Disable control using acdsee pro 10. Simple yet extensive photo editing in ACDSee. Selection taking into account the edges of objects
ACDSee (pronounced like the name of the popular ensemble - "Ay-see-d-see") is a very popular program for viewing and processing multimedia files. Unlike, for example, IrfanView or XNView, it is not free at all, but it has significantly greater capabilities. This is a multifunctional tool for viewing, converting, storing, processing and editing graphic images. ACDSee provides fast, easy and convenient way work with graphic images, including viewing, searching, printing and public access to collections digital images. In addition, ACDSee allows you to evaluate images and burn them to CD and DVD media.
Where to get
From the website of the developer - ACDSystems - at www.acdsystems.com. On this moment latest version
is ACDSee Photo Manager version 9.0 - we will consider it. I have already said that ACDSee is a commercial product. It costs about $40 (the basic kit, and the advanced kit – ACDSee Photo Manager Pro – about $130).
However, you don’t have to pay right away: the developers offer a thirty-day trial period for free - each version has a Download Free Trial link on the website (download a free test version). The distribution package for the test version of ACDSee Photo Manager version 9.0 occupies approximately 24 megabytes.
Installation
Unfortunately, the program does not yet officially support the Russian language, however, there are good people who do this as a hobby - so to speak, out of love for art. I found a Russian translation of this version on the Internet on the website www.zhmak.info - it was made by Alexander Zhmakin, for which many thanks to him. You need to download it from the “Russifiers” section of the site, read the installation instructions and install it. After this, the ACDSee program will become Russian-language. (However, since Russification is unofficial, when working with the program you may encounter some non-Russian messages.)
Launch of ACDSee
When you launch it for the first time, the licensed version of ACDSee will require online activation (similar to Windows XP) so that you can use all its functionality.
Next, the program may offer you to automatically download and install some of its updates that are available on its website - it makes sense to do this. Well, after this, the question about creating an image catalog using the Catalog Creation Wizard will immediately appear:
Image Catalog Wizard What it is? Starting from a certain ACDSee versions began to use a special mode for cataloging images and multimedia files. At the same time, the program saves thumbnails (reduced images) of such files, as well as any accompanying information to them, in the directory folder, which allows, firstly, to almost instantly preview multimedia folders when accessing them, and secondly, to quickly search for various elements. When you create a directory, the wizard asks where you usually store your images: in the “My Pictures” subfolder of the “My Documents” folder (this is the default in Windows XP) or in some other folder. If all the images are in the My Pictures folder and its subfolders, just click the Next button. If not, then select “Catalog specific folders
", then specify which folders should be included in the directory. The time it takes to create a directory depends on the power of your computer and the number of multimedia files in the specified folders.
Browsing folders
After creating the directory, when you start ACDSee, the following window appears in front of you:
As you can see, ACDSee's image folder viewing window is noticeably richer than IrfanView's. (However, I remind you that IrfanView is still a free program.) Let's figure out what the window for viewing images and multimedia files consists of. At the very top there is a menu bar with which you can change viewing modes, launch various tools, perform a wide variety of actions with multimedia files, and so on. Below the menu there is a panel of icons of the main tools. First - icons for moving between folders, then - calling up image processing modes: rotation, printing, editing, resizing, and so on. The top left window is “Folders”. It is very similar to the list of devices and folders in the Explorer window. There you can change disks and storage devices on your computer, expand and collapse folders. Pay attention to the small quick selection squares located in the column on the left of this window: you can individually mark with the mouse any squares corresponding to some folders or entire devices (disks), after which only the elements you selected will appear in the main viewing window. This is very convenient when, for example, you need to view images from several different folders in one window. The right column is a special organizer panel (analogous to the taskbar in Word and Excel). In it, you can set a wide variety of criteria for selecting images in the preview panel - by category, by rating, and by various other parameters. The large window in the center is a preview of images. By default, thumbnails of pictures are displayed there, provided with the relevant information: file type, size, date and time of creation, resolution and color, name. However, you can customize the preview window to suit your preferences within very wide limits. Size of thumbnails.
You can vary the size of the thumbnails from 25x18 to 240x180 pixels using the slider located in the upper right corner of the window. Interestingly, when you select a value, ACDSee creates new thumbnails almost instantly so that they always look as good as possible.
The modes themselves also correspond to the viewing options in Windows XP: for example, when you select “Filmstrip,” thumbnails of the files will be located below, and a large expanded image of the selected picture will be located above them. However, in my opinion, the most convenient viewing mode is thumbnails.
keywords
, notes and much, much more. Well, the window on the bottom left is an enlarged preview of the selected image. The configuration of all these windows (folder tree, their contents and enlarged preview) can be changed in the most usual way: move the mouse to the window border and, when its cursor changes to the corresponding icon, press the left key and move the border in the desired direction:
Window with changed parameters
If you click on the selected image, you will be taken to a separate viewing window:
Photo in a separate viewing window
Clicking the image again in the viewport will return you to folder view mode.
