ACDSee
Launched: 1994
Innovation: Speed thanks to next/previous image caching. And the ability to toggle between 100% and full-screen zoom mode with a single click, anywhere within the image.
ACDSee is an image organizer, viewer, and editor originally distributed as a 16-bit application for Windows 3.0 (in 1994) and later replaced by a 32-bit version for Windows 95 (in 1997).
ACDSee 3.0 was released in 1999.
Version 5.0 was released in 2002.
Later, ACDSee Pro 6 added native 64-bit support.
Version 7.0 was released in 2005.
ACDSee displays a tree view of the file structure for navigation, with thumbnail images of the selected folder and a preview of a selected image.
It began as an image organizer/viewer, but over time, image editing and RAW development capabilities were added (Pro version).
In addition to the typical directory and thumbnail display, the program also allows you to display image slideshows and create screensavers with your favorite images.
Other features include image format conversion, creation of CD/DVD and HTML image galleries, directory synchronization, and image metadata indexing. The program also offers a limited set of image editing features, such as rotation and resize, error correction, zooming, text, filters, and special effects.
ACDSee's key features are speed, lossless RAW image editing, batch image processing, metadata editing (Exif and IPTC), rating, keywords and categories, and geotagging.
