Setting Develop and Edit Mode Options

Edit

Displays icons next to the tools in Edit.

Toggles AutoSave on and off. AutoSave saves your changes in Edit mode automatically, without prompting the Save Changes dialog.

AutoSave is not available for RAW images.

In order to ensure optimum performance, parts of Edit mode run off of your GPU. ACDSee Free automatically chooses the best GPU in your system. This option—Let ACDSee Photo Studio decide—is enabled by default. When Let ACDSee Photo Studio decide is enabled, GPU model text displays next to the option, specifying whether Edit mode is running off of your primary GPU or another, more superior GPU that ACDSee Free has detected. In most cases, the GPU detected and identified as the best by ACDSee Free will be one and the same: your primary GPU.

• Use primary: you can enable this option if you prefer to use your primary GPU over the GPU ACDSee Free has chosen.
• Let ACDSee Photo Studio decide: select this option to enable using the superior GPU found by ACDSee.

Displays the path of the location where your action scripts (your recordings) are stored on your hard drive. Click the Browse button to specify a new location on your hard drive.

Displays the paths of the hard drive locations of your Photoshop® plug-ins. This will tell ACDSee Free where to find your plug-in. Ideally, you will direct the path to the location where your Photoshop® plug-ins are already stored.

To change or add a location, press Add, then browse to the location, select it and press Select Folder.

You will not be able to change the plug-in paths while multiple ACDSee Free windows are open.

To remove a location, select it and press Remove.

To move your plug-ins to a listed location, select the location and press Open Folder. You can then drag your plug-ins into the folder.

Develop

Enables fast image switching for RAW and other non-encodable files in Develop so that when you switch to the next image you do not have to wait for the processing to be finished. The processing is done as a background task when you exit Develop, so that you can process images more quickly. If you deselect this option, non-encodable images are processed one at a time and you can immediately see the results of your processing, but you have to wait for the image processing each time you switch to another image.

Enables the automatic saving of images in Develop so when you switch to the next image you are not prompted to save changes to the current image. This lets you quickly develop a number of images, saving your changes automatically. If you deselect this option, each time you switch to a new image you are prompted to save changes to the current image—you choose to save your changes to current file, save a copy of the image, or discard your changes.

AutoSave is not available for RAW images.