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Introducing FastPictureViewer Professional, a 64-bit photo viewer designed for photographers, with Adobe XMP compliant rating system, powerful batch file processing functions and photographer's features: IPTC Editor, RGB histogram, Color Management, EXIF, Tethered Shooting and ultrafast RAW previewing.

Our product is a perfect companion to existing Digital Asset Management suites such as Adobe Lightroom 4 or IDImager, helping users perform their initial accept/reject selection and rating much faster than before. Put in another way, you'll be done with reviewing/culling/rating in FPV Pro before Lightroom finished importing all your files and churning the previews. You'd then only import the keepers and end up saving a lot of time. Get the free trial and see for yourself.

FastPictureViewer Professional supports most image formats and comes with first-class support for raw formats from more than 380 digital camera models, while support for specialized formats - such as Photoshop PSD, OpenEXR, JPEG2000, TGA, PNM, HDR or DDS - can be added through our own FastPictureViewer Codec Pack add-in. Our viewer can also be extended by 3rd-party image decoders such as DjVu, supplied by other vendors, with more to come in the future.

See our Help and Tutorials page for in-depth coverage of the program's main functions, including an extensive Getting Started guide. Also see our Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) page and visit the User's Forum, including it's ever expanding How To section! Grab the trial version from our download page and feel free to contact us if you have any questions: we're always glad to hear from visitors!

FastPictureViewer Professional was inspired by a 2004 article from writer Eamon Hickey, describing the near impossible workflow of a picture editor working for Sports Illustrated and reviewing more than 16,000 raw files in just 6 hours. Check Eamon's article - an excellent and entertaining read for any photo enthusiast - and if your workflow even remotely resembles what he describes then FastPictureViewer Professional is exactly what you need to get the job done.

The more pictures you have to review, the better: FastPictureViewer Professional was designed to handle large digital images thousands at a time and makes it easy to quickly view, rate, backup, copy, move and delete almost any number of photos. The software was also designed with the needs of photographers in mind, so it supports industry-standards and first-class color management, along with essential tools like EXIF and RGB histogram, always available in floating "head-up-displays" that update themselves instantly, so they can be checked for every image without additional keystrokes.

FastPictureViewer does not try to be the next Swiss Army knife of image viewers, on the contrary it's a simple program that does a few things very well, but don't be fooled by the slick user-interface: the software has many powerful functions including second-to-none rule-based batch file management, resembling Microsoft Outlook™ message rules, that let users perform any copy/move/export jobs in just a few clicks, exploiting the parallel power of modern computers.

FastPictureViewer Professional comes with a fast export-for-web function that creates web-ready small and medium size JPEGs, with optional sharpening, from any supported image format: great for quick web uploads, or to hand (or email) low-resolution proof copies to customers right after a shoot. The exported JPEGs exhibits an ideal balance between file weight and image quality, making them perfect for use on websites and photo-sharing communities.

Our software is a great replacement for ViewNX2 as a NEF viewer, providing greater speed and much improved stability. The program can also be used as an excellent CR2 viewer as well as for any of the other 20+ raw formats directly supported. It is also the only native 64-bit, multicore-enabled application of its kind.

The program features efficient batch delete and batch file management functions: users can streamline their workflow by automating file import, copy, move, export-for-web, backup to multiple drives and delete operations using functionality built directly in the program. Rules can be applied according to metadata, dates, file types and other criteria. The batch file processor let users begin with point-and-click ease and plain English file management rules while advanced users can write their own custom actions in ECMA262-compatible JavaScript (or VBScript) to automate their workflows in virtually every imaginable ways!

Axel Rietschin Software Developments, author and publisher of FastPictureViewer Professional and the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack products, is a privately held "family business" established in Geneva, Switzerland, the country of precision watches, delicious chocolate and blazing fast image viewers.

Axel started serious programming and hobby photography as a youngster almost at the same time, getting his first C compiler in 1983 and a Nikon FA shortly thereafter. He learned the rudiments of photography from his long-time friend Philippe Ayral, renowned French visual artist and former photojournalist, helping Philippe get around his first Apple II then Mac 128K computers at the same time. Axel first worked independently then for several companies ranging from small startups to huge multinationals, as software design engineer, lead developer, systems architect and CTO, before beginning formal studies of mathematics and starting the FastPictureViewer projects as a side job in early 2008. FastPictureViewer Professional has reached its 1st million downloads during February 2011.