ACD SYSTEMS ACDSee 4.0

by ACD Systems

Product Features

• The latest version of this digital photo software you an intuitive interface that makes it easy to recreate a digital image
• Use the high-quality imaging tools to view, edit, and enhance your digital pictures
• Organize your images according to your own system and browse them any time
• Correct and covert your digital images with just a click of a mouse
• Share and print your images easily with the powerful new network & printer support

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005QZZW
• Item model number: acdv8m800f075
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 19, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,135 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

ACDSee 4.0 is a picture viewer, graphic converter, and digital image manager that gives you intuitive, professional-quality imaging tools to capture, view, enhance, share, and organize images quickly. Digital image viewing and multimedia playing features include preview and full-view windows, zooming and panning, a multimedia slide show mode, and even a video and MPEG viewer, where you can also listen to sound files and embedded-image audio clips. The program comes with an intuitive interface that's customizable, to boot!

Perform image enhancement, correction, and conversion on individual and groups of images. Crop, rotate, flip, cut, and paste images with ACDSee 4.0's photo enhancer. Easy-to-use tools reduce red eye as well as adjust brightness, contrast, color depth, and more. Choose from filters to sharpen, blur, and despeckle pictures. Add effects like negative, emboss, sepia, and colorize. The robust plug-in architecture lets you add tools to extend functionality. ACDSee 4.0 starts you out with plug-ins for viewing and playing more than 50 multimedia file formats, sending images by e-mail, and more. Also included are plug-ins for creating and printing contact sheets and generating Web-ready HTML digital photo albums.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Its like a trip to the Candy store, October 15, 2001

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"deadpixel" (digital download heaven) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ACD SYSTEMS ACDSee 4.0 (CD-ROM)

I've been in love with ACDSee since the early days. Even before the "classic" version. It is the best image viewer on the market period. If you have a huge collection of photos either from downloads or that spiffy new digital camera you need this program. I have yet to find a image format ACDSee doesn't read and display faster then all others.

ACDSee version 4 does all the things version 3.X did and more. It has a wide variety of image editing tools that you can use to create, edit and touch-up your digital images. Tools, like Red-eye reduction, crop, sharpen, convert to sepia tones, and emboss. There are several tools such as exposure adjustment, convert, resize, rename, rotate and mirror, that can be performed on multiple files at the same time. Which can make this product worth the price all by it's self.

My only concerns are the way it looks compared to version 3.X. It seems they added these candy looking buttons that are a little too big for my taste. The preview pane no longer can be moved from left to right and center. The browser portion seems more crowded now but in time you'll find that the controls are faster with this new configuration. The candy like button at the top of the browser should be more customizable, not only smaller but I want more control of what's up there.

Normally when a new version of an already great product comes out and looks so different I ask myself "Did they just make it pretty so they can charge us again or is this really a `new' version?" I can honestly tell you they made a new version. ACDSee was already the fastest viewer around but now it feels even faster, everything seems to run smoother as well. It used to be if you didn't view a large photo at it's full size it just didn't look right, that problem has been fixed. Now viewing at any size looks fantastic.

This is the program to get if you take digital photos or even if you still use a 35mm camera and scan them into your computer (new acquire button yea!).

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NO CUSTOMER support, January 22, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: ACD SYSTEMS ACDSee 4.0 (CD-ROM)

I had trouble with the registration system of the ACDSee ver 4.0.
You cannot "e-mail" them without the registration number.
I placed a call to the ACDSYSTEMS.
I NEVER received a reply.
After 3 hours on my own I figured out the registration problem.
I was able to get the program loaded into the computer.

I had trouble using the REDEYE remover.
I sent them an e-mail asking for help.
I never received a reply.

I was able to organize some folders and it looked like it was going to be "OK" but:
Then program STOPPED working. Just would not respond.
Again I sent an e-mail asking for help.
I never received a reply.

Bottom line, NO CUSTOMER support.

I would NOT recommend this product based on the POOR customer relations.

I am using Win 98 O/S

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not good, December 29, 2001

By A Customer

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: ACD SYSTEMS ACDSee 4.0 (CD-ROM)

I purchased this product for a windows 98 system and was unable to get it to run. I consider myself quite knowledgeable in this area.
Customer support is unresponsive and said I needed version 4.1.They did not respond as to what I was supposed to do next and as a result I have since returned the product to Amazon.I understand earlier versions are supposed to be quite good but at least for my operating system it did not work.