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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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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.

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In the first post, I highlighted Katharine’s beautiful, abstract of Peacock Feathers created with ACDSee Photo Manager. In this post, I’ve invited her to share how her creative use of ACDSee Photo Manager has evolved, resulting in a variety of gorgeous works of art!

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• Pop-up previews
  • To see the new pop-up previews in the File List pane, hover your mouse over a thumbnail. To disable pop-up previews, select Tools | Options, under File List, then click off Show thumbnails on pop-ups.

• Browse by date
  • View your photos by date with the new Photo Calendar or Events View.
    To access the Photo Calendar in ACDSee Pro 2, float the Calendar pane, select Month View, and enlarge the pane.
    Events View, a new option in the Calendar pane, displays your photos in an organized event list. Personalize events with unique descriptions like AutoShow or Jones Wedding.

• View photos faster
  • See your photos instantly on screen with the Quick View mode. Whether opening an image attachment to an e-mail, or double-clicking on a JPEG from Windows Explorer, the Quick View mode is a fast, sleek, and efficient addition to ACDSee’ powerful viewing tools. Pared down to include the viewing and browsing essentials, it displays your photos with greater speed than ever before.
• Organize, sort, and navigate
  • Group By arranges your photos into subsets, providing a logical viewing structure for faster viewing. Group by keywords, size, date taken, and other commonly used information.
    With Filter By, you get improved sorting and display of photos assigned to particular ratings or categories. For example, select Filter By | Rating 1. Only the photos in the selected folder(s) assigned to Rating 1 will be displayed.
  • Easily navigate a summary list of groups of photos in a folder using the Table of Contents display. It is available when using the new Group By and Events View features.

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ACDSee Pro 2 is Certified for Windows Vistaâ„¢, providing the best experience possible on the Vistaâ„¢ operating system. ACDSee has worked closely with Microsoft to provide features and functions at the highest level of compatibility with Windows Vista.

There are two ways to find answers to your questions on ACDSee products:

1) ACDSee Support

There are 3 options to choose from

If you have questions about using the software, choose the middle one

• Then near the bottom in the pull down menu, choose the product that you have
• That will take you to a wealth of resources for your product:
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • User Tips
  • How To Articles
  • Technical Notes
  • Tutorials
  • Updates

2) ACD Systems also has a product discussion forum where you can post your question. (Although it is recommended that you browse the links in #1 first)

And who am I? I’m Connie & if you have spent time in the product forum you have probably seen me there linking people to resources. My sister, Heidi, & I have a website, DigiScrapInfo.com where we host tutorials that we’ve written for using ACDSee Photo Manager & Photo Editor. Our specialty is organizing digital scrapbooking supplies (in addition to photos) & utilizing ACDSee Photo Editor for scrapbooking. We also have tutorials for doing creative things with photos such as selectively colorizing part of a photo (as shown) or cutting an image out of a photo.

What types of creative things would you like to do with your photos?