Ever since the arrival of digital cameras and smartphone cameras, point-and-click photography has been skyrocketing, both among amateurs and pro photographers who want to capture that perfect, spontaneous moment. It is perhaps no surprise then that most of us have collected thousands, or even tens of thousands of photos on our hard drives. The sheer volume of image files on the typical computer makes it hard to keep track of everything. It's a bit like trying to find that specific file in a row full of filing cabinets when things aren't properly sorted. If that's a familiar-sounding problem, then it's probably time to start working with a digital asset manager like ACDSee. An ideal solution for the practical amateur and the seasoned photographer alike, this will quickly become an invaluable tool for streamlining your creative photography workflows.

What Is a Digital Asset Manager?

Though it primarily caters to photographers at every stage of their careers, ACDSee is a great choice for anyone with a large collection of photos. It supports many different formats, including various non-image formats. Most importantly, however, it supports RAW photos, which are uncompressed image files taken by professional-grade digital cameras. These RAW photos present the highest quality, since they precisely represent the image that the camera took without any compression. The latest edition adds support for various additional camera models, as well as various feature improvements and other tweaks and bug fixes. With this tool, you can easily manage your digital assets, no matter how many photos you have. It will help you add metadata to them, thereby making search queries far easier and quicker, instead of having to manually look through countless folders full of files.

Taking Human Error out of the Mix

If you only have a couple hundred photos, and your collection is not likely to grow substantially any time soon, then manually managing your files is probably fine. The problem is that even professional photographers often end up with thousands of files they don't really want. To cull their collections, they might manually go through each folder and delete files they don't want, but this greatly increases the risk of human error, and it is hardly the most practical or efficient option either. ACDSee helps you keep organized with a familiar file and folder infrastructure combined with powerful features that are easy to use, regardless of your experience or skill level. For example, you can assign hierarchical keywords, tags, and color codes to your photos. Furthermore, the software can automatically catalogue large collections of files, which makes it easier when migrating your content over to a new system.

If you're looking for a convenient way to optimize, improve, organize, and share your photos, ACDSee provides an all-in-one solution that's regularly updated and widely supported. Furthermore, it's extremely easy to learn. The latest edition adds RAW support for a further six cameras, including ones from Canon, Fujifilm, Leica, Olympus, and Sony, but you can view the full list of supported cameras on the official website.