for creative color effects and distinct looks.
- Beyond image files, you can flip through PDF documents and rank digital assets based on importance.
- Integrated Dropbox and OneDrive support for cloud-based file storage or additional access to cloud sync root drives is available within Manage mode.
- Create up to five image baskets to gather and hold images and media files from all over your hard drive. Individual image baskets can be named, edited, and their content can be shared.
- Enhanced Duplicate Finder tool locates duplicate files across a variety of folders and locations and then can rename or delete detected files.
- Enhanced batch processing enables converting groups of files into other formats from one convenient and accessible dialog.
- A variety of pre-loaded keyword sets, along with the ability to create and customize keyword lists, can be applied to files and exported for sharing in order to save time organizing and labeling files.
Face Detection and Facial Recognition
Powerful Face Detection and Facial Recognition tool automatically finds the humans in your photographs, so you can name them for future searching and tagging needs. ACDSee learns which names to put to which faces and can be used to suggest possible matches in the future. Additionally, a queue of untagged photos of people can be created for efficient approval and tagging of photos in a library.
Digital Asset Management
Helping to find, sort, move, organize, and share imagery, files can be complemented with ratings, hierarchical keywords, categories, location data, visual tags, and customizable color labels for faster and easier identification of imagery.
Raw Editing
Rich raw file editing supports more than 500 different camera models and offers the ability to non-destructively adjust exposure, clarity, sharpness, lighting, color, noise, details, and additional image attributes.
Additional Editing Tools
- ACDSee Tutorials, Community, and Workshop functions help you get to know the application better and enjoy the editing process within a community.
- The iOS and Android-dedicated ACDSee Mobile Sync app enables wireless transferring of files from a computer to a paired mobile device.
- ACDSee Light EQ makes it possible to adjust lighting in specific areas in images without affecting others and can simultaneously lighten areas that are too dark and darken areas that are too bright. For example, if the foreground subject is backlit, you can easily lighten that subject up without blowing out the background.
ACDSee Photo Editor 11
Editing Capabilities
- Rich text editing is possible, including the ability to add text as unique layers and customize font, size, color, style, justification, opacity, and more while layering and blending.
- Canvas resizing is possible to extend beyond your composition and add new layers or different colored or patterned backgrounds.
- Customizable rulers and guidelines help in keeping text, objects, and layers organized with snap-to functionality and the ability to add as many guides as necessary. Items can also be snapped to the edges and corners of a canvas and a grid can be displayed for precise placements.
- Liquify tool lets you move pixels without changing them, allowing for reshaping structures without losing information.
- Copy color images and paste them onto another image for use as luminance masks, with the ability to retain adjustment layers.
- Pixel Targeting lets you fine-tune your selections and masks by narrowing the selection criteria to exact colors, brightness values, or skin tones.
- Recorded actions can be imported or exported for sharing with others.
- Selections can be made with a bias on luminosity, with the selection being stronger and more exact on brighter areas of an image.
- Color grade your images by importing and applying LUTs as non-destructive filters or, for more creativity, develop your own LUTs using an infinite combination of colorful adjustment layers and apply as Edit or Develop mode filters or as additional adjustment layers.
- Integrated raw file support for more than 500 cameras allows adjusting image files using advanced noise removable, sharpening, HSL, color, geometry, detail, and exposure adjustments. Image adjustments can then be saved as layers within the ACDC file type, allowing for future non-destructive editing.
ACDSee Video Studio 4
Version 4 Features
- Green screen support enables working with chroma keying techniques for replacing backgrounds behind your subject.
- Color grading is benefitted by the ability to load and apply an unlimited number of LUTs for a greater range of color effects.
- Playback speed and duration can be adjusted to handle how motion is rendered or just to help meet certain playback length requirements.
- A customizable Mosaic tool enables blurring faces, license plates, or other sensitive details.
- Add snow, light leaks, countdown timers, or other effects from a library of more than 46 overlay effects.
- Creatively enhance footage with 13 unique filter effects, including morph, emboss, mirror, shake, obscure, and adjust.
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Freeze-frames or stills can be recorded for dramatic effect or just to use stills for other applications.
Keyframing permits shifting your media's properties from one state to another using pre-made or custom animations, including tilt, scale, rotate, and restore, as well as a variety of blending modes and opacity settings. - Entrances and exits from a clip can be customized using animations to suit the motion behavior in the clip.
- Webcam recording and screen recording capabilities suit vlogging needs for producing educational content.
- Drag and drop filters can be applied along with vibrance, exposure, and white balance adjustments to fine-tune the look of footage.
- Audio, video, and images can be layered on multiple tracks in the timeline for more dynamic productions and media transparency can be adjusted to created layered hierarchies for greater control.
- Support for JPEG, PNG, BMP, and GIF files suits creating photo slideshows.
- Move, align, split, cut, copy, and paste controls are available for editing video, audio, and images on the timeline. Zoom-in on footage, lock tracks, and make selections, too, for greater flexibility.
- Screen recording is possible, with or without system audio and voice recording, in widescreen or custom dimensions. Pause/resume controls are also available and keyboard shortcuts can also be customized.
- Resizable Display Area can be used to preview work-in-progress videos, and the playback view can be moved or resized, and its color settings can be adjusted.
- Audio and voice tracks can be isolated, and volume can be faded in, faded out, and can be selectively adjusted according to specific audio points in the timeline.
- Adjustable transitions and behaviors can be applied for smooth scene or topic changes. Transitions can be dragged and dropped into the timeline, and then dragged to adjust their duration.
- Adjustable output controls permit customizing select video and audio parameters, including frame size, bit-rate, and codec.
- In-app sharing is possible directly to YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and Twitter.
- Text can be applied to videos with a dedicated captioning tool.
- Watermarks can be applied to establish authorship over clips, and the watermark's position and opacity can be customized.