ACDSee 15.0 Build 169 Release Notes
New Features
- Edit Brush
- Hierarchical Keywords
- New Noise Reduction
- Clarity – Mid-tone contrast adjustment
- Smart Blur – Added to Edit mode Blur filter
- Red Eye – improved
Enhancements
- Color Management
- Basic color management added – images not in sRGB will be correctly displayed on your monitor
- Metadata Improvements
- Lens model information supported added for select manufacturers
- Lens model added to Auto Categories
- Detailed White Balance information can now be found in the EXIF section of the property panel
- Flash Bias information can now be found in the EXIF section of the Properties panel
- Added support for Sony and Panasonic maker notes
- Blu-ray disc support added to the Burn Basket
- Increased width of various controls in Edit mode to amplify usability (adjustment sliders and curve control)
- Can now set rating and color label from status bar in View and Edit modes
- Improved video playback supporting HD formats*
- Added Expand All and Collapse All commands to the context menu of both the Category and Keyword trees
Fixes
- Fixed an issue that prevented database backup names from being longer than 16 characters
- Fixed an issue that would not allow the preservation of Unicode file names when burning to optical media
- Fixed an issue that would not allow use of the space bar to pan an image when zoomed in while in the Edit mode Sharpen filter
- Fixed an issue that caused video files to not be correctly detected during Import when camera connected directly to computer
Trimmed Functionality
During the life of a software product, there are times when some functionality needs to be retired rather than maintained. The following functional points have been removed in ACDSee 15.
- In the database backup wizard, the ability to backup database and files to optical media has been removed
- Removed ability to burn a slideshow to optical media at end of Create Slideshow wizard
- Removed HighMAT, MPV and HTML Slideshow options from burn basket
- Removed Create Video or VCD wizard
- Removed Publish to TiVo
- Removed Device Detector
Known Issues
- Content of iPhone and other WIA devices does not display correctly when browsed directly with ACDSee
Not Supported
- ACDSee does not preserve the transparency in GIF and PNG files.
- ACDSee does not preserve layers in PSD and TIFF files.
- ACDSee does not preserve EXIF and IPTC metadata when a PSD file is edited.
More Information
For information about ACDSee 15 and to access additional resources, please visit the Product Support and Resource page online. Additional information and resources include:
- software updates
- supported file formats
- supported camera RAW formats
- community site, including peer-to-peer product forums
- ACDSee knowledge base
- support
* Only supported on Windows® 7 and Windows® 8