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User Manual

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FastRawViewer – user manual

How FastRawViewer Helps You

FastRawViewer is the first and the only dedicated application with the purpose of
extremely fast culling and pre-processing of RAW images: i.e. display, visual and
technical analysis, applying basic corrections, sorting and setting aside or directly
transferring the selected ones for further processing.
FastRawViewer (FRV) is the only solution for those who:
• Shoot in RAW and are tired of wasting hours or days on browsing through piles of shots and
sorting them.
• Are tired of rendering all those RAWs into JPEGs to quickly browse through them with a client,
CMO, senior designer, editor in chief; or to show them to your friends and family members.
• Are in constant need of very quick viewing, visually and technically analyzing, sorting through
hundreds or thousands of RAW shots, and selecting the apt ones for further processing.
• Want to shoot in RAW, but don’t, fearing to get mired in sorting RAW files.
• Are forced to use JPEG format, because your previous experiences tell you that it is impossible to
quickly select and show your client the images taken in RAW.
• Are in need of tools to instantly adjust white balance and exposure (lightness) right while
browsing through the shot.

FastRawViewer Strengths and Features

• Display of the actual RAW as well as the actual RAW histogram
• For the first time, a comfortable speed of RAW file viewing (together with histograms), provided
by FastRawViewer using modern processors and video cards to process RAW images:
o 6-15 frames per second on a modern desktop computer1 for files from modern photo
cameras (16-50 Mpix, testing was conducted on a mix of shots from recent cameras, SSD
recommended for peak performance).
o 30-50 frames per second for CinemaDNG 2.5k on the same equipment (we used Blackmagic
Pocket Cinema files for testing).
• Support of almost every single existing RAW format (that is, almost every known digital
camera)2, including native out-of-camera DNG files as well as the files converted to DNG.
• Instant display of RAW files directly from any memory card or other file storage - without
customary delays for importing, creating catalogues, libraries, and temporary databases.

• View JPEGs (including embedded JPEG thumbnails) – and also display the histograms.

1
Intel i7-7700K at stock clock rate, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GTX 1080, fast NVMe SSD drive, Windows 10
2
With only one significant exception: Foveon cameras are not supported.

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• Support for TIFF, HEIC/HEIF and PNG formats – with histogram and EXIF data display.

• The convenience of working with shots taken in RAW + JPEG mode, with two files being paired:
a) While listing through files, you have the option to ignore the second file in the pair.
b) JPEGs (including embedded thumbnails) are considered to be “additional images” and are
immediately accessible for viewing.
c) When you move a file from the RAW + JPEG pair to another folder, the other file follows.
d) And, of course, you can always switch this mode off, if you so choose, and treat the files as
separate.
• The possibility of doing a quick visual and technical analysis by:
a) Examining the real RAW histogram.
b) Assessing the exposure based on:
i. Spotlighting of over- and underexposed areas on the shot.
ii. Over- and underexposure statistics.
c) Outlining the in-focus and highly detailed areas on the shot.
d) Assessing per-channel exposure and acutance.
e) Assessing the noise level in the shadows.

• Time-saver: exposure and white balance adjustments can be made while browsing RAW files
and are saved in XMP files so that they can be automatically applied when you open that shot in
Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Camera Raw.
• Time-saver for series, including panoramas: propagation of white balance, exposure, and image
orientation adjustments from one shot to the entire series.
• Highly compatible system of assigning labels and ratings to images, including the user-defined
labels. Ratings and labels are written into XMP files and are read by Adobe software (and others
which acknowledge XMP sidecar files).
• Copying and moving the selected shots into folders chosen by the user.
• Moving the rejected shots into a special folder, which can be reviewed again later.
• Transferring the selected shots for further processing to a user-selected RAW converter directly
from FastRawViewer.
• Support for black and white RAW, including shots from cameras converted to b/w by removing
the color filter array.
• Warnings when FastRawViewer comes across a damaged RAW file.
• Monitor color profile support, without the loss of image rendering speed.
• Modifying settings to suite your workflow
a) You can set your own keyboard (or keyboard+mouse) shortcuts for every action.

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b) The settings panel allows you to turn off the ones you don’t need, and change the others to
your preferences.

Table of Contents
How FastRawViewer Helps You ................................................................................................................ 2
FastRawViewer Strengths and Features............................................................................................... 2
Conventions used in this Manual ........................................................................................................... 11
System Requirements............................................................................................................................. 11
Windows ......................................................................................................................................... 11
Mac ................................................................................................................................................. 11
“Recommended minimum” computer configuration ........................................................................ 12
Network storage ............................................................................................................................. 13
Software Installation .............................................................................................................................. 14
Windows Installation .......................................................................................................................... 14
Mac OS X ............................................................................................................................................. 17
First Launch and Program Activation ..................................................................................................... 19
Activating the Trial Version ................................................................................................................ 19
Activation of the License You’ve Purchased ....................................................................................... 21
Manual Activation .............................................................................................................................. 22
First launch: automatic search for RAW-capable applications .......................................................... 24
1st Run: Windows Hardware Acceleration Method Selection ............................................................ 24
Using the Program: First Steps ............................................................................................................... 26
Launching FastRawViewer .................................................................................................................. 26
Main Screen ........................................................................................................................................ 26
View modes: “Grid” and Single-file ................................................................................................ 26
Workspace ...................................................................................................................................... 30
Changing the Settings ......................................................................................................................... 33
Help with the Keyboard Shortcuts ..................................................................................................... 34
Supported file formats ........................................................................................................................... 35
Out-of-camera RAW files and DNG files ............................................................................................. 35

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JPEG files ............................................................................................................................................. 35

PNG files ............................................................................................................................................. 35
TIFF files .............................................................................................................................................. 35
HEIC/HEIF files .................................................................................................................................... 36
Determining the file type ................................................................................................................... 36
Maximum file sizes ............................................................................................................................. 37
RAW+JPEG Mode ................................................................................................................................ 38
RAW+HEIC Mode ............................................................................................................................ 38
Preview and Metadata cache ............................................................................................................. 38
Disk cache for previews .................................................................................................................. 39
Navigating the Files in a Folder while in Grid mode ............................................................................... 40
Working with a Single File ...................................................................................................................... 42
Copying and Moving Single Files ........................................................................................................ 43
Resetting the lists of recently used folders .................................................................................... 45
Fast Copying/Moving into a subfolder in the current folder ............................................................. 45
Deleting Files: the _Rejected folder ................................................................................................... 46
Clearing out the _Rejected Folder .................................................................................................. 47
File selection: _Selected Folder .......................................................................................................... 48
Integration with External Programs ................................................................................................... 49
Metadata: Ratings, Labels, Title, and Description .................................................................................. 49
Creating and Reading XMP Files ......................................................................................................... 49
XMP sidecars and embedded XMP blocks ..................................................................................... 51
XMP sidecar files are supported for file formats other than RAW (TIFF, PNG, HEIC) .................... 51
Rules for naming XMP sidecar files ................................................................................................ 52
What happens when you use several applications simultaneously to modify XMP files .............. 52
Compatibility with RawPhotoProcessor (.rpps files) .......................................................................... 53
Ratings and Labels .............................................................................................................................. 54
Title and Description........................................................................................................................... 56
Sorting and filtering files in a folder ....................................................................................................... 57

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File Sorting .......................................................................................................................................... 57

