![]() The Professional level gives me plenty of cataloging horsepower, I don't know that there is any additional benefit to using Ultimate instead.īottom line, there is no free lunch. ACDSee is available on a trial basis, like everybody else. I have not tried passing files around non-ACDSee programs, that may not go well. But for a file already imported into the ACDSee DB it is essential to use ACDSee for these operations, else the changed files get lost from the view of the ACDSee catalog. ACDSee provides for all of the common Copy, Move, Rename functions like any file manager. ![]() ![]() Of course when you perform a category or keyword search with ACDSee that will be limited to the files imported with ACDSee for it's DB. ACDSee gives access to all folders like any other file manager. Import with ACDSee is less annoying than with LR. If you just hate all DBs, skip the rest of this post. (A prior life with Lightroom put me in the habit of always using a DAM) ACDSee can write to XMP files, but it is essentially DB driven. This brings me back to ACDSee, which has been my DAM for several years. I've recently gotten XnView MP installed and working as desired on all my Windows boxes and could probably just use that, with the alternative being DigiKam. In my little mind, I'm going to have to resort to another tool for file management with either package. But yeah, the ART tools do perform nicely, I'm warming up to them. ART could use more of those, instead of it's RT style Processing Profiles. Anyways, many of the tools in DT come with a nice set of presets. The editing tools include masking and such so are on par with DT Anyways, I have switched from simple folder grabs to using the Queue. There appears to be hidden benefits with using the Queue tab in ART. You navigate to the folder desired, pick a photo and edit. The (ART) browser is just that, a browser. Even the file handling with ART is easier! But in reality I use ACDSee for most of my file handling anyways. If files need to moved, it's done outside of DT. This is none, or at least none that I could find. The glaring omission in DT is file handling. Also zero possibility of tracking any history of course. If forced to do this I use low compression JPG or TIFF files, zero issues with auxiliary files. I don't pass an image back and forth between various programs. No possibility of conflicts with my other programs. Then the files are in their on little world and the software can do whatever it wants with them and any auxiliary files. xmp.įor software trials I simply create a dedicated folder for a limited set of source files, which are copied to that folder with ACDSee (more on ACDSee later). DT creates xmp files and then saves them as. My "good" imagery is stored on a Synology NAS box with mapped drives, but I wasn't ready for DT to be touching that yet, mostly due to the way DT handles xmp files, which is part of the problem. And I also dabble with Affinity and Luminar3. For a complete picture ACDSee Professional (not Ultimate) is my main editor, where I have much more experience. ![]() I don't have much experience at all with RawTherapee, so I'm kind of learning the RT way all over again with ART. Not a lot of time with ART yet, as it simply hasn't been around for very long. ![]()
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