Firulais Preset Collection for ACDSee Ultimate 2018 for Windows

What is it?

Presets to be used with ACDSee Ultimate 2018 for Windows

Who may use this?

• Users who want to apply some effect to their photos (fx presets)
• Users who want to use predefined extreme special effect on their photos (sx presets).
• Users that like to work with RAW photos, but want to have a starting point for their manual developing (nx and cx presets).
• Users who want or need to overcome or adjust technical shortcomings like grain, etc. for a predefined sensor (tx presets).
• Users who love to jazz up color photos to black&white (mx presets).

Usage

It’s super simple. When developing an image choose the "Adjust develop settings" button (gear). Choose a preset to adjust the feel of your photo.

Best used on RAW photos or jpg taken with neutral camera preset.

Please share your experiences in the Wiki

Installing

• Download the whole set of presets from the Release or select a preset *.reg file you like for download.
• Unzip the downloaded file.
• Double-click on your selected *.reg file (e.g. fxCinematic.reg) and follow accept the following dialogs.

Download

Download the latest version.

System Requirements

ACDSee Ultimate 2018 for Windows

Documentation

Preset Groups fx .. effect presets sx .. special effect presets nx .. Nikn like effect presets cx .. Cann like effect presets tx .. technical effect presets mx .. mono and blach&white effect presets

Presets

• fxCineastic... A cold cineastic preste.

• mxFilm... These presets try to replicate the color frequency sensitivities of some analog B&W films.

Separation of effect presets and technical presets: Only the tx.. presets contain changes to the "Geometry" (Lens Correction, Rotate & Straighten, Perspective, Crop, Vignette Correction). The tx.. presets also contain “Detail” (Sharpening, Noise Reduction, Skin Tune) settings. T his way you can mix the tx.. presets with the other presets.

• sxPhotoChrome Photochrom is a process for producing colorized images from black-and-white photographic negatives. The finished print was produced using at least six, but more commonly ten to fifteen, tint stones. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom]

*** Details on RAW development

• Nik*n's Active-D Lighting (ADL)
• Cann's Auto Lighting Optimiser Nikn's Active-D Lighting is in-camera image processing feature.

Active D-Lighting is a two step process to get a better balanced image (slightly brighter shadows, more detail in the highlights).

This results in an adjusted tone curve in the in camera JPEG conversion that

• boosts the shadows (making them brighter) and
• adjusts the highlights and mid-tones to where they belong (according to Nikon). As it is entirely software based the same effect can be reproduced later on the computer in post processing.

This only effects your jpg or the preview image that is embedded in the RAW. If you have activated this feature the preview of your shot on the camera display will be brighter than the RAW itself. When opening such an RAW file in ACDSee you may be surpred that it a lot to dark.

In ACDSee RAW development you can correct this using

• Tone Curves or

• Light EQ or

• Fill Light (no perfect solution, but easy to handle). Using Exposure doesn't bring you the effect, because the whole image will get brigher and the whites will be over-exposed.

• H'(Extrahigh) Fill Light: 40

• H(igh)

• N(ormal)

• L(ow)

• Off

Rather than only adjusting the shape of the tone curve (as most similar systems do), the Nikon system also adjusts exposure by one or two thirds of a stop. See the tone curves.

In this case use the txActive-D Lightning presets to correct this.

Release Notes

This is the initial release with just two Presets.

License

All Presets are released under CC-BY-NC-SA: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Details on Licensing can be found in the LICENSE.txt file.

This presets have no relation with ACD Systems International Inc.

Credits

• LV_Bill http://forum.acdsee.com/forum/main-category/acdsee-ultimate/42543-develop-presets

• picasalosch http://picasalosch.blogspot.co.at/2012/11/presets-fur-acdsee.html

• Quentin Decaillet https://fstoppers.com/education/how-color-grade-your-images-using-acdsee-ultimate-10-182876 https://fstoppers.com/originals/how-edit-landscape-start-finish-acdsee-photo-studio-ultimate-2018-209550

Advanced Administration

• Export Presets:

1. Open Regedit.exe. (use the Run Command if necessary)

2. Access the key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ACD Systems\EditLib\Version 1.0\Develop\Presets\Global

3. Click File > Export. Name and save the file. This creates a .reg file which you can copy over e.g. to your new machine (using a thumb drive, for example).

• Import Presets:

1. On your new machine, double-click (launch) the .REG file you just created.

2. After you get past the requisite warning messages, RegEdit will copy your Develop settings into your new Registry.

http://forum.acdsee.com/forum/acdsee-pro/809-how-to-copy-presets-from-desktop-to-laptop

Limitations and Known Issues

• This Presets may not work with the following applications:
• ACDSee Ultimate 2018 for IOS
• ACDSee Professional 2018
• ACDSee Standard 2018
• and of course all other applications