Page UpViewing Images When viewing images in a full window, you can navigate between files in a folder (or selected folders) as follows: Home– show the first image in the folder; End– show the last image in the folder; Spacebar(space) or Page Down– show the next image; Backspace(slaughter) or
Using the F key, you can switch to full-screen viewing mode: the entire monitor screen turns white, and the picture is shown on it at the selected scale. IN full screen mode All control keys remain available (navigating through pictures, changing the scale, and so on).– show previous image. You can also scroll through images back and forth using the mouse wheel. The Shift+A combination starts and stops the slide show mode - automatic scrolling through images in a folder. While viewing, you can copy or move the image to the selected folder (Alt+C – copy, Alt+M – move). By default, ACDSee scales the viewport to fit the image (if the image is too large, it is scaled down to fit the screen). You can independently scale the image when viewing using the following keys located on the numeric part of the keyboard (NumPad): Numpad +– zoom in; NumPad -– zoom out; NumPad /– real scale;
Slideshow mode
Using the Alt+S combination, you can enable or disable the automatic viewing of images in a folder (or in folders, if a group is selected), in which the images will begin to replace each other exactly in a second.
By the way, this is not exactly a slide show, but rather an automatic viewing mode - something like a greatly reduced slide show. But the slide show mode, with which it is very convenient to both view and demonstrate images, is activated using the “View - Slide Show” menu.
Setting slide show options
As you can see, here you can configure all sorts of effects for changing images, the background color of the screen and the delay in seconds for the transition between pictures. If you select several different transition effects, they will be applied randomly. On the next tab, advanced settings, you can set the transition quality level, repeat modes and the order of flipping through pictures: forward, backward, random. On the last tab, “Text,” you can set text lines and their parameters so that captions appear at the top and bottom when showing a slide show.
Image processing
Let's see how it's done. So, you have a digital (or scanned, that is, converted into digital form) photo that you are going to process and then send over the Internet. To do this you need a photo:The advanced ACDSee Photo Manager Pro package includes a very powerful and convenient ACDSee Photo Editor, but ACDSee Photo Manager itself also has built-in image editing tools that will suit those who need to process amateur digital photos.
to turn; frame;
correct;
decrease; save in compressed form.
Please also note that this way you can rotate a whole group of selected images at once - this is very convenient. After rotation, the photo needs to be cropped. This is done quite easily - select a rectangular area with the mouse, adjust its borders if necessary, and then call the menu item “Edit - Crop - Done”:
Circumcision tool
Now for the adjustment. If the photo was taken without errors, then it may not be needed, but amateurs quite often have to further process the photo, changing the brightness, contrast and color saturation. Of course, you shouldn’t overuse this (a common mistake many beginners make is to make the image as bright and contrasty as possible), but in some cases such processing can really improve the quality. The only thing is to use any automatic processing as carefully as possible (auto-brightness, auto-contrast, auto-color, and so on). It’s better to do it all by eye and remember the old wise saying: “Too much is good and not good either.” This mode is called up through the menu item “Edit – Image Correction” (Ctrl+L). An editor window will appear in front of you with additional panel:
Image adjustment
“Auto-exposure” is exactly the same automatic adjustment that I warned you against. There you can choose automatic selection of contrast and color or only contrast. But the “Brightness” tab is very useful. There you can adjust the brightness, contrast and color gamut, while immediately observing on the screen how the image changes. Once you think that desired effect reached, click "Done" and you will be returned to the main viewing window.
If you want to apply the changes made and continue adjusting the image, then click the “Apply” button. Now we need to proportionally reduce the width of the photo. (We have already said that to send an image over the Internet, it is advisable to reduce it to 500 pixels in width.) To do this, call the menu item “Edit - Resize” (Ctrl + R). The editing window will appear in front of you again, but only with a resizing panel:
Resizing an Image As you can see, you can also choose here resize the image: set parameters in pixels, percentage of the original size, actual print units. Also, when changing the size, you can change the compression ratio and select a filter for processing (the processing speed may depend on this). Pay attention to the very useful “Rate” button new size file." You need to click it after setting the desired parameters to see what the new image size will be after processing and whether it will suit us. I reduced the original to 500 pixels in width with a proportional change in height and maintaining the original compression level, resulting in the file being reduced to 151 KB - which is quite normal size photos to send via the Internet. So what remains now?
Save the resulting image under a new name. To do this, press Ctrl+S and give the photo a new name. That's all. In my opinion, the procedure is quite simple and effective.
Removing red eye
ACDSee can also remove red-eye, and does it much more effectively than IrfanView.
Let's see how it's done. We load into ACDSee the same photo with a clear “red-eye” effect, which the IrfanView program could not improve without pre-processing. Call the menu item “Edit – Red Eye Removal”: Removing red eye The action plan is quite simple. Use your mouse to select the area around the red eye. Then click “Done”. If there are red dots on the pupil, you need to grab the mouse b O
larger area and repeat the operation. Just try not to grab too much
large areas
around the pupil, because in certain cases this can lead to the editor filling the selected color with the wrong color.
One of the most convenient features of ACDSee is processing a group of images. In what cases might this be needed? In many. For example, you returned from a trip and brought back a bunch of digital photographs. One part of them needs to be rotated clockwise, the other part counterclockwise, and in addition, you need to reduce all these images in size in order to send them via the Internet to your friends. So what, upload each photo into the editor and toil there? What if there are hundreds of photographs?!! How long will it take! Don't worry, with ACDSee it will take you about five minutes. Because this program allows you to apply editing operations (rotate, resize, etc.) to an entire group of files at once. Let's see how it's done. Suppose we have several photos that need to be rotated (some in one direction, others in the other), resize them to 500 pixels in width and write them to some other folder, so that we can then send them via the Internet to friends.
