Acdsee Photo Studio Ultimate 2023! Has a lot of functions, a lot of features...
Keep in mind the Acdsee did send me a code to try this out and make the video on.
They added AI based face adjustments.. face enhancements.. so easy
retouching of faces with this feature. They simplified the photo merging. Doing
panoramas and things like that. You can quickly select out
sky or subjects from images. They enhanced being able to select
objects with a new shape selection tool. Improved on the search capabilities.
Non-destructive raw editing as usual. Keep in mind that they do have different
versions of this... This is the ultimate
version that I'll be showing you. First off just looking at the management tab.
Sort by a lot of different options. Let's group by camera...
When I group by camera you can see so many different cameras here.
I can click on one of these and jump to that specific camera.
Let's say you're on a photo shoot you had two different cameras of different models.. makes..
sort them if you put all the images in one area. Reads a good amount of images.
Of course with newer cameras they might be a little bit slower than other companies,
but at the moment all of my cameras are fully readable in Acdsee.
And a lot of what I do is I organize, I adjust settings.
So you can put ratings, you can put colors, and you can also filter by those ratings and colors
obviously. Just green for example. Another feature that I use a lot
of the time is comparison of images. So up here go to tools compare images.
Zoom in you can move them at the same time. You can lock or unlock images.
Also view additional information. If I want the histogram going or some metadata.
We have a bunch of different tasks! The different tabs... media allows
you to quickly browse through images. This is one of the changes that they did...
Select a group and I can add some metadata to it, so I'm a person and a man.
Click that and those are set. Click one of these off and then I click back on it
you can see that the people man is set on there. View is a tab that they use quite often because
it's a quick way of going through your images. You can zoom in very quickly and judge a
photo's capabilities and I can add a rating if I want and if you press F
on the keyboard you can do a full zoom in. In the develop tab is something I use very
often to adjust images without changing them. You have a ton of ways to adjust them in Acdsee.
I need a new computer it's getting slow... For example, exposure highlights
whatever you want. Go into the detail tab click
on that you can just sharpening amount. You can adjust the noise in the image
or noise cancellation I should say. And here's a skin smoothing effect...
It's a little difficult to see but it is definitely adjusting my face.
All this information will be saved as a sidecar file, or into their database.
Here is the edit tab! On the side here we have all
of these AI based one-click operations. Remove background, try that out...
It's not going to be perfect, you can edit that as you need but it's a one-click thing
there isn't any adjustment to it. So I'm going to CTRL-Z on there...
You can also select subject. This one gives you a bit more options
because it just it creates a selection. You can adjust this as needed with your
selection tools, so if I wanted to remove some of this additional stuff I can do that.
Shape selection tool which is the new one... I already have a selection going but I can...
do this one, see that it is starting to build itself.
I don't have to be especially accurate as far as I understand it.
So once we have a full circle with a double click I can go back and adjust each connection point...
And you can see it's.. that.. it's not straight, which gives you some
fine grain control. Up here, commit!
So that just basically added to our selection. I have found the Acdsee does need
quite a beefy computer. My computer is a i7-6700, so not the best...
And then we can go into this AI face edit feature. So it found the face.
It zoomed in on it and then if we click this edit AI points we can see that it didn't do
quite what it needed to with the mouth. So I can adjust that if I want.
Face, eyebrows, nose, mouth, makeup... So face width, there we go.
Obviously a lot's not gonna work out too well but subtle changes I'm sure.
If I want to look like that big meme chin guy, super buff chin guy... potentially get there.
Although my chin is not nearly... And I add the sharpening.
You can see that does actually do something. That could be useful.
If I want the eyes a little bit lighter that's a good option.
So this one here I noticed it doesn't work properly with glasses.
I'll have to try that out at some point with.. uhh.. someone that doesn't have glasses.
Seems to work pretty well considering. If I hold the Z key down you can see
what the adjustments actually did here. Got those anime eyes going.
The skin tune from the develop tab is in here as well.
This is something I'd use more. See it's just a very basic
skin softening feature on a slider. I use this a lot and the glow is there as well,
so very subtle... well maybe not as subtle. You can see it's definitely working
with that much applied. Select sky from this image.
Now it might know that this is water, but it's frozen water so it didn't actually didn't notice.
For example if I wanted to make it darker or lighter... pressed exposure, I can do that.
And if it's not perfect you can still go in there and change the selection as I showed.
One thing that I often do is remove backgrounds from product images and then
I use them in my thumbnails for videos. So let's try remove background see what
happens one click operation. Zoom in and see how it did.
That looks decent [Music]
Okay, so it didn't get this hidden area, but I could go in there and erase it.
Another few features this has to quickly do tasks that usually take quite a few steps...
