Acdsee Pro 5

Just bught this and it is absolutely great
simular to photoshop now
Here is the upgrades:

What’s new in ACDSee Pro 5

ACDSee Pro 5 delivers more features photographers want, giving you even more control over your photography workflow.

Photo Developing
Smarter Sharpening

A new user-controlled edge detection mask slider lets you focus the sharpening effect more to edges and textures than non-textured areas.
Split-toning

Take your photos to the edge in either Develop or Edit mode using split-toning to create sepia or tinted black & white, Or add a tinted color to highlights and another to shadows to create a dramatic toning effect.
Photo Editing
Dodge and Burn

Target shadows, midtones or highlights for lightening or darkening with the Dodge and Burn tool, or selectively add vibrance, saturate or desaturate areas of interest.

Drawing Tools

Put your photos to work for you using drawing tools to add lines and shapes such as squares, circles and arrows to draw attention to certain elements in your image. You can also adjust the width, feathering and blending of your brush to create subtle or dramatic drawing effects.

Special Effects

Apply and fine-tune a range of pre-set special effects quickly and easily with the Special Effects palette, now including:

Workflow
Color Labels

Use color labels to quickly identify groups within a large number of photos for processing. As your review your photos, quickly mark ones for different stages of your workflow. For example, assign files to color labels you have named such as upload, print, reject, develop or edit and then click a color label in the Organize pane to quickly display all of the files assigned to that label. Or use them in combination with the Group by, or Filter By features to refine your list. Color labels, like tagging, categories and ratings, are a way to set aside, organize, and group your photos without moving them into different folders.

Batch Export Tool

Save a group of photos to your specifications faster than ever with the updated ACDSee Pro 5 Batch Export tool. The batch export tool allows you to easily create presets for exporting easily exporting groups of files to specified folders, file names, formats, color spaces and dimensions.
Remove Metadata

Use the Remove Metadata tool to keep your proprietary information private by stripping EXIF and IPTC metadata to protect the details of your locations, camera settings and equipment choices.

The big question to me is – will it handle the "NEW Adobe format for jpgs?" This is what I call it.

Adobe has claimed that ‘they’ are up to date on the jpg format thing and that everyone else should also endure some new software upgrades. Many people are not aware of this. (Do a google)

I also need to print ’tiled’ posters but not quite ready for Design or Illustrator for that feature.

Looking for solutions…
Using CS5 and know I am forced to get CS6 if or when…
RC

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:54:26 -0500, "Ulysses" wrote:

Just bught this and it is absolutely great
simular to photoshop now
Here is the upgrades:

What’s new in ACDSee Pro 5

ACDSee Pro 5 delivers more features photographers want, giving you even more control over your photography workflow.

Photo Developing
Smarter Sharpening

A new user-controlled edge detection mask slider lets you focus the sharpening effect more to edges and textures than non-textured areas.
Split-toning

Take your photos to the edge in either Develop or Edit mode using split-toning to create sepia or tinted black & white, Or add a tinted color to highlights and another to shadows to create a dramatic toning effect.
Photo Editing
Dodge and Burn

Target shadows, midtones or highlights for lightening or darkening with the Dodge and Burn tool, or selectively add vibrance, saturate or desaturate areas of interest.

Drawing Tools

Put your photos to work for you using drawing tools to add lines and shapes such as squares, circles and arrows to draw attention to certain elements in your image. You can also adjust the width, feathering and blending of your brush to create subtle or dramatic drawing effects.

Special Effects

Apply and fine-tune a range of pre-set special effects quickly and easily with the Special Effects palette, now including:

Workflow
Color Labels

Use color labels to quickly identify groups within a large number of photos for processing. As your review your photos, quickly mark ones for different stages of your workflow. For example, assign files to color labels you have named such as upload, print, reject, develop or edit and then click a color label in the Organize pane to quickly display all of the files assigned to that label. Or use them in combination with the Group by, or Filter By features to refine your list. Color labels, like tagging, categories and ratings, are a way to set aside, organize, and group your photos without moving them into different folders.

Batch Export Tool

Save a group of photos to your specifications faster than ever with the updated ACDSee Pro 5 Batch Export tool. The batch export tool allows you to easily create presets for exporting easily exporting groups of files to specified folders, file names, formats, color spaces and dimensions.
Remove Metadata

Use the Remove Metadata tool to keep your proprietary information private by stripping EXIF and IPTC metadata to protect the details of your locations, camera settings and equipment choices.

