FastPictureViewer (32-Bit) 1.0.108

FastPictureViewer (32-Bit) 1.0.108 is an effective tool designed to help speed up the workflow of professional photographers and provides full color management including support for custom profiled monitors, rating functions compliant with windows Vista and Adobe XMP standards, instant RGB histogram and EXIF windows, instant magnifier, image preloading/caching and optional Direct3D acceleration for ultimate viewing speed on modern computers.

Major Features:

1. FastPictureViewer is a small and fast image viewer for Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. It supports rating and copying images on the fly, as you view them either in windowed mode or full screen.
2. FastPictureViewer was designed for photographers, editors or anyone needing to quickly review, label and rate large amounts (thousands) of digital photos on a regular basis.
3. FastPictureViewer can help you save time. Its aim is to be your first choice for a quick first-pass culling/review of (very) large quantities of images. Once your rough selection is made and you have copied/tagged the images you want to keep, FastPictureViewer has done its job and your usual workflow (Lightroom, Photoshop, Capture NX, DPP, IDimager, IMatch, whatever...) picks up from there as usual. Slashing the initial review time in three is typical, thanks to the speed of everything FastPictureViewer does, viewing, rating, copying, all is virtually instantaneous vs. 1 second here, 2 seconds there, thousands of times, with all competing solutions.
4. FastPictureViewer is a modern, native Windows (Win32) application built with full Unicode support from the ground up. Folders and file names can be made of non-Latin characters e.g. Far East, Arabic, Hebrew etc without restrictions as the program takes full advantage of the native Unicode support present in Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP.
5. FastPictureViewer fully supports color management, including support for custom-profiled monitors. A specific profile, to be used when converting the images for display, can be selected in the program options. Is is important to note that FastPictureViewer converts the image data directly from the source color space (the image file) to the destination color space (as specified by the monitor profile) without an intermediate sRGB step. This direct conversion guarantees the best possible color rendition and performances for both calibrated and uncalibrated images and monitors, without clipping or banding being induced by the conversion.
6. FastPictureViewer has been found to exactly match the on-screen color rendition one get from high-end professional image editors such as Adobe Photoshop. This feature alone, and the minimal performance impact incurred by the color conversion process, sets FastPictureViewer apart from other image viewers, including the most popular ones.
7. Its speed and simplicity. FastPictureViewer is insanely fast, it loads in a split second and operates very quickly. In many cases you'll be done with your review and culling work when competing solutions are still crawling your drive, helplessly creating thousands of thumbnails and index entries, eating up all of your machine's power doing so. Beside that, the user interface is so slick and uncluttered, you will learn it literally in seconds instead of days and be instantly more productive. The professional edition of the program pays for itself on its first use. FastPictureViewer does very little, but it does it very well and that's what sets it apart from the crowd.
8. FastPictureViewer can optionally create/update Adobe XMP sidecar files and optionally write embedded XMP and Windows 7, Windows Vista metadata within JPEG (JFIF), HD Photo / JPEG XR and TIFF containers. The program currently supports xmp:Rating, xmp:Label, photoshop:Urgency and MicrosoftPhoto:Rating, allowing you to quickly rate, label and categorize your image directly from FastPictureViewer at the press of a key. Intelligent image cataloguing software suites (e.g. Lightroom, IDimager and the like) and Windows 7, Windows Vista Explorer and Windows Media Player 11 can later use this information to help sort, select, rank or otherwise organize your images.
9. FastPictureViewer is a professionally written application and uses 100% industry standard methods for rating and labeling images. The medatata created and edited by FastPictureViewer has been proven fully compatible with standard applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Bridge, Nikon ViewNX, Windows 7, Windows Vista (Explorer and Photo Gallery) and many others. FastPictureViewer closely adhere to the metadata interoperability standards set by the Metadata Working Group and endorsed by Adobe, Canon, Microsoft, Sony and others.
10. FastPictureViewer let you sort images by GPS date/time. Of you have a camera with a built-in or add-on GPS unit, a 1-second accurate timestamp is recorded within the files and can be used to sort the images. The standard EXIF 'date taken' field can also be used. Note that EXIF field sorting forces FastPictureViewer to open every file as it scans the folder, as such the scanning is much slower and the program is less responsive during that time. Most cameras set the file's last modification date to the exact same time as the 'date taken', in most cases it is better to stick with the much faster file date sorting.

Requirements:

• FastPictureViewer was created on Windows Vista and runs on Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Developement is currently hosted on Windows 7 exclusively.
• The program also runs on Windows XP SP3 with some limitations but beware that some XP display drivers have quirks that might prevent them to support FastPictureViewer's hardware-accelerated mode: use Windows Vista or later, 64-bit if your system supports it, for best GPU support and optimal performances (yes, Vista outperforms XP hands down, and is far more robust).
• Windows 7 and Vista also offers more robust and better performing tethered shooting abilities for FastPictureViewer Pro for both 32 and 64 bit editions.
• • Windows 7 RTM (6.1.7600).
  • Windows 7 RTM (6.1.7600) 64-bit(*).
  • Windows Vista SP1/SP2.
  • Windows Vista SP1/SP2 64-bit(*).
  • Windows Vista SP2 with Platform Update (recommended).
  • Windows Vista SP2 64-bit with Platform Update (recommended)(*).
  • Windows XP SP3 (Service Pack 3, recommended).
  • Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2) with Windows Imaging Component.
  • Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Server 2008 R2, 32 and 64 bit(*) editions.
  • Windows Server 2003 SP2 (Service Pack 2) with Windows Imaging Component (WIC).
  • Full support for Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Core2 Quad and Intel Core i7 processors, in 32 or 64-bit(*) modes!
  • 24-bit per pixel (16 million colors) or 32-bit per pixel display mode is recommended.
  • Modern and powerful graphic adapter recommended for the optional DirectX/Direct3D GPU acceleration support. Recent multi-core processor with large L2/L3 caches recommended for ultimate performances.
  • ATI users: please use the ATI Catalyst Driver v8.11 (Nov 12, 2008) or later. If you experience display corruption issues in accelerated mode under XP, simply turn the GPU acceleration back OFF and report the problem to ATI.
  • NVIDIA users: please use the NVIDIA ForceWare / GeForce driver 175 or later.
  • For all other cards, please use the latest driver, preferably late-2008 or newer.
  • The 64-bit version of FastPictureViewer Professional requires 64-bit raw codecs.