File Filtering ........................................................................................................................................ 58
File Filtering: saving, cancelling, and restoring .............................................................................. 59
Filtering by filename ....................................................................................................................... 60
Other parameters and properties of the Sort & Filter panel ......................................................... 60
Panel settings (gear icon) ............................................................................................................... 61
Working with Read-Only/Locked Files ............................................................................................... 62
Operations with Multiple Files ............................................................................................................... 63
Selecting/marking files ....................................................................................................................... 63
Advanced selection mode (enabled by default)............................................................................. 63
Standard Selection mode ............................................................................................................... 65
Actions on marked/selected files ....................................................................................................... 66
Context menus................................................................................................................................ 66
Program menus/hotkeys ................................................................................................................ 66
Batch editing of Title/Description .................................................................................................. 69
Operations with selected files: compatibility mode with older versions ...................................... 71
Undo: Reversing File Operations ............................................................................................................ 72
Drag and Drop from of the program ...................................................................................................... 72
Drag and Drop within FastRawViewer ................................................................................................... 73
Histogram, and Exposure statistics in Grid Mode .................................................................................. 74
Folder Navigation ................................................................................................................................... 76
Limiting the displayed folder tree ...................................................................................................... 77
Editing the folder tree ........................................................................................................................ 79
Working with Removable Media (Flash Cards, etc.) .......................................................................... 80
Automatic Recognition of Inserted Media ..................................................................................... 80
Un-mounting (Ejecting) Removable Media .................................................................................... 81
Favorite Folders Panel: Easy Access to Select Folders ....................................................................... 82
“Close” File/Folder.............................................................................................................................. 83
Special view modes for folders............................................................................................................... 84

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Working with subfolders (nested folders) .......................................................................................... 84

Constraints in Subfolder browse mode .......................................................................................... 87
Exiting Subfolder browse mode ..................................................................................................... 87
Viewing a set list of files (virtual folder mode)................................................................................... 88
Hotfolder mode: monitoring the current folder ................................................................................ 89
Slideshow Mode ................................................................................................................................. 90
Single File View Mode and the Filmstrip Panel ...................................................................................... 91
Additional Methods of Navigating Folder Files ...................................................................................... 92
Opening a File/Folder Using the Menu .............................................................................................. 92
Drag and Drop..................................................................................................................................... 92
Program Start Modes ............................................................................................................................. 93
Launching Several Instances of FastRawViewer................................................................................. 93
Starting without a Filename ............................................................................................................... 94
Working with Touchscreen ..................................................................................................................... 95
Working with a Single Image .................................................................................................................. 98
Right-click context menu .................................................................................................................... 98
Embedded and External JPEG ............................................................................................................. 99
Zooming and Panning ....................................................................................................................... 100
Changing Image Orientation............................................................................................................. 101
De-Bayering (demosaicking): CPU and GPU modes ......................................................................... 101
Sharpening for Display...................................................................................................................... 103
Viewing File Channels, Viewing in Black and White Mode .............................................................. 104
Boosting the Shadows ...................................................................................................................... 105
Inspection of Highlights .................................................................................................................... 105
Linear display mode.......................................................................................................................... 106
Adjusting the Image Contrast ........................................................................................................... 107
Using Monitor Profile for Display ..................................................................................................... 108
Support for Cameras Modified to Black and White ......................................................................... 108
Working with Exposure .................................................................................................................... 109

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Histogram ..................................................................................................................................... 110

Exposure Statistics ........................................................................................................................ 111
Spotlighting the Areas of Over- and Underexposure ................................................................... 114
Exposure correction...................................................................................................................... 116
Recording of the exposure correction to XMP files: Interaction with Adobe Programs ............. 118
Exposure Adjustment when Browsing to the Next File ................................................................ 118
Forcing Adobe tools to render tones accurately .............................................................................. 118
White Balance................................................................................................................................... 120
Indication of the White Balance ................................................................................................... 120
White Balance Presets .................................................................................................................. 121
Controlling which White Balance will be Used when Opening a File ........................................... 122
Setting White Balance by “Click-Gray” Method ........................................................................... 122
Manually Setting the Color Temperature ..................................................................................... 123
Undo editing ..................................................................................................................................... 123
Outlining In-Focus and Highly Detailed Areas .................................................................................. 124
Overlay Grid ...................................................................................................................................... 125
Performance Settings ........................................................................................................................... 127
Settings for Different Types of Data Storage.................................................................................... 127
Sequential and “Random” Browsing ............................................................................................ 127
Hard Disk Drives (HDD) and Hybrid drives (HDD with SSD cache) ............................................... 127
Flash Cards and Network Volumes ............................................................................................... 128
TIFF/PNG/JPEG/HEIC Handling ......................................................................................................... 129
Customizing Display Modes .............................................................................................................. 130
Graphics Engine: video mode (Windows only) ............................................................................ 130
GPU Memory Usage: video RAM .................................................................................................. 131
Process RAW data on GPU: controls processing of the RAW data on the GPU ........................... 131
Image Resampling method – sets the method to be used for calculating zoom-in (going above
100% view): .................................................................................................................................. 131
Preferences – GPU Processing – Downsampling options – sets the method for zoom-out
calculations: .................................................................................................................................. 132

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External Editors................................................................................................................................. 177

Performance ..................................................................................................................................... 179
Thumbnail cache........................................................................................................................... 181
Other ................................................................................................................................................. 183
Additional Settings............................................................................................................................ 186
Using Additional Settings Scripts: Windows ................................................................................. 186
Using Additional Settings Scripts: Mac OS X ................................................................................ 188
List of Additional Settings ............................................................................................................. 189
Support of non-standard cameras ................................................................................................... 197
Backing up the Settings .................................................................................................................... 199
Informational Panel Settings ................................................................................................................ 200
Folders Panel .................................................................................................................................... 200
Favorite Folders Panel ...................................................................................................................... 201
Filmstrip/Thumbnails Panel .............................................................................................................. 202
Grid View Panel ................................................................................................................................ 203
EXIF Panel ......................................................................................................................................... 204
XMP Metadata Panel ........................................................................................................................ 205
Exposure Statistics Panel .................................................................................................................. 205
Sort & Filter Panel ............................................................................................................................. 206
Customizing the Status Bar................................................................................................................... 207
Setting the Keyboard Shortcuts ............................................................................................................ 210
Settings for Apple Magic Mouse/Trackpad ...................................................................................... 212
Standard FastRawViewer Keyboard Shortcuts ................................................................................. 213
List of Supported Cameras (RAW formats) .......................................................................................... 220
Copyrights and Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................... 247

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Conventions used in this Manual

The user manual is the same for Windows and Mac versions of FastRawViewer.
All of the standard keyboard shortcuts are given in Windows notation (for example, Ctrl-O).
For OS X please use the following substitutions:
• Ctrl on Windows – is Command on Mac.
• Alt on Windows – is Option on Mac.
All keyboard shortcuts are fully customizable (see below, the “Keyboard Shortcut Settings”).
Throughout this text we will be using default program settings for keyboard / mouse shortcuts.

System Requirements
Windows
• Recommended system: Windows 8.1 – 10, 64-bit.
• 64-bit versions: Windows 7-10.
• 32-bit versions Windows: Windows 7 – 10
• Windows Vista and XP are supported in a separate “Legacy” version of FastRawViewer
• Processor with SSE3 support or later (meaning released 2005+):
o Intel: Pentium 4 Prescott or later; Celeron D or later, any Core processor, Intel Atom.
o AMD: Athlon 64 or later.
The complete list of supported processors is available on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE3
• Video card with DirectX 9.0 support or later, or with OpenGL 2.1 or later.
FastRawViewer will work with practically any video card with 3D acceleration support,
released 2006+ (users of older cards may experience some problems).

Mac
• Intel-based Mac.
• Processor with 64-bit support (that’s every Intel Mac, excluding models from 2005-2006, that
use Intel Core Solo and Intel Core Duo processors).
• Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
• We recommend a video card with OpenGL 2.1 support (that’s every native Mac video card,
that works with OS X 10.6).
An OpenGL emulator will be used if such a video card is not present in the system; some of
the advanced features of FastRawViewer will take significant time to render.

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“Recommended minimum” computer configuration

Unlike applications that display a relatively light-weighted (in megabytes) JPEG preview embedded in
a RAW file, FastRawViewer reads RAW files in their entirety and processes all of the data in them; as
a result, the hardware requirements are higher than for applications that deal with just JPEG
previews.
For RAW files of different pixel counts, to achieve a comfortable browsing speed of 5-7 RAW files per
second, we recommend the following configurations:
• Regardless of pixel count: a 64-bit operating system, and the 64-bit version of FastRawViewer
• For RAW files 6-16 Mpix (typical file size is 5-20MB):
o A mechanical/magnetic HDD will work acceptably (including an external one, with a USB3
interface).
o 2-4 core processor
o Minimum 4GB RAM
o Integrated graphics processor (IGPU).

