Contents

Welcome to ACDSee 2009
About this guide Document conventions System requirements Installing ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 Contacting ACD Systems Quick overview Using the Help system

Import Photos

Importing photos Moving and copying photos

Browse and View

Changing the Browser layout Automatic scrolling Magnifying areas of a photo Quick View Showroom Viewing photos by date/month

Organize and Find

About the ACDSee database Organizing tools Using categories Using Auto Categories Using keywords Using categories to find files Finding files using the easy-select bar Using saved searches

Fix and Enhance

Save originals Fixing red-eye Fixing shadows and highlights Using borders Using Selections to fix photos or create artistic effects

Print and Share

Printing an image in ACDSee Printing a contact sheet or catalogue page Running a full slide show

Store and Retrieve

Burning photos and information to a CD or DVD Backing up the ACDSee database

What next?

Consult the Help file Product Support and Resources Community Blog Web site

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Welcome to ACDSee 2009

Congratulations on choosing ACDSee 2009, the industryleading, photo management software. ACDSee 2009 is fast, powerful, and so easy to use that it is essential for managing, viewing, editing, and sharing your digital photos and media files.

About ACDSee 2009

With ACDSee, you can quickly find, organize, and preview photos, fonts, video, and other media files on your computer. Downloading photos from cameras, scanners, or other removable devices is efficient and easy. You can also quickly rearrange ACDSees screen to make sure that the tools you need are close at hand, and so make the most of your time. Using Quick View or the full Viewer, you can have high-quality onscreen displays of your photos and media files with a few clicks. Watch slide shows, play embedded audio, and view files in any of the over 50 supported photo and multimedia file formats, including PNG and RAW. ACDSee also includes an editor where you can fix and enhance your photos. You can quickly fix common digital photo problems, such as red-eye effect, color casts, or even lens scratches and blemishes. Crop, sharpen, blur, rotate, adjust exposure and color, or add text and special effects to give your photos an artistic flair. You can even use ACDSee to adjust multiple images at the same time. Rename, resize, rotate, or adjust the exposure of a group of images, or the contents of an entire folder all at once. Cant remember where you put the photos you downloaded yesterday? With ACDSee, you can search your collection for specific photos, or adjust your display to see only the files you want to see. ACDSee makes it easy to share your photos, too. You can e-mail them, turn them into video files and VCDs, burn them to CD or DVD, and use them to create an HTML album of photos to display on your Web site. You can also use ACDSees powerful print tool to print photos and contact sheets of your collection. ACDSee gives you all the tools you need to manage your photo/image collection whether its just a few hundred images, or tens of thousands of photos and files.

Intel Pentium III / AMD Athlon processor or equivalent 512 MB RAM 100 MB free hard drive space High Color display adapter at 1024x768 Windows XP Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.0 Microsoft DirectX 9.0c - for Microsoft DirectX file format support, and for creating slide shows, screen savers, and VCDs

Recommended

Intel Pentium 4 / AMD Athlon XP or equivalent recommended 1 GB RAM 1 GB free hard drive space High Color display adapter at 1280x1024 CD/DVD burner Windows XP or Vista Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.0 Microsoft DirectX 9.0c - for Microsoft DirectX file format support, and for creating slide shows, screen savers, and VCDs TiVo Desktop Software- to publish photos to TiVo QuickTime 6.0 for QuickTime file format support Ghostscript 8.0 -- for PDF support Windows Media Player 9.0 or later
Installing ACDSee Photo Manager 2009
If you bought ACDSee from a store, you can install it from the CD-ROM. If you bought ACDSee online, or downloaded a trial version, you can install it from the executable file that you downloaded. To install ACDSee from the CD-ROM: 1. Insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive and close the drive door. If your computer has auto-run enabled, it will detect the CD and launch the installer automatically. Skip ahead to step 5. 2. If your computer does not have auto-run enabled, click the Windows Start button, and then click Run. 3. Click Browse, and then select your CD-ROM drive in the Look-in dropdown list. 4. Select the file setup.exe, and then click Open. Click OK to launch the installer. 5. In the installer, click the Install ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 button, and then follow the instructions in the Install Wizard. When prompted for a License Code, look on the wrapper or case that held the CD, and type the numbers and letters into the field provided. 4 | ACDSee 2009 Getting Started Guide
6. Once ACDSee is installed, double-click the ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 icon on your desktop to launch ACDSee. To install from an executable file: 1. Using Windows Explorer, find the executable file you downloaded from the Internet. 2. Double-click the executable file to launch the Install Wizard, and then follow the instructions in the wizard. When prompted for a License Code, look in the e-mail message sent to you confirming your purchase. 3. Once ACDSee is installed, double-click the ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 icon on your desktop to launch ACDSee. To convert from a trial to a licensed version: 1. Open ACDSee. 2. On the tool bar, click Help | Enter License Code. 3. In the Enter License Code field, paste or type in the licence code. 4. Click OK. 5. Close and reopen ACDSee.