U-turn
Rotating a group of images is done almost in the same way as if it were one picture. Just mark those images that need to be rotated in one direction ( individual pictures can be marked by clicking the left mouse button while holding down Ctrl key), then click on the “Rotate” button (Ctrl+J):
Batch rotating images
Pay attention to the “Apply to all selected images” option – this will give the command to process all selected photos. If you click on the “Options” button, then you can set all sorts of additional options for actions (for example, when rotating, rename the images or compress them further). Conveniently, by default ACDSee saves images after reversing with the same names that they had. Unlike photo processing, where it is desirable to preserve the original, when rotated, unless additional compression is applied, the rotated image can be written directly over the original. Of course, you can process any group of images in this way: several pieces, several dozen, hundreds and even thousands. The rotation speed of each photo depends on many factors: computer power, speed hard disk, availability of free memory and other programs currently running, but modern computer Rotating dozens of photos takes less than a minute. Change of size Now that we have all the photos properly expanded, we need to make them smaller for sending over the Internet. To do this, first select all the images (you can use the mouse, or you can, as usual, press the combination Ctrl+A).
After that, press the “Resize” button (Ctrl+R). A group operation dialog box will appear in front of us:
Image resizing options As you can see, here you can configure various resizing modes: as a percentage of the original, set a specific size in pixels, or in actual print units (centimeters, millimeters, inches). For this task, it is best to specify a clear size in pixels - this will avoid having to find out what the original size of these images is. We know that for sending over the Internet it is better to set the width to 500-600 pixels - so we set it. Below you can set an important resizing option: “Enlarge Only,” “Shrink Only,” and “Enlarge or Shrink.” It is strongly recommended to select “Reduce only”, because there is no point in enlarging photographs - they lose a lot in quality (unlike reduction). Attention! Please note that the width and height values that are set in this window do not at all mean the exact size of each photo. For example, 500 in width and 600 in height means that the resulting photos will be no more than 500 pixels in width and 600 in height. That is, resizing is done quite intelligently: differently for portrait and landscape images. Therefore, in fact, it is better to specify the same parameters in the width and height values: either 500 or 600 in both fields. However, it is clear that we have the original photographs
big size
"to set new photo compression parameters, and select 60 percent quality there - this will be quite enough. Next, click “OK”, return to the previous window, and then click the “Finish” button.
The speed of the processing process depends on the computer settings and some other factors, but usually this process occurs quite quickly. After this, thumbnail photos will appear in the specified folder, which can be sent to friends via the Internet. For comparison, the original files in this example occupy 15 MB, and the reduced and slightly compressed ones (we changed the compression parameters) take up a little more than 2 MB, that is, almost eight times less.
Screen saver from your photos
With ACDSee you can create your own screen saver (screen saver, or ScreenSaver), which will be a slide show of photos (pictures) you select.
This is done as follows. Launch ACDSee in folder browsing mode. Select the desired folder(s). Mark there the photos you want to include in the screensaver. Next, select the menu item “Operations – Set up screen saver” - the screen saver settings window appears in front of you:
As you can see, the setup is no different from a slide show, but the screen saver is, in fact, a screen saver. Click “OK”, in the previous window do not forget to check the “Set default custodian” option and click “OK” again. Now if you go to the screen settings Windows screensavers XP, you will see that your splash screen appears there:
ACDSee screensaver Windows settings XP
Just in case, I remind you that in the old days, when pixels were large and computers were low-power, a screen saver saved the monitor from “burning in” pixels.
However, technology has evolved and developed, and now you can keep the same picture on the monitor for at least a year - the pixels will not burn out, so now the function of the screensaver is purely aesthetic (or, in the case of using a password when exiting the screensaver, it is protective), but not at all saving screen pixels.
Creating an HTML Album
We have already talked about how you can process your photos in order to send them to your friends via the Internet. However, sending to one, another, a third is even more or less realistic, but what if you want to show your photos to tens, hundreds or thousands of Internet users?
There is only one way out - create a web page with these photos, post it on the Internet, after which all you have to do is send a link to this page. We can talk a lot about how to design a web page so that users can properly enjoy the beauty of your summer hikes or stunning shots from last night's party, but this is not necessary when we use ACDSee. Because this program will do everything for you! You only need to select those frames with which you want to entertain the Internet public, and then select the menu item “Create – Create HTML Album”. Yes, yes, it’s that simple - one command “Create album”, and the album will be created. Moreover, you can also set all sorts of parameters there to suit your taste: HTML Album Wizard
The first question in the Web Album Wizard is: general form album. Simple pages with thumbnails – the page contains thumbnails, which, when clicked, open a full-size photo.– Thumbnails are displayed in the column on the left, and a full-size image of the currently selected thumbnail is shown in the column on the right.Which type should I choose? Generally speaking, this is a matter of taste, but I find the second type to be the most convenient - a strip of frames from the bottom. In the first mode, the user has to constantly jump between thumbnails and the expanded image, and the third view can cause problems for users with low screen resolution. So, select the second type and click the “Next” button. Now you need to give a name to your pain, that is, to the album:
Page settings
Album title, subtitle and link to a web page (for example, your home site). Here you can also set the font type for inscriptions, its color, and so on. Next, set the sketch parameters. If we're talking about about photographs, there are no alternatives to the JPG (JPEG) format (by clicking the “Settings” button, you can set the compression level and other JPEG parameters). If you are posting not photographs, but, for example, line drawings, then you can select GIF as the thumbnail format.