• RAW files 20-35Mpix (typical file size is 20-45MB):

o SATA SSD, including an external one with a USB3 interface
o 4-core Intel Haswell (i5-4xxx and newer) or better
o 8GB RAM
o Generation nine (Skylake) IGPU or better (i5-7xxx and newer), or a discrete video card
with a price tag of around $100.

• RAW files 40-60Mpix (files are 50-120MB):

o Recommended SSD/NVME (M.2) disk or SATA SSD RAID0
o 4-8 core processor, no less than Intel Haswell
o 16 GB RAM.
o Discrete video card with a price tag around $100.

• RAW files 60-150 Mpix (RAW files are larger than 120MB):
o SSD/NVME (M.2) storage
o 8+ core processor
o 32 GB RAM.
o Discrete video card with a price tag around $200.

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• DNG panoramas, PixelShift stitching, HDR-DNG files (files are larger than 300MB):
o These images tend be very large, and in those cases, we recommend using the maximal
available configurations:
o SSD NVME RAID
o 12+ core processors
o 64GB memory and more
o Top-class video card (the same class as Nvidia GTX 1080 or newer in the same category)

Network storage
The typical network storage, connected via 1Gbit Ethernet, guarantees a productivity on a par with a
local mechanical drive (HDD).
A fast network storage, connected via 5-10Gbit Ethernet, containing several (5-6+)
magnetic/mechanical drives in an array and SSD caches, works with a speed comparable to a SATA
SSD, best case – like a RAID0 made of SATA SSD (don’t use RAID0 arrangements as primary storage).
In general, is not possible to guarantee an acceptable RAW browsing speed using a wireless (Wi-Fi)
connection.

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Software Installation
Windows Installation
The program installation starts by running the executable file of the distribution package
(FastRawViewer-1.6.x.xxx--Setup.exe).
If you downloaded FastRawViewer from our site on the first program launch, current versions of
Windows will display the following security warning:

After the “Run” button is pressed, the UAC (Windows User Access Control) system will display a
warning once again:

Both dialogs allow you to verify that the setup program is signed with unique LibRaw LLC electronic
signature.

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To proceed with the installation, you must agree to the dialog above, and the usual Setup Wizard will
be launched:

At the next screens of Setup Wizard:

The User License is displayed.
An installation folder is suggested; the user may select a different folder.
Creating a Group in the Programs menu is suggested.

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A list of possible additional actions is shown: add FastRawViewer to desktop right-click menu, add
icon to the desktop, add icon to the Quick Launch menu:

Afterwards, the installation takes place. Upon completion, the following screen appears:

In case of any errors during installation, please contact us via www.fastrawviewer.com/contact or

technical support forum at www.fastrawviewer.com/forum.

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Mac OS X
Double click on FastRawViewer-1.x.x.dmg to mount the FastRawViewer disk image you've
downloaded. The content of the disk image will appear like this:

Drag FastRawViewer icon onto the Applications icon. The program will be copied to Applications
folder and ready to run.
Other items contained in the disk image are:
• FastRawViewer Manual (FastRawViewer-manual.pdf).
• Brief description (README.txt) and Changelog (Changelog.txt).
• End-User License Agreement (EULA.txt), Copyright Information (Copyrights.txt).
• Licenses and Copyrights for libraries and components used in FastRawViewer
(Licenses folder).
• Scripts folder contains additional scripts used to set parameters that are not needed in a
general case and therefore are not placed in the Settings menu. These scripts will be copied
upon installation together with the application and are accessible through FastRawViewer
menu.

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If you are using Mac OS X/macOS, you may receive a prompt saying that FastRawViewer can't be
launched, as it was not downloaded from the Apple App Store, you can change the settings in System
– Security to allow launching applications downloaded from App Store and identified developers:

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First Launch and Program Activation

Activating the Trial Version
During the first run FastRawViewer will display a splash screen suggesting the activation of the trial
version.

Immediately after that, with the main program screen being opened, FastRawViewer will try to
connect to Internet to activate the trial version:

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If you are connected to the Internet and FastRawViewer is not blocked by a firewall, the activation of
the trial version happens automatically and nearly instantly, after which the 30-day trial period starts.
No private data is transferred during the activation process; the only data that is passed
through the Internet is FastRawViewer version number and unique non-reversible 64-bit
hash code identifying your computer; this code can’t be decoded to extract any private or
personal data.
After the successful automatic activation, the trial period begins; the trial time left is indicated in
Help-About window and on the splash screen that pops up when FastRawViewer is started.
In case the automatic activation was impossible for some reason (no Internet access, or
FastRawViewer was blocked by firewall), then either in 30 seconds, or while opening a file for
viewing you will be presented with the screen for manual activation:

Here you can allow FastRawViewer a one-time Internet access and press Activate Trial button to
start 30-day free trial period.
If after pressing Activate Trial button FastRawViewer still can’t access activation server an additional
button for Manual Activation will appear:

Pressing this Manual Activation button will take you to manual activation dialogue (for more details,
please see below, in “Manual Activation” section).

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Activation of the License You’ve Purchased

To use FastRawViewer after the trial period, the user will need to obtain a full license.
To obtain the license, please click the Buy License button or open www.fastrawviewer.com/purchase
in your browser. As a result of the transaction, you will be provided with the license key (online and
as a separate email).
This license key should be entered into the License Key field of the activation dialog, which is also
available through Menu-Help-Purchase/Activate:

After the license key is entered, please click Activate license button. The license will be activated and
you will be able to continue using the program.
The Help-Purchase/Activate menu item will now be renamed to Help-Registration data, and the
respective dialog will show your registration data:

To complete the activation (of both the trial and the fully licensed version) the program needs a one-
time access to the Internet. If you cannot grant the appropriate Internet access permissions, you can
activate the program manually.

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Manual Activation
If the program fails to connect with the activation server (one-minute timeout happens), you will see
a popup alert, with a Manual Activation button on the bottom right of the notification window.

After clicking the Manual Activation button, a Manual Trial Activation window will pop up:

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Depending on your Internet access, you can use one of the 3 ways to obtain the activation code:
By using browser (if your browser has an internet connection) – use this if your browser can connect
to the Internet.
Simply click this link: http://activate.fastrawviewer.com/activate.cgi and you will see a browser
window pop up with your unique activation key:

By using E-mail client with an automatically prepared message – click the

mailto:[email protected] link and your mail client will create a new pre-populated email
to [email protected] You will only need to click send.
By using an E-mail client and manually writing the message – you can send an email to
[email protected] using the text in the window below (“I'm unable to activate…”).
If you choose to obtain the activation key via email, you will receive a reply email with the text
identical to that which you would see in the web browser (the activation key, however, will be
different).
You can then use the Activation Key (from the browser or email) and enter it into the Activation Key
field (it is best to use Copy-Paste, as every character of the key is important) and press Activate.
After clicking the Close window button, the window will close and the FastRawViewer activation
window will display the registration status.

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First launch: automatic search for RAW-capable applications

During the first launch, FastRawViewer performs a search for the applications, capable of processing
RAW images that are known to FastRawViewer. If any of those are found, the following dialogue
appears:

For each listed application, you can choose to use it (Use this app) or not (Skip).
Additional applications (those that are not currently known to FastRawViewer, or some older versions
of the known applications) can be enabled through Preferences – External Editors.
Changing hotkeys (Shortcuts) is described below in Setting the Keyboard Shortcuts.

1st Run: Windows Hardware Acceleration Method Selection

FastRawViewer uses graphics acceleration for many operations. When working in Windows, the
following graphics engines can be used:
• OpenGL (hardware acceleration).
• DirectX 9.
• DirectX 11 (Windows 7 and newer only).