In this case HDR images. I already did process a few,
but I'll give you an example. So I have a bunch of images
with a bracket which basically means different exposure of the same scene.
You'd select what you want here. So I'll take all of them in this case
and go into process HDR. Pretty sure they revised this for 2023.
Once this pops up you have options to decide what you want.
Black and white, detailed, dramatic, and natural...
So I'm going to put it into an HDR folder. Gonna use TIFF,
so that should hold a lot of information. Here it is with the, I think it was five,
different images. Definitely HDR.
Let's take a look at the... so some of this is related to the lens I was
using a kit lens which is not the best optically.
I probably could have removed aberrations before doing that,
but you can see a lot of detail in here. I did also do a few other ones here.
This is.. uhh.. M50, again some lens issues here that was the kit lens as well.
And there's information in this bright area compared to the dark shadow area.
Here's one other photo. A ton of sky detail
and a lot of foreground as well. Also image stacking.. focus stacking in this case.
So first off let's take a look at the sample images.
I use this in my one of my previous Acdsee videos, these specific images.
So I have a huge set of this one, and then I just have three images for these other two examples.
Go into the process menu and use focus stack. It's also in photo merge as well.
Again there could be some optical related issues, or it's just how they process,
but you can see some haloing on the text. However it did pull in the sharp text.
So I could potentially see using this,
but there are some optical issues at least with my set of photo.. you know.. examples.
Here we do see detail in the front as well as in the back.
That was a three image test. This one is a ton of images.
Again, we see detail in the back... SD card...
And in the front, so it works! It's very quick
so if you're looking for a convenient way to stack with not a ton of flexibility it's an option.
Panorama type things or just photo merging... I processed two examples so you can see this one.
Quite a few images and then this one... In this case you go into process photo merge.
Select your images, panorama... You let it go through its thing
you can maybe do remove vignette and yeah but I already went through those.
This one had a ton of images. When I took these photos I focused once.
I turned off the focus and I kept the settings fully manual.
So the focus was most likely right in the center. Then I just tried to move the camera around
without moving it too much, but with so much going on here there is some artifacting.
Oh like right here there's a little Quirk going on.
I think I missed one of the photos that I should have had in here,
but a little bit better this time. I could potentially see that using that
or just using it as a normal panorama thing. Okay besides that we also have a people tab.
Click on that... I don't have any named ones at the moment and I only let it process my images,
but you can see it's already finding faces in this case.
Okay, right click rename... that's me.
Friend 1...
It did find a face! Quite a few other... so that's not a face.
You can delete that one. Yeah... Take that out of the database.
These are toys obviously. But wow, it's getting side profiles.
Getting background.. face.. I specifically put a few
little unique images of myself in there. So there is a lot of power and functionality
once you start naming and grouping faces then you can search on a person.. and...
Go into named faces now I can see the different ones I've been adding.
So then if I do multiple photo shoots with her I would be able
to quickly find those and go through them. There's also a dashboard which I've shown before.
I have very few images in here but you can see 700 something just for this video.
Favorite resolution... it's a cool little feature. They don't do a ton with this,
but it's a nice fun little thing. So even just in this set of example images.
See some ISO data preferences. Different cameras used, yeah!
So imagine if you have your full huge data set of different photos then you
would have a lot more interesting information. One thing I do often is add exif information to
file names, so that when I use them in the video editor I can just copy
paste that information very quickly. So I have a few images selected here.
Go into edit rename or press F2 on the keyboard and then pull in some exif information.
Once star will add the original name down here, or use the hash for sequence.
So I have to selected I have them adjusted. I can go in here and add a little
bit extra to make it look proper. That looks pretty good, click rename.
So now those are all good to go. They did adjust the quick search functionality.
It's going to pull the different apertures that I set to the file name,
but f/8 and then any F dot... Full search, if you want to
search on exif information. Forgetting the quick search,
here we can go into the weeds... Let's do ISO and model, click ok.
Now we have the these different fields. Let's do ISO 100, the classic, and Canon.
There should be different cameras. The start...
Okay that was quick. In this case let me group by camera.
Let's see what we pulled in here. Got the 30D, the M100, M5...
Less.. oh.. is less than or equal. Let's do equal again 32.
Okay, that worked! So I could see a lot of
capabilities here with this advanced search. You can save them which is nice.
Acdsee Photo Studio Ultimate 2023. I mostly use it for the
managing of photos, processing... Doing develop where it's non-destructive,
but it does have a lot of the edit capabilities with the AI stuff and everything that's new to it.
I'm really excited for the search capabilities in the manage area that have been approved.
So I'm just showing them here but I'm getting used to it myself.
Yeah, a lot to it! Again, keep in mind they sent me
this code to try out and make the video on. Scott of Photography Banzai, thanks!