Let us take a look at the basic adjustments, named “General” here.
Though a bit confusing at start, since there are multiple sliders that do the exact same thing, this means that you can stack them on top of each other to achieve more aggressive effects. And I must say it is the best side of this suite. This is the most important part of the software. For quick edits, this is really useful, since it skips a few steps in the workflow. It does the job.Īll this is quite similar to Lightroom, except here the advantage is that you can work from your hard drive without importing the files to catalog. The import dialog is pretty straightforward as well, and there is nothing special about it too. You do have several options on marking your images, and then filtering through them. It's quite straightforward really, you can either work from the file structure on your computer, or you can organize the images in a catalog or collection. This is for ALL versions of Lightroom too! Organizing If you want to take your skills up to the next level and truly understand how to unlock all of the benefits of using Lightroom you can with this excellent video course Lightroom Made Easy. Being able to adjust the size of the panels would be cool though. On the other hand, I really like the surface area dedicated for the picture itself besides the sliders, everything else is shrinked down to provide as much surface area for the photo as possible. Nobody likes scrolling down/up and navigating through collapsing menus! They are unnecessarily tall as well, meaning that you can fit far less sliders in the monitor’s height. The sliders themselves aren’t a bit obvious that they are sliders, the graphics are different than any other software that has sliders, so it kind of hurts the intuition. Since we read from left to right, it seems kind of logical to have the picture first, and the controls second. When in develop mode, the only thing that bothers me the most is that the controls are on the left side.
I would imagine that after a decent amount of user feedback the theme will be visually optimized. On the other hand, though it looks quite messy at first, it offers quite a lot of information at a glance. If we take Lightroom for example, everything is in different shades of gray, and it looks more organized. All the panels somehow blend into each other thus it becomes a bit cumbersome to navigate. Straight off, I’m not a fan of how the UI looks – you are presented with gray text on dark gray background. So let’s dive in and get this review started, shall we? The User Interface
Upon fiddling with ACDSee Ultimate 9, it turns out to be a quite powerful suite. I must admit that I was expecting something that was akin to Nik Software, merely a plugin (which works as standalone as well) with some cool features and that is that.
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