On 2011-11-26 16:56:21 -0800, RC said:

The big question to me is – will it handle the "NEW Adobe format for jpgs?" This is what I call it.

Adobe does not establish standards for JPEG. What exactly are you trying to say?

Adobe has claimed that ‘they’ are up to date on the jpg format thing and that everyone else should also endure some new software upgrades. Many people are not aware of this. (Do a google)

Please cite where Adobe "has claimed that they are up to date on the jpg format thing".

The only "new" jpeg format was JPEG 2000 and that is over 8 years old. You are making a claim which you should support by providing appropriate references, not just a vague, "Do a google".

I also need to print ’tiled’ posters but not quite ready for Design or Illustrator for that feature.

Looking for solutions…
Using CS5 and know I am forced to get CS6 if or when…
RC

Nobody is forcing you to do anything.
You will only need to upgrade to CS6 if that has some "can’t live without" feature and given the state of CS5 that is something I doubt. Given Adobe’s newly stated upgrade policy, I suspect that CS6 will provide very little over CS5 and Adobe is well aware that most current users of CS4/5 would choose to skip the new version and wait for CS7, thereby costing them upgrade revenue for an entire release.
Personally I will not move to their "Could" rental program, and if they do not reverse the new upgrade policy I might well have reached the end of the road with my upgrade habit. Adobe has emptied my wallet for PS7, CS, CS2, CS4, & CS5. It looks as if they are pricing the full version upgrades out of the reach of the hobbyist photographer.

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:54:26 -0500, "Ulysses" wrote:

Just bught this and it is absolutely great
simular to photoshop now
Here is the upgrades:

What’s new in ACDSee Pro 5

ACDSee Pro 5 delivers more features photographers want, giving you even more control over your photography workflow.

Photo Developing
Smarter Sharpening

A new user-controlled edge detection mask slider lets you focus the sharpening effect more to edges and textures than non-textured areas.
Split-toning

Take your photos to the edge in either Develop or Edit mode using split-toning to create sepia or tinted black & white, Or add a tinted color to highlights and another to shadows to create a dramatic toning effect.
Photo Editing
Dodge and Burn

Target shadows, midtones or highlights for lightening or darkening with the Dodge and Burn tool, or selectively add vibrance, saturate or desaturate areas of interest.

Drawing Tools

Put your photos to work for you using drawing tools to add lines and shapes such as squares, circles and arrows to draw attention to certain elements in your image. You can also adjust the width, feathering and blending of your brush to create subtle or dramatic drawing effects.

Special Effects

Apply and fine-tune a range of pre-set special effects quickly and easily with the Special Effects palette, now including:

Workflow
Color Labels

Use color labels to quickly identify groups within a large number of photos for processing. As your review your photos, quickly mark ones for different stages of your workflow. For example, assign files to color labels you have named such as upload, print, reject, develop or edit and then click a color label in the Organize pane to quickly display all of the files assigned to that label. Or use them in combination with the Group by, or Filter By features to refine your list. Color labels, like tagging, categories and ratings, are a way to set aside, organize, and group your photos without moving them into different folders.

Batch Export Tool

Save a group of photos to your specifications faster than ever with the updated ACDSee Pro 5 Batch Export tool. The batch export tool allows you to easily create presets for exporting easily exporting groups of files to specified folders, file names, formats, color spaces and dimensions.
Remove Metadata

Use the Remove Metadata tool to keep your proprietary information private by stripping EXIF and IPTC metadata to protect the details of your locations, camera settings and equipment choices.

We should all look before …

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2900049

Look at what Chris Cox says – he is as official as is needed for me. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&btnmeta_ne ws_search=1&q=cs5+jpg+colors+problem&oq=&aq=&amp ;aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&btnmeta%3Dsearch%3 Dsearch=

As a start

On 2011-11-26 18:02:04 -0800, RC said:

We should all look before …

Well I did actually do a bit of research and found nothing that would be trouble for me, and nothing regarding JPEGs that I have produced in my use of CS5.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2900049

Reading this forum thread, there seems to be a compatibility issue between CS5 and CorelDraw, not an Adobe specific issue. I have been using CS5 for sometime, and I have yet to experience a compatibility issue regarding other graphics software on my Macs.

The consensus in that forum seems to be, that it is a CorelDraw and other software issue and an EXIF issue not a PS CS5 issue.
This response might explain:

"Yes. Photoshop dropped one piece of data from the old JFIF standard to be compliant with the newer EXIF standard.
Older versions of Photoshop saved EXIF, XMP and JFIF.  But some software may not have been up on their standards and been reading only the JFIF data.
 
