Hi there… as promised, here is my first detailed DAM review. In this episode, we take a look at Pro 2 which is a DAM application by ACDSee geared towards the professional photographer. So… here we go!

General Overview

ACDSee Pro 2 Photo Manager (herein called Pro 2), is touted on their website as:

“…the most powerful software platform for viewing, processing, editing, organizing and publishing your photos.”

This certainly caught my attention and therefore, I downloaded and installed the 30 day demo and started exploring and playing. Now, I should mention that I’ve been a fan of ACDsee for a long time having used their photo “manager” back when it was nothing more than a Windows photo viewer for Windows 95 (ie: ACDsee 1.0). Over the years, I continued to use the product but eventually moved away from it as it gained too many functions that weighed it down as a simple image viewer (I had discovered Irfanview…). So, as I waited for the demo to download, I was hopeful that this newest product would still contain the quickness of that simple viewer along with the advanced functionality needed by digital photographers to manage their growing collections… I am happy to say that (for the most part) Pro 2 delivers on both of these wishes.

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