New for v10.x:
Enhanced Quick View (including the ability to mouse over your thumbnails for instant previews), improved image search (with support for multi-word keywords to make finding images even easier), support for unzipping files and viewing and organizing archived items right away, advanced red-eye removal tool, features for applying effects (such as blur, saturation and color) to selected areas of photos, integrated support for uploading to image sharing sites like Flickr and Smugmug, support for posting a photo widget on your website or blog (powered by your free ACDSee Sendpix online album), much more; Release Notes - Last Updated: 11.28.07 (10.0.238)
Upgrade Meter: 5
New for v9.x:
Quick View mode, one-click red-eye reduction, Private Folders feature, ACDSee Showroom configurable widget feature, shadow/highlight tools, auto categores feature for managing/organizing photos more efficiently, Calendar Events View for photos, much more; Release Notes - Last Updated: 09.14.06 (9.0)
Upgrade Meter: 5
New for v8.x:
Quick Search feature for finding pictures faster and easier, Video Compact Disc (VCD) support, Burn Basket (for drag-and-drop simplified creation of CDs and DVDs), improved HTML albums, ability to add text (with special effects) to pictures, more powerful editing tools, much more; Release Notes - Last Updated: 04.25.06 (8.1 Build 98)
Upgrade Meter: 5
New for v7.0:
Much faster image management, viewing, and organization; enhanced batch image functions; ability to share photos via SendPix image sharing capabilities (including mobile phone support); side-by-side Image Comparison feature; Curves tool (corrects exposure); ability to publish images to TiVo's Digital Photo Viewer; improved Image Basket; Image Well feature; ability to create PDF and Flash slide shows; support for JPEG 2000, MPV, and HighMAT formats;
various other enhancements; Release Notes - Last Updated: 10.22.04 Upgrade Meter: 5
New for v6.0.2: New photo sharing and printing, organizing and sorting, viewing and editing, and power features; Release Notes Upgrade Meter: 2
New for v5.0: Calendar View for digital photos (sort by year, month or day), image categories feature, batch thumbnail creation, "Customizability"; Release Notes Upgrade Meter: 5
New for v4.0: Redesigned, highly customizable user interface with new Activity Wizard, expanded file browsing area (to full screen), support for ten new multimedia formats; new sound, text, transition effects and advanced timing for slide shows; catalog photos from CDs, new advanced filtering options, multimedia management improvements and additional editing functions; SendPix Image Sharing Service enhancements; Notes Upgrade Meter: 5
New for v3.1: Improved display performance, customizable toolbars, plays embedded audio in Exif JPEG files, faster startup especially on Windows 2000, ad banner displayed at bottom of browser window in trial version; new plug-ins for displaying AOL ART format, DjVu format, True Type Fonts, ICN format, LuraTech LuraWave format, PaintShop Pro format, and Red Storm Bitmap format images; bug fixes; Release Notes Upgrade Meter: 5
New for v3.0: ACD Photo Enhancer, SendPix e-mail plug-in, thumbnails generator (also generates HTML code for the thumbnails), image browsing within compressed archives, plug-in based architecture allows for third-party plug-ins, support for Kodak and Olympus digital cameras, TWAIN Acquire, enhanced find function, much more; Release Notes Upgrade Meter: 5
New for v2.4: Enhanced printing options (including contact sheets), lossless JPEG rotation, ability to play WAV files, support for conversion to TGA/TIFF formats, new image formats supported (EMF, SGI, PIX, and KDC formats), bug fixes; Release Notes Upgrade Meter: 5
New for ACDSee Classic v2.43: Initial release of ACDSystem's new $34.95 image viewer built on ACDSee32 v2.x foundation (lacks ACDSee 3.0's new features); Release Notes
New for v2.3: Image search capabilities; gamma correction; conversion options; thumbnail caching; additional new features, changes, and bug fixes; Release Notes Upgrade Meter: 4
Pros: Extremely quick image decompression, fastest graphics viewer available
Cons: Limited image manipulation tasks, especially relative to Paint Shop Pro