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During FastRawViewer’s first launch, an automatic selection of the graphics engine is made,
depending on the operating system and the hardware you have:
• Windows XP/Windows Vista: DirectX 9 will be selected.
• Computers with old Intel graphics adapters on a separate chip (chipsets like G45, 845G, 965G,
etc.): DirectX 9 will be selected.
• Computers with two or more graphics adapters, or two or more monitors: OpenGL will be
selected.
• All other cases: DirectX 9 will be selected.
The above-listed rules are sorted through “from top to bottom” and the first fitting one is used.
The choice of graphics engine is made once and stored in the Windows Registry, so that the process
of the selection of the graphics engine is not repeated during subsequent launches of
FastRawViewer.
The automatic selection of graphics hardware acceleration can be, however, changed by the user,
either through the FastRawViewer Preferences (see the “GPU Processing” section in the “Program
settings” chapter), or by launching the Registry scripts (see the “Setting the graphics acceleration
manually” section in the “Troubleshooting” chapter).
In rare cases of problems, usually caused by a buggy old video driver, the automatically chosen
graphics engine might not work with your hardware/drivers. In this case one of the following will take
place:
• If in DirectX11 mode: the program will switch to DirectX9 mode (so that DirectX9 mode will be
active when the user re-launches FastRawViewer) and exits.
• If in DirectX9 mode: the program will switch to OpenGL mode (so that OpenGL mode will be
active when the user re-launches FastRawViewer) and exits.
• If in OpenGL mode: the program will suggest switching to DirectX9 mode and re-launching the
program.
This is described in more detail in the “Troubleshooting” section.

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Using the Program: First Steps

Launching FastRawViewer
To launch the program:
• Start it up the usual way (Double-click the icon).
• Or drag any RAW or JPEG file onto the icon, then the program will open and display that file.
• Or drag a folder (catalogue) onto the icon - the program will start and will open the first RAW
file in the folder.
After start-up you will be presented with the program’s main screen.

Main Screen

View modes: “Grid” and Single-file

If FastRawViewer is launched without indicating a filename, if will start in Grid mode, displaying the
content of a selected folder:

If FastRawViewer is launched over a specific file (for example, by dropping a RAW file onto the
program’s icon, or by double-clicking a file which is associated with FastRawViewer), or by selecting
one of the files from the “Grid” by:
• A double-click on the file.

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• Menu – View – Switch to single image (G key by default).

• Navigation by using the “arrow keys” in the main window or the bottom “Filmstrip” bar and
pressing Enter.
The program will switch to a Single-File View mode (Single File view):

Switching back to Grid mode:

• Menu – View – Switch to image Grid (or press G).
• Menu – View – Close single image (or Esc; Esc/close single image also exits full screen mode).
On the program main screen:
• On top, as usual, there is the menu that allows access to almost all features, excluding those
actions, which can only be performed with the mouse.
o File – navigating through the files (opening files and folders, moving to the next file,
moving files to different folders, sending the currently displayed file to an external
program / raw converter).
o View – controls image display mode (full-color or per-channel viewing; outline the highly
detailed areas and areas containing high-contrast edges - focus peaking, etc.).
o Adjust – actions that alter the XMP Sidecar files: changing exposure, white balance, and
orientation.
o Select – File selection.

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o Panels – controls the visibility and layout of information panes; on the above screenshot,
those panes are located to the right of the image.
o XMP Metadata – allows to choose XMP Ratings / XMP Labels.
o Help – the name says it.

• Located in the central part of the window:

o If in single file mode, the RAW image is displayed;
o If in “Grid” mode, the preview thumbnails of the current folder are displayed.

• To the left, the following panels are displayed:

o Folder tree and the Favorite folders panel (those folders which were selected for quick
access).
o EXIF data.

• The following panes are located to the right:

o Histogram (RAW for RAW files, RGB – for RGB files).
o Over/Underexposure statistics.
o XMP Rating and XMP Label.
o Sort & Filter: Panel for sorting and filtering the files in a current folder
• The Filmstrip/Thumbnails panel is placed below the window, showing the file previews for
the current folder.
• Additional information and operational elements are placed in the bottom (status) bar.
Default elements:
o File open icon.
o Buttons for navigating through the current folder: previous file, number of files in the file
list and the length of the list, next file.
o Buttons for switching between RAW-JPEG-external JPEG.
o Buttons for turning on Screen Sharpening, Focus Peaking, Shadow Boost and Highlight
Inspection.
o Exposure Correction control button.
o Overexposed and Underexposed area display buttons.
o Preset White Balance choices drop-down menu.
o Contrast Control section: the up/down arrows and the current setting indication.
o Buttons for quick control: Fullscreen, hide/show Filmstrip panel/all panels, display and
edit settings call-up.

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Aside from the aforementioned, if the window is wide enough, the following buttons will be
displayed:
o File name
o Brief EXIF data for the shot (Exposure settings, ISO setting, applied exposure
compensation, use of flash, lens's focal length).
o Manual White Balance customization button.
o Contrast Curve selection menu.
o Image Orientation indicator and Rotation buttons.
Additionally, the following settings can be indicated if desired:
o The name of the current folder.
o Current image zoom factor and the control buttons.
o Time spent on the loading and decoding of the current file.
o Per-channel display (R-G-B) button and simulated conversion to a black and white
version.
o XMP rating and label control buttons.
The elements shown in the bottom status bar can be customized according to your needs. For this,
press the “Customize FastRawViewer” button on the lower right corner of the screen, choose
“Customize bottom bar” and select the necessary display mode for each possible element. For more
detail, see below in the “Customizing the status bar” section.

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Workspace
The informational panels (Histogram, EXIF, Folders etc.) can be dragged from the main window of the
program to the side (for instance, to a second monitor) and be made “floating”. Panels can be turned
on/off through the Panel menu (or the F2-F8 hotkeys), the statistics and XMP-data panels are fixed in
size, but the sizes of the other panels can be changed.

The header of every panel has a settings button (gear icon, ); when pressed, it brings forth a menu,
allowing one to customize the panel.
Any floating panel can be made semi-transparent and placed in the workspace, above the image.

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Setting Preferences – Interface – Panels – Disable transparency for panels outside of main window
makes a floating panel completely non-transparent when it is placed outside the main program
window.

The other panel settings are individualized, and are described in the “Informational Panel settings”
section.
Informational panels can be closed (‘x’ on the upper right corner of the panel or corresponding item in
Menu – Panels), and re-opened through Menu – Panels. The same menu has the option Move all
panels to dock, which will restore the standard layout of the program workspace.

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Menu–Panels–Hide all panels (or, press Tab) – hides all informational panels:

With this, the top menu bar is hidden as well (this can be turned off through Preferences – Interface
– Panels – Hide menu bar when hiding information panels). You may, also, hide bottom information
bar (status bar) by setting Preferences – Interface – Panels – Hide bottom window bar when hiding
information panels.
Pressing Tab key the second time returns everything to the way it was.

You can disable the hiding of informational panels that are outside the program window. This is
useful when, for instance, you have moved them to a second monitor: Preferences – Interface –
Panels – Do not hide panels outside of main window.

Menu – View – Fullscreen (or the F key, or Fullscreen button on the bottom bar) switches the full
screen mode on/off. Choosing this item again or second press of the F key escapes from full screen
mode (for Mac OS X 10.6 we have no true full screen mode, instead the main program window will be
maximized).

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Changing the Settings

To bring up the settings control window, use:
• Mac: Menu – FastRawViewer –Preferences or Command-comma (,)
• Windows: Menu – File – Customize – Preferences or Ctrl-P
You will be presented with the following dialog:

Further in the text, this settings control menu (Preferences) is mentioned many times, each time we
refer to particular aspects and features of FastRawViewer. Furthermore, everything is described
again in the “Program Settings” section.

