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.
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.
Many home photographers are finding themselves overloaded with many photos haphazardly scattered all over the computer and with all kinds of name. I can guarantee you the collection is only going to grow and it would be a good idea to get control of your digital image collection. Granted many organizers will find all your photos on your computer and show them to you in a calendar mode, but could you quickly gather all your photos together and burn them to DVD for a backup or to share with a friend or family?
If you assign a lot of categories to your images, you may want to know how to view which categories are assigned to a particular image. There are a few methods but I’ll identify the two easiest methods.
After all the shopping, cooking, eating, and cleaning up that goes with Thanksgiving Day here in America, the next thing on our minds is usually decorating for the holidays. Well, that and more shopping! Why not give yourself a break and stay home and make some fun ornaments instead of battling those Black Friday crowds! It’s really simple, let me show you how.
After a wonderful Fall day on the farm, I really wanted to highlight one of my favorite photos. It just so happened I had one of those plain, floating glass frames and I used Photo Editor 2008 to create a pretty frame around the photo before I printed it .
Here’s how to quickly and easily build a scalloped photo frame using ACDSee Photo Editor 2008.
ACDSee Pro 2 & ACDSee 10 can be used to add a white or black border to a photo. If you’d like to get creative & nest the borders, that is possible too. This tutorial shows how to change the color of the border also.
Selective coloring in ACDSee is SO easy now! Before ACDSee 10 in order to achieve this I had to use masks in ACDSee Photo Editor.
This can be done in both ACDSee 10 & ACDSee Pro 2!
A new pane opens on the left
Click on the Color - in the left pane & this is when the magic happens!
To make up for the area around the image, on the top
This will bring you back to the Main Menu of the Edit Panel
I’ve written a lot of tutorials, so I always appreciate those made by others. JD generously posted a link to his tutorial on Creating Vignettes with ACDSee. He posts under the username ‘TherealJD’ in the ACDSee Product Forums.
On his blog, CadGFX, JD says:
Acdsee is an excellent image manager. And for quick photo editing, it’s an excellent tool. Pro 2 has added a selection tool to apply various effects to only selected portions of an image. I will be using this new feature to create some custom vignettes for an image.
In his tutorial, Better Vignettes with ACDSee Pro 2, step by step instructions are provided to create this custom vignette (the tutorial will also work in ACDSee 10).
If you’re not familiar with ACDSee Pro 2 or ACDSee 10, here are instructions for opening the editor.
And here’s a screenshot of the features that JD used:
If you’ve created tutorials using ACDSee products or are interested in writing some, please let me know at cbensen@acdsee.com The blog is a great way to share them.
Other tutorials that you may be interested in
Here’s a quick tutorial for opening the Advanced Editing mode.
You’ll find it in both ACDSee 10 & ACDSee Pro 2.
Under the palette icon’s pull down menu, choose Edit Mode
This opens a new pane on the left with the icons described. And now you have access to the Selections tool.
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