Thumbnail Options
The size of the thumbnails is set below. By default, the width is set to 100 pixels for landscape orientation of images and 100 pixels in height for portrait orientation, but I would recommend setting it to 200 pixels each so that at least something can be seen in the thumbnails. The next step is to assign captions to the sketches and the images themselves:
Thumbnail and image caption options
By default, only the file name is included in the signature. However, you can supplement both the sketches and the images themselves with inscriptions from the ACDSee database: author, keywords, creation date, note, rating, and so on. The fourth step is to set the processing parameters for the photographs (images) themselves:
Optimization options
We must turn on the option “Convert images to JPEG format” - you never know, maybe the original images are recorded in TIFF or BMP, and in this case they are absolutely monstrous in size, which is not suitable for posting on the Internet. The image quality can be set to 60 if these are the most ordinary photographs, but if we are talking about highly artistic images with small details, then it is better to increase the value to 85. However, you can always then see what comes out of all this, and, if necessary, regenerate the web page by changing the image quality parameters. It is also better to set the size of photos: for example, 600 in width for landscape orientation and 450 for portrait. It is better not to set it to more than 800 pixels, otherwise the image will not fit on the screen at a low resolution. The last step is to answer the question: “Where should I put it?”
Setting Result Folders for an HTML Album
Here you indicate in which folder to save the prepared page, as well as what prefix to add to the name of the thumbnails and, possibly, the processed photographs themselves. Of course, it is better to choose a folder specially prepared for this purpose, so as not to get confused later. After that, click “Next”, and ACDSee begins to create an Internet album. If you have specified a modest number of photos, the album will be ready in a few seconds. But if you want to make the Internet happy with several thousand photos... However, no, I can’t think so badly of you... When everything is ready, a corresponding message will appear, in the center of which there will be a link to the very created page.
Click on it and enjoy the result:
Created web page with photo album
Now you just have to completely copy the contents of the “For site” folder into the appropriate folder on your site and send the link to everyone.
Where to get
From the website of the developer - ACDSystems - at www.acdsystems.com.
is ACDSee Photo Manager version 9.0 - we will consider it. I have already said that ACDSee is a commercial product. It costs about $40 (the basic kit, and the advanced kit – ACDSee Photo Manager Pro – about $130).
However, you don’t have to pay right away: the developers offer a thirty-day trial period for free - each version has a Download Free Trial link on the website (download a free test version). The distribution package for the test version of ACDSee Photo Manager version 9.0 occupies approximately 24 megabytes.
Installation
Unfortunately, the program does not yet officially support the Russian language, however, there are good people who do this as a hobby - so to speak, out of love for art. I found a Russian translation of this version on the Internet on the website www.zhmak.info - it was made by Alexander Zhmakin, for which many thanks to him. You need to download it from the “Russifiers” section of the site, read the installation instructions and install it. After this, the ACDSee program will become Russian-language. (However, since Russification is unofficial, when working with the program you may encounter some non-Russian messages.)
Launch of ACDSee
When you launch it for the first time, the licensed version of ACDSee will require online activation (similar to Windows XP) so that you can use all its functionality.
Next, the program may offer you to automatically download and install some of its updates that are available on its website - it makes sense to do this. Well, after this, the question about creating an image catalog using the Catalog Creation Wizard will immediately appear:
At the moment, the latest version is ACDSee Photo Manager version 9.0 - we will consider it. I have already said that ACDSee is a commercial product. It costs about $40 (the basic kit, and the advanced kit – ACDSee Photo Manager Pro – about $130).
", then specify which folders should be included in the directory. The time it takes to create a directory depends on the power of your computer and the number of multimedia files in the specified folders.
Browsing folders
After creating the directory, when you start ACDSee, the following window appears in front of you:
As you can see, ACDSee's image folder viewing window is noticeably richer than IrfanView's. (However, I remind you that IrfanView is still a free program.) Let's figure out what the window for viewing images and multimedia files consists of. At the very top there is a menu bar with which you can change viewing modes, launch various tools, perform a wide variety of actions with multimedia files, and so on. Below the menu there is a panel of icons of the main tools. First - icons for moving between folders, then - calling up image processing modes: rotation, printing, editing, resizing, and so on. The top left window is “Folders”. It is very similar to the list of devices and folders in the Explorer window. There you can change disks and storage devices on your computer, expand and collapse folders. Pay attention to the small quick selection squares located in the column on the left of this window: you can individually mark with the mouse any squares corresponding to some folders or entire devices (disks), after which only the elements you selected will appear in the main viewing window. This is very convenient when, for example, you need to view images from several different folders in one window. The right column is a special organizer panel (analogous to the taskbar in Word and Excel). In it, you can set a wide variety of criteria for selecting images in the preview panel - by category, by rating, and by various other parameters. The large window in the center is a preview of images. By default, thumbnails of pictures are displayed there, provided with the relevant information: file type, size, date and time of creation, resolution and color, name. However, you can customize the preview window to suit your preferences within very wide limits. Size of thumbnails.
You can vary the size of the thumbnails from 25x18 to 240x180 pixels using the slider located in the upper right corner of the window. Interestingly, when you select a value, ACDSee creates new thumbnails almost instantly so that they always look as good as possible.
