Keyword Management

ACDSee comes pre-loaded with a variety of usable sample quick keyword sets. Export keyword lists and share them with other users. Save countless hours of manual entry by importing established keyword lists.

Add ratings, tags, categories, customizable color labels, and other metadata to further organize your photos.

Helpful tip!
Adding metadata prompts ACDSee to automatically advance to the next image, allowing you to organize entire folders without moving your hands from the keyboard!
People data has been added to Metadata options available in Details view, Sort, the Info Palette, and more to help you find the images you’re looking for at breakneck pace.

Categories & Keywords

Stay organized by assigning Categories and Keywords to your images. Multi-select Categories or Keywords for efficient labeling or deleting. Filter through long lists by typing the Category or Keyword you’re looking for and watch as the filtered results are dynamically generated. Dig as deep as you need to with large Keyword and Category trees knowing ACDSee is optimized to perform.

Advanced AND/OR Search

Choose from numerous search criteria, including ACDSee Metadata and EXIF & IPTC fields. Built-in logic for AND/OR states let you narrow down results to a microscopic level.

Quick Search

Launch your search with Quick Search and get results right away. Choose from various search types and fine tune your results.

Location Data

Add photo locations from anywhere in the world to your photos. You can then recall and view that information for reference at any time. Use the map to select groups of files for further workflow steps, and select photos for display in View mode.

Performance

Fast launching, mode-switching, working with keywords & categories, RAW decoding, and database maintenance, ACDSee lets you focus on the task in hand.

Time-saving tip!

Auto-Import Options

Upgrading to the latest version of ACDSee Photo Studio is quick and easy. If you have ACDSee 2022 or higher installed, then upon first launch of ACDSee Photo Studio 2025 your options and select Presets will be automatically imported, allowing you to pick up where you left off without skipping a beat. If upgrading from version 2024, your custom keyboard shortcuts will also be automatically imported. Note: importing can only be done from the same edition. E.g. Home to Home.

Helpful tip!
Copy as Path makes copying filepaths a breeze. With a single click from the context menu, you can instantly copy the full path of any asset to your clipboard, ready to paste wherever you need it.

Media Mode

Streamline your folders using ACDSee’s database-driven Media Mode, which only displays folders you’ve cataloged and previously browsed in Manage Mode. Sort, group, or filter your files in any combination, as well as assign and read ACDSee Metadata, EXIF, and IPTC.

Database Management

Create as many ACDSee databases as you like, and quickly and easily switch between them. Use separate databases for separate clients, keep work and personal files separate while working on the same machine, or experiment with a new keywording and labeling system without losing an established system.

Metadata Management

Simplify the process of migrating and sharing category and keyword metadata by integrating your ACDSee metadata with IPTC and vice versa. Import IPTC Keyword and Category data from received photos into ACDSee, to ensure seamless photo organization, regardless of their source. Intuitively embed ACDSee Category and ACDSee Keyword metadata to your photos to share with friends and family.

Duplicate Finder

Find duplicates across a variety of folders and locations. Rename or delete detected duplicates to keep your file collection under control.

Speedy tip!
Whip through your file management process with customizable keyboard shortcuts available for every stage of your workflow. Use batch functions to manage multiple files at the same time.

Batch Rename

A dynamic and efficient process for renaming multiple files. Add or remove text, use a template, rename in series, and more; the options are almost endless.

Batch Resize

Resize multiple images to any dimension, following pixels or percentages, along either edge, or as a print size.

Batch Crop Tool

Relative positioning functionality allows you to crop multiple images in seconds.

Watermark Tool

Add watermarks with accuracy – particularly beneficial for applying watermarks to a batch of images.

Cloud Access

Get files from the team over Dropbox ™ or OneDrive ™ or back up existing work with direct access to cloud sync root drives within Manage mode.

OneDrive™ Support

Keep your OneDrive™ files online until you are ready to view or edit them, then download individual files or whole folders. Easily move files from your PC into OneDrive™, and control whether OneDrive™ keeps local copies or offloads them to the cloud.

