![]() ![]() Textures can be used with support for modifying the look and feel as well as blending mode and opacity of the texture. Within the adjustment layers are lots of options, but one of the more powerful ones is the namesake Textures adjustment shown here: Here’s what the masking module looks like for both: In addition, some adjustment layers support custom masks and there’s global mask support (handy for Lightroom users). With support for duplicate layers, show/hide, delete, reset and drag & drop reordering – this is the best layering system I’ve seen outside Photoshop itself. However, the power of this product lies in its customization which starts with an extremely advanced layering system that is faster and nearly on par with Photoshop: Whereas Impression was painful to use because it was so slow when it first came out, Ii never had any performance issues on my 5 year old system with Windows 10.Īt its core the user-interface is designed for users to browse the massive library of over 130 customizable effects to create great images in a single click. When you start the product you are greeted with a user interface that will seem familiar to Impression and Glow users, but this is a significantly faster and more powerful variant. You can download this preset from within the Texture Effects Grid View Browser and searching the community presets for the word ronmartblog. Here’s the before and after of the image edited in the video: Take 15 minutes to at least watch the video tutorial, but read on to see why I really like this product! Video Tutorial / DemoĪ video is worth a thousand words, so here’s both a demo and a deep dive tutorial on how to use this powerful product: It begins with an extremely powerful user interface that allows for complex layering on par with Photoshop in an app that can run stand alone or integrated into Photoshop, Lightroom, etc… It goes far beyond by allowing nearly endless customizations that made me quickly realize that this is really the ultimate preset building tool that just happens to support your textures, borders, light leaks and more. Maybe ACDSee Ultimate 10 will fill in those gaps and we then will be able to completely retire those external editors.If you are familiar with Analog Efex (and if you aren’t don’t bother), then think of this as everything that products offer and much more. ![]() But unfortunately there's still some "heavy-lifting" editing that can only be done in an external editor like PhotoLine or Photoshop. With actions and adjustment layers, Ultimate 9 has strengthened the edit function of ACDSee tremendously. I'm sure it's because very few of their customers use PhotoLine. I have corresponded with ACDSee support about PLD thumbnails several times, but there is no interest in providing proper support for PLD files. Their mostly-European customer base doesn't seem to care. The mess with PLD thumbnails could be solved if PhotoLine would adopt the Microsoft standard, but the brothers who design and support the program don't want to pay Microsoft royalty fees, according to postings on the PhotoLine forum. Recently the publishers of PhotoLine apparently altered the code, making the FastPictureViewer patch inoperable. That enabled Windows Explorer to create thumbnails for the PLD file format (but not ACDSee). I prefer the generic PLD icon so that I can find the file faster.Ī few years ago FastPictureViewer added thumbnail support for PLD files to its separately-sold codec. With the suggested "decode" option selected, ACDSee finds the internal PLD JPG, creates a thumbnail, then labels the file-type "JPG." When you're looking at many thumbnails, a mislabeled thumbnail is not very practical even though the file can be run in PhotoLine from Ultimate 9. Did you activate the plugin-settings? If there really is no thumbnail for PLDs anymore, that would be a big drawback for me.Įdit: I installed the English demo and you still get a thumbnail from PLDs, it you have activated "Try to decode files that do not have recognized image extensions" in the Plug-in Settings.I use the setting that places the file-type on the thumbnail created by ACDSee.
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