ACDSee Ultimate 10

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #18443822
I actually still have a working one, and no kidding I have ACDss 3.0 on one of the disks!

Some other old goodies on ZiP disk,

- GL Quake patch
- Monster/Voodoo 3D driver
- EZCD Creator
- Matrox drivers
- Photoshop 4 MMX patch (allowed PS to work with multicore/multiprocess​ors for the first time)
- Netscape Navigator

...and most importantly, the mpeg with the chimp sniffing his own but and fainting.

I just now found this on one of my backup drives

(this is a screen capture - All files in individual folders!)

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #18443822
I actually still have a working one, and no kidding I have ACDss 3.0 on one of the disks!

Some other old goodies on ZiP disk,

- GL Quake patch
- Monster/Voodoo 3D driver
- EZCD Creator
- Matrox drivers
- Photoshop 4 MMX patch (allowed PS to work with multicore/multiprocess​ors for the first time)
- Netscape Navigator

...and most importantly, the mpeg with the chimp sniffing his own but and fainting.

Holly crap, I used and knew those programs and drivers well And the blue screen of death from Win 3.1 and Win 95.

First program I install after every fresh OS is ACDC 3.1 for JPEG. Still have a copy of the ACDC Classic 2.43 on my current PC and I don't know why, lol.

Bought and held on to some Netscape stocks many years ago, they turned into AOL, and now Time Warner stocks. I am a dinosaur in the computer age.

I found THIS Article by accident on my phone;

a review about using ACDSee Photo Studio Ultimate 2018 to replace Photoshop and Lightroom.

I have my doubts if this would be possible, but wanted to share it here.

A comment by another poster below the article states: "This is a sponsored article: take it with a grain of salt"

https://acdsee.com …VZBzSmTrEq9kuoa​Al858P8HAQ

CyberDyneSystems wrote in post #18443822
...and most importantly, the mpeg with the chimp sniffing his own but and fainting.

And here I just have to butt in with another OT-ish comment...

- That mpeg is priceless! I think I still have it stored somewhere together with a few other "oldies but goldies".

Lotto wrote in post #18444071
Still have a copy of the ACDC Classic 2.43 on my current PC and I don't know why, lol.

I still have and use v2.3 on my XP box.

Regards,
GEWB

D-Jordi wrote in post #18447120
And here I just have to butt in with another OT-ish comment...

- That mpeg is priceless! I think I still have it stored somewhere together with a few other "oldies but goldies".

It is only bested by "trek.wav" aka "Specimen gathering mission"

to this day it lives on my phone in the music folder and can pop up randomly on shuffle,.. at which point every time I nearly die laughing.

Inspeqtor wrote in post #18447095
I found THIS Article by accident on my phone; ....

Is this "article" written by an 11 year old?

eg: he's got "quite a unique" and "kind of unique" in the first few sentences. This is an entire sentence "It’s something important to emphasize because it’s kind of a unique spec"

Now I have not seen 2018 yet, so I may be wrong but if we look at Ultimate 10 as an example, this statement;
"....chances are you’ll find what you need in the Edit module, which covers pretty much what you could do in Photoshop."

Pretty much? Not even close.

Anyway, it is very cool that good old ACDsee continues to improve.

I will DL the trial of 2018 soon to see if the performance problems I have with Ultimate 10 in edit and Develop mode are improved.

OK so lets start with, "I have no association with ACDSee".
I have been using their ultimate product now for a couple of years.
I also have elements 13 and PS 5.1.

ACDSee photostudio ultimate 2018 is my product of choice for image editing. I find it easy to use, with most of the tools that I need. No it is not PS, but then it also does not have the learning curve PS does.

Many make a lot of noise about its file management tools, personally I use what is built into windows, with my own directory structure.

I love the way it handles RAW, in many cases I can make all the modificiations I need without even going into full edit mode, changes that are reversable.

It has limitations, so does all software, but for me it does most of what I want, some exceptions include image stacking, so I keep PS 5.1 for this.

The new 2018 product is much faster with many improvements, and features such as their LightEQ and sharpening mask seem unsurpassed for a non-professional like me.

Ultimately if you find a piece of software easy to use, does most of what you want to the point where it is easy to make a quick change without thinking, then that product is the one you need to be using.

Carl.

carllilley wrote in post #18458729
OK so lets start with, "I have no association with ACDSee".
I have been using their ultimate product now for a couple of years.
I also have elements 13 and PS 5.1.

ACDSee photostudio ultimate 2018 is my product of choice for image editing. I find it easy to use, with most of the tools that I need. No it is not PS, but then it also does not have the learning curve PS does.

Many make a lot of noise about its file management tools, personally I use what is built into windows, with my own directory structure.

I love the way it handles RAW, in many cases I can make all the modificiations I need without even going into full edit mode, changes that are reversable.

It has limitations, so does all software, but for me it does most of what I want, some exceptions include image stacking, so I keep PS 5.1 for this.

The new 2018 product is much faster with many improvements, and features such as their LightEQ and sharpening mask seem unsurpassed for a non-professional like me.

Ultimately if you find a piece of software easy to use, does most of what you want to the point where it is easy to make a quick change without thinking, then that product is the one you need to be using.

Carl.

Thank you Carl. I am going to look into getting ACDSee 2018 from what you wrote above!

Also...

Welcome to POTN!!!!!!