Yes, this sounds like CorelDraw is not reading the JPEG metadata correctly."
and

"Leaving out the obsolete metadata means that Photoshop JPEGs are now EXIF compliant and work with more devices and applications than they used to.
 
Nothing to fix in Photoshop – but your other app has a problem reading metadata that needs to be fixed."

Look at what Chris Cox says – he is as official as is needed for me. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&btnmeta_ne ws_search=1&q=cs5+jpg+colors+problem&oq=&aq=&amp ;aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&btnmeta%3Dsearch%3 Dsearch=

As a start

Those Google search results seem to turn up several articles in forums where users had issues of consistent color when they viewed JPEGs created using CS5 and then reopened in another program or an attempt to print. In each of those cases the problem could be pinned down to operator error, which included poor understanding of color management, conflicting color space in the saved JPEGs and the other software. For example one complainer who did not convert and save in sRGB and then complained when it didn’t look the same when he opened the image in Picasa.

I have another question for you;
Just which "Chris Cox" is it who has this set of unquestionable CS5 and JPEG credentials?
I wasn’t able to find anything he had authored among those Google search results.

The pomposity of Adobe has no end and Autodesk is not even close in that regard.

I find that what worked before for reading and printing jpgs NO LONGER WORKS – from Vueprint to FastStone.

Adobe is imposing yet another un-needed requirement for using their software.

Nice guys would facilitate backward compatibility.
I’m really just a user and could care less about all the baby talk (teck talk) and who has the problem or is at fault.

**reminds me a lot of the early dos days – and blaming the other guy** I say Adobe is at fault for disturbing S**T.

Tell me which software will work with the ‘new Adobe jpg format’ please.

Vueprint worked well for zooming in to a certain level and then dragging around to print a tiled poster.

When I try to do the same in CS5 ‘dragging slips’ and you lose your place on the sheet..

Erasing meta data does not help either – among a multitude of proposed fixes. A screen capture (Snagit) does work but I’m not sure if I can crank up the resolution enough (say 3000×4000) – seems like a lousy way to go.

On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:27:19 -0800, Savageduck
<savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:

On 2011-11-26 18:02:04 -0800, RC said:

We should all look before …

Well I did actually do a bit of research and found nothing that would be trouble for me, and nothing regarding JPEGs that I have produced in my use of CS5.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2900049

Reading this forum thread, there seems to be a compatibility issue between CS5 and CorelDraw, not an Adobe specific issue. I have been using CS5 for sometime, and I have yet to experience a compatibility issue regarding other graphics software on my Macs.

The consensus in that forum seems to be, that it is a CorelDraw and other software issue and an EXIF issue not a PS CS5 issue.
This response might explain:

"Yes. Photoshop dropped one piece of data from the old JFIF standard to be compliant with the newer EXIF standard.
Older versions of Photoshop saved EXIF, XMP and JFIF.  But some software may not have been up on their standards and been reading only the JFIF data.
 
Yes, this sounds like CorelDraw is not reading the JPEG metadata correctly."
and

"Leaving out the obsolete metadata means that Photoshop JPEGs are now EXIF compliant and work with more devices and applications than they used to.
 
Nothing to fix in Photoshop – but your other app has a problem reading metadata that needs to be fixed."

Look at what Chris Cox says – he is as official as is needed for me. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&btnmeta_ne ws_search=1&q=cs5+jpg+colors+problem&oq=&aq=&amp ;aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&btnmeta%3Dsearch%3 Dsearch=

a start

Those Google search results seem to turn up several articles in forums where users had issues of consistent color when they viewed JPEGs created using CS5 and then reopened in another program or an attempt to print. In each of those cases the problem could be pinned down to operator error, which included poor understanding of color management, conflicting color space in the saved JPEGs and the other software. For example one complainer who did not convert and save in sRGB and then complained when it didn’t look the same when he opened the image in Picasa.

I have another question for you;
Just which "Chris Cox" is it who has this set of unquestionable CS5 and JPEG credentials?
I wasn’t able to find anything he had authored among those Google search results.

Note: acdsee pro 5 will open a DNG file

Note: acdsee pro 5 will open a DNG file

Just which "Chris Cox" is it who has this set of unquestionable CS5 and JPEG credentials?

Savageduck wrote:

Just which "Chris Cox" is it who has this set of unquestionable CS5 and JPEG credentials?

Probably the Chris Cox who helped write Photoshop (from the very early days); his name appears in the credits in Photoshop, although not as near the beginning as it used to.