About the ACDSee User Interface

The ACDSee Home user interface provides easy access to the various tools and features you can use to browse, view, edit, and manage your photos and media files. ACDSee Home consists of six modes: Manage, Media, View, Edit, People, and Dashboard.

Manage Mode

Manage mode is the main browsing and managing component of the user interface, and is what you see when you start ACDSee Home using the shortcut icon on your desktop. In Manage mode, you can find, move, preview, and sort your files, and access organization and sharing tools.

Manage mode consists of 15 panes, most of which can be closed when not in use. The File List pane is always visible, and displays the contents of the current folder, the results of your latest search, or the files in your database that match your filtering criteria. A status bar at the bottom of the Manage mode window displays information about the currently selected file, folder, or category.

You can open and close panes, move them to different areas of your screen, and stack them on other panes or dock them to the edge of the window. Most panes also have additional options you can set to further customize their behavior and appearance.

Manage mode also features a toolbar and a set of drop-down menus. The toolbar provides buttons for your home folder, and for navigating forwards and backwards through your folders. The drop-down menus provide quick access to the most common tasks.

Media Mode

Media mode is ACDSee’s database-driven powerhouse for viewing and accessing the folders you have either browsed in Manage mode or cataloged into the ACDSee database. This streamlined, uncluttered view of the media assets managed by ACDSee offers sorting, grouping, and filtering in any combination.

View Mode

In View mode you can play media files and display images and documents in full resolution, one at a time. You can also open panes to view image properties, display areas of an image at varying magnifications, or examine detailed color information.

You can open View mode by selecting an image or document and clicking on the View mode tab, and you can use the Filmstrip in View mode to flip quickly between all of the files in a folder. View mode contains a toolbar with shortcuts to commonly-used commands, and a status bar at the bottom of the window, which displays information about the current image or media file.

Edit Mode

Edit mode works on the image data already rendered to RGB. Edits are independently applied to the converted RGB data in the order that you do them. This chain editing gives you full control over the pixels, allowing creative freedom to apply precise adjustments. This makes operations such as selections and blend modes possible.

People Mode

People mode is born of a union between ACDSee’s industry-leading Face Detection & Recognition feature and a keen application of machine learning. Photographers from all walks of life will enjoy the dedicated space for distinguishing by client, family member, or person of interest, allowing for the management of people by merging, renaming, or deleting faces, or taking labeling suggestions from the AI assistant for grouping similar unnamed people.

 

Please note that People mode is only available for the 64-bit version of ACDSee Photo Studio Home.

Dashboard Mode

Dashboard mode allows you to quickly access and browse file, camera, and database statistics based on your ACDSee database and EXIF information. As Dashboard mode relies on information derived from your database, it is important to catalog in order to get the most out of it.