Contacting ACD Systems

When you buy ACDSee Photo Manager 2009, you are automatically eligible for ongoing service by our technical support team. If you have any technical or product-related questions, or just general feedback you would like to share, please visit our Web site at: www.acdsee.com/support

Quick overview

ACDSee consists of three main components: the Browser, the Viewer, and Edit Mode. The Browser is the main sorting, viewing, and managing part of ACDSee. When you launch ACDSee using the desktop shortcut, the Browser is what you see. It looks a little bit like Windows Explorer, and at first glance, works much the same way. You can click on the name of a folder in the Folders Pane on the left to see thumbnails of all those files in the File list, which is the central part of the window. Around this central area there are several other panes packed with tools to help you sort, manage, and organize your photo or file collection. Even better, you can change the Browser completely as the panes can be hidden, moved, stacked, docked, floated, and repositioned to suit you and the way that you work. Welcome to ACDSee 2009 | 5
The Viewer displays your photos and plays your video and audio files. It also has icons that give you quick access to Edit Mode. You can view your photos at any magnification you choose, scan through the contents of a folder, and view photo properties or detailed color information. To open the Viewer, double-click any photo or media file in the Browser. You can also use the Viewer to assign database information like keywords, captions, and author. The ACDSee Quick View is a faster and more streamlined viewer that you can use without opening ACDSee. It will open if you double-click a photo or image file in Windows Explorer. To quickly open ACDSee from Quick View, click Photo Manager to open the Browser or Full Viewer to open the main Viewer.
ACDSees Edit Mode has all the tools you need to fix or enhance your photos. The tools are listed on the Edit Panel, which you can hide or close when you arent using it. Clicking the name of a tool opens it in a panel, where you can adjust the settings to edit your image. To open an image in Edit Mode, click Edit Image on the toolbar in the Browser or the Viewer. To open an editing tool in Edit Mode, click any of the tools on the Edit Panel: Main Menu on the left side of the window. The Getting Started Guide goes into more detail about the Browser, Viewer, and Edit Mode in later chapters.

You can save all these import settings and use them repeatedly or save different sets of import settings for different tasks. In this chapter we use a digital camera as the example of how to import, but the process is essentially the same for any removable device. You could also use the From Disk option, and browse to the camera in the Folder structure.
About the Device Detector
The Device Detector is a small, separate application outside of ACDSee that runs in the background whenever you start your computer. It automatically detects whenever you connect any device containing images or media files to your computer, or even when you insert a CD with images into your CD-ROM drive. The Device Detector displays an icon in the Taskbar Notification area (the bottom right corner) of your Windows tool bar. When you connect a camera, the icon changes color, and displays a window asking you what you want to do with your photos.
ACDSee Device Detector icon - inactive ACDSee Device Detector icon - camera connected

Importing photos

To import photos using the Import From window: 1. Start by connecting the camera to the computer and making sure the cable is secure. When you turn the camera on, the Device Detector notices the camera, and prompts you to either: 10 | ACDSee 2009 Getting Started Guide
Import files with ACDSee (If you select this option at this stage, you launch the Import From window immediately.) Do nothing 2. For now, select Do nothing, and then click OK to close the Device Detector window. 3. In ACDSee, launch the Import From window by clicking File | Import. | From Device. To select photos to import: 1. When the Import From window opens, select how you want to view the photos on the device, by Date or File Type. If you view photos by date, the Import From window displays a list of the dates you took the photos. If you view photos by file type, it lists them by file types, such as JPEG., RAW, or TIF. 2. If you want to select specific files, deselect all the photos, by clicking the All Dates or All File types check box, in the View by section. 3. Now you can select or clear the check boxes in the left pane by date, or file type. For example, if you want to view just the photos you took last weekend, select the check boxes for those dates so that only those photos appear in the preview pane. 4. You can also select the photos you want to import individually or in groups in the preview pane. Select or clear the check boxes by clicking the small square in the top right corner of each thumbnail. 5. To select groups of photo in the preview pane, place your cursor in a blank area, drag a box around the photos to highlight them and then click the square in one photo. All the highlighted photos are now selected. 6. To view just the ones you have selected click the View selected radio button.