Apart from general application settings

(Preferences), each informational panel
and the Grid panel has also its own
settings menu, under the «gear» icon .
These panel settings allow changing
different intrinsic parameters of this
particular panel. The figure to the right
shows an example of such settings, for
the Folders panel.

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Help with the Keyboard Shortcuts

Every keyboard action can be seen in the Keyboard Shortcuts Help window, which can be reached by
pressing F1 function key or through Menu–Help:

All keyboard shortcuts can be changed and tuned to your taste. The instructions on how to do this
are in the “Adjusting the Keyboard Shortcuts” section below. If the keyboard shortcuts are changed,
the help window will show their current state.
The standard list of keyboard macros is given in the «Standard FastRawViewer Keyboard Shortcuts»
(at the end of the document).

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Supported file formats

Out-of-camera RAW files and DNG files
FastRawViewer supports RAW files from practically all consumer digital cameras. For a complete list
of supported cameras, please see the List of Supported Cameras section at the end of this manual.
Furthermore, all versions of DNG files that comply with DNG 1.4 specifications are supported,
including those recorded not by just cameras but also by video cameras (CinemaDNG, if a standard
compression method is used), mobile phones, and various applications (panorama stitching software,
programs for work with HDR compositing, etc.).
Previews are supported for RAW files (in “Grid Mode” or in the Filmstrip) that include JPEGs or
bitmap previews in the RAW file. Such previews are commonly present in RAW files recorded by
digital cameras, but they may be absent in CinemaDNG files, photos taken by phones, or DNG files
that were recorded by some third-party applications. If there is no embedded preview in the RAW
file, then instead of the preview, you will see an icon that says No preview available.
For RAW files, non-destructive, parametric editing is supported: the rendering parameters (such as
white balance, exposure correction, contrast) are recorded to XMP files and will be applied
automatically the next time that the file is opened with FastRawViewer or one of the Adobe RAW
converters.

JPEG files
FastRawViewer supports the following types of JPEG files: 8-bit, both RGB and monochrome.

PNG files
FastRawViewer supports 8/16-bit PNG files, both RGB and monochrome. Transparency and
background color are not fully supported.
For PNG files, EXIF display is guaranteed only in Single File View Mode.

TIFF files
The following formats are supported:
• TIFF and BigTIFF (EXIF display is supported only for standard TIFF files)
• RGB and Grayscale: 8/16-bit integer, 16/24/32-bit floating point
• LAB: 8/16-bit integer.
• CMYK: by default, any support for this format is turned off. One can turn it on, but only a
grayscale conversion will be displayed (See the section on “Additional Settings”).

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The default file extensions for TIFF files are: .TIF and .TIFF. If one needs to process TIFF files with a
different extension (for example, .fff for Imacon/Hasselblad scanners), this can be enabled through
the AdditionalTIFFExts script (See the section on “Additional Settings”).

HEIC/HEIF files
Support for HEIC/HEIF file formats is implemented only in:
Windows 64-bit version, for Windows (Windows 7 – Windows 10)
• macOS versions for current versions of macOS (10.12-10.16/11.0)
The following HEIC/HEIF file variants are supported:
• The file type (in the header) is heic or heix
Other format variations (msf1, mif1, mif2) are not supported.
• 8 and 10 bits
• Color data support:
o Embedded ICC profile (files originating in Apple devices)
o Files from Canon cameras are recognized by the metadata, and ITUR_2100_PQ_FULL
profile is assigned
o For other metadata variants (RGB Primaries/Transfer curves), the sRGB color space will
be assigned
The H.265 decoder embedded in FastRawViewer is launched only if the program is displaying
HEIC/HEIF files.

Determining the file type

FastRawViewer can detect the file type both by the file header and by its extension. This is controlled
by the setting in Preferences: Other –> Determine the file type by its content.
If this setting is turned on:
• Files having one of the known RAW extensions, such as DNG, CR2, ARW, RW2, PEF, NEF, etc., are
considered to be RAW files, without any further analysis of the header;
• Files having one of the typical rendered image extensions, i.e. JPEG, PNG, TIFF, or HEIC, are
checked for their specific type on the basis of their header;
• Files having a TIF extension may be subjected to further analysis to determine if they are in fact
RAW files, because not only rendered image files, but also some RAW files have this extension;
this is controlled by the following setting in Preferences: "File formats" –> "Check if .TIF files are
RAW", you can find more details about this setting in the "Program settings" section of this
Manual.
If the setting Determine the file type by its content is off, then the file type is determined solely by
its extension:
• .JPG, .JPEG – JPEG file formats
• PNG – PNG file formats

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• .TIF, .TIFF – TIFF file formats

(because some older cameras used to record RAW files with the .TIF extension, before opening
a .TIF file, FastRawViewer checks if that’s actually a RAW file; if it is, it opens it as such).
• HEIC/HEIF format: the extensions are indicated in Preferences – File Formats – HEIC/HEIF
files support – HEIC/HEIF files extensions (types). Default list: *.HEIC *.HEIF *.HIF

• All other file extensions known to FastRawViewer are treated as RAW files.
Files extensions that are unknown to FastRawViewer are not displayed in the list of files (Menu – File
– Open, the list of files in the current folder).
If your RAW files have extensions not supported in FastRawViewer by default, you can list additional
extensions through Preferences – File Handling – Additional RAW extensions.
If some files on your computer are not actually RAW files, but FastRawViewer is displaying them in
the list of files, you can explicitly exclude the corresponding extensions through Preferences – File
Handling – Ignore Extensions when file browsing.

Maximum file sizes

Because file sizes (both in megapixels and megabytes) can be very large, while FastRawViewer
performs all of its actions on them in the RAM, the program allows one to set limits on these through
Preferences – Performance – File Size limits:
• Downscale JPEGs larger than .. Mpix: if the JPEG file is larger than the limit set, the file will be
downsized so as to not exceed the stated limit.
• RAW files size limit: .. Mpix: if the size of the RAW file is larger than this limit, the RAW data
will not be unpacked, and only the preview (if it exists) will be displayed.
• TIFF(/PNG/HEIC) single file display limit: if the size of the file exceeds the limit, it will not be
displayed in Single File View Mode.
• TIFF(/PNG/HEIC) thumbnail limit: for files larger than this limit, previews will not be
displayed.
The default limits are set based on the following considerations:
• 32-bit version: FastRawViewer has access to 2 GB of RAM (this is the natural limit for 32-bit
applications).
• 64-bit version: the assumption is that 4-6 GB of RAM are available.
If you are using the 64-bit version, and you have additional RAM installed on your computer, you can
increase the default limits. Please take into account the following:
• TIFF/PNG/JPEG:

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o The number of files stored in RAM is set through Preferences – Performance –

JPEG/PNG/TIFF cache size.
o Each megapixel requires 4 MB of RAM

• RAW files
o The number of files stored in RAM is set through Preferences – Performance – Decoded
RAW cache size
o Each megapixel in a RAW file requires from 2 (Bayer and monochrome) to 8 (Linear DNG,
4-shot) MB of RAM.
o For processing, the program uses from 6 (Bayer and monochrome) to 24 MB per
megapixel.

RAW+JPEG Mode
With default settings, FastRawViewer combines RAW and JPEG files with the same name.
For this operation, the extension of the JPEG file must be .JPG or .jpg.
In cases where one folder has several RAW files with the same name (but different extensions), the
JPEG will be combined with the RAW file, the extension of which is alphabetically earliest.
One can switch off RAW+JPG combining by turning off the setting Preferences – File formats –
Handle RAW+JPEG together.

RAW+HEIC Mode
It works similarly to RAW+JPEG mode. RAW+HEIC mode is intended for use with Canon cameras that
are set to HDR mode (in HDR mode, the camera will record HEIF files instead of JPEGs).
This mode is turned on by simultaneously switching on the following settings in Preferences – File
Formats:
• Join RAW+JPEG
• HEIC/HEIF file support
• Joint RAW+HEIC
If the current folder has a RAW file, a JPEG file, and a HEIC file (all with the same filename), then the
RAW and JPEG will be joined.

