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ACDSee Photo Manager has the ability to create your own categories to organize your images.  These categories can relate to your personal photos or to a set of images.  Digital scrapbookers have many images (of paper and elements they use to create layouts) and they use the categories to organize them into each type.     The categories can be found at the top of the Organize Pane.  The categories can be quickly assigned to 1 or more images.   Once assigned, all images in a categories can be quickly retrieved with a click on that category!  You can easily share these categories with other people.  We will share the first way of only sharing the categories and the next blog post will be how to share your images & organizing!

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To share your images & categories assigned in ACDSee 2009, we use the embed functionality found in ACDSee 2009.  (This can also be done with ACDSee Pro 2.5 or ACDSee Pro 3.0.)  We discussed embedding previously and to read more in-detail, visit Embedding Data with ACDSee 2009  I will give you the steps and what will happen in the process.  

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The team is pleased to announce the latest RAW update.  Available now, this free update includes support for the following camera models:

• Olympus E-30
• Leica D-LUX 4
• Nikon Coolpix P6000
• Pentax K2000/K-m
• Ricoh GX200
• Nikon D3X
• Canon 500D/Digital Rebel T1i/Kiss X3

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ACDSee shows your images but you can customize the thumbnails to give you a lot more information. Some examples:

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One of the new features of ACDSee 2009 is the ability to embed your organizing information (Categories, keywords, captions, notes, etc) into your image files.   Here is why it is important:

• If you were to move files outside of ACDSee, you can easily recover your organizing by re-cataloging your files (Database | Catalog Files)
• If something were to happen to your ACDSee database (where all your organizing information is stored), you could also recover and recreate the ACDSee database by re-cataloging all your files.
• If you wanted to share your organizing information with a friend using ACDSee, you can do so.  You would organize your images, embed and then send the images to your friend.  Your friend would catalog the files and get all your organizing information about those images!

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In my last blog post, I suggested it was a good idea to start a consistent naming convention.  Now, I’ll show you how easy it is to allow ACDSee to do most of the work for you.

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I’m always intrigued by the color tweaking I can do to a digital image in ACDSee Photo Manager 2009. Playing with the trees in an outdoor scene are green but not green enough or the experimenting with the hues of a shot is almost perfect. I love the fact that I can, in a few steps, quickly jump in and change HSL values, adjust RGB values or remove a color cast to get just the right look. Plus, once I have a formula I like I can also save the options as a preset for future use. Over the next few posts, I’m going to explore that color editing features in Photo Manager 2009, starting with Color Casts.

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