The modes themselves also correspond to the viewing options in Windows XP: for example, when you select “Filmstrip,” thumbnails of the files will be located below, and a large expanded image of the selected picture will be located above them. However, in my opinion, the most convenient viewing mode is thumbnails.
keywords
, notes and much, much more. Well, the window on the bottom left is an enlarged preview of the selected image. The configuration of all these windows (folder tree, their contents and enlarged preview) can be changed in the most usual way: move the mouse to the window border and, when its cursor changes to the corresponding icon, press the left key and move the border in the desired direction:
Window with changed parameters
If you click on the selected image, you will be taken to a separate viewing window:
Photo in a separate viewing window
Clicking the image again in the viewport will return you to folder view mode.
Page UpViewing Images When viewing images in a full window, you can navigate between files in a folder (or selected folders) as follows: Home– show the first image in the folder; End– show the last image in the folder; Spacebar(space) or Page Down– show the next image; Backspace(slaughter) or
And not only according to standard parameters (name, size, creation date, type), but also according to those specific to ACDSee: image property, rating, attributes, keywords, notes and much, much more. Well, the window on the bottom left is an enlarged preview of the selected image. The configuration of all these windows (folder tree, their contents and enlarged preview) can be changed in the most usual way: move the mouse to the window border and, when its cursor changes to the corresponding icon, press the left key and move the border in the desired direction:– show previous image. You can also scroll through images back and forth using the mouse wheel. The Shift+A combination starts and stops the slide show mode - automatic scrolling through images in a folder. While viewing, you can copy or move the image to the selected folder (Alt+C – copy, Alt+M – move). By default, ACDSee scales the viewport to fit the image (if the image is too large, it is scaled down to fit the screen). You can independently scale the image when viewing using the following keys located on the numeric part of the keyboard (NumPad): Numpad +– zoom in; NumPad -– zoom out; NumPad /– real scale;
Slideshow mode
Using the Alt+S combination, you can enable or disable the automatic viewing of images in a folder (or in folders, if a group is selected), in which the images will begin to replace each other exactly in a second.
By the way, this is not exactly a slide show, but rather an automatic viewing mode - something like a greatly reduced slide show. But the slide show mode, with which it is very convenient to both view and demonstrate images, is activated using the “View - Slide Show” menu.
Setting slide show options
As you can see, here you can configure all sorts of effects for changing images, the background color of the screen and the delay in seconds for the transition between pictures. If you select several different transition effects, they will be applied randomly. On the next tab, advanced settings, you can set the transition quality level, repeat modes and the order of flipping through pictures: forward, backward, random. On the last tab, “Text,” you can set text lines and their parameters so that captions appear at the top and bottom when showing a slide show.
Image processing
Let's see how it's done. So, you have a digital (or scanned, that is, converted into digital form) photo that you are going to process and then send over the Internet. To do this you need a photo:The advanced ACDSee Photo Manager Pro package includes a very powerful and convenient ACDSee Photo Editor, but ACDSee Photo Manager itself also has built-in image editing tools that will suit those who need to process amateur digital photos.
to turn; frame;
correct;
decrease; save in compressed form.
Please also note that this way you can rotate a whole group of selected images at once - this is very convenient. After rotation, the photo needs to be cropped. This is done quite easily - select a rectangular area with the mouse, adjust its borders if necessary, and then call the menu item “Edit - Crop - Done”:
Circumcision tool
Using the F key, you can switch to full-screen viewing mode: the entire monitor screen turns white, and the picture is shown on it at the selected scale. In full-screen mode, all control keys remain available (navigating through pictures, changing the scale, and so on).
Image adjustment
“Auto-exposure” is exactly the same automatic adjustment that I warned you against. There you can choose automatic selection of contrast and color or only contrast. But the “Brightness” tab is very useful. There you can adjust the brightness, contrast and color gamut, while immediately observing on the screen how the image changes. Once you think the desired effect has been achieved, click "Done" and you will be returned to the main viewing window.
If you want to apply the changes made and continue adjusting the image, then click the “Apply” button. Now we need to proportionally reduce the width of the photo. (We have already said that to send an image over the Internet, it is advisable to reduce it to 500 pixels in width.) To do this, call the menu item “Edit - Resize” (Ctrl + R). The editing window will appear in front of you again, but only with a resizing panel:
If you want to apply the changes made and continue adjusting the image, then click the “Apply” button. Now we need to proportionally reduce the width of the photo. (We have already said that to send an image over the Internet, it is advisable to reduce it to 500 pixels in width.) To do this, call the menu item “Edit - Resize” (Ctrl + R). The editing window will appear in front of you again, but only with a resizing panel:
Save the resulting image under a new name. To do this, press Ctrl+S and give the photo a new name. That's all. In my opinion, the procedure is quite simple and effective.
Removing red eye
ACDSee can also remove red-eye, and does it much more effectively than IrfanView.
