ACDSee 8 Photo Manager

ACDSee 8 Photo Manager's powerful browse and search tools help you sift through thousands of pictures effortlessly, find the best ones, and organize them into common sense categories that make your photos easy to find later.

Find your pictures in a snap with the Quick Search Bar. Touch up your pictures using editing features like the Photo Repair tool. Create inspiring Flash slideshows set to your favorite music. Burn your images to CD or VCD. Share your photo albums with friends and family online or by e-mail. Plus, with a range of failsafe storage features, you'll never lose a single photograph.

Highlights:

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Find your pictures faster than ever before by typing keywords into the new Quick Search bar.

Create video (VCD) slide shows with custom audio and burn them to VCD for playback on your DVD player.

Create CDs and DVDs quickly and easily.

The new Photo Repair tool fixes common photo defects such as blemishes, flares, lens scratches, and other imperfections.

What's new in ACDSee 8 Photo Manager:

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View and edit your IPTC information and overlay it on any photo in the Viewer, or on thumbnails in the browser. Display IPTC info in your slide shows, or sort your file lists and compare images based on IPTC data.

View more file information simultaneously in the Properties pane, such as image size in inches, number of pixels per inch, and uncompressed file size.

Write clever, humorous, or descriptive text captions, and add them to your photos just for fun.

The improved HTML Album feature makes posting and sharing your photos on the Web easier than ever before.

With the Sync feature, synchronize folders on your PC with network folders or an external hard drive to protect you from local hard drive failure.

Batch Set Information allows you to update EXIF (Image Description, Artist, Copyright etc.) and DB (caption, date/time, author, notes etc.) info, and view previews of new values for any number of images all at once.

The Start up screen provides an introductory overview of features to help you get started quickly.

The Task Pane provides easy access to common features, so you don't have to waste any time fumbling through the application.

Share your photos online
ACDSee photo album software lets you choose the best photo sharing options for different situations. To share a photos with your family, you may want to e-mail them directly from within ACDSee. For a presentation to share at home or on CD, you might choose a creative slide show complete VCD and audio.

For larger photo albums or sharing with larger groups, SendPix free web albums are excellent. You can even make your own photo web pages with ACDSee's HTML album generator.

Instantly acquire photos from any digital device
ACDSee can acquire images from almost any Digital Device including: Digital Cameras, Card readers, Scanners, Portable Disk and USB drives and your Mobile Phone using the Get Photos feature.

The ACDSee Device Detector can also detect when you insert a CD into your CD-ROM drive, or attach a USB mass storage device or a Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) device to your computer, including cameras, card readers, Web cams and scanners.

Archive your photos for safe keeping
Your memories are under lock and key with ACDSee 8's failsafe storage features.

Use the Sync feature to synchronize folders on your PC with network folders or an external hard drive to protect you from local hard drive failure. You can even synchronize multiple folders and schedule when the synchronizations occur.

Ensure you never lose a single memory. Instantly save and archive your collections of photos to trusted formats, no matter the size. Archive your files in .ZIP, secure PDF, and many others. Storing files in LZH, TAR, GZIP and TGZ archive formats gives you a wider range of dependable options to share your photos in. Some archive formats can even be protected with passwords for maximum security.

• Use powerful features like folder exclusion, database rebinding, archive reminders, and direct backup to CD.
• Preserve existing folder structures within the archive.
• Easily browse image thumbnails inside compressed archives.

Share by e-mail Directly from ACDSee
Instantly and securely deliver your photos to global destinations by e-mail or mobile phone. You can use the E-mail Image Sharing Wizard to send images directly from ACDSee 8 without having to open an external email application. E-mail your memories to friends and family with supersonic speed through Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, or Eudora.

ACDSee 8 also saves you time when adding image attachments to your emails. Simply:

• Select a group of photos while browsing in ACDSee
• Click Send & e-mail your images
• Set up your e-mail options
• Choose some recipients
• Add a personal message (optional)
• Send your photos

This way, you can take advantage of ACDSee's industry-leading browsing speed, rather than having to add photos to your e-mail using the ever so slow File Insert dialog box in your e-mail program. With ACDSee 8 you can also set image and message size to help send your photos, ensuring everyone will be able to view them.

Fix and polish your photos instantly
The new Photo Repair tool fixes common photo defects such as blemishes, flares, lens scratches, and other imperfections, so your treasured photo memories always look great, no matter how you choose to show them. Choose from either the Clone or Heal options to repair any area of a photo.

The Heal option is a professional-quality tool that allows you to fix a picture while maintaining its color and texture sensitivity. For example, you can use it to remove scars from a subject's face, leaving the area looking natural and in context with the rest of the photo.

Other editing features include:

• Fix red-eye with a single click.
• Automatically crop your selections after custom angle rotations.
• Crop a selection from the Edit menu in the Viewer.
• Access handy exposure warnings in the Viewer.
• Use the new shortcut toolbar in the Viewer to instantly access photo editing tools.
• Easily access zooming tools while viewing and editing images.
• Choose from 27 new filters and effects.

Burn CDs and DVDs
The Burn Basket makes creating CDs and DVDs drag-and-drop easy. Individual photos or entire folders - you name it, the Burn Basket can take it. Make hard copies of your photo collections faster than ever before, then give them as gifts to family and friends.

Improve organization by creating new folders within the Burn Basket, and update ACDSee Photo Discs on multi-session CDs and DVDs. Easily manage your disc space by checking the updated estimate of the size of the disc, and how much space will be used up by your current project.

The Burn Basket completely eliminates the need for a third-party burning tool, and can also be used to create archives and backups of your files.