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Setting the General Options

You can adjust settings in the Options dialog box to display helpful tips, set the format for date displays, set automatic rotate options, and control the display of certain image types.

To Access the General Options:

  1. In any mode, click Tools | Options.
  2. In the Options dialog box, click General.
  3. On the General page, set or change any of the options described below.
  4. Click OK to apply your changes and return to ACDSee.

General Options

Enable gamma correction

Applies the specified amount of gamma correction when viewing or previewing images.

Automatically stretch wallpaper to fit screen

Stretches small images to fit the entire desktop when you set them as your wallpaper.

Disable image animation

Displays only the first frame of an animated image in Manage mode's Preview pane and in View mode.

Automatically rotate JPEG and TIFF images based on EXIF orientation

Automatically corrects the orientation of TIFF and JPEG images (based on their EXIF data) when displayed in ACDSee.

Status bar date

Specifies the date to display in the status bar for a selected file.

Date/Time output format

Select one of the following:

  • Default system format: Uses the default system format when displaying the date and time in information overlays.
  • Custom format: Uses the specified format to display the date and time in all information overlays. Select a format for both Date and Time from the drop-down lists.

Show icon in Taskbar Notification area

Displays the ACDSee Pro icon in the Taskbar Notification area.

Show the Mode Switching icons

Displays the icons next to the names of each mode.

Enable OpenCL image processing

If your computer's video card driver supports it, you can enable this checkbox to improve the speed of processing RAW files. You may wish to ensure that you have the latest video card driver in order to take advantage of this option.

RAW Display

Select one of the following:

  • Speed:Use embedded JPEG
  • Quality: Perform high quality decode

See Viewing RAW images for more information.