Contact Sheet Feature

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Good theory but then what is the point of selecting a color space during Develop if it isn't used when processing the color information from the RAW file?...

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Tx, makes total sense. No sure why then a RAW bands and not a TIFF?

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Are you sure RAW files are treated as 48bit color images and not 16bits? I couldn't find a reference to it. From what I've seen so far, if applying any...

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I definitely see banding, similar to what I experienced.

After some experimentation, the only way to avoid it (probably just minimizes it...

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I am also seeing horizontal banding in Ultimate 2021 when darkening sky, so if there was a fix it isn't entirely effective. I'll run some more tests on...

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How did you determine that folders B and C were catalogued? Dumb question because what I understand is the second you select any of the folders their...

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My suggestion to revisit this feature has been forwarded to ACDSee QA for consideration, which is nice to know.

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Interesting, I have similar hardware, if anything not quite as powerful 5yrs old machine and have not noticed such sluggishness. Did you try updating...

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What I usually do is to select files by keyword(s) and assign a category, then delete the keyword. You can drag and move categories to keywords but unfortunately...

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It works with one... the Print route, but not the other the Create route! This confirms that these two are separate code !...

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Hum, interesting, I did try that and didn't work, I'll have to try again.

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Interesting, that is odd. Tx, I'll do so more digging. Using the same version.

Update: OK, if you access File --> Print and select Contact...

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I'd try blurring the image, increase contrast, save to 2 colors (black and white) color spectrum if it were me.

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No freeze on my system. Switching ON/OFF embedded preview has no effect in Manage mode for me until I manually rebuild the thumbnails, and only on un-processed...

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For the sake of learning ACDSee I've created a shadow. The Shadow Fx tool is really aimed at text and is not very effective for objects it seems, perhaps...

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OK, I've played with it more, and here some observations:

I could not find the printer settings on that window: I don't see paper size available,...

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Tx Greyfox, it could be a video driver issue on my system, although I have the latest Dec 2020 driver installed. It certainly deserve a second more thorough...

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Perhaps it is just me, but I am rather disappointed with the Contact Sheet feature. It is simplistic and buggy at that. For e.g. the filenames I added...

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I never done it in ACDSee, but if I were, I'd create a pure black version of the object without a backgroud, squish it down and perspective distort it...

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Tx Emil for you insightful and helpful contribution. You obviously have profiled several lenses already, so perhaps you can tell us how to update the...