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Lunatique
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Location: Lincoln, California
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 Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 5:29 am |
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Version 5 fixed just about all the huge mistakes they made with version 4. It is so much more UI friendly(you can customize just about everything in the UI now), and much less resource intensive. The images showing on the actual folder icons was a delightful surprise that they added. The app loads about 5 times faster now too.
There are only 2 things that ACDSee hasn't accomplished--and when they do, that'll be the day I'll stop using other apps like CompuPic Pro, XnView..etc in conjunction. Those 2 things are:
1)Better up/down sampling like CompuPic Pro. In fact, I ONLY use CompuPic Pro when I run into a situation when I need the superior sampling when image browsing.
2)Better jpeg compression like XnView. XnView can convert to much smaller file size, while getting better image quality. |
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ELLioT
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pierre
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 7:28 am |
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| I am using PolyView, I am pretty happy with it, but then again I don't know much about the other progs. ACDSee has never really clicked with me, maybe now it will. Thanks for the info Lunatique. |
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antx
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Location: Berlin, Germany "OLD EUROPE"
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 8:17 am |
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I still use a very old version of ACDSee (2.xx or so). It seems it becomes more and more an application rather than staying a tool. I use it mainly as picture viewer to browse my textures and ref. pics but its lagging quite some features that a picture viewer should have. Perhaps you can tell me if version 5 has any of the following things?:
- flip image in X/Y direction,
- invert image,
- set to grayskale,
- rotate image (at least in 90 degree steps),
- contrast (with and without saturation boosting), brightness, saturation, hue adjustments
all those via shortcut on the fly changeable while browsing your pics (not saving, just for displaying).
And practiaclly no loading time for the tool it self (double click an image and there it is on screen).
Buffering also the previous image and not only the next one would be nice as well.
Oh, and all running instances of ACDSee should god damn it remember their window positions. |
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