ACDSee Photo Manager 2009

by ACD Systems

Product Features

• Organize up front - set categories, keywords, and create backups and more as you pull images in from your camera.
• Save your frequently-used searches for ongoing use.
• Easily share your categories, keywords and ratings with other ACDSee users by embedding them in your image.
• View images from around the world with UNICODE support.
• Restore your original anytime, for worry-free editing.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001K2E4TA
• Item model number: ACD2009BX-EN
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 10, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,467 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Keep your digital images organized with ACDSee Photo Manager 2009. Browse your collection, find photos quickly and share them through e-mail, prints and online albums. Fix red-eye, lighting and more with powerful correction tools. ACDSee 2009 is the best solution for managing your growing photo collection.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great photo organizer, December 9, 2008

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Only Accuracy (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 (CD-ROM)

My wife and I saw a demo of this at a education industry trade show and very impressed on the overall photo management capabilities, they have a more sophisticated term called digital asset mgmt. I had photos in so many different folders and drives, especially our wedding photos. This program automatically identified them, helped us organize quickly into categories and help rate them in importance to us. The program looks identical to the windows operating system so our user experience was a breeze. The photo editing feature is good, but not great. We bought this for the management part and its worth every penny just for that. I highly recommend to anyone with alot of photos and who feel they are unorganized on their computer.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great photo manager, but has annoying bugs, July 31, 2009

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djb (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 (CD-ROM)

I've used ACDSee for years and recently upgraded to the 2009 version. I've always liked the features and especially the speed of the photo viewer and the general ease of use; I find it much better than Adobe Photoshop Organizer. It has all the great features I need, including batch resizing, batch conversion, batch assignment of EXIF information, tagging, sophisticated searching, a decent editor for basic editing, and flexible viewing options. The new version has a slicker interface and faster response.

Unfortunately, this version has some persistent bugs which, well, bug me. Sometimes when I launch ADCSee or am just doing normal operations, the application simply crashes on my. Even worse, when I try to import images from a CompactFlash card, the process almost invariably hang - the application freezes and will not respond and I have to kill it. This means I have to import using other programs, none of which are aw useful/flexible as ACDSee is... but they don't lock up.
I've reported this to ACD Systems technical support but I have not been able to get the problem resolved. I've gotten responses but they tend to be stock answers, not a real resolution.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for management, but oh the flaws, November 12, 2009

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oldtaku (San Diego, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 (CD-ROM)

I'm really torn on ACDSee. I've been using it since Windows 3, pre ACDSee 32. With each release it gets more bloated and slow and stupid, but still I download the trial to see if I can give up using ACDSee 5. I file bug reports and get back dumb responses. But I'm still using version 5 because it's better than the rest.

The upside is that unless you shell out for Adobe's Lightroom this is probably the best photo or picture manager. I've tried xnView, Irfan, etc, and none of them even come close to ACDSee's management capabilities.

On the downside, with each release ACDSee gets more bloated and slower and introduces more bugs, or at least different ones - the amount of crashing seems fairly constant. I've just been playing with ACDSee Photo Manager 2009, and it's literally more than an order of magnitude (10x) slower than ACDSee 5 when going into a new directory. It's crashed several times on me already. Probably due to the mandatory database stuff, which they've never been able to implement properly. Are they outsourcing this?

So to summarize: if you want to manage your photos or pictures on Windows and can't afford Adobe Lightroom (or Photoshop CS and its database) and you can deal with a large number of bugs and outright crashing, this is probably the best program.

Or you could just try xnView if you don't need the file management capabilities, or find a copy of ACDSee 5.

It's really a shame, I desperately want this program to get better after so many versions, but it just doesn't.