Category: Photo Techniques

  • Upgrading to ACDSee 2023

    Hints, tips and a little grumble I’ve just upgraded to ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2023 and then needed probably a couple of hours of experimenting, updating my documentation and manual re-entry to get to what I hope is an installation that is customized the way I like it. I’m writing this with two hopes in […]

  • Depth of Field – in depth

    First, what is depth of field? Here’s a quote from the Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: When the camera lens is focussed to give a sharp image of a particular object, other objects closer or further away do not appear equally sharp. The decline of focus is gradual and there is a zone extending in front […]

  • ACDSee DAM changes I’d like to see

    I’ve been using ACDSee to manage my photos since before anyone used the term Digital Asset Management (DAM) and back then I used other products to do advanced image manipulation. Today I use ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate for everything I do with photographs. So it’s fair to say I like the product. In recent years […]

  • Digital Asset Management in ACDSee

    I have been using ACDSee to manage my photographs for longer than I can remember. I know I started using ACDSee when I was introduced to it sometime before 1998. Back in those days, it was freeware that made viewing a lot of photographs one after another a fairly painless task. I probably used the […]

  • Enhancing sunrise pictures

    A few days ago, around sunrise, the sky was just incredible. I couldn’t stop right then, but I rushed my errands and stopped at a local pond on my way back. No camera, just my phone. The phone automatically selected “sunrise/sunset” mode and did a good job of capturing the sky and clouds, but I […]