When comparing Photopea vs ACDSee, the Slant community recommends Photopea for most people. In the question“What is the best photo editing software?” Photopea is ranked 8th while ACDSee is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose Photopea is:
Photopea allows dragging & dropping images in to the browser window to upload them and add to the scene.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Drag and drop support
Photopea allows dragging & dropping images in to the browser window to upload them and add to the scene.
Pro Fast to load
Pro Very reactive on feedbacks
Pro Can save as PSD
This means you can open these files in Photoshop, so if you don't have Photoshop on one device, you can still export your Photopea project and continue editing on Photoshop on another device
Pro Photoshop Like Interface
It has a Photoshop-like interface with most of its features for basic editing.
Pro Has many features
Pro Uses Photoshop standard shortcuts
Pro Requires no browser plugin
As it is an HTML5 application, running it requires no additional plugins on modern browsers.
Pro Dark style theme
ACDSee has a nice dark style theme.
Pro Very fast image reader
ACDSee reads the images (jpgs) extremely fast. It displays them very fast, too.
Cons
Con Hard to get used to it at first
However, you'll get used to it later!
Con Has only basic filters and operations
Con No face recognition
ACDSee doesn't allow you to set face recognition to files. It also doesn't read already recognized faces. Metadata for faces aren't shown.
