What happened to FastPictureViewer Pro during 2012?

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Axel

Year 2012 was just as busy as ever regarding the development of FastPictureViewer Professional and, again, a good part of the work done on the product was made in response to customer feedback and suggestions. A big “Thank You” to all those who contributed! Continue reading →

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Christmas 2012 Special Offer

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Axel

FastPictureViewer Special Offers

We are happy to offer full FastPictureViewer Codec Pack and FastPictureViewer Professional licenses and bundle licenses at a special discounted price for Christmas!

  • 25% discount on FastPictureViewer Professional from 1 to 15 users.
  • 25% discount on FastPictureViewer Pro + Codec Pack Bundle from 1 to 15 users.
  • 33% discount on FastPictureViewer Codec Pack from 1 to 20 users.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!!!
Your FastPictureViewer Team

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FastPictureViewer on the Mac

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Axel

We often get questions about FastPictureViewer for Mac computers, and while there is no native Mac OS X version of FPV, the program works just fine on Mac hardware, running on Windows 7 64-bit under Parallels Desktop, for example on top of OS X Mountain Lion.

So, while there is no native Mac version of FPV, Mac users can still run our great little program and get all its benefits on their beloved Mac desktops or laptops. As a matter of fact FastPictureViewer is used on Macs at the University of Copenhagen, where it helps med school students learn ananomy:

FastPictureViewer Professional on Mac computers at the University of Copenhagen

FastPictureViewer Professional running on Mac computers at the University of Copenhagen
Photo credits: Mads Jespersen

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My take on Why Windows Phone Does Not Fly (Yet?)

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Axel

I have a Samsung Omnia 7 with Windows Phone 7 (now 7.5) since November 2010. After 16 months of trying to like this phone, here is my top 7 list of annoyances.

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Slow TIFF Performance in Windows 7

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Axel

Some FastPictureViewer Professional users have been experiencing excruciatingly slow performance when displaying certain TIFF files. The issue was in the Microsoft TIFF codec that ships with the operating system and Microsoft now fixed it. The fix also cures Windows Explorer hangs when opening folders containing some of those TIFFs. The correction will be part of Windows 7 SP2 and is currently available as a hotfix. See the Knowledge Base article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2619291/. The Hotfix request pages is here: http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=2619291

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What happened to FastPictureViewer Pro during 2011?

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Axel

Year 2011 was as busy as ever regarding the development of FastPictureViewer Professional and a good part of the work done on the product was made in response to customer feedback and suggestions. A big Thank You to all those who contributed! Continue reading →

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FastPictureViewer Codec Pack vs. Microsoft Camera Codec Pack

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Axel

If you have any interest in raw shooting you must know by now that Microsoft has (finally!) delivered its own add-in enabling support for raw formats in Windows Explorer and Photo Gallery.

The first questions that come to mind are is it any good? Is my camera and my operating system both supported by this new package? How well does it run compared to other similar products? Continue reading →

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A Step Forward in the Universal Image Metadata Quest? (A call for a New Container Format)

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Axel

The Metadata Working Group, a consortium of leading companies in the digital media industry, is working hard to establish metadata interoperability standards. The benefits of such a gigantic effort are obvious but adding metadata within existing image file formats is less than evident as most of these formats were never designed to be edited in-place. This is true of the JFIF container, used to store images compressed in the ubiquitous JPEG format, as well as for TIFF and all TIFF derivatives (DNG, TIFF/EP, and all current camera raw formats such as Canon’s CR2 or Nikon NEF, just to mention two).

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Building a photography PC workstation: which processor?

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Axel

One of the most often overlooked aspects of computer performance for image processing is the size of the processor cache. Sure, the clock speed is important and so is the total amount of memory in the computer as well as the speed of the disk drives, but image processing algorithms crunch through huge amounts of data – millions and millions of pixels – and their speed of execution is bound to memory access speed more than by any other factor, assuming reasonably well-built mid-range-or-better computer.

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[PR] Add-in Enable Support for RAW Image Formats, Adobe DNG, Photoshop PSD in Windows Explorer

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Axel

Geneva, Switzerland, February 10, 2011 – Swiss software publisher Axel Rietschin Software Developments released an updated version of its FastPictureViewer Codec Pack product, a Microsoft Windows add-in enabling users to display raw images from more than 350 digital camera models, as well as Adobe DNG and Adobe Photoshop documents, directly from Windows Explorer without launching a dedicated application.

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