| Photo Studio Ultimate 2024 | Photo Studio Professional 2024 |
Sports extensive digital asset management tools for optimal organization and efficiency | ✔ | ✔ |
Ideal for active photo enthusiasts with a growing photo collection | ✔ | ✔ |
Developed for professional and advanced amateur photographers who need total control of their workflows | ✔ | ✔ |
Equipped for powerful RAW editing with support for over 650 camera models | ✔ | ✔ |
Ideal for parametric photo manipulation using layers | ✔ | ¡¡ |
Created for graphic designers and creative artists | ✔ | |
Designed to perform complicated editing tasks quickly using Artificial Intelligence | ✔ | ✔ |
Managing | | |
AI Keywords – effortlessly organize and search for your photos using AI detected keywords for your images | ✔ | ✔ |
Improved Quick Search – all new search types allow you to quickly perform more complex searches and spend less time waiting for results | ✔ | ✔ |
Advanced Search pane with the capability to perform AND/OR searches – build and store searches based on metadata, file properties, data, event, keyword, rating, location, and edited state | ✔ | ✔ |
AI-driven People Mode for quick and easy identification of named and unnamed people in your photos | ✔ | ✔ |
Find photos by searching names assigned to them using Face Detection & Facial Recognition in View mode | ✔ | ✔ |
Import face data from Lightroom¢â or Picasa¢â | ✔ | ✔ |
Offers batch file processing, including renaming and resizing multiple files, using Presets | ✔ | ✔ |
Easily connect using a QR code and wirelessly send photos and videos directly to your computer using the ACDSee Mobile Sync app | ✔ | ✔ |
GoPro RAW file support – .GPR | ✔ | ✔ |
Displays your Cloud Sync Drives, such as Dropbox¢â or OneDrive¢â, as a node in the Folders pane, allowing you to navigate cloud content like any other folder | ✔ | ✔ |
Customize hundreds of keyboard shortcuts in a variety of modes | ✔ | ✔ |
Automatically advance to the next image when adding or removing metadata | ✔ | ✔ |
Classify with Collections | ✔ | ✔ |
Organize files using a combination of folders, keywords, ratings, color labels, metadata, and categories | ✔ | ✔ |
Create as many ACDSee databases as you like, and quickly and easily switch between them | ✔ | ✔ |
Metadata Presets Feature and Batch edit IPTC fields | ✔ | ✔ |
Speed up workflow with native 64-bit support for Windows operating systems | ✔ | ✔ |
Viewing | | |
Database-driven Media Mode provides an uncluttered view of previously browsed and cataloged folders, perfect for easy sorting, grouping, and filtering | ✔ | ✔ |
Automatically identifies faces in photos with Face Detection & Facial Recognition and suggests names once you have assigned a name one or more times | ✔ | ✔ |
Freely preview what your images would look like with a variety of filters with the Auto Lens View | ✔ | ✔ |
Support for over 100 formats, including image, audio, and video | ✔ | ✔ |
Examine details with Zoom, Navigator, Magnifying Glass, and Histogram tools | ✔ | ✔ |
Perform high-quality decoding on RAW images | ✔ | ✔ |
View adjustments made in Develop mode, copy and paste the adjustments onto other images, or restore the image with the Develop Settings pane—all from within Manage or View mode | ✔ | ✔ |
View, navigate, and print PDFs | ✔ | ✔ |
View, navigate, and print Microsoft Office¢â documents – even sheets on multi-tabbed Excel documents | ✔ | ¡¡ |
Developing | | |
Non-destructive AI Masking options for Subject, Sky, and Background | ✔ | ✔ |
Masking Pane – convenient panel for all your selection masks; options for copying & pasting masks, duplicating masks, and converting selections into masks | ✔ | ✔ |
Make targeted pixel selections based on luminance, color, and skin tone | ✔ | ✔ |
Parametrically reduce noise on specific parts of an image, while preserving details | ✔ | ✔ |
Make targeted contrast adjustments with the color and tone wheels | ✔ | ✔ |
Apply non-destructive Develop Presets, view your editing history, and take snapshots or your adjustments at any point along the way | ✔ | ✔ |
Copy pixels from a source to a target area, then analyzes the target area and blends them with the Blended Clone tool | ✔ | ✔ |
Color grade images non-destructively by importing and applying LUTs as Develop mode filters | ✔ | ✔ |
Brush on or grade exposure, saturation, vibrance, white balance, light, contrast, clarity, and tonal range, as well as saturation, brightness, hue, and contrast-based color adjustments | ✔ | ✔ |