The information in ACDSees database is created, stored, and used by ACDSee. If you copy, move or rename your files and photos using other programs, such as Windows Explorer, ACDSee cannot track these changes and the connection to the database is broken. This can mean that you lose data. To prevent this, always work within ACDSee to move, copy, or rename your photos and media files.
Drag the photos over the name of the destination folder in the Folders pane, then release the mouse. You can drag and drop photos from your camera into ACDSee using Microsoft Windows Explorer. If you have both windows visible, you can simply select and drag photos from Windows into the file list in ACDSee. This works well for the first time you are importing from your camera, or if you do not want to keep any database information from ACDSee.
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In the Browser, ACDSee displays your photos and files as a list of thumbnails that you can resize, customize, group, or sort any way you choose. In the Viewer, you can see your photos and media files at actual size, or at any magnification. You can also view files in Quick View or ACDSee Showroom.

Browsing

The central part of the Browser is the file list. Usually it is a list of thumbnails of the photos in the current folder, but it can be a list of search results, rated photos, images, fonts, or even a text list of file names.
Docking Compass: Activates when you move a pane in the Browser to help you position the pane precisely. The docking compass has an inner and outer ring of arrows. When you hover your cursor over any of the arrows, a shaded area shows you the potential position of the pane. Hover over the center of the compass to stack a pane on top of another.
To move one pane of a stack, click and drag its tab to a new location. To move all the panes in a stack click and drag the top panes title bar to a new location. To quickly return a pane to its previous location, double-click its title bar. To change the order of a stack of panes, drag the tabs left or right.
Each thumbnail has the name of the file below it and a small icon in the top right corner that shows the file format or image type. If a file has a rating, it will have a rating icon beside the file format. If the file has been added to a category, it will have a blue tag. If there are folders below the current folder, you see a folder with tiny thumbnails of the first few pictures in that folder. In the upper left corner of the Browser, is the Folders pane, which lists your computers folder structure, and any CD/DVD drives, cameras, or removable drives. Click the name of a folder or drive in the Folders pane to see its contents in the file list. Stacked under the Folders panes are two others, the Calendar and Favorites panes. You can see their tabs, beside the Folders tab at the bottom of the pane. Click the tab to bring that pane to the front. In the lower left corner of the layout is the Preview pane. Click a photo in the file list to display a larger version of it in the Preview pane. Positioned on the right side of the screen is the Organize pane, which contains powerful tools to rate your files, and arrange them into categories or auto categories. At the very bottom of the screen is the status bar, which changes constantly to show detailed information about what you have selected, or where your cursor is positioned.

Two tools in the Viewer make it possible to examine a small area of an image in great detail while maintaining a sense of where you are in the whole. The Magnifying Glass behaves just like its real namesake. When you click View | Magnifying Glass, a re-sizable window opens to show a magnified area of the photo. The magnified area changes as you move your cursor, to show the area directly under your cursor, just as if you were holding a real magnifying glass. The Navigator works in the opposite way. When you are zoomed in at high magnification, it is easy to lose a sense of exactly what you are looking at in the photo. If you click View | Navigator, a re-sizable window opens that shows you an overview of the photo with a small square representing the area you have visible in the Viewer.

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Quick View
If you double-click an image file in Windows Explorer, or in an e-mail, a sleeker, faster version of the Viewer opens so that you can view photos without opening ACDSee. Quick View is a light version of the Viewer that has most of the same viewing shortcut keys. You can click Full Viewer to open the ACDSee Viewer, or click the Photo Manager icon to open the Browser.

