ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2018 11.0.1200

When it comes to organizing, editing and exporting images, most users prefer to rely on a single utility for all these tasks, thus reducing the time it takes them to launch and switch between applications.

ACDSee Ultimate is one of the software solutions that can meet all these requirements, since it comes with numerous functions, ranging from image viewing and editing, to creating slideshows or uploading pics on online accounts.

Neatly organized, yet slightly overwhelming GUI

The graphic interface of ACDSee Ultimate is organized in tabs, each corresponding to a certain feature that can be accessed whenever you require it. Namely, you can browse the graphic files on your PC, view images, apply various editing effects or upload files to your ACDSee 365 account.

Despite the tabbed look, the overall GUI could seem a little overwhelming for first-time users, since there are many buttons and menus that, in turn, include many sub-functions. However, as you start working with the app, you should no longer encounter any issues in operating it efficiently.

Detailed image browser and viewer

You can start by browsing through the multimedia files within your folders, while getting multiple details on each clicked picture, such as IPTC and EXIF information, along with file attributes and format, creation and last accessed dates.

The View mode allows you to preview your chosen image in a full-screen window - you can also adjust the zoom mode to your liking, apply some quick enhancements and choose some effects. You can set the enhanced pic as your desktop wallpaper, move to another folder and upload it to multiple online accounts (such as FTP servers, Facebook, flickr, SmugMug or Zenfolio).

Adjust a large array of parameters for each image

ACDSee Ultimate can come in handy if you are looking to make the most of your graphic files, by enhancing or editing them, then previewing the changes in real-time.

You can modify the exposure, saturation, vibrance, white balance, lighting, tone curves, soft focus and vignette, while applying watermarks, borders or special effects (and alter their parameters as you see fit).

The standard actions of red-eye removal, rotate, flip, crop, sharpen, blur or denoise are also available.

All in all, ACDSee Ultimate is a powerful and reliable application for all those who want to manage and preview their single- or multi-layered images, as well as edit and apply effects within the same feature-packed GUI.