ACDSee Pro 8

Yesterday I downloaded the latest version of ACDSee Pro. I installed the trial version to see what has changed. It will take a while until I can say more about it, but the first thing I tested after installing was disapointing. I checked how Jpeg images with chroma subsampling look in ACDSee Pro 8. They look exactly the same as in Pro 7 (see my earlier post).

Sometimes I really hate ACDSee

I just wanted to export some raw files as Jpeg so I can use them for a photobook. Well, sounds like an easy job for ACDSee. But actually it isn't.
First I tried to create the Jpegs using the the export method. Unfortunately ACDSee didn´t write any Jpegs. It seemd to process the images, but it didn´t save them. I checked what is going on in the Windows Resource Monitor. Obviously ACDSee loaded the cr2 files, but it didn´t write anything to the harddisc (or USB stick which I have chosen). However, it consumes quite some CPU time.

OK, there must be another way to get Jpegs out of ACDSee. Yes, you can choose to convert fileformat. The bad thing about this is that it is easy to oversee the option 'delete originals' in the configuration dialog (which is activated by default). Well, you can imagine what happened. I lost about 150 holiday photos (just the raws, I had Jpegs instead now).
One could assume that you just have to restore the deleted files from the recycle bin. Unfortunately it is not so easy. ACDSee doesn´t seem to use the recycle bin. Luckily I found a program on the internet which allowed me to restore the deleted files.
Now there´s only one challence left - I have to restore the database information for these files...

ICGIP 2014

In a few weeks the international conference on graphics and image processing (http://icgip.org/) takes place in Beijing. I will be there to present my paper "A novel color filter layout and demosaicking algorithm for hexagonal grids". I´m looking forward to a lot of interesting presentations and people...