Preview and Metadata cache

FastRawViewer stores metadata (EXIF, XMP) and previews for files that have already been browsed
in the RAM. The RAM size for these caching operations is set through Preferences – Thumbnail
cache:
• Thumbnail cache size – how much is set aside for previews (in MB).

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• Metadata cache size – how much is set aside for metadata (in # of files; the metadata for one
file takes up just a few KB).

Disk cache for previews

Because TIFF and PNG files can be of any size and lacking in embedded previews, FastRawViewer
version 1.5 implements preview storage using a special database file on the disk (the file is in the
SQLite format).
Only previews for the files where the preview generation takes more time than is set through
Preferences – Thumbnail cache – Save cached thumbnail if image thumbnail extraction was longer
than… msec will be stored in this file. This allows for two things: first, there will be no rebuilding of
previews that take a long time to create. Second, the database of previews won’t grow
uncontrollably fast.
The path to the file is set through Preferences – Thumbnail cache – Thumbnail database path.
Defaults are:
• Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/libraw-llc/FastRawViewer
• Windows: $HOME/AppData/Local/LibRaw LLC/FastRawiewer
We strongly recommend that you select a fast (SSD) drive to store the preview database (if such is
available in your system).
When the parameters are set to default, the size of the previews stored in the database is the larger
of the preview sizes set for the Grid and the Filmstrip. If you increase the size of the displayed
previews, then FastRawViewer will offer to purge the saved preview database. Alternatively, the size
of the previews being saved can be set through Preferences – Thumbnail Cache – Stored thumbnail
size to be Maximum thumbnail size. In this case, no preview database purge is necessary when
changing the size of the previews, but the database itself will take up more space.
Other database parameters are described in the section on “Program settings” section, under
Performance – Thumbnail cache.
One can use the following menu elements to control the preview database:
• Menu – File – Reload – Clear Thumbnail database – purge all thumbnails from the database.
• Menu – File – Reload – Fetch thumbnails for current folder – build all of the previews for the
current folder, and save those that took more time than the is set through Preferences –
Thumbnail cache – Save cached thumbnail if image thumbnail extraction was longer than…
msec.

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Navigating the Files in a Folder while in Grid mode

In Grid mode, the main section of the window contains the Thumbnail previews of all of the
supported files from the current folder.

The following icons are placed at the title bar of this panel (left to right):
• Current folder
• Total number of files in the folder, number of files that passed through the filter, and number
of selected files.
• Settings that control the file preview display (see below).

Navigation in Grid mode can be accomplished using the following:

• Keyboard: arrow keys, PgUp/PgDn, Home/End; also, you can use the keyboard shortcuts that
you customized for Next File/Prev. File and First/Last File in folder.
• Mouse: the wheel scrolls through the contents of the folder up and down.
• Menu: File – Go To – menu item (First/Last, Next/Prev files).

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You can customize the file preview using the “gear” icon in the upper-right corner of the “Grid” mode
window:

The following data can be found below, above, and overlaid over the image preview:
• EXIF data: date of the shot, or exposure parameters, or the camera name.
• XMP label (color) and XMP rating
• Filename
The displayed data and the positions of the said data are controlled through the “gear icon”,
separately for the Grid and Filmstrip modes.
A detailed description of the settings can be found in the “Customizing Display Modes” section
below.
When working with very dark (nighttime) shots, the setting Preferences - Interface – Grid/Filmstrip -
Apply automatic brightening to thumbnails can be useful, as it turns on the automatic brightening of
previews.

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Working with a Single File

While in Grid mode, the following operations can be carried out with a file:
• Switching to single-file mode: double-click or Menu – View – Switch to single image or
pressing Enter (if the keyboard focus is on the window with the file previews).
• Rotation (Menu-Adjust-Rotate), the new orientation data will be recorded in the XMP-file
(see below).
• Assigning a rating/label (Menu – XMP Metadata), if changed, the rating and label will be
recorded into an XMP-file.
• Copying (Menu – File – Copy), moving (Menu – File – Move), copying to the _Rejected files
folder, which is for those, which you may want to delete at a later stage (see below).
• Sending a file for processing in an external program (Menu – File – Pass filename to).
• Display of a file in a system file manager (Menu – File – Show in Explorer/Reveal in Finder).
These same actions (except for switching to single file mode) are accessible through the context
menu, which is activated with a right-click:

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Copying and Moving Single Files

The current (highlighted) file in the Grid View can be copied to another folder with Menu – File –
Copy filename to – [Select Folder] (or pressing C). The dialog to select the destination folder will
appear, and after the destination folder is selected the file will be copied.

The names of the folders which were used for copy operations are stored in the menu items below
Menu – File – Copy ... to – [Select folder]. The most recent copy destination is at the top of this list,
below are the folders which were used earlier. The list can contain up to five folders.
All of the folders in this list can be accessed through the keyboard (C, Shift-C, etc.), which allows one
to conveniently copy to those destinations without accessing the menu.

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Moving files works much the same way: after a file is moved to a destination via the (Menu – File –
Move ... to – [Select folder] or pressing M) the path to this destination folder will be stored as an
element of the menu under [Select folder], and can be used in the future without subsequently
choosing the destination, using the following dialog:

The lists for copy and move destinations are kept separately.
Copy and move operations work not only over the RAW file, but also copy/move the following to the
same destination:
• External JPG-file (in RAW+JPEG mode).
• XMP- sidecar file (if it exists).
• .rpps sidecar file (if .rpps sidecar file recording is turned on).
• Other files according to the setting Preferences – Copy/Move/Reject – Additional file
extensions to copy/move with file.
This setting is described in more detail in the section Program Settings – File Handling -
Copy/Move/Reject.
When doing sensitive work and/or using unreliable media, the Preferences – File Handling –
Copy/Move/Reject - Verify file contents after copy setting may come in handy, as it turns on data
verification after copying.

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Resetting the lists of recently used folders

The folders that served as destinations for copy and move operations are organized in lists that are
accessible through Menu – File – Move/Copy (and are also accessible through context menus).
To reset those lists, use Menu – File – Customize – Clean “recently used” lists. If this action is
requested, FastRawViewer will issue a prompt asking to select which lists to reset:

Please put checkmarks next to the names of the lists you want to reset.

Fast Copying/Moving into a subfolder in the current folder

FastRawViewer supports a separate mode to quickly copy/move a file (or files, see below) into a
subfolder in the current folder.
To use this mode, it first has to be turned on via the setting Preferences – Copy/Move/Reject –
Enable Quick copy-move to subfolder. After being turned on:
• A new element will appear in Menu – File – Copy, Menu – File – Move [called New Subfolder]
• The same element will appear in the Copy and Move context menus
• This action will also be accessible through the Alt-C hotkey (Copy) / Alt-M hotkey (Move)
When using one of the menu points listed above/hotkeys, a dialog to enter the name of the subfolder
into which the file is to be moved or copied will pop up:

After entering the subfolder name:

• If it doesn’t exist, it will be created in the current folder;
• The selected file will be copied or moved into it (if it’s a group of files, see below).

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If one leaves Enable history checked, then the folder names that were used are remembered for the
current session (but not between the sessions) and when pressing the “arrow down” key, are
available for selection for the subsequent copy/move actions:

The history of used subfolders is the same for copying and for moving.

Deleting Files: the _Rejected folder

FastRawViewer doesn’t allow one to delete files directly from the current folder. Instead, the files
you intend to delete can be moved to a _Rejected subfolder, located in the current folder. This folder
is created the first time a user requests that a file be moved to said folder. This is intentional, and
exists to ensure that no shots are accidentally deleted:
• There are many situations when the system “trashbin” can’t be used (removable drives,
network folders and drives); also, in certain cases the operational system may delete part of
the content of the system trashbin (for example, when the size of the trashbin is over the
limit) without even requesting confirmation from the user.
• Flash cards and card readers are prone to hardware malfunctions, and moving a file into a
subfolder is the safest file operation.

