ACDSee for Mac

[StbA]

Anyone tried it yet, I used to love ACDSee on Windows, it was my default photo viewer. Anywho, here it is. http://www.acdsee.com/offers/proformac/

Beta runs until Feb 2010.

 

[bwana]

Can you adjust images with it? (Levels, cropping, white balance, etc)

 

[Shardie]

im gonna give it a try, been waiting for this a loooong time

 

[StbA]

Nope, it's basically a stripped down version of Aperture, it's for categorizing and organizing your photo's into folders, they thing I sometimes hate about iPhoto/Aperture is that it wants to organize my photo's in a database. When I was a Windows user I used ACDSee to organize and Photoshop to edit.

 

[Shardie]

I love it. Its fast, does the job and uses little memory. Could have designed a better icon though - hehe. At last ACDSEE. I used to use Bridge or even Finder but this is just wonderful. Another piece of software i'd buy.

 

[Rouxenator]

Yes you can do Levels, cropping, white balance and a lot more with ACDsee. I have been using it for more than 10 years now and it is the best graphics software I have come across.

ACDsee is one of the main applications keeping me off linux. There is simply nothing on linux that comes close to ACDsee.

 

[bwana]

Nope, it's basically a stripped down version of Aperture, it's for categorizing and organizing your photo's into folders, they thing I sometimes hate about iPhoto/Aperture is that it wants to organize my photo's in a database. When I was a Windows user I used ACDSee to organize and Photoshop to edit.

With aperture (and maybe iPhoto) that's optional.

 

[SlinkyMike]

I remember ACDSEE... fappy days are here again!

EDIT: Nice. As mentioned already: lightweight, easy to use -good stuff.

 

[Shardie]

Well the whole thing with ACDSEE is to browse your photos quickly. Manage the folders as well. Its not an image editing software. Unlike the Windows version, the Mac version is very plain and simple, which I prefer. I just hope it doesnt become some bloated up software again. If you want to change HUES, COLOUR, TONES etc, just use Preview, iPhoto or Aperture.

 

[Rouxenator]

Why should one use other software to adjust images if ACDsee does it all? Especially on Windows based computers it makes a lot of scene to have ACDsee since it will satisfy all your photo processing needs.

 

[bwana]

Well the whole thing with ACDSEE is to browse your photos quickly. Manage the folders as well. Its not an image editing software. Unlike the Windows version, the Mac version is very plain and simple, which I prefer. I just hope it doesnt become some bloated up software again. If you want to change HUES, COLOUR, TONES etc, just use Preview, iPhoto or Aperture.

Sorry - I really dont see the point of it then - especially as we already have quick look and coverflow built into the OS.

 

[StbA]

Quick look and coverflow take a long time to render views for lots of pics in a folder. ACDSee is super quick.

I'm talking more than 3000 photo's in one folder, it's much faster than Aperture or iPhoto or Finder

 

[bwana]

Quick look and coverflow take a long time to render views for lots of pics in a folder. ACDSee is super quick.

That's fair enough.

 

[Rouxenator]

ACDsee does get slow with 80,000+ pictures though...

 

[StbA]

On the forums they say they are going to add the normal windows feature's as well, I hope they keep a version like this current one going, it's really quick.

You can select more than one folder at the same time and view all the pics inside them, pretty sweet.

 

[bwana]

I'm talking more than 3000 photo's in one folder, it's much faster than Aperture or iPhoto or Finder

Even using Aperture's (new) Preview mode? That does it faster than I can actually review the day's photos which is as fast as I would ever need to go IOW I'm always going to be the bottleneck.

I'm still going to download it and play with it though.

 

[PeterCH]

ACDsee does get slow with 80,000+ pictures though...

You need to delete some of that pr0n or put it in seperate folders.

 

[Rouxenator]

You need to delete some of that pr0n or put it in seperate folders.

Exactly the reason I have ACDsee open on a folder with so many pictures to begin with - it's Move to Folder feature is a breeze

 

[Shardie]

Sorry - I really dont see the point of it then - especially as we already have quick look and coverflow built into the OS.

I thought the same thing BUT, with Quicklook its a pain to change folders, you also have to select ALL pics first then click on quicklook, you cant drag and drop from QL into other apps as well. Really a Pain.

Coverflow is no better.

With a QUICK image browser you can browse through images and quickly drag and drop the ones you want into illustrator, Finder, Fireworks etc.