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Features	Ultimate 2022	Ultimate 2023	Ultimate 2024	Ultimate 2025
Batch ACDSee AI Super-Resolution				✓
Using AI-driven editing tools is significantly faster; the software uses your GPU instead of CPU for accelerated processing				✓
ACDSee Activity Manager – easily keep track of background activities like AI Keywords and Face Detection, manage imports, and view Activity History				✓
ACDSee Tabs – open multiple folders within a single window and effortlessly switch between tabs to navigate your files				✓
Read/write support for AVIF file formats (static AVIF files only)				✓
When upgrading from Ultimate 2024, custom keyboard shortcuts are automatically imported upon launch				✓
Use Copy as Path from the context menu to easily copy image file paths				✓
Multi-select Keywords or Categories for efficient labeling or deleting				✓
People data and AI Keywords are available in more metadata options for more effective searching				✓
Auto Advance in People Mode				✓
Non-destructive AI Object Masking – eliminates the need to make intricate selections manually; roughly outline an object in your image and the AI makes a precise selection for you				✓
Improved Masking Group – convenient group for all your selection masks; options for copying & pasting masks, duplicating masks, converting selections into masks, feathering mask edges, and contracting or expanding masks				✓
Make non-destructive selection masks based on Luminance and Color Ranges				✓
Improved AI Sky Replacement: 2 new categories, Fireworks and Overcast, and 32 new skies added; plus more accurate sky and reflection detection				✓
Apply a mask as a new layer with a click in Edit mode				✓
Hold shift while using the Rectangular or Elliptical Selection tools to create perfect squares or circles				✓
Zero-effort searching with AI Keywords			✓	✓
Non-destructive AI Masking Tools: automatically select the subject, background, or sky in your RAW images			✓	✓
Duplicate, convert selections to, and copy/paste masks in the Develop Mode Masking Group			✓	✓
AI Sky Replacement: easily define and replace the sky in any photo, resulting in a natural-looking composition thanks to foreground and reflection options for water			✓	✓
AI Object Selection Tool: roughly outline multiple objects and watch AI create precise selections around those objects			✓	✓
Change eye direction horizontally and vertically, as well as restore skin with smoothing, glow, and more, with improved AI Face Edit			✓	✓
Adjust Flow, Opacity, and Jitter while using the Edit Brush			✓	✓
Filter Categories and Keywords			✓	✓
Two-Way ACDSee and IPTC Metadata Embedding			✓	✓
Faster Metadata Embedding			✓	✓
Auto-Import Options: if you have ACDSee Ultimate 2022 or higher installed, then upon first launch of ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate your options will be automatically imported			✓	✓
Support for HIF files			✓	✓
AI Face Edit: easily retouch and enhance portraits using a combination of AI facial feature detection and manual adjustments		✓	✓	✓
AI Subject/Background Detection: automatically select the subject or sky in an image; remove, blur, or make the background black & white with a single click		✓	✓	✓
Panorama Stitching: combine multiple photos of the same scene to create one wide panoramic image		✓	✓	✓
Shape Selection Tool: Use the Shape Selection Tool to make complicated selections with curves and corners		✓	✓	✓
Advanced Search provides more robust search fields, including the ability to set AND/OR status between various parameters		✓	✓	✓
Improved Quick Search: Choose from various search types and fine tune your results; plus view your search results even quicker		✓	✓	✓
Support for Transparent and Animated WEBP files		✓	✓	✓
People Mode: Rapidly commit names to faces using the AI assistant and Named/Unnamed views	✓	✓	✓	✓
Media Mode: Get a decluttered view of only your cataloged photos & videos	✓	✓	✓	✓
Improved High-Dynamic Range (HDR) & Focus Stacking: Create HDR and Focus Stacked images with better results	✓	✓	✓	✓
Channel Selection: Make selections and masks from, or apply filters and effects to RBG, Saturation and Lightness Channels	✓	✓	✓	✓
Further target pixels by luminance and color for smooth, ultra-precise brightness and color selections in Edit and Develop Modes	✓	✓	✓	✓
Add text layer on a path or within a customizable frame	✓	✓	✓	✓
Use Color Wheels to adjust hue, saturation, brightness and contrast; and Tone Wheels for split-toning highlights, midtones and shadows	✓	✓	✓	✓
Refine selections by expanding, contracting or feathering	✓	✓	✓	✓
View the Histogram, Presets, History, and Snapshots Panes in Develop Mode from the right-hand Pane	✓	✓	✓	✓
Support for GoPro RAW file format	✓	✓	✓	✓
Press F1 to instantly access online web help while using ACDSee	✓	✓	✓	✓
Import Lightroom & Picasa Face Data	✓	✓	✓	✓
Face Detection & Facial Recognition: Automatically identify faces in photos; once you have assigned a name to a face one or more times it will automatically be assigned or suggested to matching faces	✓	✓	✓	✓
Extensive tools for digital asset management – keywords, categories, tags, duplicate finder, batch file renaming & resizing and more	✓	✓	✓	✓
Non-destructive precision RAW photo editing – correct color, repair details, adjust lighting, apply stylized presets and more	✓	✓	✓	✓
Layered editing – limitless layers, copy/paste layer masks, add layer effects & adjustment layers, align & blend layers and more	✓	✓	✓	✓

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