Showroom

ACDSee Showroom is a widget that lets you showcase your collection of photos or images by displaying a small slide show on your desktop as you work. You can run up to 16 different slide shows on your computer at once, even if ACDSee isnt open. To create a desktop slide show with ACDSee Showroom: 1. In ACDSee, navigate to a folder containing images that you want to add to the desktop slide show. 2. Do one of the following: Click Create | Create ACDSee Showroom. Click Start | Programs | ACD Systems | ACDSee Showroom. The slide show starts immediately.
Viewing photos by date/month
You can browse through your photos by month and date using the Photo Calendar. Other options for viewing include the Events view, year, month, or day view. The Photo Calendar shows thumbnails per day within a month. The total number of photos belonging to that month is in the top right corner of the calendar. To open the Photo Calendar: 1. On the menu bar, click View | Calendar. The Photo Calendar opens above the File list, which moves down so that you can only see a single row of thumbnails. If there are no photos on a particular day, its blank.
Your images will not display in any of the Calendar panes until you have either browsed to the folder containing the images, or used the Catalog Files Wizard to catalog your images so they are in the ACDSee database.

ACDSee also includes the Quick Search bar, a tool that you can use to quickly find files or folders by searching for keywords, categories, notes, captions, authors, and file names. For more information about using the Quick Search bar, see the ACDSee 2009 Help file.

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With the text - Type in the text that you want to search for. Click the right arrow to narrow the search. You can choose to find all words, find whole words only, or search in captions, keywords, notes, categories, or folders. Entire database - Click this radio button to search the entire ACDSee database. If you select this option, the Categories and Folders area is hidden because you have chosen to search the entire database rather than narrow the search to particular categories or folders. Specific folders and categories - Click this radio button to open the Categories and Folders area so that you can identify particular categories or folders to search. Sync to browser settings - If you have already opened a folder in the Browser, you can click this link to automatically search the same folder. 3. If you want to search based on categories or folders, click the Specific folders and categories radio button in the Files and Text area, and then enter the details below in the Categories and Folders area. In any of the following - Use this field to search particular categories. Click the Add button, select a category, and then click OK. To remove a category, click the category, then click Remove. If you want to include any sub-categories, click the right-arrow and select Include subcategories. In any of the following folders - Use this field to search particular folders. Click Add, select a folder, and then click OK. To remove a folder, click the folder, and then click Remove. You can choose to include subfolders or search cataloged items only by clicking the right-arrow. 4. If you want to search the file metadata, click Add in the Properties area. Click the check boxes for the information you want to search, and then click OK. The properties you select appear in the list. To remove a property, click the property, and then click Remove. 5. To save the search, click the Save icon, select Save As, enter a name for the saved search, then click OK. To re-use a saved search: 1. On the Organize pane, click on the saved search.
Your search is re-run and all of your matching images display in the file list. You can also run a saved search by clicking the Saved searches down-arrow on the Search pane and selecting your saved search from the list.

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ACDSees editing tools give you professional results, yet they are extremely easy to use. You can recover photos you thought were hopeless, or create amazingly artistic images by adding borders or by applying effects to a selected area of the image. And ACDSee automatically saves a copy of the original photo so you can always go back to where you started.

Fixing

ACDSee has several tools for common editing tasks like renaming, rotating, resizing etc., that allow you to edit multiple photos at the same time. It also has a powerful image editor for making precise fixes to individual photos. In Edit Mode, you can remove red-eye, fix color and exposure problems, add text, apply special effects, remove flaws like power lines, and much more. The editing tools in ACDSee are very easy to use, often needing only one click to apply fixes like the Shadow/Highlights tool that both lightens and darkens different areas of a photo.

Save originals

The first time (and only the first time) you save edits to one of your images, ACDSee automatically saves a copy of the original photo with its original name, so that you can always restore it. For example, if you crop an image to use as an avatar (a small image used to identify you in online communities), but you forget to save the cropped image with a new name, you can restore the original full photo. This setting is turned on by default when you install ACDSee. If you choose to turn it off to save space on your hard drive, you can turn it on again at a later date. To restore an original: 1. If you plan to restore an original, but you also want a copy of the edited image, start by saving the edited image with a new file name. When you restore an image, the saved original replaces the image with same file name as the original. For example, if your original image had the file name IMG_1984.jpg, the saved original has the same name. Save the edited image with a new name, such as headshot.jpg. When you restore the image, the IMG_1984.jpg file is replaced with the saved original. 2. Right-click the photo you want to restore in the Browser and select Restore Original. 3. When prompted, click the Restore Original button.

