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Introduction

FastRawViewer from LibRaw is a new computer program designed to increase the speed that you can view your raw files without the need to convert to JPEG first. Boasting super fast raw viewing, image analysis, editing and tagging as well as full raw conversion, FastRawViewer could prove useful to the photographer on location making “on the fly” adjustments or with impatient clients. FastRawViewer is available now to download from the LibRaw website and is set at an introductory price from the regular price of $19.99 (£) to $14.99 (£) until January 31st, 2015.

Installation and Use

Even with a painfully slow internet connection, because FastRawViewer is such a small file to download (12.5Mb), it was done in a few minutes. The program comes with a 30 day trial, but if you’ve bought the product, you can input the licence key and get started. Should you be on the trial, you can always input the key at a later date by clicking on the Help tab in the top left corner of the screen and choosing Buy/Activate Licence.

External Programs Found

FastRawViewer has a simplistic layout and this is arguably what helps it be so fast. The more coding that the program has to drag around with it, the slower it becomes. It’s no secret that using a platform such as Windows 98 on a computer from today would be extremely fast because 98 doesn’t have all the help files and extra features that were introduced with XP onwards. It’s the same principle here.

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As the program launches, a window appears with a large preview pane to the left and some features to the right. It bears a passing resemblance to the layout of Photoshop circa CS4, but without the tools down the left side.

Preferences

Edit Preferences

Most of the actions you’ll perform in FastRawViewer are done via the drop ntabs in the top left corner of the window. There are only five and only four of those pertain to photography. The odd one out being Help which accesses the LibRaw or FastRawViewer dedicated website to aid you in your work.

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Most of the options when choosing the images you wish to view are done in the File tab such as opening a new folder of work to view. The pop up screen that opens the folders for you to locate your work doesn’t preview the raw files, they remain as icons (CR2 in our case as the images were from a Canon) which means you’re choosing blindly. Now this isn’t too big of a deal if you’re working on a laptop and using images from a shoot just moments ago. However, Fast RawViewer allows you to download the program to two machines. So if you also have it on a desktop unit and you’re wanting to play around with older files, you have to have them in some semblence of order or you will struggle to find them.

Viewing Next File

You can only open one image at a time, which at first seems a bit odd, but is in fact an act of genius. Opening just one image means that the program operates at it’s optimum speed. We initially depressed ourselves by thinking we’d have to open, close and reopen countless images, but once you’ve chosen the image, that folder remains open to the program and you can either go to File and click on next image or use the shortcut Control+Right (arrow) to move to the next image. Alternatively, you can use the left arrow to scroll the other way.

White Balance Adjust

In fact, a lot of the functions have shortcuts attached to them. In the View window you can zoom in, rotate, view in any of the colour channels as well as black & white. You can also rotate the image along with performing some basic editing such as exposure adjustment and messing around with the white-balance.

To the right of the window, the boxes that can be removed or added by clicking the x in the top right corner, or by going to Window and unticking them. There are only four though and they are pretty useful for various elements of your workflow.

Show Contrast Edges

Along the bottom of the screen, you have a repetition of some EXIF data as well as seemingly random letters. However, these letters can be pressed and will toggle various features. The R and I letters, for example, will show either the raw (R) or embedded JPEG (I). E, D and S show Contrast Edges (E), Fine Detail (D) and Shadow (S). These are displayed as bright colours so they’re easily noticeable.

You can also adjust the overall exposure and reset the white-balance if it’s not entirely accurate.

Once you’ve made all your changes, you can save the image to the same folder (shortcut M) or a different one (shortcut Shift + M). Alternatively you can bin the images that you don’t like so that the folder is ready for batch processing, although this can’t be done in FastRawViewer.

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Performance

In order to see how fast the viewer was, we loaded a folder with several raw files and opened up the first one. It certainly lives up to it’s name as each raw file taken on a Canon EOS 5D MkII that we used was around 20-22Mb in size and they popped up on the screen as though they were low resolution JPEG files.

There’s no lag or slow loading in line by line. The initial image loading in can take a few moments, but it’s negligible and worth the wait in order to get the speed that the images flick through as you move left and right.

Interestingly, the modes along the bottom of the window may be auto corrective and it’s worth checking that before saving any work. From time to time, we found that the exposure of the image was a lot higher than we shot and it was FastRawViewer that had automatically set it to what it considered a normal setting. Download exe files on mac.

Conclusion

LibRaw haven’t pulled any punches with naming the product, so it’s good to see that it lives up to it’s moniker. We can see how this program can be a useful addition to a photographer’s workflow, but really only the kind of photographer that needs to see the pictures there and then. That includes wedding photographers wanting to show the client images that need approval, sports photographers who may have a small window in order to get the shot they need or even just the insatiably curious. For the price, it isn’t going to break the bank in order to get instant large screen viewing of your pictures.

We’re disppointed to not see some kind of batch processor. It would be good to be able to make the small changes to the images, then convert them without having to open a new program. It’s also disappointing not having TIFF support. DNG is supported as well as a plethora of camera raw files. We can see why they aren’t; after all, no camera shoots in TIFF, but some do in DNG. However, we still stand by our thought that you may come back to older projects and want to go through images again and if they’re TIFF files, you won’t be able to view them except in slower programs.

For the money, this is an extremely useful piece of kit. It could prove to be invaluable for the right photographer so that they can get the shot right. Sometimes the small screen on the back of a c amera simply doesn’t show enough information and it’s times like this that you’ll need this program.

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Our friends at LibRaw are joining our video course promotion by offering an exclusive discount for PL readers – 25% off the software! This is a time-limited offer to give you access to the fastest and best (in our opinion) RAW viewing and culling software on the market – the deal is only good until August 15, 2016, so act quick to get this amazing tool. In addition, everyone who has purchased our video courses will be receiving a permanent 30% discount, which is awesome! If you have bought the course, you were probably amazed by how quick one can go through hundreds of RAW images using FastRawViewer directly from the memory card and leave only the images intended to be imported into post-processing software like Lightroom. It is a huge time saver for me personally, which is why I have been advocating the use of the software to our readers.

To take advantage of this offer, please go to FastRawViewer.com and put the code “PGLF-4GL4-DCCK” on the cart page (click the “Have a coupon or promotional code? Enter code here” link to reveal the coupon input area). Once you do that, the system will automatically decrease the price of the selected software by 25%. With this offer, you can get FastRawViewer only for $ 14.99! And trust me, it is worth every penny – other readers who actively use FRV will attest to that.

If you have previously bought our video courses, as pointed out above, you will be receiving a 30% discount code to purchase LibRaw software! An exclusive discount code will be available in a separate text file later tonight, so you can download it from the Downloads area of the site (you must first login, then navigate to Shop->My Account->Downloads).

Big thanks to Iliah Borg and his team for giving us this great opportunity! We love supporting their work, because they are a very talented team of programmers who truly listen to customer feedback. As I have previously pointed out, I really hope that FastRawViewer will evolve into a much more capable tool in the future – perhaps we could see a solid Lightroom replacement one day 🙂

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