To delete files, after you are sure nothing is in to the _Rejected folder, which shouldn’t be (the
_Rejected folder can be browsed with FastRawViewer as any folder), you can use the Clear _Rejected
Folder operation (see below)
By default, the _Rejected folder is a subfolder of the current folder (i.e., each folder has its own
_Rejected subfolder). In certain cases, this may be inconvenient. To address this, you can use a global
_Rejected folder by changing the preferences in Preferences – File Handling – Copy/Move/Reject:
• Use global rejected folder – Check.
• Select the path for the Global Rejected Folder.

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Clearing out the _Rejected Folder

To delete the contents of the _Rejected folder, use Menu – File – Clear _Rejected folder.
Clearing the folder with rejected files is irreversible, so
• You cannot set a hotkey for the Clear _Rejected action.
• When choosing this action, an additional, un-turn-off-able warning will be displayed:

The OK button will only be accessible after checking Yes, I’m sure checkbox.
The additional Delete read-only files too checkmark allows one to delete files with the Read-Only
attribute; if this checkmark is not set then those files will be ignored and will remain in _Rejected.
The additional Remove _Rejected subfolder too checkbox allows one to delete the _Rejected folder
itself as well.
Show in Explorer button (Mac: Reveal in Finder) allows one to look at the content of _Rejected
folder using the file manager.

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If Preferences - Copy/Move/Reject - Show detailed _Rejected folder stats before clearing the folder
setting is checked, then a more detailed statistics for the files to be deleted is displayed (number of
RAW files, number of RAW+JPEG pairs, etc.):

Attention: in Mac OS X, the read-only attribute from FAT/FAT32/exFAT file systems (used in
memory cards) is translated as locked (blocked). When checking ‘Delete read-only files too,’ such
blocked files will also be deleted.

Note: Menu – File – Clear _Rejected is not available if global rejected folder is used.

File selection: _Selected Folder

The _Selected Folder is a way to quickly move the selected files into a sub-folder (analogous to the
_Rejected subfolder, except the purpose is the opposite). Here are the differences between the
familiar _Rejected folder mechanisms, and the new _Selected folder mechanisms:
• By default, this feature is turned off; it needs to be turned on through Preferences –
Copy/Move/Reject – Enable move to _Selected folder; this is the same place where the
name of the subfolder is set.
• The hotkey for moving files to _Selected is not set by default, it needs to be manually assigned
through the hotkey editor in the File Copy/Move/Reject section for hotkeys (see the section
on “Setting the keyboard shortcuts” in this Manual).
• The _Selected folder is always a subfolder in the current folder (if you want to use a global
folder for this type of operation, you should opt for File – Move To – and select the last used
folder, or use the hotkey Shift-M).
• There is no operation analogous to Clear _Rejected Folder.

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Integration with External Programs

FastRawViewer can start external programs, passing them the current RAW file as a parameter.
This way any program that takes the file name as a command line parameter can be launched, be it a
RAW convertor, different image viewer, or whatever program you may need.
On the first run, FastRawViewer performs a search and automatically configures itself to use the
following programs:
• RawDigger
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Lightroom
• Raw Photo Processor
• Capture One
• DXO Optics Pro
If, on the first run, FastRawViewer was unable to find the program you need, it can be added to the
list of external programs manually through Preferences – External Editors.
To launch an external program to process the currently displayed image you can use Menu – File –
Run – necessary program or with press one of R for the first external program, Alt-R for the second,
and Ctrl-R for the third.
Display of the current file in Windows Explorer (on Windows) /Finder (on Mac) can be done through
Menu – File – Show in Windows Explorer / - Reveal in Finder. Default keyboard combination – Ctrl-F.

Metadata: Ratings, Labels, Title, and Description

Creating and Reading XMP Files

FastRawViewer records all “changes” into separate sidecar XMP files (analogous to Adobe Bridge).
The following can be saved/is read from these files:
• Image orientation (see below, the “Changing Image Orientation” section).
• White Balance in FastRawViewer and Adobe formats (see below “White Balance”).
• Exposure adjustment in the FastRawViewer and Adobe formats (see below, “Working with
Exposure”).
• Ratings and marks (please see below).
• Title (title) and description (description) of an image (see below).

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If a folder contains files with the same name (for example, the source CR2 file and the result of its
conversion to DNG), then, while recording an XMP file, a naming conflict may happen: it is necessary
to record filename.XMP for filename.CR2 file, but a filename.XMP already exists in the folder, for
filename.DNG file. In this case, FastRawViewer will issue a warning:

To switch this warning off, unset the setting: XMP - Warn if overwrite XMP for file with same name.
If the default settings are in use:
• When the file is displayed in Grid View mode, the sidecar XMP files (those having the same
name as the current by with a .XMP extension) and XMP blocks embedded in RAW/JPEG files
(if such exist) are read.
• Only manual changes are recorded into XMP files (for instance, image orientation or exposure
are changed from automatic to something else).
This behavior can be changed with the following settings:
• Preferences – XMP – Use XMP – turning off these settings leads to a complete disregard of
XMP files: they are not read, written, and not moved together with RAW files.
• Preferences – XMP – Read Only XMP – blocks any recording of XMP files. Data (ratings,
labels, white balance, exposure correction) will be read and used for display, but any changes
to it will not be saved.
• Preferences – XMP – Force XMP file creation for RAW files – turns on the creation of XMP
files, even if nothing was changed manually. The parameters that were (automatically) set up
when opening the file (in Single View mode) will be set as the parameters in the XMP file.
XMP files are forcibly created for RAW files only, because such creation is useless for other file
types (JPEG, TIFF, etc.).
Exposure compensation and white balance are written to newly created XMP files according to the
setting of Adobe Process Version in Preferences – XMP – Exposure, Contrast, WB – Adobe process
version for newly created XMP files.
To set color labeling scheme to be compatible with CaptureOne, set Preferences – XMP – Ratings &
Labels – Write photoshop:Urgency tag with color labels (for PhaseOne C1). This setting turns on the
recording of the XMP-tag photoshop:Urgency, which is used by CaptureOne to recognize and set
color labels.

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XMP sidecars and embedded XMP blocks

XMP data can be found both in an external file (a sidecar, with the .XMP extension) and in files of
certain formats (DNG, CR2, JPEG). If both ways, a sidecar as well as an embedded block, are used for
a certain image file, then FastRawViewer picks the newer one, using the xmp:MetadataDate tag
(with default settings).
Unfortunately, several programs, ignoring the standard, do not record that tag. In this case, one can
set the preferences to always select the XMP sidecar by using Preferences – XMP – If both
embedded and sidecar XMP exists: Always use sidecar.
When working with JPEG files, XMP data can be recorded not just as separate sidecar files, but also in
the form of data blocks embedded into the JPEG files themselves (this setting has been added
because certain programs, for example, Adobe Bridge, ignore XMP sidecars for JPEG files).
As with any operation that modifies image files, recording XMP could theoretically damage the file
itself (if, for example, a bad card reader is being used), so when turning on the above-described
setting, the user is given an additional warning. When using this option, if the JPEG file previously had
an XMP sidecar file, said sidecar will be deleted after recording an XMP block inside the JPEG.
When using RAW+JPEG mode, one can turn on the setting RAW+JPEG mode: embed XMP block into
JPEG. If it’s turned on, then aside from writing XMPs for RAW (as an XMP sidecar), the same XMP
block will be written into the associated JPEG file (if there was a different XMP block in the JPEG file, it
will be replaced, not combined).

XMP sidecar files are supported for file formats other than RAW (TIFF, PNG, HEIC)
The overwhelming majority of applications that work with graphic formats do not support XMP
sidecar files for TIFF, PNG, HEIC/HEIF files.
Because of this, XMP support for the above-listed formats in FastRawViewer is turned off by default.
To turn it on, use the following settings in Preferences – XMP:
• Use XMP for TIFF files
• Use XMP for PNG files
• Use XMP for HEIC/HEIF files
When turning on these settings, FastRawViewer:
• Will read both embedded XMP blocks and Sidecar files (with priority set by the setting If both
embedded and sidecar XMP exists).
• Will record XMP sidecar files.
• Will allow file rotation (the orientation will be recorded in the XMP: Orientation tag).
• Rating and color labels will work, including using them for sorting and filtering.

