ACDSee Free

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What is ACDSee Free

ACDSee is a program for viewing, storing and organizing images. ACDSee Free grants you immediate access to all of your favorite pictures. It offers all of the standard features you would expect from an image viewer such as zooming, scrolling, cropping and rotating, but there are a few extra features that you might not expect. ACDSee Free also helps easily print images according to specified settings or even set a picture as your personal desktop background. New features are geared towards improving the online sharing experience, especially through social media websites. With these new photo sharing options, ACDSee Free has evolved from a good piece of software to a must-have program.

It Doesn't Need To Be Complicated

While ACDSee Free comes with a lot of confusing advanced functions, the very basics are still easy to understand. You won't need to spend all day searching for a particular tool or button, especially if you have used an image viewing program in the past. Controls are very easy to pick up from the beginning. Double clicking an image makes that image full-screen. Dragging files from your file explorer to ACDSee Free will open the corresponding image in the viewer. You can also use the internal file menu to specify files to open. The rest of the controls are just as easy to learn, and a quick glance at the Help File will help you iron out the details.

Superior Organization

It's hard to find an image viewing application that can compete with the organization capabilities of ACDSee Free. The system works very fast and allows you to find organized images according to tags, keywords or other search criteria. Filters help determine what images should be displayed. Moving through images only requires scrolling the mouse. Zipped folders can be unzipped and instantly organized from within the ACDSee Free interface. Once images have been successfully organized, you can use ACDSee Free to create power points, slide shows, online galleries and screen savers.

Photo Sharing Features

As previously mentioned, many of the newer features center around online sharing of images. This can be accomplished using the upload option, which connects users to their social media profiles and automatically uploads selected images. Users can also create a customized photo widget to place on their online blog or website. ACDSee Free includes its own PowerPoint suite that allows users to create PowerPoints for sharing. Other new features include some light photo editing capabilities. Users can add special effect to their images, as well as add shadows, frames or borders.

Pros:

• Very effective organization structure
• Can create PowerPoints from within ACDSee
• Basic features and controls are easy to learn

Cons

• Photo editing tools are very basic
• Advanced features have a sharp learning curve
• Not as great as the full Pro version