ACDSee Photo Manager 2009
February 17, 2010 | Posted by vvt9 
- Organize up front – set categories, keywords, and create backups and more as you pull images in from your camera.
- Save your frequently-used searches for ongoing use.
- Easily share your categories, keywords and ratings with other ACDSee users by embedding them in your image.
- View images from around the world with UNICODE support.
- Restore your original anytime, for worry-free editing.
Product Description
Keep your digital images organized with ACDSee Photo Manager 2009. Browse your collection, find photos quickly and share them through e-mail, prints and online albums. Fix red-eye, lighting and more with powerful correction tools. ACDSee 2009 is the best solution for managing your growing photo collection…. More >>
Categories: Photo Editor | 
Tags: 2009, ACDSee, Manager, Photo | 
5 Comments »
It is so great to have something that can control the overflow of photographs on my pc. I also use it to categorize my photos and it really helps when you are looking for a particular photo.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have been interested in digital scrapbooking and had read that this would be a great tool for managing the array of digital papers, elements etc that go along with the hobby. I purchased recently with a gift card I received from my daughter for Christmas. WOW! This is a great tool for organizing. I can see how it would be incredible to store photos as well.
The support for my application through the forums was great. Lead me to [...]. Lots of great info there on how to use this as a [...]
Really love it. Great gift.
Rating: 5 / 5
I’m really torn on ACDSee. I’ve been using it since Windows 3, pre ACDSee 32. With each release it gets more bloated and slow and stupid, but still I download the trial to see if I can give up using ACDSee 5. I file bug reports and get back dumb responses. But I’m still using version 5 because it’s better than the rest.
The upside is that unless you shell out for Adobe’s Lightroom this is probably the best photo or picture manager. I’ve tried xnView, Irfan, etc, and none of them even come close to ACDSee’s management capabilities.
On the downside, with each release ACDSee gets more bloated and slower and introduces more bugs, or at least different ones – the amount of crashing seems fairly constant. I’ve just been playing with ACDSee Photo Manager 2009, and it’s literally more than an order of magnitude (10x) slower than ACDSee 5 when going into a new directory. It’s crashed several times on me already. Probably due to the mandatory database stuff, which they’ve never been able to implement properly. Are they outsourcing this?
So to summarize: if you want to manage your photos or pictures on Windows and can’t afford Adobe Lightroom (or Photoshop CS and its database) and you can deal with a large number of bugs and outright crashing, this is probably the best program.
Or you could just try xnView if you don’t need the file management capabilities, or find a copy of ACDSee 5.
It’s really a shame, I desperately want this program to get better after so many versions, but it just doesn’t.
Rating: 3 / 5
I used the original version of ACDSee when it was a free program that came with the Adobe software years ago,and liked how it worked.I used a newer purchased version later on and I’m not sure why,but I gave Picassa a try and used it for a long time also.I came back to ACDSee because it is able to work with so many file types that a lot of programs can’t even open up,ex:WMF,and so far ACDSee can do it.The editing parts are very easy to use and do a superb job.For the price of this software you will not be sorry you bought it. S.Hollowell
Rating: 5 / 5
I had an old copy of ACDSee Photo Manager…Maybe one of the orginial ones….and I loved it. It did everything I needed done with photos. However it was a download and when my computer crashed a few weeks ago…lightening…I lost it as my backup on 3.5″ disk was bad. So I researched and found it again!!!!!!!!!!! The newer version is much improved and I am delighted with it. I would have no other. Thanks guys!!!
Rating: 5 / 5