The latest major release of ACDSee, version 4.0, delivers a completely redesigned, highly customizable user interface with a new Activity Wizard and an expanded file browsing area (to full screen). New features in ACDSee 4 include support for ten new multimedia formats; new sound, text, transition effects and advanced timing for slide shows; catalog photos from CDs, new advanced filtering options, multimedia management improvements and additional editing functions; and SendPix Image Sharing Service enhancements. A complete listing of the new feature additions and enhancements in v4.0 is available here.
ACDSee 3
ACDSee 3.0 is a major upgrade for the client in every sense of the word. In fact, no other release of ACDSee has integrated so many new features and added so much new functionality. New additions in v3.0 include:
·ACD Photo Enhancer with image manipulation tools, filters, and special effects for improving the look of your digital photos and Web graphics; ·SendPix e-mail plug-in that allows you to send pictures to your friends via e-mail; · A Thumbnails Generator that also generates accompanying HTML code; · A new Plug-in Architecture that allows third parties to develop a variety of plug-ins for ACDSee, including plug-ins for image decoding and encoding, archive extraction, digital camera support, and more; ·TWAIN Acquire for transferring images from scanners, digital cameras, and similar devices to ACDSee; · Ability to play multimedia files in image browser (AVI, MID, MOV, MP3, MPG, and WAV files); · An enhanced find function that displays results in the image browser's file list; · Support for Kodak, HP, and Olympus digital cameras, · Lossless horizontal and vertical flipping of JPEG images; · Transparent browsing, viewing, searching, and slide show viewing inside of ZIP and LZH archives (with support for subfolders and nested archives); · Support for a large number of graphics formats like ANI, ART, AVI, CUR, EPS, FPX, ICO, MPG, PBM, PGM, PCT, PPM, RAS, XBM, and XPM; · Floating/dockable resizable control panes; · and much more.
With so many new features it's easy to see why ACDSee's footprint quadrupled from just over one MB to 4 MBs with the release of version 3.0. The upgrade has also elevated ACDSee past several other graphics tools on our list. ACDSee continues to be our graphics viewer of choice, and its new Photo Enhancer tools only add to the equation by introducing basic image manipulation capabilities for the first time.