Let's see how it's done. We load into ACDSee the same photo with a clear “red-eye” effect, which the IrfanView program could not improve without pre-processing. Call the menu item “Edit – Red Eye Removal”: Removing red eye As you can see, here you can also choose different options for resizing the image: set parameters in pixels, percentage of the original size, actual print units. Also, when changing the size, you can change the compression ratio and select a filter for processing (the processing speed may depend on this). Note the very useful “Estimate new file size” button. You need to click it after setting the desired parameters to see what the new image size will be after processing and whether it will suit us. I reduced the original to 500 pixels in width with a proportional change in height and maintaining the original compression level, resulting in a file that was reduced to 151 KB - which is a fairly normal photo size for sending over the Internet. So what remains now?
larger area and repeat the operation. Just try not to grab too much
large areas
around the pupil, because in certain cases this can lead to the editor filling the selected color with the wrong color.
One of the most convenient features of ACDSee is processing a group of images. In what cases might this be needed? In many. For example, you returned from a trip and brought back a bunch of digital photographs. One part of them needs to be rotated clockwise, the other part counterclockwise, and in addition, you need to reduce all these images in size in order to send them via the Internet to your friends. So what, upload each photo into the editor and toil there? What if there are hundreds of photographs?!! How long will it take! Don't worry, with ACDSee it will take you about five minutes. Because this program allows you to apply editing operations (rotate, resize, etc.) to an entire group of files at once. Let's see how it's done. Suppose we have several photos that need to be rotated (some in one direction, others in the other), resize them to 500 pixels in width and write them to some other folder, so that we can then send them via the Internet to friends.
U-turn
Rotating a group of images is done almost in the same way as if it were one picture. Simply mark those images that need to be rotated in one direction (individual pictures can be marked by left-clicking with the Ctrl key pressed), and then click on the “Rotate” button (Ctrl+J):
Batch rotating images
Pay attention to the “Apply to all selected images” option – this will give the command to process all selected photos. If you click on the “Options” button, then you can set all sorts of additional options for actions (for example, when rotating, rename the images or compress them further). Conveniently, by default ACDSee saves images after reversing with the same names that they had. Unlike photo processing, where it is desirable to preserve the original, when rotated, unless additional compression is applied, the rotated image can be written directly over the original. Of course, you can process any group of images in this way: several pieces, several dozen, hundreds and even thousands. The rotation speed of each photo depends on many factors: computer power, speed hard drive, availability of free memory and other programs currently running, but on a modern computer, rotating several dozen photos takes less than a minute. Change of size Now that we have all the photos properly expanded, we need to make them smaller for sending over the Internet. To do this, first select all the images (you can use the mouse, or you can, as usual, press the combination Ctrl+A).
After that, press the “Resize” button (Ctrl+R). A group operation dialog box will appear in front of us:
Image resizing options As you can see, here you can configure various resizing modes: as a percentage of the original, set a specific size in pixels, or in actual print units (centimeters, millimeters, inches). For this task, it is best to specify a clear size in pixels - this will avoid having to find out what the original size of these images is. Please note that the width and height values that are set in this window do not at all mean the exact size of each photo. For example, 500 in width and 600 in height means that the resulting photos will be no more than 500 pixels in width and 600 in height. That is, resizing is done quite intelligently: differently for portrait and landscape images. Therefore, in fact, it is better to specify the same parameters in the width and height values: either 500 or 600 in both fields. However, it is clear that our original photographs are large in size, and we make noticeably smaller ones from them, so in this case the enlargement will not be carried out, no matter what we put there. But for the future, it is still better to remember that it is better to select “Reduce Only”. The “Maintain proportions” option must be turned on, otherwise the image will be compressed only in width or height, and therefore will be greatly distorted. Now click on the “Options” button.
big size
"to set new photo compression parameters, and select 60 percent quality there - this will be quite enough. Next, click “OK”, return to the previous window, and then click the “Finish” button.
The speed of the processing process depends on the computer settings and some other factors, but usually this process occurs quite quickly. After this, thumbnail photos will appear in the specified folder, which can be sent to friends via the Internet. For comparison, the original files in this example occupy 15 MB, and the reduced and slightly compressed ones (we changed the compression parameters) take up a little more than 2 MB, that is, almost eight times less.
Screen saver from your photos
With ACDSee you can create your own screen saver (screen saver, or ScreenSaver), which will be a slide show of photos (pictures) you select.
This is done as follows. Launch ACDSee in folder browsing mode. Select the desired folder(s). Mark there the photos you want to include in the screensaver. Next, select the menu item “Operations – Set up screen saver” - the screen saver settings window appears in front of you:
It is also advisable to click the “JPEG Compression Options” button to set new photo compression parameters, and select 60 percent quality there - this will be quite enough. Next, click “OK”, return to the previous window, and then click the “Finish” button.
The speed of the processing process depends on the computer settings and some other factors, but usually this process occurs quite quickly. After this, thumbnail photos will appear in the specified folder, which can be sent to friends via the Internet. For comparison, the original files in this example occupy 15 MB, and the reduced and slightly compressed ones (we changed the compression parameters) take up a little more than 2 MB, that is, almost eight times less.
Just in case, I remind you that in the old days, when pixels were large and computers were low-power, a screen saver saved the monitor from “burning in” pixels.
However, technology has evolved and developed, and now you can keep the same picture on the monitor for at least a year - the pixels will not burn out, so now the function of the screensaver is purely aesthetic (or, in the case of using a password when exiting the screensaver, it is protective), but not at all saving screen pixels.
Creating an HTML Album
We have already talked about how you can process your photos in order to send them to your friends via the Internet. However, sending to one, another, a third is even more or less realistic, but what if you want to show your photos to tens, hundreds or thousands of Internet users?