Image Baskets

Create up to five image baskets to gather and hold images and media files from all over your hard drive. Name individual image baskets and use them to easily view, edit, or share their content.

Customizable Appearance

ACDSee Photo Studio is completely customizable. For enhanced workflow efficiency, you can tear off, move, stack, dock, and hide panes and toolbars anywhere you like.

Camera RAW Update

Built-in support for over 700 RAW camera models and climbing proves keeping pace with new camera technologies & equipment has been a touchstone of ACDSee software development. View supported cameras.

Helpful tip!
Find the help you need as you work with context-sensitive Online Help. Press F1 while performing any function in ACDSee to be taken to the relevant online help page.

ACDSee Mobile Sync

Wirelessly and instantly send photos and videos directly to ACDSee Photo Studio from your mobile device by scanning the QR code on your monitor! The app is available on iPhone and Android. Learn more.

Comprehensive File Support

Enjoy comprehensive support for all of the most popular file formats. Read/write static AVIFs for superior compression, view transparent and animated .WEBP files, work directly with GoPro RAW images to perfect your adventures, and so much more. View supported file formats.

Helpful tip!
ACDSee Photo Studio can decode HEIF files – a high efficiency media container format type for images and image sequences. The HEIF file format is used by Apple, so you can read your iPhone image files in ACDSee Photo Studio with no compatibility issues.

SendPix™ Integration

Use SendPix™, integrated into Photo Studio, to send your photos to friends and family. ACDSee will automatically convert your RAW images to JPEG so everyone can view them everywhere. Use the web, desktop, or mobile applications to easily access your images wherever you need them. Learn more about SendPix™.

High ISO Support

ISOs above 200,000 are supported in cameras by Canon, Nikon, Pentax, and Sony.

Lasso

Click and drag using the Lasso to draw the exact area you wish to select. Upon release of the mouse button, the selection will automatically complete by connecting the start and end points.

Helpful tip!
Use the handy Selection Preview button to view your selection mask with one click.

Magic Wand

Use the Magic Wand to click on an image and magically select similar pixels based on their brightness, color, or RGB values. Choose whether to select only pixels that are touching the one that was clicked on, or select all similar pixels in the photo.

Rectangular and Elliptical Selection Tools

Select a rectangular or elliptical area of your image by clicking and dragging with the Rectangular or Elliptical Selection tools.

Helpful tip!
Hold shift while using the Rectangular or Elliptical Selection tools to create perfectly square or round selections.

White Balance

Instantly give your photos more warmth or coolness, or use the White Balance tool to remove unwanted hue from your images.

Color LUTs

Use ACDSee’s built-in Color LUTs to seamlessly color grade your images, or import and apply LUTs as filters.

Curves

Change the tonal range of your image using the Curves tool. Select the RGB color channel to adjust the entire range of the image, or select a specific color. Get precise curve control through numerical display of curve points and adding or deleting points on the curve.

Color EQ

Use the Color EQ (hue, saturation, contrast, and brightness) tool to adjust overall colors in your image or each color individually. The advanced tools can subtly fine-tune and enhance colors, or completely change individual colors in your images.

Split Tone

Split Tone allows you to tint shadows and highlights.

Black & White

In Black & White mode, increase or decrease the contrast of each individual color, and specify the brightness range that the contrast adjustment will target.

Light EQ™

Adjust areas in your image that are too dark or too light, without affecting other areas of the photo. You can also simultaneously brighten dark areas that are too dark, and darken areas that are too bright.

Exposure

Use the Exposure tool to automatically or manually adjust your image’s exposure, contrast, and fill light. Target specific areas of your image using the Edit Brush or Gradient tool to limit where the exposure adjustment occurs.

Levels

Use the Levels tool to precisely adjust the contrast and light levels in your images.

Auto Levels

Automatically correct the exposure levels of your images. Auto Levels makes the darkest image pixels darker, and the brightest pixels brighter.