

ACD Systems made no attempt to influence our impression of the software (which, by the way, speaks for them), and should such a thing ever occur with any software developer or manufacturer, it’d be in vain. However, we at Photography Life build our reputation on our unconditional integrity and – I can’t stress this point enough – our words are always our own.
#Acdsee photo studio for mac review pro#
Let me start with the standard disclaimer: the license to this copy of ACDSee Pro 8 was provided by the software developer specifically for reviewing purposes. Let’s see if it can stand its ground, shall we? With a few caveats, the Pro 8 is a full-on Lightroom alternative, and that fact puts a lot of pressure on it. And the editing capability is anything but mild, even by today’s standards.

ACDSee Pro 8 is not an image viewer, you see. I remember it from eighteen years ago – this lightweight, snappy, simple, functional image viewer with some mild editing capability.

What I do remember is the software that was used to do it – it was ACDSee. Strangely enough, I don’t remember the image itself, not even vaguely. And, as strange a thing this may be to remember, it is because opening that first image was the first thing I ever did with a computer (an old four-eight-six running Windows 95 for those who know what that means). It seems so long ago I opened an image on a computer for the first time.
