ACDSee is a complex, multi-purpose application that serves for viewing, organizing and editing images and digital photos. Furthermore, photos can be shared on social websites or your own space on the developer’s website.
The interface of ACDSee 14 is quite different from older in the good way. Navigating and editing pictures is so much easier now, and its response time is much faster. You are welcomed by four tabs - Manage, View, Edit, and Online.
In the Manage tab you select the images you want to view and edit. Labeling them is also possible, in order to prioritize files and easily spot them in folders. If you select an image without a label and switch to View mode, ACDSee will throw in all images found in the same folder as the one selected by you.
You can also import image files from external drives, batch convert, rotate or resize them, instantly create a slideshow, rate images, and others.
The Edit section is the one that encourages your creativity. Here you can perform photo corrections, such as red-eye and blemish removal and color adjustments for a natural look. Special effects include a wide selection of artistic filters that you can instantly test on the image, thanks to thumbnail preview. You can give your images a special touch with the aid of the built-in frames and borders.
The Online panel makes it easy to share your work. You can publish your projects to ACDSee Online platform and from here, to social websites. If you’re a Flickr or SmugMug user, sharing can be done from the Manager section via dedicated plugins.
All in all, ACDSee makes quite the image enhancer. There are upsides such as the image displaying speed (it’s outstanding for large files), but there are downsides as well, such as the complicated sharing process.

Limitations:
· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release:
Hierarchical keywords:
· Organize your collection with hierarchical keywords that help you sort your photos better than ever before. For instance, let's say you create a keyword tree that looks like this: Events | Local | Birthdays. You can then assign a photo from last week's birthday celebration to the Birthdays keyword with the check of a box, and it implicitly gets added to the higher level keywords too. You can create as many levels as you want, and display all of the photos you've tagged with that keyword in one click. It's sorting, supersized!
Easily brush on edits:
· Want to soften only a face and not the entire photo? The Edit Brush makes it super easy and fast to apply any editing effect to a specific part of your photo. Choose your brush size and the amount of feathering to help you achieve exactly the look you want.
Blur smartly:
· Use the Smart Blur filter to blur areas of little or no detail while still maintaining the sharpness and important details of your photo. T...