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ACDSee Forums: Forum: Pro for Mac Beta - Features - Recent Topics http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ ACDSee Forums: Forum: Pro for Mac Beta - Features - Recent Topics en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:37:50 +0000 Dragon Manila on "Get Info?" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/get-info#post-45315 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:08:45 +0000 Dragon Manila 45315@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I've just moved to mac for a couple of months now and I am really happy about it being a pc user since the 80's. One of the program I really missed though is ACDSee! I just downloaded ACDSee Beta and I almost dried when I saw it... :-) A lot of things I love to see in ACDSee for mac are already on this thread... after downloading, the ACDSee beta for mac seems to miss this one. Pleas bear with me if someone already requested this but would it be hard to insert a "Get Info" menu when you right click an image? or better yet, is there a way to show the "size" of the image underneath it's name? I work with so many images and often times, with just one look at the collection, I want to see which ones are hi-res and which one is really small... Right now, to see the physical dimension of your image is to right click, show the file in finder, (if you set your "Show View Option"  to "show item info", you're in luck) right click the file so you can see the dimension of your image... I am new here so please pardon the long note... Cheers All!   [attachment=0] Wnderlnd on "seaching sub folders" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/seaching-sub-folders#post-45205 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:00:33 +0000 Wnderlnd 45205@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I'd really like to be able to search and scroll through my sub folders without having to click on each individual sub folder.  (perhaps using the scroll wheel?)  I am pretty sure this was a feature of the PC Pro version, but I no longer have a PC, so I can't check.  I do digital scrapbooking and like this program for tagging and organizing my digital supplies, separately from my photos.  I want to see all the pieces to a digital kit without having to click so many times, even if they are separated into subfolders.  I am happy to click on the main folder.  rolandkw on "New Mac user, very satisfied acdsee 5.0 PC user." http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/new-mac-user-very-satisfied-acdsee-50-pc-user#post-42562 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:15:26 +0000 rolandkw 42562@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Hi Acdsee, Thanks for starting Acdsee for Mac.  For years I've been a very satisfied user of ACDsee 5.0. So much that no new programms have exceeded this excellent browser and viewer setup for me so far. A few days ago I downloaded the new Mac version for the first time. This new Acdsee for Mac has high potential for me !!  Please keep going. Off course I compared Acdsee for Mac, with my good old Acdsee 5.0.  Are you ready to take the following notes? I am sure i mention some items double so sorry for that. I have mentioned the improvements as well as the positive points. Improvements: (On order of priority) - Preview pane only floating available.  Fixed sometimes works so much nicer. - Sort function for thumbs not avilable in manage mode? Needed ! - Zoom in (with mouse or +) not possible in full screen mode. - No "change timestamp" function. - No right click possibility for  properties and organise panels. - No clickable overlay icon for exif information. - No extra information then filename below thumbnail. Size and date would be nice. - No zoom percentage visible in view mode (and full screen mode). - No " find duplicates" function. - No file generate listing. Very positive: - Building speed of thumbs ! - Keeping the filedate intact after rating. - Thumbnails possibilities (size and borders and position). Keep that !  - Batch button. (With its functions) - Clear white border on selected thumbnail. - Scrolling with mouse wheel in full screen mode! - Rotate option in right click menu. Thanks for now and I sincerely hope Acdsee will improve the Mac version towards what I like. It would be the first Good picture browser for Mac (in my opinion then) Kind regards, Roland Amsterdam The Netherlands kazibo on "Mac version VS Windows Version" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/mac-version-vs-windows-version#post-44935 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:32:57 +0000 kazibo 44935@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Hello! May be I do not understand something, but WHY DON'T YOU JUST SIMPLY MAKE ACDSEE for MAC same as you did for Windows? I'm using ACDSee since 1999 on my Win Desctop and I love it... I can't imagine picture managing on PC without AcdSee... It was sad to discover that Mac version is so weak, when I bought my MacBook and was looking for good image viewer for it. Napper on "Thank you, thank you, thank you (and some feature requests)" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/thank-you-thank-you-thank-you-and-some-feature-requests#post-44906 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:32:11 +0000 Napper 44906@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I am a Mac user since 2004 and love this plattform. Since I communicate this quite openly I have an increasing number of friends / family members / co-workers that have made or have tried to make the switch as well. For many of them the biggest problem was the Finder. I never noticed how different it was from the explorer in Windows but I am beginning to get the problems related to it (like that I am not able to create a folder within a tree structure, no Cut and Paste of files, no tree on the left, details on the right