About ACDSee RAW
ACDSee RAW allows non-destructive processing of RAW, JPEG and other file types. Non-destructive means the changes you make do not permanently change the original image, so they are reversible.
In ACDSee RAW you can:
- Tune the image using exposure, white balance, lighting, color, tone curves, soft focus, effects, split tone, and post-crop vignette tools, or set the output color space of a RAW image.
- Adjust details in your image using the sharpening, noise reduction, skin tune, and chromatic aberration tools.
- Fix geometry in your image using the lens distortion, rotate and straighten, perspective, vignette correction, and cropping tools.
- Repair your image with the Red Eye Reduction tool or remove flaws.
Opening files in ACDSee RAW
ACDSee RAW opens automatically whenever a RAW photo file is selected to be opened. A RAW file is like a negative. RAW files contain all of the data collected by the digital camera's sensor when capturing a photo.
The following options open Raw images in ACDSee RAW:
- Select File | Open... from the main menu and select a RAW file to open.
- In the Home Screen select a previously opened RAW file in the Previous Projects pane
To open images that are in a different format in ACDSee RAW:
Select File | Open in ACDSee Raw... from the main menu.
ACDSee will automatically apply geometry corrections to DNG files that include geometric distortion correction tags. DNG files created from the Adobe DNG Converter© will often generate geometric distortion tags for micro 4/3rds cameras.
To permanently save changes made to a RAW file, save the changes as a separate file, in a different file format (JPEG, PNG, or TIFF, for example).