Profiles
"As an avid digital photographer with just under 18,000 digital photos, it’s important that I have a great tool for keeping things organized. The search function is excellent and very fast, and when you have as many photos as I do, speed matters."
As the Executive Editor and founder of Digital Media Thoughts, Jason Dunn is constantly on the lookout for the best technology on the market to share with his readers.
A long-time user, Jason appreciates the speed of ACDSee in both his professional work and at home.
"My favorite aspect of ACDSee over the years remains speed: speed of viewing, speed of editing, speed of batch processing, and speed of metadata manipulation. When I’m working on a product review for Digital Media Thoughts or one of the other Thoughts Media sites, I need to quickly resize the images and change the file names to match a certain pattern before I upload them to my server. The tools in ACDSee allow me to do that."
ACDSee’s speed is just as important for Jason’s home photos. “Accessing a folder with just under 1000 images is just as fast as a folder with 10 images – and that’s without cataloguing the files first. ACDSee 10 is smooth and fast. There’s no delay switching from one photo to another in full screen mode, even when those photos are 70 megapixel (no, that’s not a typo) photo collages.”
Jason is particularly excited about the new upload feature in ACDSee 10. “I’m a Smugmug user with a gallery (photos.jasondunn.com) customized to match my personal blog (jasondunn.com). Being able to upload right from within ACDSee after I’ve finished working with the files is a big plus.”
"My workflow today is set-up pretty tight using ACDSee; files are named properly and stored in the proper folders library."
Brendan Rohan has been shooting skateboarders and snowboarders for years, ever since he moved to Whitefish, Montana to work at the Big Mountain Resort in the early 1990’s. More recently, he has drawn on his love of outdoor activities to build a successful company, Whitefish Skate Ramp Co., and had his photography published in a variety of magazines, including Transworld Snowboarding, National Geographic Adventure and Montana Magazine.
With such an accumulation of photos, on a wide variety of storage media, Brendan needed a solution to get his photos organized and accessible.
"With ACDSee, I can quickly browse through my mess and locate the files I need to organize and store."
Brendan also finds ACDSee’s slideshow capabilities very useful to show his photos off.
"The auto slideshow function is a great way to show images to a group. There's always someone who wasn't looking when the group "Ohh'd and Ahh'd" about a great shot.
Just right click on the mouse and the slideshow smoothly backs up to the shot you choose to show again - and smoothly continues on. That has been really helpful."
I have been scrapbooking for about 7 years now. Recently, my scrapbooking has taken a new turn - I discovered digital scrapbooking! I started by downloading "freebies" to create layouts, but soon my collection of digital papers and elements was growing and growing. I needed a way to organize my stuff - how was I ever going to find a blue paper or pink flower in that huge collection! I used the organizer that was included with my photo program, but that soon began bogging down when I would try to open it, or create a page.
That's when I found out about ACDSee 9 Photo Manager. I had been reading on one of the scrapbook forums about it, and listening to everyone rave about it. I was hesitant to spend more money on software programs, but when I found out how inexpensive it was, I had to have it. I downloaded the free trial first, but within days decided to purchase it. I couldn't wait to get started.
ACDSee is unbelievably fast and it's powerful enough to organize hundreds and hundreds of items. It took me a while to organize everything, but once it is done, it is so easy to find things. It even lets me sort by "uncategorized" so that I was able to find those objects that I had forgotten to categorize.
I love that I am able to see white .png elements such as my stitches. With my other program I could never see them, therefore they didn't get used much.
The program has streamlined my digital scrapbooking immensely and enables me to spend more time working on pages rather than searching my database!
I started exploring the art of digital scrapbooking in late 2005. Soon I found myself lost in a sea of digital kits. I did not feel efficient when creating and it was hampering my desire to create layouts for my family. Initially, I tried to utilize the Bridge program within Photoshop. I found it to be extremely slow and inefficient. I struggled along until PSCS2 was released. I upgraded hoping they had addressed the issues in Bridge, which I found they did not.
Frustrated with endless searching for items I thought would look good with the scrapbook page I had in mind and that I knew I had them SOMEWHERE on my hard drive, I decided to search for a software program. The features I wanted in a program included the ability to categorize these digital items and be stable. I reviewed many programs, one of which was ACDSee. To say I was ambivalent about trying and learning a new software program, was an understatement. I wanted proof that it would suit my needs. So, I read a lot of the tutorials that were being written and listened to testimonials from friends who were enjoying it, before I finally downloaded the trial.
I believe in this product. The interface is extremely user friendly. Even without a "guide" you can find your way around it easily. I like that you can "tag" your items and never move them from where they are stored on your hard drive. No breaking apart kits, unless you choose to. The flow of my work is infinitely faster now, as the tree system of clicking through your categories to narrow down what you are looking for takes milliseconds. I also believe the quality of my digital scrapbook pages are improving solely due to the better flow of creativity that this program is allowing me.
I would highly recommend this product to any digital scrapbooker!
I heard so many great things about ACDSee, I had to see for myself. At first I didn't know all the features and how it would cut my scrapping time in half, but with the help of some tutorials from www.digiscrapinfo.com it became so easy!
Why I love ACDSee Photo Manager:
- First of all it is very fast. It saves me time in finding the right kits and elements I want to use making a layout.
- Tagging all my stuff is very easy and also a fun thing to do. Tagging all previews was the best thing I did! I just love organizing and found out I had kits I haven't used since I bought them.
- I can customize it in any way I think that works best for me.
- I totally love the fact that I can easily watch my fonts in there (fonts are great! I always think they give your page the finishing touch!
- And last but not least, the thing I like best is how I can easily view my white PNG. files. This is just an awesome feature! I used to open all the white files in my editor, to find the one I wanted to use and that sometimes confused my PC. Ever since I changed the background color in Photo Manager for my PNG. files, I saw things I never saw before! I rarely used these files, simply because I couldn't see them and didn't always want to spend too much time in finding the right one. Now it works in a snap!! I can see my white stitches, overlays and vellums anytime, I just need to open my ACDSee Photo Manager!
