Very good RAW converter and image management program

ACDSee Pro 6 is one of the Workflow programs. From the administration, on the RAW conversion to image processing can be almost anything you do with it and the functions of this I find very good.

First, I like that one does not have to import images, to view them or edit them. If you want to search for images that have to be present in the program's internal database the course. But the program works almost like the Windows Explorer. When you open a folder with ACDSee, the images are displayed in immediately and taken up in the background in the database.

For editing pictures you have two areas: Develop and Edit. Develop is the RAW converter, but of course you can order also JPGs or TIF "develop", so do not edit destructive. The basic interpretation of my RAW files I find it very good. For some programs, you must first adjust various regulators to ever get a respectable image. Building on that, you then change the image. The settings of the camera (Picture Styles ect.) In RAW files ACDSee can not accept of course, this applies to all camera manufacturers strange converter.

The RAW converter has been enhanced in version 6, among others with the development Adjustment Brush massively. So you can finally edit parts of the image separately, even if, unfortunately, only a few basic tools and without "smart" brushes. Other improvements such as a new S / W mapping, blur and vignette I gladly with. Especially the vignette I find handy as I like to use.

If the converter is not sufficient, you can improve the image in edit mode on. Here you can also eliminate simple distracting elements. Too bad that this is not even in the converter is possible.

When it comes to montages, collages and similar, ACDSee has such unfortunately fit all RAW converter of this type.

In the management, you can assign keywords (IPTC and program their own) and categories. After this you can easily search then. A new addition is the function to assign keywords hierarchically, so as to form sub-keywords.

ACDSee Pro 6 is a very good and a little less expensive alternative to programs like Lightroom for me. It is much easier for me to use and the way I work is better counter. To test the program, there is a time-limited demo version.