Lightning-fast, GPU-fueled developing | ✔ | ✔ |
Non-destructively process RAW, JPEG, TIFF, and more | ✔ | ✔ |
Adjust the brightness and contrast of different tone bands | ✔ | ✔ |
Fix barrel, pincushion, and fish-eye lens distortions and perspective distortions | ✔ | ✔ |
Non-destructively reduce haze and restore skin tone | ✔ | ✔ |
Add non-destructive photo effects | ✔ | ✔ |
Apply hue-based brightness adjustments and saturation-based tinting in black and white mode | ✔ | ✔ |
Editing | | |
AI Sky Replacement – take your skies from simple to stunning with a single click | ✔ | ¡¡ |
AI Object Selection – eliminates the need to make intricate selections manually; roughly outline an object in your image and the AI makes a precise selection for you | ✔ | |
Multi-document interface (MDI) for editing multiple documents at the same time | ✔ | ¡¡ |
AI Face Edit to make adjustments to a variety of facial features, including eyes, mouth, nose, jawline, and more | ✔ | |
Shape Selection Tool allows precise control over your selections, including curved and straight lines | ✔ | ✔ |
AI-powered one-click selection tools including Sky Select, Subject Select, and Background Select | ✔ | ✔ |
Combine images together into one larger landscape or portrait image (Panoramic Stitching) | ✔ | ✔ |
Combine images with different exposures to create one image with an optimal dynamic range (HDR) | ✔ | ✔ |
Combine images with different focal distances to create one image with a greater depth of field (Focus Stacking) | ✔ | ✔ |
Store selections and apply them as layer masks or active selections at any time | ✔ | |
Make selections based on an image¡¯s Color Information channels | ✔ | ✔ |
Modify a targeted color channel and blend it with the image¡¯s other color channels | ✔ | ✔ |
Quickly brush any editing or special effects onto selected areas of photos | ✔ | ✔ |
Control brightness and contrast on a color by color basis in Black & White mode | ✔ | ✔ |
Seamlessly color grade your images by importing and applying LUTs as colorful Edit mode filters | ✔ | ✔ |
Add watermarks | ✔ | ✔ |
Improved crop functionality | ✔ | ✔ |
Non-destructive cropping | ✔ | |
Make targeted contrast adjustments with the color and tone wheels | ✔ | ✔ |
Refine selections for improved editing accuracy | ✔ | ✔ |
Import and export Develop and Edit mode presets | ✔ | ✔ |
Adjust contrast in specific tones and target precise brightness ranges to bring out contrast details in highlights or shadows | ✔ | ✔ |
Remove unwanted objects with Smart Erase for a natural fill | ✔ | ✔ |
Move pixels without changing them using the Liquify tool | ✔ | ✔ |
Record adjustments, categorize, use pre-loaded adjustments, import and export, and automate with ease with ACDSee Actions | ✔ | ✔ |
Extended editing capabilities with Photoshop¢â plug-in support | ✔ | ✔ |
Selectively adjust pixels with a variety of Edit tools by targeting specific colors and tones within the image | ✔ | ✔ |
Target brush strokes and selections to specific color and brightness ranges | ✔ | ✔ |
View your adjustment history and return to a specific adjustment | ✔ | ✔ |
Layered Editor for graphic design, move layers non-destructively, delete selected pixels | ✔ | |
Make layer masks from selections, feather, invert, copy and paste, and keep track of your masks with overlay options | ✔ | ¡¡ |
.acdc file format for reopening images in Edit mode in the future | ✔ | |
.gsd file format for reopening layered images in the future | ✔ | ¡¡ |
Blending modes and opacity adjustments for combined layers | ✔ | |
Smooth out flaws without losing texture with Frequency Separation | ✔ | ¡¡ |
Create color LUTs out of adjustment layers | ✔ | |
Align and blend layers | ✔ | ¡¡ |
Add layer effects between image, object, and text layers | ✔ | |
Add rulers and guidelines for precise positioning of layers | ✔ | ¡¡ |
Add text layers dynamically, on a path, or in a frame | ✔ | |
Statistics | | |
Quickly access file, camera, and database statistics on-the-fly | ✔ | ✔ |
Publishing | | |
Use SendPix¢â to send your photos to friends and family; ACDSee will automatically convert your RAW images to JPEG so everyone can view them everywhere | ✔ | ✔ |
Easily print documents and contact sheets | ✔ | ✔ |
Optimize and upload photos to FTP-managed Web spaces | ✔ | ✔ |
Upload photos to SmugMug and flickr¢â | ✔ | ✔ |