FastPictureViewer 1.0.42

FastPictureViewer helps you work faster by taking advantage, when available, of the power of multicore processors and the speed of DirectX (Direct3D) graphic accelerators, all working in concert to speed up viewing experience to unprecedented levels.

FastPictureViewer also features first class support for the upcoming HD Photo / JPEG XR image format with rating metadata reading and writing.

With close to 70'000 downloaded copies (as of early September 2008) and given the great feedback we get from our users, we can say with confidence that FastPictureViewer is, by a large factor, the quickest image viewer in existence on the PC.

We've put "fast" back into "fast image viewing", you have to try it for yourself to see what we mean. If you are looking for the fastest photo viewer, look no further, you've just found it and, best of all, it's free for personal use :-)

Noteworthy features:

- Vista support (runs as Standard User with UAC enabled).
- Unicode support, handles image and folder names in any written language.
- Color management let you see your Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB images with accurate colors.
- Support for custom color profiles, to match calibrated monitors and high-end displays.
- Automatic tracking mode, displays the last image added to the picture folder automatically.
- Configurable automatic advance mode, displays the next picture automatically at user-settable interval.
- High precision linear R,G,B histogram with optional compression and per-channel normalization.
- EXIF shooting data display with shutter speed, f-stop, ISO speed, exposure compensation and more.
- Instant flip to the next image using either the keyboard, a mouse click or a scroll of the mouse wheel.
- Easy browsing of tens of thousands (yes!) of images at a time, even in deeply nested multiple sub-folder hierarchies.
- Instant switch between fit-to-window and 100% mode views from a single key press (or click), optional high-quality image rescaling.
- Adobe XMP sidecar files creation and update (stores rating, labels, urgency settings in Adobe XMP-compliant metadata format).
- Embedded metadata writer for JPEG/TIFF/HD Photo/JPEG-XR files (Adobe XMP rating/labeling and Windows Vista rating).
- Mouse 'click-and-hold' instantaneous 100% zoom and configurable instantaneous 50%-6400% right-click magnifier.
- Seamless multiple-subfolders browsing, in one single continuous sequence (easily browse an entire drive or CD/DVD at once).
- Drag & drop support, drop a folder or a set of files on FastPictureViewer to quickly view them.
- Single-click or single keystroke background copy of the "keepers" to a preset folder, without disruption of the viewing flow.
- Plug'n'play integration with optional automatic browsing of inserted media or digital camera: view images straight off the camera.
- Shell integration with "Open with FastPictureViewer..." context-menu options for local folders and drives.
- Supports file associations from Windows Explorer ("Open With...") to e.g. associate JPEGs with FastPictureViewer.exe
- Instant automatic detection of new images added anywhere to the folder tree, while you browse (real-time "hot folder" concept).
- Multi-monitor awareness and huge monitor support, with full-screen borderless kiosk mode available at the press of the F11 key.

FastPictureViewer does all of the above in style, with the slickest, most uncluttered user interface you've seen in ages. The Home Basic edition, which supports JPEG, Microsoft HD Photo / JPEG XR, Adobe XMP rating, Vista rating, RGB histogram, EXIF shooting data display and Unicode is available free of charge for home use (freeware license). The freeware version can be used indefinitely for as long as you keep it up-to-date by installing the most current version every 3 months.

Unlike some very well known, well-established (and somewhat old) digital photo viewers, commercial and free alike, FastPictureViewer was deliberately kept as simple as possible: it has only one menu with a total of six commands and only three buttons on the task bar, so you'll learn how to use it in seconds instead of days.

We think an image viewer does not need 200+ menu options and a dozen pages choke full of configurations buttons and choice lists, typical of so many applications that began as great ideas and eventually grew totally out of control.

Of course, FastPictureViewer will evolve and functions will be added in the future, but we strive to keep it as minimalist and simple to use as possible (beside also being the fastest). We won't fall into the usual "feature creep" and "bloat" traps so common nowadays and we also seek to keep the bug count as low as possible, instead of adding as many features as we can.

FastPictureViewer Professional Edition adds support for web and Windows formats such as PNG (with per-pixel alpha), GIF (with transparency), BMP, RLE, DIB, ICO, TIFF support with metadata embedding and DNG, along with support for previewing a number of RAW formats from digital cameras manufacturers and 3rd-party codec providers.

The professional edition is aware of multiple file formats (so-called "image stacks", where JPEG+RAW or JPEG+TIFF, for example, are displayed, copied, moved or deleted as one) and supports fast RAW image previewing for select top digital cameras, including the newest and greatest such as Nikon's D3, D300, D700, Canon's EOS-1D MkIII, EOS-1Ds MkIII[**] and Adobe DNG (Hasselblad, Leica...) through Adobe's own DNG decoder or a 3rd-party commercial decoder.

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