ACDSee tutorial: batch edits and AI photo tools

This second ACDSee beginners workshop covers Develop and Edit modes through portrait adjustments and photo composites. Rodrigo starts with a subject mask, adjusts color and fill light, and adds a vignette. He saves the settings as a preset, then applies it to other photos through Batch Develop. He explains that ACDSee selects the subject again for each image and shows how to refine an individual result afterward.

The workshop distinguishes non-destructive development, which allows restoration of the original, from Edit mode changes. Rodrigo recommends Save As when leaving Edit mode to preserve the source photo. In the layered editor, he demonstrates AI Face Edit controls for eyes, skin and lips. A bird composite introduces manual selection cleanup, background blur and a shared color LUT with reduced opacity.

AI Denoise creates a separate JPEG in the demonstration. Rodrigo compares it with the original and adjusts strength according to how much grain he wants to retain. AI Super Resolution follows with a fourfold enlargement of a 527 by 800 image; his assessment of improved detail concerns that example.

The final section covers sky replacement and reflections. Rodrigo recommends blending the replacement at around 50% opacity for this image, then demonstrates edge refinement and outputting the sky and reflection as separate layers.