Fixing red-eye

As with many editing tools, ACDSee has simplified the task so you can fix redeye with a few clicks. To fix red-eye: 1. Select the photo you want to edit in the file list. 2. On the tool bar, click Edit Image | Edit Mode. The photo opens in the Edit Panel, with the editing tools to the left.

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3. On the Edit Panel: Main Menu, click Red-Eye Reduction to open the Red-Eye Reduction tool. Just above the photo, below the main tool bar, are three buttons and a slider to quickly zoom in or out. 4. Drag the Zoom slider to the right to zoom in on the photo, and then click and drag the photo to center one of the subjects eyes in the window. Zooming in tight on the eye makes it much easier to see what you are doing and which part of the eye you need to fix. 5. Drag a marquee over the whole eye. If the red-eye does not completely disappear, adjust the Reduction intensity. Drag the Reduction intensity slider to the right to increase the amount of color applied each time you drag over the eye. If the red color is bleeding over the eyelid or iris, you can change the color applied by selecting a new or custom color from the Fill color dropdown list. 6. You can also click inside the red part of eye. Click again on any red areas that remain. 7. If you are unhappy with the effect, click Undo, adjust the settings, and try again.
To achieve a natural look with the Red Eye tool, drag over the eye only as many times as you need to cover the worst of the redness. Leaving a little redness around the edge is often more effective as it looks more natural. Use the slider to zoom out often and see if the eye looks natural at the normal magnification.
To make fine adjustments to any of the sliders in Edit Mode, hover your cursor over the slider and move the mouse wheel one click forward or back.
8. Click Done to return to the Edit Panel. 9. Click Finished Editing, and then Save as to save the file under a new name. 10. Type in a name for the new file, and then click Save to return to the Browser.
Fixing shadows and highlights
Taking photos on sunny days often results in pictures that have some areas that are too bright and others that are too dark. The result is often an invisible silhouette against bright light. Most exposure tools can only make the whole photo brighter, or darker, so you are forced to fix only the dark or light area and sacrifice the rest. The Shadows/Highlights tool can rescue photos you never thought you could. It simultaneously darkens areas that are too light (like a bright sky or sea) and lightens areas that are too dark (like a persons face, or foliage.) Fix and Enhance | 33

You can use the Feathering tool to blur the edge of your selection into the background. This makes it unnecessary to be precise when you create a selection. The feathering makes a soft transition between the selected area and the rest of the image.

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When you edit an image in Edit Mode, you are actually working with two images, the original and the edited image. The Opacity and Blend Mode controls give you creative control over both images and how to combine the two to create a new image.
To apply special effects to a selection: 1. Once you have made your selection, click Effects. The Effects panel opens. 2. Double-click on any icon to apply that effect. In some cases (like Sepia and Negative) the effect is applied immediately. In other cases, where there are options to adjust, a separate window opens. When an effect opens in a window, other effects in that category, open as tabs at the top of the panel, so you can try out several effects without closing the window. To see the effects categories, click the Select a category drop-down list on the Effects panel. 3. You can hide the marching ants around your selection. This allows you to see the effect on your image without their interference. Click the Show Selection icon to hide the selection. Click the icon again to show the selection. 4. To soften the edge between your selection and the other parts of the image, drag the Feathering slider to the right. 5. If you want see how the effect would look applied to the whole image, click the Use Selection button. 6. You can change the strength of the effect by dragging the Opacity slider to the right or left. What you are actually doing is increasing the transparency of the edited image to allow more of the original image to show through. You can also use Blend Modes for even more creative effects. To the left of the Opacity slider, is the Blend Mode drop-down list. Each blend mode combines the original and edited image in different ways. (See the Help file for details about blend modes.) 7. Click Done to apply your changes and close the tool. 8. Click Finished Editing and then Save as, to save the file under a new name. 9.Type in a name for the new file, then Save to return to the Browser.
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Print and Share

ACDSee includes a variety of tools that you can use to share your photos with friends and family. Whether you want to display your photos on a Web site, print a full-sized photograph on a desktop printer, or watch a slide show on your television, ACDSee can help you do it.