mode). This makes it really hard for beginners to do the most simple of processes. No - here comes ACDSee - another gripe my friends had : where is my ACDSee!!! :) They all love ACDSee. With the Mac version of the software both the Finder and no-ACDSee problem goes away. Brilliant! Thank you guys, for investing into this plattform!!! Testing the software I noted a couple of things that we would find really cool to be included in the final version: 1) Keep the "Mac-Unlike" feature of being able to create new folders within the tree structure! This makes ACDSee a file browser alternative 2) In windows when I double-click on an image I can set ACDSee to enter full-screen mode and let me view my images by going up and down with the page-up page-down buttons. In the Mac version it enters the "View-Mode". Could you give us the windows option as well? As fun as Quicklook might be, it's nowhere as usefull as double-clicking on an image and going fullscreen _and_ being able to the next images afterwards. That ability is given in iPhoto but when you work with removable media you don't want to import everything into iPhoto just to check out pictures. 3) We have a Windows/Mac mixed environment with a Win2003 Server in our company. ACDSee has some severe problem with accessing pictures stored on network drives. (Crashes, endless spinning beachballs, etc. (it occasionally works as well)) 4) The Selection Basket. Most usefull ACDSee tool ever. Please? :) I am looking forward to the next Betas. Love that you fixed the Snow-Leopard bug! Cheers, Napper Laure479 on "Modify properties" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/modify-properties#post-44645 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:30:11 +0000 Laure479 44645@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I have been using AcdSee v8 a lot when I had a PC to modify my pictures, and I found one feature particularly useful: the fact that in the properties panel, I could modify some of the data, like the creation and modification date of the pictures. Since I usually sort them by date, this is something important for me. However, on the Mac version, this feature isn't available, which is a pity. Nor are we given the possibility to change some basic info in the Exif data, like in the Windows version. Something I would also greatly appreciate in AcdSee for Mac would be the possibility to rearrange the pictures in the folder by dragging and dropping them... Now I can just sort them by name, which I find very annoying... Do you plan on improving these features later on...? Thanks anyway for delveloping this program for Mac! cloudsymph on "Zoom Lock in full screen" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/zoom-lock-in-full-screen#post-44380 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:21:17 +0000 cloudsymph 44380@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ hi there. the title virtually speaks for itself.  the full screen mode doesn't allow for customizable zoom, or not from what i've found anyways.  and i didn't come across this topic in the forum on the search bar, so i'm not sure if people have or have not asked this yet. also on a different note is there anyway for the shortcuts to be cmd+"insert button" rather than cmd+opt/alt+"insert button" or will this change cause a problem with other short cut functions.  because having to alt as well was a bit annoying.  although this is a very minor issue and wouldn't affect my decision in buying this product when a full release comes out.   regards cloudsymph pfcurtis on "ACDSee Pro for Mac - What are your goals?" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/acdsee-pro-for-mac-what-are-your-goals#post-44302 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:42:55 +0000 pfcurtis 44302@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Where do you see ACDSee Pro fitting in with the other Mac photo organizers and editors? I am not including iPhoto and Picasa as they do not have full metadata and image editing features. The feature set of the Windows version appears to be similar to those of Lightroom and Aperture. Is it the goal of your developers to compete with those applications. I for one, hope it is. If you can sell ACDSee for the same price, or lower, as the Windows Pro version, you will also undercut the Apple and Adobe prices and could soon get a substantial market share. Aperture users are upset with Apple for lack of updates and Adobe charges an arm and a leg for their application. If you are not going to match the features of Aperture or Lightroom, what features will not be included? albertorios on "Handle RAW+JPEG together" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/handle-rawjpeg-together#post-44017 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:55:17 +0000 albertorios 44017@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ It is increasingly common for cameras to save a RAW and JPEG version of the same shot. Some image viewers are able to identify that and show the image as a single file in the viewer. The benefit is twofold: 1) Any labels, categories, keywords, etc are added to the two formats simultaneously 2) It makes scrolling through images faster since it does not show the same image twice (JPEG and then RAW) This would be a nice feature to have AR TK on "Converting db from PC to Mac" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/converting-db-from-pc-to-mac#post-43709 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:33:11 +0000 TK 43709@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I am one of those looking to change from a PC user to a Mac user. I was very happy to hear that ACDSee is building photomanager for Mac now. One of the reasons being stuck to PC is that I've got a huge archive of pictures maintained under ACDSee Photomanager 2009 (albums, keywords, text, ....). Have you considered adding (or is there already) a conversion tool from PC based ACDSee data to Mac based ACDSee data? cmsmithphoto on "Viewing off of network" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/viewing-off-of-network#post-43601 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:14:37 +0000 cmsmithphoto 43601@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I can get to all of the folders that are on my external hard-drive, but ACDSee is not able to show what is in those folders.  