RAW converter: ACD Systems ACDSee Pro 7 in the test

The surface is in dark gray tones. The division also offers hardly any surprises, so users can quickly find their way into ACDSee Pro 7.


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The four tabs "Manage", "View", "Develop" and "Edit" are self-explanatory. Under the fifth tab "365", the program offers cloud and other online services. In the administrator, users have the ability to view and edit IPTC and EXIF ​​metadata. The XMP, for example, used by Adobe or Corel does not support ACDSee Pro 7. In addition, the program allows you to combine them into albums or dynamic folders.


Conclusion


Practical: Images on the hard disk can be opened directly via the folder structure, an import is not necessary before. There is also a calendar view as well as the possibility to position or locate images on GPS maps. Super: Image evaluations, color markings and the addition to the quick selection succeed quickly by keyboard command


Like the competition, ACDSee scores with loss-free image processing - the original is not touched. Contrary to the competition, however, the changes do not only happen in the database, the program always creates a new JPEG image, which costs storage space. The constant asking if you want to save can be disabled.


Apart from that, ACDSee Pro 7 offers everything you need from a RAW converter: lighting, colors, sharpness, and noise, as well as falling lines and lens distortions. The latter, however, is not based on lens profiles, but only manually. This means much more work for wide angle photographers. After all, all settings can be saved and applied as profiles to other images.


However, the quality of the noise filter can not keep up with the competitors: Even color noise remains clearly visible, which otherwise all the test subjects cleanly calculate. Selective corrections are included on board. Similar to Lightroom, it works alternatively with a brush, as a straight or circular course. All development tools are available for selective correction.


However, masks created in the "Detail" category can not be further corrected in the category "Settings" - here users have to create their own mask for each category.


The export succeeds in all important formats, alternatively as a slideshow or on CD / DVD. Flickr, Facebook and Co are also on board. In terms of speed, ACDSee Pro 7 is in the lower midfield. The program loading time is about 8 s on the test computer, the change between images takes about 1 s - this is fast enough in any case. When exporting the 225 test photos to the JPEG format, the program did not take much time with 6:21 min.


ACDSee Pro 7 convinces with a logical operating concept and a complete toolbox. Small weaknesses are no problem at the current offer price of 65 euros.