Ten DPNow visitors will win a copy of the new version 8 release of ACDSee Photo Manager, the popular image file management package during October. Will you be one of them?

This competition is now closed - November's competition will be up very soon

If you don't use an image file management package to keep track of your photos, the question has to be, why? ACDSee Photo Manager has been one of the top Windows packages for years and it has been steadily improved and expanded. It's also better value than ever at just £29.99. This month we have ten copies of the latest version 8 release of ACDSee Photo Manager to give away, so your chance of winning during October is ten times better than usual!

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ACDSee Photo Manager 8 combines ease-of-use for beginners with the potential to be configured for power users too.

Your photos can be automatically downloaded from your camera or memory card and added to its database. You can annotate your image files, add key words and rate images, categorise, etc. so you can easily find them again using powerful search facilities. There are batch renaming tools, slide show and Web gallery building tools, CD and VCD burning options along with simple and easy-to-use image editing and fixing features, including a very good one-click red-eye corrector and there is a new feature for adding text to your photos.

Power features include support for selected RAW image file formats, so you can see thumbnail views of your RAW images and preview them, RGB histogram displays, support for viewing and editing IPTC metadata fields and more.

ACDSee 8 Photo Manager's infinitely configurable on-screen layout has also been enhanced with new smart-docking window pane aids and there is a new Quick Search bar. Your image folders can also be backed up to external storage devices and synchronised to prevent loss of valuable images if your hard drive fails. ACD Systems report that the ACDSee database has been further optimised and speeded up too.

There is a lot more to say about ACDSee 8 Photo Manager than can be fitted onto this page. You can find out more from the ACDSee home page, or even better, try it out for yourself; there is a free trial download option available.

Photographyblog's competitions too
If you fancy entering a another competition or two, try our friends over at Photographyblog this month, where you have the chance to win a Vosonic X's Drive II XL or one of four laser mice!

Photographyblog also has a special prize this month - you could win an Epson R800 photo printer as part of a November 5th special.