ACDSEE PHOTO STUDIO 8 FOR MAC
I’m left feeling that ACDSee Photo Studio for Mac 8 does what it says, but in a singularly crude and old-fashioned way. Luckily, it does not mean that Photo Studio is directly modifying your RAW file (it had better not be).ĪCDSee Photo Studio for Mac 8 does not, incidentally, use its own raw processing and demosaicing engine but the one built into the Apple OS.
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Remember, this is a non-destructive editor – the universal convention in other software is to save your edits as you go along. One further oddity is that it asks you if you want to save your changes when you leave one image to edit another. And while it does let you save your edits as presets, these are simply shown in a menu and are nowhere near as varied or as easily previewed as in other programs. It’s a non-destructive editor, but Photo Studio does not let you create multiple versions or ‘virtual copies’ of the same photo for experimenting with different looks. You can also apply and import LUTs, which is useful.īut then are some glaring shortcomings. The ‘Color EQ’ panel equates to the HSL hue, saturation and lightness adjustments in other programs, and the ’Tone Wheels’ panel is in fact like the shadow/midtone/highlight color grading tools in Lightroom. It turns out that the impressively named ‘Light EQ’ panel is in fact a detailed kind of shadow and highlight adjustment – but with more ‘bands’ than just shadows, midtones and highlights. The editing tools are arranged in a stack of expanding panels in the left toolbar and they look both impressive and technical. The Develop panel is where Photo Studio does all its image enhancement, local adjustments and non-destructive editing. It’s not bad, but it’s no more than you would expect in software of this type. The adjustment brush (or ‘Develop Brush’ in Photo Studio for Mac 8) has a Magic mode for more precise masking and object selection. Each can have up to eight adjustments applied – see the row of checkboxes at the base of the top panel. Photo Studio 8 editing tools ACDSee Photo Studio for Mac 8 offers local adjustments via an adjustment brush, linear and radial gradients. Most other programs would build a viewer like this into the organization panel, and it hardly seems to deserve a separate window. It simply displays selected images much larger with a filmstrip underneath. The View panel doesn’t really do very much. Normally, cataloguing software would integrate this ability into its organizing mode. It simply shows individual images as a large preview with an optional filmstrip below. I can see how it can be made to work, but it’s pretty limited by the standards of its rivals and compared to Lightroom or Capture One it looks from a different era. I’ve used a lot of image browsing and cataloguing tools and this is the oddest. You might argue that at least you don’t have to import your photos… well you don’t, but instead you do have to visit a folder before Photo Studio knows it’s there. Photo Studio does keep a catalog, of sorts, built up from folders and images as you browse them, and there’s a set of tools around this including an Image Well which shows all your photos. There is a search tool, but it’s quite odd – you drag a property from a panel on the right into the search field to find images that match that property. Categories can store images from different folders, which is useful. The Manage panel is essentially a folder browser with filters, but with the additional ability to tag images with ‘Categories’ (albums, essentially) and keywords.
There is a further panel for the ACDSee 365 cloud storage sharing feature, but that’s a subscription service I’m not testing here. There are three main panels in ACDSee Photo Studio for Mac 8: the Manage panel, View and Develop panels. The ‘Special Items’ panel can search and filter the whole database (the Image Well shows all the images added) and the Calendar section below organizes images by date. Photo Studio for Mac 8 remembers folders or images you’ve browed in its database.
How does Photo Studio 8 work? This is Photo Studio for Mac 8’s Manage panel where you browse your folders, search and organize your images. It’s a kind of do-it-all image browsing, organizing and editing tool in a similar vein to ON1 Photo Raw or perhaps even Lightroom, but as we’ll see it’s also quite different, and not in a good way. It does, however, make a Mac version of ACDSee Photo Studio, and this is the latest version.
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ACDSee is known for its Windows photo editing software ACDSee Photo Studio 2022, its standalone photo editor Gemstone and Luxea video editor.
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