As you can see, the setup is no different from a slide show, but the screen saver is, in fact, a screen saver. Click “OK”, in the previous window do not forget to check the “Set default custodian” option and click “OK” again. Now, if you go to the Windows XP screen saver settings, you will see that your screen saver has appeared there:
The first question in the Web Album Wizard is: general form album. Simple pages with thumbnails – the page contains thumbnails, which, when clicked, open a full-size photo.– Thumbnails are displayed in the column on the left, and a full-size image of the currently selected thumbnail is shown in the column on the right.Which type should I choose? Generally speaking, this is a matter of taste, but I find the second type to be the most convenient - a strip of frames from the bottom. In the first mode, the user has to constantly jump between thumbnails and the expanded image, and the third view can cause problems for users with low screen resolution. So, select the second type and click the “Next” button. Now you need to give a name to your pain, that is, to the album:
Page settings
ACDSee screensaver in Windows XP settings
Thumbnail Options
The size of the thumbnails is set below. By default, the width is set to 100 pixels for landscape orientation of images and 100 pixels in height for portrait orientation, but I would recommend setting it to 200 pixels each so that at least something can be seen in the thumbnails. The next step is to assign captions to the sketches and the images themselves:
Thumbnail and image caption options
By default, only the file name is included in the signature. However, you can supplement both the sketches and the images themselves with inscriptions from the ACDSee database: author, keywords, creation date, note, rating, and so on. The fourth step is to set the processing parameters for the photographs (images) themselves:
Optimization options
We must turn on the option “Convert images to JPEG format” - you never know, maybe the original images are recorded in TIFF or BMP, and in this case they are absolutely monstrous in size, which is not suitable for posting on the Internet.
Setting Result Folders for an HTML Album
Here you indicate in which folder to save the prepared page, as well as what prefix to add to the name of the thumbnails and, possibly, the processed photographs themselves. Of course, it is better to choose a folder specially prepared for this purpose, so as not to get confused later. After that, click “Next”, and ACDSee begins to create an Internet album. If you have specified a modest number of photos, the album will be ready in a few seconds. But if you want to make the Internet happy with several thousand photos... However, no, I can’t think so badly of you... When everything is ready, a corresponding message will appear, in the center of which there will be a link to the very created page.
Click on it and enjoy the result:
Created web page with photo album
The image quality can be set to 60 if these are the most ordinary photographs, but if we are talking about highly artistic images with a lot of small details, then it is better to increase the value to 85. However, you can always then see what comes out of all this, and if necessary, again generate a web page by changing the image quality settings. It is also better to set the size of photos: for example, 600 in width for landscape orientation and 450 for portrait. It is better not to set it to more than 800 pixels, otherwise the image will not fit on the screen at a low resolution. The last step is to answer the question: “Where should I put it?”I think one of the most popular photo managers is ACDSee ( downloads.acdsystems.com/en/acdsee.exe
) does not need any special introduction. However, despite the fact that ACDSee is de facto the most famous program for viewing and editing graphic images, issues of its optimal configuration often worry the average user. In the new (eighth) version of the program, work with images has been improved (including batch processing), support has been added JPEG format
2000 (viewing and saving) and RAW formats from most leading digital camera manufacturers (Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Fujifilm, Konica Minolta), there is the ability to create slide shows in PDF and Flash formats, and much more. How do the new features relate to graphic filters or, say, the function of burning photo albums to CDs and DVDs? Isn't the application becoming more and more complex and cumbersome from version to version? Many users (including on numerous forums) are inclined to argue that the latest editions of ACDSee Photo Manager are excessively slow. Others advise them to upgrade their computer more often, attributing the program's slowdowns to outdated technology. Which one is right? Answer: neither one nor the other, because any version of ACDSee can be made into an excellent sprinter, running briskly not only around stadiums, but also along country roads. :)
In this article, using the eighth version of ACDSee as an example, you will see how to configure the program for maximum performance while maintaining the quality of work at a high level.
At first glance, ACDSee's main window may seem overloaded. But no one forbids closing unused panels and placing the necessary interface elements in the way that is most convenient for you. For example, I always close the Task Panel, Search, Favorites, etc. tabs. and use the freed up space to increase the browser and window area preview. Then, using the slider at the top of the browser, I adjust the size of the thumbnails. Everything is purely individual, so I’m a bad adviser here. However, remember that convenient location menus and windows also help increase productivity.
Step 2. Browser setup
Here we'll talk about displaying files in the preview window and in the ACDSee browser, as well as how to speed up working with them.
To configure the browser, select the Options item in the Tools menu and go to the Browser section. In the Default Start Folder section, you can specify the folder that will open when ACDSee starts (by default, the last opened folder is displayed). This is useful when frequently used images are in a specific directory. I also usually check the Clear Path History On Exit checkbox so that ACDSee does not remember folders opened during operation - this is still of little use. But this, as they say, is a matter of taste.
