Verdict:įastRawViewer's wide format support makes it a very useful RAW viewer for everyone. (Windows only) A warning is issued if 'pass image to external program' requires privilege escalation. FastRawViewer is designed to ease the work of photographers, enabling them to quickly go through their RAW shots before proceeding to editing the best ones. New setting: Folders panel - gear menu - Show horizontal scrollbar (Windows only) New Preferences setting: Interface - Set the main menubar colors to match the main window. Run program/Pass image in main menu/context menus has been reworked Faster thumbnail reading, especially on slow media/WiFi
Once you've finished, you can move the picture to defined "accepted" or "rejected" folders, pass it to other programs for further processing, or just click "Next" to check the next image. You also get features to highlight focus peaking (the sharpest areas of an image), check noise levels, adjust white balance, boost shadows, apply tone curves, assign an XMP rating or label. Exposure changes can be recorded in XMP files, ready for use by Adobe Bridge/ Camera Raw/ Lightroom. There are tools to highlight under and overexposed areas of the image, and manually correct any issues. Not bad, especially as FastRawViewer also displays the file name, resolution, key EXIF metadata, the actual RAW histogram, and more.Ĭrucially, the developer claims FastRawViewer is "the only WYSIWYG RAW viewer that allows to see RAW exactly as a converter will "see" it", giving you the most accurate look at the image. It is extremely flexible nearly all of its settings can be tuned. FastRawViewer is very user-friendly and seamlessly integrates into any existing RAW workflow. FastRawViewer supports a variety of RAW, JPEG, TIFF, and PNG formats. It's super-fast, too, rendering even our largest test images in a fraction of a second. FastRawViewer provides tools for the rating, labeling and sorting photos, and filtering of any number of RAW images.
We didn't test that, but it had no problem at all with our Canon, Nikon, Olympus and Panasonic RAWs.
The program claims to support "almost every single existing RAW format", "including native out-of-camera DNG files as well as the files converted to DNG". FastRawViewer is the only WYSIWYG RAW viewer that allows to see RAW exactly as a converter will 'see' it, and provides RAW-based tools to estimate what a converter will be able to squeeze from the shot. FastRawViewer is the viewing software created by the LibRaw codec developers and supports the same formats as the Windows extension.FastRawViewer, as its name suggests, opens RAW files extremely fast and on-the-fly, rather than displaying an embedded JPEG preview, as most RAW viewers would. FastRawViewer is designed to be controlled mostly with keyboard and mouse, without much reaching for menus. FastRawViewer is a useful tool for viewing and processing RAW images.