FastPictureViewer
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| Developer(s) | Axel Rietschin Software Developments |
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| Initial release | January 15, 2008 |
| Stable release | 1.95.400.0
/ September 15, 2021[1] |
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| Operating system | Windows XP and later Windows Server 2003 and later[1] |
| Platform | IA-32 and x64 |
| Available in | English, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish |
| Type | Image viewer |
| License | Freemium[2] |
| Website | www |
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FastPictureViewer is a freemium image viewer for Windows XP and later. Its aim is to facilitate quick review, rating, and annotation of large quantities of digital images in the early steps of the digital workflow, emphasizing simplicity and speed. The basic version is available cost-free for personal, non-profit, or educational uses, while a commercial license is required for the professional version with additional features.
Features
FastPictureViewer is optimized for full-screen, borderless preview of digital images. It is designed for initial pre-selection and rating of images ("culling"). The program lacks image editing features but quickly browses deeply nested folders. It relies heavily on keyboard shortcuts and has a minimal user interface[3]. It has been praised for its speed by German magazine c't Magazin für Computertechnik[4].
The software supports full color management, including custom-profiled wide-gamut monitors and ICCv2 and ICCv4 profile formats. It supports image rating using Adobe XMP, image pre-loading, and caching. The 64-bit edition utilizes multi-core CPUs for parallel image loading and DirectX hardware acceleration. It also features an IPTC metadata editor[5].
New images can be added on the fly, and a tracking mode automatically displays the last image added, useful for tethered photography. An automatic advance mode and navigation slider are also provided.
The program supports Unicode and has a multi-lingual user interface. It integrates with the Windows shell and provides a file copy function and real-time RGB histogram display.
An entry-level version is available free of charge for non-commercial use, supporting JPEG and HD Photo image formats and Adobe XMP rating metadata.
The commercial version offers additional features such as:
- Support for PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, and RAW formats.
- Persistent bookmarks and multi-camera tethered shooting.
- Batch file management and IPTC metadata editing.
- Web publishing and local export.
- Geo-clustering and controlled vocabularies with assisted keyword entry[6].
- Reverse geocoding in the IPTC Editor[7].
Color management
The program uses the ICM 2.0 color engine built into Windows since Windows 98. The commercial version offers the option to use the WCS 1.0 color engine available on Windows Vista and later, based on Canon's Kyuanos technology[8].
Batch processing
Batch file processing is provided through a plug-in extension called File Utilities[9], allowing rule-based file management, including batch renaming, copying, moving, deleting, and exporting.
Publishing
The web publishing subsystem[10] allows users to upload photos to photo-sharing websites or local storage, with on-the-fly format conversions to JPEG and color-space conversion to sRGB.
Formats support
The program installs WIC-enabled image decoders for over 400 digital camera models, Rawzor compressed Raw images, and DNG. It supports standard raster image formats and specialist formats through separate decoders.
FastPictureViewer image codecs are available as a separate product called the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack[11], enabling read-only support for 40+ image formats in Windows applications.
Versions
The first public version was released on January 15, 2008. The software is available in native 64-bit and 32-bit flavors, running on Windows XP SP3 and later. From 2017 to 2021, no updates were released, but a technical refresh for 64-bit CPUs with AVX instructions was made available in 2021.
Criticism
The software has been reported to use null-terminated registry keys that break other installed software and remain in the registry after deinstallation[12][13].
See also
- Image Viewers
- Digital Photography
- Comparison of Image Viewers
- Color Management and ICC Profiles
- Windows Imaging Component (WIC)
- Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP)
- Media Transfer Protocol (MTP/PTP)
- International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "FastPictureViewer Professional Downloads". fastpictureviewer.com. Axel Rietschin Software Developments. 15 July 2015.
- ↑ "FastPictureViewer Professional 1.9 - Image Formats Compatibility Chart". fastpictureviewer.com. Axel Rietschin Software Developments. 26 January 2015.
- ↑ FastPictureViewer Professional Cheat Sheet (keyboard shortcuts help)
- ↑ "Artikel aus c't 19/08, S.162, zu FastPictureViewer 1.0" (in Deutsch). Archived from the original on 2009-04-03. Retrieved 2024-07-22.
- ↑ IPTC Web - Software supporting IPTC Photo Metadata standards
- ↑ Taxonomies, Structured Keywords, Controlled Vocabularies support in FastPictureViewer Professional
- ↑ Reverse-geocoding support in FastPictureViewer Professional
- ↑ "Canon Kyuanos high precision color management engine". Archived from the original on 2010-08-26. Retrieved 2010-01-19. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ File Utilities Plugin Tutorial
- ↑ Using the web publishing sybsystem
- ↑ FastPictureViewer Codec Pack (32/64-bit)
- ↑ "Python 'pip' and Windows registry corruption".
- ↑ "Where do these null-terminated registry keys come from?".
External links
- FastPictureViewer at Curlie
- Answers to frequently asked questions about FastPictureViewer
- Version 4 ICC Specification
- Download WIC for XP SP2
- IPTC Photo Metadata
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