Now let's talk about more significant things - displayed files. By default, ACDSee shows all files in open folder. But most users only need pictures, and among such chaos they can be very difficult to find. Therefore, it doesn’t hurt to look at the View -> Filters menu (View -> Filters; Alt + I) and in the dialog box that appears, ask ACDSee to show only pictures and folders (Show All Pictures and Show Folders, respectively). If you also enable Show Media Files, then I advise you to go to the settings and in the Preview section uncheck at least one “tick” - from the Autoplay Audio & Video Clips item. In this case, a video accidentally selected in the browser will not run, which will save ACDSee from unnecessary slowdowns and you from headaches. If you disable Preview Audio & Video Clips, then in the preview window when you select a multimedia file, only its icon will be displayed. Those. the file will not be played by the built-in ACDSee tools. This will also speed up the program, which is exactly what we are trying to achieve. You can also listen to music or burn CDs and DVDs using other means specifically designed for this purpose. Since we are still in the Preview section, it would be nice to remind you once again that the Delay control should be in the extreme left position.
And now we are very close to thumbnails. In the settings in the File List -> Thumbnails Display section, you need to disable the effect of casting a shadow and drawing a frame for icons - Show Drop Shadow and Show Image Border, respectively. The remaining settings in the sections we reviewed should be left at default. Now let's move on to viewing graphics.
Step 3: Setting up the viewer
So, to configure image viewing options, select the Options item in the Tools menu and go to the Viewer section. In the Decoding & Caching section, checkboxes should be checked everywhere (by default this is the case). The Decode Next Image In Advance option is responsible for preparing for viewing (unpacking) the next image, and Keep Previous Image In Memory is for remembering the previous one. Both options naturally speed up browsing and, importantly, ensure smooth scrolling through pictures, loading them entirely at once. In the Startup Files section, it is recommended to select Images In New Window, which will allow you to open several images in different windows.
You can also not use Resampling Algorithm, which improves the quality of displayed images by reducing distortions that appear when scaling them (Bicubic and Bilinear), and select Nearest Neighbor - do not use resampling. However, these actions are justified only if the images being viewed are of high resolution and acceptable quality. Otherwise, you can’t do without sampling - it will dazzle your eyes.
Step 4. Working with the database
The ACDSee database stores information about all viewed graphic and other files. Using a database allows you not only to increase the browser's performance by caching icons, but also to perform various operations on files (search, sorting, etc.). To add the necessary folders with graphics to the database, it is not at all necessary to open them in the ACDSee browser. To do this, simply select the Database -> Catalog Files menu and specify the required folders. You can also define directories that will not be entered into the database so as not to clutter it. This could be, for example, the browser cache. To optimize the database, run the Database -> Optimize Database wizard, which will remove redundant and outdated information, and, therefore, speed up the database. For fine tuning database, you need to use the Database -> Database Maintenance utility.
I have nothing more to add. Let's look at the fruits of our labors.
results
As a result, ACDSee 8 Photo Manager has become more agile and easier to manage. Are you interested in iron? There is nothing simpler: motherboard on the i440BX chipset, socket 370... Should I continue? :) Of course, the eighth version, compared to the same sixth, works noticeably faster, but, nevertheless, the results of the actions taken are visible to the naked eye. Setting up older versions of the photo manager is done in the same way.
ACDSee is installed and configured, it's time to work. But more on that next time.
Photo editing can easily be considered an incredibly fun and exciting creative process, which has already become a real hobby for millions of people around the world. But if you decide to use for these purposes ACDSee program, That this work will become extremely simple and fast, because in a matter of moments you will be able to change the size of a photo, both by scaling and by cropping, adjust the color scheme, contrast and clarity of the image, as well as other parameters. That is, we can confidently say that the application is a multi-purpose software that allows you to view and edit pictures, and upload them to social media or on your own Internet resources.
Features of the ACDSee program interface
ACDSee interface includes only four tabs. This is management, viewing, editing, as well as posting on the network. You will be able to navigate them within a few minutes after you start working. So, using the “Management” tab, you can select the images that you will need for subsequent work. There are also tools that will allow you to rename pictures or sort them by placing them in separate folders. The main working window of the application displays file system your hard drive in the form of a standard tree directory. If desired, the user will be able to set up a preview mode, allowing him to control all stages of editing.
In this program you can process graphic files stored on your computer, external drives, as well as removable drives. These may be photographs taken from digital cameras, mobile phones and even scanners. As you work, you will be able to view them, convert them to various formats, change the size by scaling or cropping edges, compare several images with each other, create extraordinary slide shows, and so on.
The “Edit” tab contains all the tools that will be useful to users for editing pictures. With them you can fully unleash your own creative fantasies. With just one click of the mouse, various photo defects, including the red-eye effect, are removed. You can also give the photo the desired color tone or even out the tone of the face, apply original artistic filters, add captions, designate photos to be deleted or edited, and so on.
Features and main capabilities of the ACDSee program
The application is endowed with extremely broad capabilities that will be appreciated not only by regular users, but also professionals, after all ICD:
is an advanced photo editor of our time, endowed with a huge number of tools and functions; compared to other software, it has an enviable response speed; endowed with a customizable search that allows you to quickly find the required SIM card by key phrases that were previously specified by you; has a rich color palette, a wide range of tools and built-in artistic filters; will allow you to easily remove the red-eye effect, as well as edit the entire image or a separate part of it; will provide tools for adjusting the lighting and contrast of the image; instantly highlights shadows and focuses on a certain part of the picture; allows you to convert photos to most modern formats and upload your work to web resources; integrated for working with Twitter and Facebook.
You can download ACDSee for yourself completely free by following the link http://acdseee.ru/. As a result, you will receive the most current Russified version this application and you can start an exciting work process in just a few minutes.
Rate the post!
