ACDSee Pro Reviews

I've used this software for several years and just added it to the numerous photo editing and retouching tools on my iPad Pro. They self-describe it as a pro app but that word has lost all meaning in recent years. My definition of a pro is someone like me who earns most or all of their income from being a photographer. It has nothing to do with what equipment or software I use. I wouldn't have a lot of confidence in anyone who limits themselves to only using one brand of either hardware or software, I use the right tool for the job. ACDSee Pro is by no means a Swiss Army knife app that does everything - there are some things about it that are useful however and for those things it's worth having. The main reason I would recommend it would be to add a quick filter, effect or text when I'm not near my studio workstation. For that it's useful, helpful and effective.

ACDSeePro does so many things and does them well but unless it is well hidden it has 1 fatal flaw. It only allows you to save over the original. It does not allow you to “save a copy”. I often will create multiple versions of a base image and want to keep my original intact and save versions as copies. Hence only 4 stars for excellent effort but deduct 2 stars For lack of ability to save copies. I know it can be done because because apps like Darkroom, Polarr, and Photoshop Express ca do it.

UPDATE: Thought it couldn’t save versions but then discovered that can do that as an export to file. Very awkward and not obvious. Should do like other apps and when hitting save offer a straight save over the active image or a “save as” command which ever meets the users need.

So much done so well, only to leave out a few core features essential to serious photogs.

ACDSeePro lacks a lot of the features that makes an app a useful tool to real photographers. This is nothing more than another filter and effects app that lets you add effects to pictures and do minor adjustments. Nothing more and nothing less. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Select the effect you and and adjust the slighting bar. The effect is applied to the entire photograph.

For those of us who are serious about our work, we need more creative control. We need an app that lets us apply the effect we want to the areas of the picture that we want to adjust. Dodging and burning, increasing or decreasing saturation, and so on, to different parts of the photograph using a stylus pen or the finger.

Having other features like cloning would also be nice. ACDSeePro is for those who don't know what they are doing or want ACDSeePro to do the work for them.

Sadly to say this apps leave a lot to be desire. Specially for the price. There goes another few bucks thrown down the toilet in a worthless app.

Something else that is missing, is the ability to save the image your edited as a new/copy image, not just modify the original. I always like to keep the original copy the it was and have a new modified copy to work with.

Too bad, I had high hopes for ACDSeePro.,

Back in the mid 90s, my older brother installed ACDSee on our Windows 98 Packard Bell PC. Their software was popular back in the day because it allowed you to right click on an image and it would show you the preview. This is a great app. If they marketed ACDSeePro like how VSCO does, people would use this instead of slapping on filters. You literally set the “filter” by tweaking every setting before or after the photo is taken.

ACDSeePro is not so good for viewing images. The images appear out-of-focus no matter the degree of image sharpening and clarity applied and saved. I found that viewing images with Apple’s default image viewer is much better for viewing, and if applying too much Sharpness & Clarity inside ACDSee Pro to images, then viewed with Apple’s default image viewer, the images are over sharpened.

I use ACDSEE for photo organizer and for much of my editing on my PC. O e of the items I would like to see added to ACDSeePro is perspective and/or skew correction as that is important for editing photos you have taken of existing photos or printed news articles

This would be the perfect mobile photographer workflow enabler IF ONLY it had spot removal capabilities.

PLEASE add spot removal.

I trying to use the new 2018 iPad Pro as a primary piece of my workflow. I love ACsee Pro for its superb file management properties and ability to save edited raw to a variety of file formats.

BUT since I import from my DSLR I will sometimes have specks of dust on my sensor (price of working in the field). In Lightroom CC mobile this is a quick and easy fix which takes almost no time. In ACDSee Pro I have to make the edits in an external editor like Affinity or Lightroom CC, the latter of which I’m trying to get away from.

ACDSee pro iOS could so easily be perfect,
I hope it is with the next update!

I’ve been using ACDSEE way before the creation of cell phones. Now that I have ACDSeePro , I use it for all my photos manipulation. Keep up the great work.

I have been trying many mobile photo editors, and I am pretty sure that ACDSee Pro is better than most and using it feels like desktop class app.
But there is one serious flaw which is about non destructive editing. I don’t know why I have to flattering the current edits before I make another local adjustment or alternatively.
Please kindly fix or add multi layer support.

ACDSeePro is good for taking pictures and videos at different screen resolution. But ACDSeePro hasn’t been updated for almost a year and now it crashes after IOS14 update.
Please fix the crashes and make the tagging/keyword function more user friendly.

ACDSeePro contains all the tools anyone need to improve their photos, easy and direct.
I love ACDSeePro and I strongly recommend it.

This tool has great editing capabilities and would be one of the best iOS apps EXCEPT that you have to overwrite the original if you want to use it. That does not work for this photographer making ACDSeePro useless and a waste of money. Their app support link goes to their products page so there is no help for this problem.

David247. I go to into the Settings ->
Photo capture -> Adjusted photos ->
then choose original, adjusted. This will store the original photo and the Adjusted photo into separate assets. (I haven’t been using ACDSeePro long enough to give a thorough review. But so far so good. )

I love, let me repeat loved ACDSeePro. But the latest change has made it unusable with a Apple pencil and selective edits on IPad!

Using the brush now brings up a edit window that moves as you brush on filter/effects.. useless. How can you selective edit if your canvas is moving. Please, please fix this !! The selective edit ability of ACDSeePro was it’s most powerful feature imo.

Truly a complete photo adjustment tool bearing a well familiar name... Suggestion: If you make ACDSeePro able to lighten videos up, it would be great! :)

Highly recommend. I never write reviews, until now. Extremely versatile app.

Awesome looking outcome for this fella who has no artistic skilz. Try it, you can’t go wrong!

It definitely a must have app on iOS.
It’s better than any other apps in it’s category.

Simple and easy to edit photos.

When I work on a raw file and try to save as a jpeg it won’t let me. I’m working on an I pad air 2 other then that it works very good. I use on my PC and have used it for years.

I love ACDSeePro and how effective it is in editing but it drains the battery way too fast and same with the camera app version of this.

This little app is fast, accurate and handy. I love it.