FastPictureViewer Professional

FastPictureViewer Professional is a modern image viewer designed to speed up image review. You can examine large-size versions of your images quickly, check their composition, exposure and critical sharpness, rate them or mark them for deletion at the press of a key, or copy your keepers to a preset folder in one click, all of this means faster turnaround and more free time for you: a trained user can go though 3,000 to 4,000 RAW images per hour with FastPictureViewer Pro on appropriate hardware.

The program's user interface is designed to put your images first: all the chrome such window border, taskbar and all gadgets is optional and can be hidden from view. Keyboard shortcuts and clever use of the mouse like single-click instant zooming makes for the best user experience.

When you are done with your review pass, batch-processing commands let you copy, move, rename, delete, backup, export, convert or otherwise dispatch the images according to their assigned rating and other criteria’s. You can also delete all files marked for deletion at once, or publish your photos to popular web sites. All commands and functions are optimized for speed and efficiency and great care has been taken to make sure the program offers best-in-industry stability and speed.

FastPictureViewer Professional understands JPEG+RAW perfectly and group those image pairs together automatically: they are considered as one for all operations. Further, if your camera allows for audio annotation, the associated WAV audio file will be grouped too, and can be played directly from FastPictureViewer at the press of a key.

During review, the built-in program launcher let you open an image in your favorite photo editor, such as for example Adobe Photoshop or Corel Paint Shop Pro (you can configure multiple editors). You can also delete an image at the press of a key - both the JPEG and RAW together at once if you are taking your photos in this mode.

FastPictureViewer allows you to evaluate exposures via an RGB histogram and presents essential shooting data like ISO speed, aperture, shutter speed, and exposure compensation. The program can also display a color eyedropper, the GPS coordinates of geotagged images, as well as rating and color labels. All are available at a glance.

You can assign captions, descriptions, copyright information, and keywords to images. This information conforms to industry standards (IPTC, XMP), which means you can later import it into other applications like digital asset management systems or image cataloguers like Adobe Lightroom, iMatch, Photo Supreme, Expression Media and more.

When you are done, you can reliably publish images to the web (Facebook, Flickr, SmugMug, Zenfolio, PhotoShelter or an FTP server) or images to a local disk, for example for burning customer-proof CDs, or for web galleries, email, digital picture frames etc. All image manipulation, publishing and export features are optimized for maximum speed: FastPictureViewer can export JPEGs from your raw files at unbelievable speeds.

FastPictureViewer takes full advantage of your modern computer hardware, 64-bit processors, ample memory, multiple processor cores and Direct3D graphic acceleration (GPU), for stellar performances.

Designed expressly for photo reviewing, FastPictureViewer's design comes as the product of feedback from working professional photographers. Each of its tools and functions fulfill specific needs in a typical photographer's workflow, and it supports full ICC v2 and v4 color management.

As such, we can rightfully say that FastPictureViewer is designed for photographers like you. It fills in the gaps where generic, general-purpose graphics viewers fall short.

Created to handle large batches of images, FastPictureViewer simply opens a folder for viewing and scans the folder to build an internal list of known file types to display. Point FastPictureViewer to a folder containing a million images, and it will load them quickly so you can begin browsing almost immediately. This functionality contrasts sharply with typical image catalogs, which must churn images for hours before they actually appear on your screen.

On the other hand, FastPictureViewer does not replace image organizers like Adobe Lightroom. It complements them by providing a lightweight, inexpensive, compatible, dependable, and fast solution for culling and rating.

It lets you process the "keepers" like you did with your other software tools. The difference, however, is the speed at which you can complete the job. Culling 1000 images in FastPictureViewer and importing the 50 best ones into Lightroom is significantly faster than using Lightroom to perform all of those tasks.

In fact, trained FastPictureViewer users can easily review, rate, and cull 4000 or more RAW images per hour. That's 15 minutes for 1000 images, which for most users is less time than it takes to merely import those images into a typical photo organizing application!

FastPictureViewer's sustained display abilities for typical modern RAW DSLR files on a Windows 7 or 8 64-bit computer is in excess of 8000 images per hour and is only limited by hardware capabilities such as the disk system's throughput. For low resolution JPEGs (sized to your screen or to HDTV resolution), the display rate on a typical multicore 64-bit PC can reach 30 images per second. For Direct3D hardware-accelerated mode with a mid to high-end graphics card containing 1GB or more of video memory on fast disks, the theoretical maximum is the screen display's refresh rate of 50 or 60 effective frames per second.

What these figures mean is that FastPictureViewer is in a league of its own when it comes to display performance.

What's more, the user interface is simple and minimalist, which leaves more space for your photos and fewer opportunities for distraction. You can perform any command via mouse click, mouse gesture, or one of numerous keyboard shortcuts, all of which alleviate the need for endless menus and toolbars. That said, it is possible to access a general context menu by right-clicking the program's taskbar at the bottom of the window. We make this menu available to assist with feature discovery and for less-often-used functions.

For additional on-screen simplicity, any gadgets like the RGB histogram, EXIF shooting data, and XMP information can be hidden from view. You can also hide the application's taskbar. For displaying images - and only images - all across your monitor's surface, FastPictureViewer features a full-screen display mode.

Bring the hidden taskbar back into view by pressing "Alt" or by moving and stopping the mouse where the taskbar is normally displayed at the bottom of the FastPictureViewer window.

• F10 toggles all on-screen gadgets at once.
• F11 (or Alt+Enter) toggles the full-screen mode.
• F12 toggles the taskbar on and off.
• H, D, I, L, Z, F toggle on-screen gadgets.
• E toggles the external program launcher.
• Alt+W play audio annotation.
• B toggles the black & white preview mode.
• O opens the program's options window.

Look for a full keyboard shortcut summary in the included "Cheat Sheet."

• After hiding the taskbar via the F12 command, move and stop the mouse at the bottom of the FastPictureViewer window to make the taskbar reappear.