One of the features I like most about ACDSee is the ability to upload to Flickr AND use the ACDSee caption as the title and my ACDSee-assigned tags as flickr tags. You can also type in more tags for a photo once the Flickr uploader panel is open (I usually add the current year as an additional tag); and, you can set max upload sizes, and add images to a set (or create a new one).
Yes, performance is slower than Flickr’s own Uploader, but I don’t mind. At least the captions and tags in my catalog of images is in sync with what’s uploaded to the web.
More advanced photo hobbyists complain that ACDSee’s image editing capabilities are limited as compared to Photoshop. But the biggies are present: levels, curves, some noise reduction, shadow/highlight correction, sharpness, and color/saturation/hue (EXIF data is also available) and the interface and controls are not nearly as complicated as Photoshop’s.
I’m just now beginning to get into editing RAW format (the unadulterated data captured by a digital camera’s sensor) and I find that ACDSee coupled with the more extensive RAW (NEF) editing capabilities of Nikon’s Capture NX software is all I really need.
All software can be improved, though, right? So, my wishlist for the next version of ACDSee is currently as follows:
- right-click menu option allowing one to edit file in an external editor (for me, this external editor would be Capture NX)
- improved uploader performance/speed
- better “Email Images” integration. It would be nice if it didn’t spawn an external email program and just emailed photos natively (Photoshop Elements has ACDSee beat on this feature).
Anyway, that’s my two cents.
