ACDSee Photo Manager contains an Image Basket that allows you to gather all your images together.  Its a great way to look through a batch of images and pull out the best ones that you want to work with.  The Image Basket is a temporary place and doesn’t physically move the file on your hard drive.

To start, let’s make sure we can see the Image Basket.

1. Go to View | Image Basket.  The image basket will appear underneath the thumbnails in the main ACDSee window pane.
2. Start browsing your images and drag & drop them into the Image Basket. 

Once your images are in your Image Basket, you can do many things with them.

• You can drag & drop them into another software to work with them
• You can do any type of ACDSee function on them such as email, batch resize, etc.
• Another tip is can generate a text report about the images.
  • Select the images in the image basket.
  • Go to Database | Export | Generate File Listing (Keyboard shortcut:  Ctrl-G)
  • This will produce a text file with information.  The information can be customize by going to Tools | Options, File List Tab, Details View & click on Choose Details & select which fields you would like shown in the report.

Tips: 

• The Image Basket starts empty each time you start ACDSee.  Thus the Image Basket will be not be saved when you close ACDSee.
• To remove images, from the Image Basket, I like to go to Edit | Remove from Image Basket (Keyboard shortcut:  Alt-x)  By doing it this way, it doesn’t feel like you are deleting the images from your hard drive.  (If you hit select an image & hit delete key,  it prompts you to remove them from image basket or delete them from the hard drive.  You then need to make sure you choose remove from image basket and not delete.)