ACDSee 2022 - Feature Set Preview

to be showing you the extensive list of 

improvements and features that you can expect in ac dc ultimate 2022 ac dc professional 2022 and of course ac dc  home 2022 i'll be showcasing the features using ac dc ultimate

the blue icon at the bottom left will 

indicate that this feature is available in ultimate the red icon will indicate

for pro and the yellow icon will 

indicate for home because this edition contains a large amount of new features this video will be a bit longer than our typical promo and tutorial content i'll be time stamping the features in

the description below so you can skip 

ahead to the feature that most interests you let's begin people mode

people mode is a brand new mode being 

introduced in 2022 that provides a one-stop shop to interact with all  your

face data 

it was introduced so that users could name their subjects quickly and not one by one as only possible previously to open the mode click the people icon on the top menu bar

when you open the mode you will see a

preview window that allows you to toggle 

between named and unnamed faces your people will have numbers next to them that indicate how many photos there are of that person if i click on a person all their images

will be visible 

if for some reason a person on my list is incorrect i can click the cancel icon on the top right to remove them below are suggestions people mode will ask you to confirm or deny if a person is correct and then the person will be filtered in with the others above i can click on the show source button at the top to see the photo context note that the thumbnails are enlarged i'll click back to return to my people roster note that you can click the tab up at the top to see your unnamed faces i can name all the faces within the selected group from the top here or name them individually from below returning once again to the people roster you will see that my  unnamed face

 is now named with the rest 

media mode media mode is a database driven view for accessing previously browsed folders in manage mode and cataloged folders navigate to media mode from the top right entering the mode you can open a folder tree by clicking the icon on the bottom left navigate to the specific folder or present all images

in all subfolders by clicking on the all 

media button within media mode you can also view your images by double- clicking filter ac dc metadata like labels and ratings and sort by qualities like file size or date taken  svg file support ac dc can now display and open svg files i'll open one in view mode channel filtering

many filters now contain a drop down in 

edit mode that allow you to specify a channel range i'll open the exposure filter and apply a contrast adjustment to the red channel from the drop down notice the contrast differences in the sky in my image selection basket selection basket is a new tool that offers a place to store multiple

selections at the same time 

in edit mode i will open up selection basket from the select drop down menu 

let's create two different selections 

i'll make a selection using the brush selection tool of the sky in my image this will just take a moment once again i'm just using the brush selection tool to do this once my selection is complete

i can click this icon here to add the 

selection to the basket with my selection in the basket i can also duplicate it 

using this icon here 

delete it set a selection if my selection is different or i have deselected i can also transfer my selection to a mask if i adjust my mask for example when i invert it i can use the selection basket to add the new mask to the basket now that i have these two selections in my basket i can add an exposure adjustment layer

and use my selection basket to put the 

mask right on my exposure adjustment with the set selection mask button second on my list here channel selection much like in the exposure lighting and detail filters edit mode now allows you to make a selection or mask from a specific channel i'll navigate to select and channel

selection from the drop down 

a window will pop up that will allow me to define the channel here i'll click red from the rgb channel

i can add this channel directly to my 

selection basket or i can set as a mask or active selection i'll set mine as an active selection note the active selection appears from here i can apply adjustment layers as i see fit

i'll add a clarity adjustment and change 

the values luminance color range new to 2022 is luminance color range 

it replaces pixel targeting 

open the tool by navigating in edit mode to select luminance color range note that the tool offers dramatically more incremental control i'll click the luminance range button from the top here to activate this control method from here i'll lower the luminance until the tree is almost entirely highlighted note that i can pull these lower wings here to avoid some of the darker blues in the sky from here we can click ok and make any 

adjustments that we like 

for example exposure color wheels in pixel targeting also within luminance and color range is the new color range method of selection once again i'll activate the bottom color range section

by clicking on this button here 

from here i'll use the wheel to select the green and yellow parts of the tree 

by rotating to the corresponding color 

i'll also pull in the saturation slider so that we're just targeting the most 

saturated parts of my image 

i don't want any of the sunset to be selected to do this i simply pull the center of

the wheel towards the edge 

i'll hit ok and from here we can simply make a quick hue change if we want to to illustrate the selection pixel targeting in develop mode now when you're making a brush or gradient selections in develop mode you can further hone your selected area by applying the same luminance and color 

range criteria 

i'll open an image in develop mode and make a brush selection over top of this building here

if i change the hue of this building by 

clicking on the color eq slider notice that the building next to it is 

also changing color 

we can avoid this by using luminance and  color rangei will click the target icon right here i'll apply the color range criteria and make sure that my range is set to red so that the hue change avoids the yellow 

building next door 

squareness slider for radial gradients also new to develop mode is the  squareness slider in  adial gradients i'll navigate to radial gradients within develop mode the squareness slider is second from the top and allows us to turn our oval selections into square ones noise reduction in develop brush you can now use the  develop brush in the detail panel to apply noise reduction simply click the detail tab from within develop mode and use the brush tool to

make a selection 

here i'll brush on a selection of the castle in the foreground after my castle is selected i'll 

increase the noise reduction until i 

can't see any of the bricks  improved high iso support images with exceptionally high isos above 200 000 are now supported in cameras by canon nikon pentax and sony you can find your iso information under properties metadata in either the exif or the corresponding camera maker notes

selection preview button 

active selections can now be previewed by clicking this button beneath the 

preview window in edit mode 

note that the areas of your image that would be affected by an adjustment appear in white improved high dynamic range we listened to your feedback hdr now has a limit of 50 images up from

25 

and has had a dramatic improvement to its functionality users should notice the difference right away

to combine images for an hdr image 

simply select all the images in manage mode that you'd like to merge and

navigate to process hdr from the drop 

down menu a preset menu will pop up that will ask you how you would like to output your image here's a before and after improved focus stacking also improved is focus stacking the new

focus stacking boasts much finer detail 

and less artifacts to combine images for a focus stack simply select all the images in manage mode that you would like to merge and navigate to process focus stack from the drop down menu here's another before and after improved noise reduction noise reduction in both develop and edit

mode has an entirely new algorithm 

underneath the hood new to the tool is tone and frequency range sliders for much better control of camera noise here i'm putting them to use to remove some noise from this image

improved curve control 

tone curves in both adjustment layers and filters now sports a numerical indicator to see your adjustments as you raise and lower your curve that represents the bulk of improvements in 2022 there will be a couple other smaller improvements and features and they will be featured on the individual product pages

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