Printing

ACDSees printing tool has advanced settings for printing from full-sized, to contact sheets with multiple thumbnails to use as an index of your collection. You can add descriptive text to each page or individual image and instantly see the effect in the Preview, which is in the same window as the settings. The Layout options make it easy to choose the best option to fit your paper size, but you can fine-tune print settings yourself using either the Full page, or Contact sheet options. You can print photos or images on any size paper, in any orientation, and at any resolution your printer can support. If your photos dont match one of the standard print sizes, such as 5x7 or 8x10, you can create custom print size formats and save them to use at another time. If you print a lot of contact sheets, and have taken a while to create complicated settings, you can also save them as a preset, to use again and again.

Printing an image in ACDSee
You can use all the settings in the Print window to set up a wide variety of layouts, and to orient, position, and group your images precisely on any size page. The Preview of the page is right on the Print window itself. This means you see immediately the effect of any changes to the settings as you make them. To print a full-page image to fit a standard frame size: 1. Start by selecting the photo or image you want to print in the file list. Then click File | Print (or press Ctrl + P). The Print window opens, and the Preview area shows the position and size of the photo on a standard page. 2. In the top-left corner of the window are the three options for printing. Click the Full page option. The Format area to the left of the Preview, changes to Fit to page. 3. In the Format area, click the 10x8 check box to print your photo to fit a standard 8x10 photo frame. The Preview pane shows the current margin settings of your printer as dotted lines around the edge of the page. Any portions of your image that are outside of the margins are shown solid red, so you can see to make adjustments. 40 | ACDSee 2009 Getting Started Guide
4. To center the image on the page, click the Page Setting tab in the top right corner of the screen, and then select Center from the Page position drop-down list. 5. To reduce the page margins, and fit the picture on the page, change the values in the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right fields of the Margins area to half an inch. 6. In the Advanced options section, select the Automatically rotate picture based on print format check box. The Print tool now rotates the image to fill the 8.5x11 inch page. 7. Click Print to print the photo and return to ACDSee.
Printing a contact sheet or catalogue page
When you have a large collection of photos or images, it is difficult to keep track of what you have and where they are. One way is to print contact sheets of thumbnails to use as a catalogue or index. Once in a ring binder, you can quickly skim through your collection and find the image you want. To make it even easier, in ACDSee you can automatically add unique text to each thumbnail, like the images file name, caption or keyword. You can also add a header or footer to the printed page for information such as where these images are stored on the computer, CD/DVD, or removable drive. To print a contact sheet or collection catalogue: 1. Start by selecting all the images you want to print in the file list. Then click File | Print (or press Ctrl + P). The Print window opens, and the Preview area shows the position and size of the photo. 2. At the top-left corner of the window, click the Contact Sheet option. The images reappear as small thumbnails in a grid. 3. To reduce the page margins and fit more images on the page, click the Page Settings tab on the right side of the window. Change the margin size in the Top, Bottom, Left, and Right fields to 0.25. 4. The quickest way to resize the pictures is to use the Columns and Rows sliders in the Contact sheet format box to the left of the Preview. (You can also increase or decrease the spacing between the images, put a frame around each one, or add a drop shadow or fade.) 5. When you are happy with the settings, click the Save icon beside the Presets field at the top of the options, type in a name for these settings and click OK. Next time you print this kind of page, you wont have to redo the settings. 6. To automatically print the file name (or other information) below each photo, click the Caption tab in the lower left corner of the Print window, and then select the Use caption text check box. Print and Share | 41

If you combine the printing power of ACDSee with the database information and the easy-select bar in the Browser, you can print the contents of multiple folders, your whole collection, or special combinations, like images using a certain camera and author in one or two locations. For other collections, you could print all the blue design elements by a group of designers. In each case, the location, name, size, or any other date can be printed beside the picture.
7. Click the Insert Metadata button just below the text box. 8. In the Choose Properties window, double-click File Properties, and then select the Filename check box. Click OK and the placeholder <File Properties: Filename> appears in the text box. When you print, the actual name of each image replaces the placeholder. The Preview now shows how the actual file name appears below the image so you can adjust the column and row size to be sure you can read all the text. 9. To insert information on the whole page, click the Header tab and then select the User header text check box. 10. In the Text alignment field, select Left, then click the Font button and select Arial Bold Size 18. 11. In the text box, type in the location of your files. For example, type the path to the folder on your computer, or the name of the CD/DVD, or removable drive. 12. Press Enter to insert space between the text and the first row of images.
13. Click Print when you are happy with the settings.
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Sharing