This hard drive is on a network and not directly connected to the Mac. cmsmithphoto on "Renaming" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/renaming-1#post-43599 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:58:44 +0000 cmsmithphoto 43599@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ When renaming images, it would be great if it did not have to make a copy.  I really like the options that you have in the PC version for batch renaming. richardj91 on "Compare Images" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/compare-images-2#post-40634 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:59:15 +0000 richardj91 40634@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ A needed feature is the ability to compare multiple images and make a selection, like in Expression. Fotographiste on "Are these features is in the Beta?" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/are-these-features-is-in-the-beta#post-43132 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:47:48 +0000 Fotographiste 43132@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Hi everybody, Before downloading this version, I want to know if this version allows to make contact sheets, rename files and read Raw format?   Thanks cslc on "Layout in photo viewing page" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/layout-in-photo-viewing-page#post-42872 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:33:33 +0000 cslc 42872@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ In the photo viewing page (after double clicking a photo in 'Browser' layout I suggest to change the 'roll of photos' to either left or right side of the window, instead of at the bottom.  By that, the size of the photo viewing will be larger (increase the view size) cmsmithphoto on "Where is everything?" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/where-is-everything#post-41849 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:59:21 +0000 cmsmithphoto 41849@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I have used ACDSee since version 4.  I am comfortable with it and was worried about not having it when I recently switched to Mac.  I excitedly downloaded the Beta version, and it is nothing like the PC version!  Why can I not even rearrange photographs?  I try dragging around like I always have and it doesn't let me.  I also cannot zoom in on a photo with the + button, or any other that I can find for that matter.  So far, for me, it is just a way to look at photos, not do anything like I am used to ACDSee doing. vastphoto on "3 features and I'm sold!" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/3-features-and-im-sold#post-41552 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:42:33 +0000 vastphoto 41552@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Three features I would really need would be the same image edit functions as are found in the Windows version, the ability to create custom fields which would allow me to track sale and license data for each file (as is currently possible in Extensis Portfolio) and the ability to import data into fields from standard text files. mgohman on "Missing batch set EXIF" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/missing-batch-set-exif#post-41231 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:13:36 +0000 mgohman 41231@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I have been a user of ACDsee 7 for four years. For me it has made me survive with managing my growing image archive. Since I have now switched from PC to Mac I am looking forward to the relase of the Mac version of ACDsee. Comparing this beta with ACDSee 7 there are a number of things I use today that seems to be missing: <ul> <li>Batch copy to and from EXIF meta data.</li> <li>The calendar view in the Manage workspace.</li> </ul>   Hopefully this is something that will be added to later betas and included part of the release. Is there a list of planned features for the relase?   Sincereley, Magnus Öhman Gerber on "Icons from QuickLook?" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/icons-from-quicklook#post-40826 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:21:08 +0000 Gerber 40826@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Most of my work is done in Corel Painter. In their most recent version (11), the development team has, for some reason, done away with thumbnails and image previews. Well, there is a large preview that is accessible only through QuickLook, but that, of course, does nothing for the generic icons. And it can take as long as 30 seconds to load, so it's not a very efficient solution. I know that RIFF is a proprietary format, but is it conceivable to use that QuickLook preview to create a thumbnail icon for a file? I have been looking for some time to replace my aging copy of iView Media Pro 2.x. ACDSee is intriguing and over the next few weeks (if the beta is active that long) I hope to see how the features compare. Is there a rough draft of a manual or user guide floating around anywhere? Thanks.  greg@lafrance.us on "Duplicate Finder?" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/duplicate-finder-1#post-40501 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:48:03 +0000 greg@lafrance.us 40501@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Was wondering if the ability to find duplicate photos will be added to the product. iPhoto does not have this feature and it is one I really miss from ACD PC version.