Acdsee ACDSEE 12 Getting Started Guide

Getting Started Guide

The easy way to organize and share your photos.

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Contents

Welcome to ACDSee 12 1

About ACDSee 12 2
ACDSee 12 modes 2

Manage 5

Overview 6
Browse 6

Folders, Calendar, and Favorites 7
Filter, Group, Sort, View, Select 8
Database 9

Properties 9
Import 10
Organize 12

Categorize 12

Tag 13

Rate 14
Search 14

View 17

Overview 18
Full screen 18
Zoom 19
Organize 20

Edit 21

Overview 22
Save, Done, Cancel 22
Selections 23
Exposure 24
Sharpen 25
Crop 26
Repair 28
Text 29
Special effects 30
Restore originals 31

Contents | v

Online 33

Overview 34
Create an ACDSeeOnline.com account 34
Login 34
Upload images 35
Share 36

What’s next? 39

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Welcome to ACDSee12

Congratulations on choosing ACDSeePhoto Manager 12, the industry­leading photo management software. ACDSee12 is fast, powerful, and
so easy to use that it is essential for managing, viewing, editing, and
sharing your digital photos.

About ACDSee 12

ACDSee12 provides a wealth of tools to help you manage, view, edit, and share
your images.

▪▪ Browse and organize images on your computer, or impor t photos from a

camera, memory card, or other device.

▪▪ View the images and tag the ones that need further editing.
▪▪ Use the Edit tools to enhance the images, x exposure and lighting, or add

borders, text, or other special eects.

▪▪ Share your images with an ACDSeeOnline.com account.

The purpose of this guide is to introduce you to just a few of these basic features to
get you started. For information about all the ACDSee12 features and tools, see the
ACDSee12 Help le. Simply press F1 at any time while you are using ACDSee12.

ACDSee 12 modes

ACDSee12 provides four modes—Manage, View, Edit, Online—to group the tools
that you commonly use during each step of your photography workow.

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Manage

Manage mode is the main browsing and managing component of ACDSee12. In
Manage mode, you can nd, move, preview, and lter les located on your hard
drive or removable storage device. You can also organize your les by adding
categories, keywords, and other metadata to make your les easier to search.

There is no need to import your les into the program because ACDSee12 catalogs
your les as you browse through them, adding le properties and metadata to the
ACDSee12 database automatically.

However, you can use ACDSee12 to import les from a camera or other device
onto your computer. When you use the Import tools you can create folders, rename
les, add organizing information, and create backups as you import the les.

View

In View mode you can display images one at a time, zoom in and out, and see
images in full screen. You can also view image properties, display parts of an image
at varying magnications, as well as add organizing information or tag your images
for further editing.

You can open View mode by double-clicking a le in Manage mode, and then
use the lmstrip to ip quickly between all of the images in a folder or a group of
selected les.

Edit

In Edit mode you can x and enhance images. You can make adjustments to the
entire image, such as cropping, rotating, applying color or lighting adjustments,
sharpening, and reducing noise, or use Selections to adjust selected areas. And you
can add borders, text, and other special eects.

Online

Online mode provides an easy way to upload images to ACDSeeOnline.com, an
image sharing and storage service located online at:

www.acdseeonline.com

In Online mode, you can select the images on your computer and then drag and
drop them directly into your ACDSeeOnline.com account. From there you can share
images with people you know, or you can make images public so that anyone can
see them.

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Manage

In Manage mode, you can browse the les on your hard drive or
removable storage device, import images from a camera or other device,
organize images using categories, ratings, and other le properties, and
tag images for further editing.

Overview

Manage mode, the default view in ACDSee12, is where you can browse and
organize your les and images. You can perform sophisticated searches and
ltering operations, and view thumbnail previews of images.

Browse

ACDSee12 gives you the ability to browse the les on your hard drive or a
removable storage device. There is no need to import les into ACDSee12—simply
navigate to the les you want to view.

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Folders, Calendar, and Favorites

The easiest way to browse your les, is to use the Folders pane, much like you
would use the folder tree in Windows Explorer. Double-click folders to expand
them, or use the + and - icons to expand or collapse folders. The les and sub­folders in the selected folder are displayed in the File List pane, the central section
of the ACDSee12 window.

If you have images or folders that you frequently need to nd, you can add them to
your favorites, and then use the Favorites pane to quickly nd them again.

Once you have browsed your les and ACDSee12 has added them to the database,
you can use the Calendar pane to easily nd les or images by date.

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Filter, Group, Sort, View, Select

When you are looking at a set of les, you can adjust the view using the drop-down
lists in the File List toolbar.

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Database

If you are a new ACDSee user, you may not know that ACDSee12 uses a database
to record information about your images. As you browse your images, ACDSee12
catalogs them and saves any le properties or metadata that they contain, such as
the le name and date, and the type of camera and camera settings used.

Then, when you organize your images using ACDSee12, the custom metadata is
also added to the database. The more information you add, the more easily you can
search your les and nd the exact image you are looking for.

If you want to move or copy an image to a dierent computer or to a removable
storage device, you can embed the custom metadata in the image le or you can
export the database information. See the ACDSee12 Help for details.

Properties

You can use the Properties pane to view the
information about your images, including
information in the database, and File, EXIF, and IPTC
metadata. You can also enter additional information
in this pane.

To open the Properties pane:

Click View | Properties.

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