With ACDSees sharing tools, you can share your digital photos or image files with anyone you want. You can put your photos on your personal Web site by creating an HTML album, share your pictures online with ACDSees free SendPix image sharing service, or create a slide show to watch with your family and friends.
Running a full slide show
One of the most popular uses of ACDSee is to create a slide show of all the photos in a particular folder. To create a slide show of all the photos in a folder: 1. In the Viewer, click View | Auto Slide Show. 2. On the Basic tab, select the transitions, variations, and effects to customize your slide show. Click the check box for a transition to use it in the slideshow. You can select more than one transition to use in your slide show. When the slide show changes from one photo to the next, it randomly selects one of your choices. Select a variation from the Variations drop-down menu. You can choose to pan and zoom in on each photo, use a collage effect, with the photos layered over each other, or show photos two or four at a time (2 up or 4 up). Select one of the effects from the Effects drop-down menu Black & White, Sepia, Vivid, or Soft. A preview of the slide show appears in the Preview area so that you can see how the transitions, variations, and effects work together. 3. In the Slide duration field, type the number of seconds you want the slide show to display each photo. 4. To play an audio file while the slide show is running, click the Advanced tab, and then click the Browse button to select your audio file. 5. On the Advanced tab, you can also choose to stretch the images or video to fit the screen, shuffle the slide order, and play any audio clips embedded in the images. By default ACDSee automatically hides the control bar and loops through the slide show, but you can turn these options off. 6. To add text to your slide show, click the Text tab, and select both the Display header text and Display footer text check boxes. Headers display at the top of the screen, and footers display at the bottom. 7. From the Alignment drop-down list, select Center, and then type a brief description in the Text field of the photos in your slide show. Print and Share | 43

Consult the Help file

The ACDSee 2009 Help provides explanations and steps for using all of ACDSees many features. It also contains lists of shortcut keys, detailed descriptions of the Browser panes, and more information about how to import, organize, repair, manage, and maintain your growing collection. Press the F1 key while using ACDSee at any time to open the Help file.
Product Support and Resources
If you have an Internet connection, you can access the latest information instantly by clicking Help | Product Support and Resources. You will find a.PDF of this guide,.PDF tutorials, interactive Video tutorials, and any updates to the software.

Community

Visit the ACDSee Community by clicking Help | ACDSee Community. Here you can find our forums, chat to other ACDSee users, and sign up for our free e-mail newsletters to get digital photography tips and tricks, and other useful information.
Read the ACDSee blog to keep up-to-date with the latest news from the ACDSee team or explore the archives to read posts on product features, photography tips, and much more. http://blog.acdsee.com/

Web site

On the Web site, www.acdsee.com, you can find more information about ACDSee, and articles about other products and digital photography in general.

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Convert ACDSee 10 Database to ACDSee PM 2009
Optimizing DB before Converting
Deleting DB Index & thumbnail files before converting
Exporting DB to a text file and then Import
In ACDSee 10, Optimize the database via Database | Optimize Database

Close ACDSee 10

In the organize pane of ACDSee 10, check Image Well
Check both options: Optimize the database tables and fields and Remove orphans from database
In Windows Explorer, browse to your ACDSee 10 database folder 1
Select all images files with Ctrl + I or choose Select all Images from the Edit Menu
Export the Database to a text format and check all three options below. Finish the database optimization Wizard Sort the files based on type and delete all the cdx files and thumb1.fpt and thumb2.fpt Edit text file in Notepad, change the version # from 1.5 to 1.6. Save the text as Unicode 2
Convert the database in ACDSee 2009
In ACDSee 2009, Import the database as the text file and choose the text file that you have just modified
Converted Successfully ? Converted Successfully ?
1 Database folder In Windows XP, the ACDSee 10's database folder is: C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Local Settings \Application Data\ACD Systems\Catalogs\100\Default In Windows Vista, the ACDsee 10's database folder is: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Local\ACD Systems\ Catalogs\100\Default
Save the text file as Unicode
Save the text as Unicode format for ACDSee Pro 2.5 and ACDSee Photo Manger 2009.
Start using ACDSee Photo Manager 2009
For previous version of ACDSee, save the file as ANSI.