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Rules for naming XMP sidecar files

In operating systems that are supported by FastRawViewer (Windows, macOS/Mac OS X), the most
common file systems are usually case-insensitive (filename.ext and filename.EXT are considered to be
the same file); however, in some instances this is not true, and then files with the same names typed
in characters of different case are considered to be different files.
Under FastRawViewer's default settings, FastRawViewer tries to find an XMP sidecar as a file named
Filenane.xmp, then Filename.XMP; if such a file is found, then the rendering parameters that were
set / adjusted in FastRawViewer will be recorded back into it. If such a file is absent, then while
recording the rendering parameters an XMP sidecar file with the name Filename.xmp will be created.
To support compatibility with other applications, which write either Filename.xmp or
Filename.ext.XMP (.ext.xmp), there is a setting called Preferences – XMP – XMP Files naming
scheme, which controls the selection of both a unique naming system (Filename.XMP or
Filenam.ext.XMP) and an order for searching for an existing file (.XMP, then .xmp or vice versa).

What happens when you use several applications simultaneously to modify XMP files
FastRawViewer, when it’s running, stores XMP data in memory cache. If the XMP data was modified
by some external application, the changes will not be automatically recognized in FastRawViewer.
To make such changes visible in FastRawViewer, you need to explicitly trigger the re-reading of XMP
data:
• Menu – File – Reload – Reload current file (by default assigned to Ctrl-F4 hotkey) – will re-
read the current file, opened in Single File view mode, if it exists;
• Menu – File – Reload – Reload current folder (by default Ctrl-Shift-F4) – will re-read the
contents of the current folder, including the XMP and EXIF data, and will also reload the
current file, if it exists.
Under the default settings, Menu – File – Reload re-reads only XMP files, while image files will be
taken from the internal FastRawViewer cache. To “see” the changes made in an edited file by some
external program (this is applicable, primarily, to JPEG/TIFF/PNG files), the setting Preferences –
Performance – Flush decoded RAW/JPEG cache on file/folder refresh will have to be turned on.
FastRawViewer records any changes to XMP data immediately, without any delay. For other
applications to recognize those changes you may need to perform some extra actions.
In particular, when using Adobe Lightroom with FastRawViewer, one needs to take the following
into account:
Adobe Lightroom ignores XMP files while importing from a flash card (whether it is
through card reader or by directly connecting a camera to a computer).

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Should you need to import changes made in FastRawViewer to Adobe Lightroom, please copy
the files to a hard drive first (you can do this using FastRawViewer and selecting only the
images you need to copy; corresponding sidecar files, if present, will be copied automatically).
Nevertheless, we suggest copying the files to a hard drive before setting ratings, labels,
and/or changing any RAW processing parameters, to avoid any corruption of the data on the
card caused by sudden losses of power, disconnections, or hardware malfunctions. Again, you
do not need to copy everything from the card: you can use FastRawViewer to select the
images that you want to copy.
Adobe Lightroom ignores XMP sidecar files for JPEG files. In the case of JPEG files, for
Adobe Lightroom to acknowledge changes made to XMP data it needs to be embedded
into the JPEGs. To do so, please use Write XMP blocks to JPEG files mode, as described
above.
a. If RAW files are already imported into an Adobe Lightroom catalog, you will require an
additional XMP sidecar export setting in Lightroom, and you will need to explicitly trigger
synchronization while importing XMP files.
To import changes to XMP files, made in other programs, including FastRawViewer:
▪ Select a file or a group of files for which you want to refresh XMP data in a Lightroom
catalog.
▪ Use Menu – Metadata – Read metadata from files, or the context menu which
appears on the right-click, selecting Metadata – Read metadata from files.
b. To automatically record the XMP data changes you’ve made in Adobe Lightroom to
sidecar XMP files, please use the Adobe Lightroom setting Catalog Settings – Metadata –
Automatically write changes into XMP
c. If the above setting in Adobe Lightroom is off, or the XMP file has been changed by an
external application, Lightroom will not record XMP files automatically. To trigger
synchronization manually, please use Menu – Metadata – Save Metadata to files or the
respective choice from the context menu.

Compatibility with RawPhotoProcessor (.rpps files)

FastRawViewer can create basic .rpps files (those contain conversion settings for
RawPhotoProcessor).
The following parameters are recorded:
• Exposure compensation.
• White Balance.
This option is controlled through Preferences – Other – Write RPPS files checkbox. Another
checkbox, Preferences – Other – Force RPPS files creation, forces the creation of .rpps files

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immediately after a RAW file is opened in FastRawViewer, with automatic exposure compensation
and current white balance recorded as initial settings.
To import such .rpps files for further use, while in RawPhotoProcessor navigate to Menu - Settings -
Import Multiple settings and select both RAW and .rpps files in the folder that you wish to process.
The settings in .rpps files will be imported into RawPhotoProcessor History and the corresponding
RAW files will be opened using the parameters you've set in .rpps files.
FastRawViewer behavior while creating or updating .rpps files:
If .rpps file exists, and exposure compensation and/or white balance are changed in
FastRawViewer, the values for white balance and/or exposure are replaced in .rpps file
with the new ones. Also, if Force RPPS files creation is checked, those values in .rpps file
are replaced upon opening the raw file.
If .rpps file does not exist, and Preferences - Other – RPPS files – RPPS Template field
points to some readable file, this template will be used to create specific .rpps file for the
current raw file; once again, current FastRawViewer settings will be used for exposure
compensation and / or white balance fields.

Ratings and Labels

FastRawViewer can set XMP ratings and XMP labels that are compatible with Adobe products (and
other programs which support XMP).
Ratings are set as a number from 1 to 5. The setting is changed via Menu– XMP Metadata, or by
pressing the buttons 1…5 in the XMP Metadata panel, or with the hotkeys (default keys are Alt-
1...Alt-5).
To clear the rating, please press [X] button in the upper row of the XMP Metadata panel, or you can
also use Menu – XMP Metadata – No Rating or the hotkey (Alt-0).
For the compatibility with Adobe Bridge FastRawViewer supports Reject rating (-1). To enable this,
set Preferences – XMP – Ratings & Labels – Use XMP Reject rating to ON (this is also switched on
automatically if XML Label style: Adobe Bridge is selected).
As the result, the button [R] is displayed in the row for setting the rating, and the action Reject
appears in the Label menu.
Color labels are named with text, and 4 styles of labels are supported:
Adobe Bridge style (Select, Second, Approved, Review, To Do).
Adobe Lightroom style, color marks (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple).
Adobe Lightroom ‘Review Status’ style (To Delete, Color Correction Needed, Good to Use,
Retouching Needed, To Print).

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Custom user labels.

You can select the appropriate label style through Preferences – XMP – Ratings & Labels – XMP
Label Style section. For the Custom style, you can also edit the names for the labels.
Setting and changing the label for the image is performed through Menu– XMP Metadata, or by
pressing the colored squares in the XMP Metadata panel, or using hotkeys (Alt-6 … Alt-9). To delete
the label, press the [X] button in the row for setting the label, or use Menu – XMP Metadata – Clear
Label.
When turning on the Read Only XMP mode, labels and ratings are read from XMP files, but the
program prevents any changes to them.
In Preferences – XMP - Ratings & Labels one can turn on the Visual Feedback on rating/label change
setting. If this is done, visual feedback will be given in the form of a contrasting notification when
changing a rating/label, occurring for about 1 second.

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Title and Description

FastRawViewer can record the title and description of the image in XMP files.
To call up the editing dialog, use Menu – Metadata – Edit Title/Description or the corresponding
macro (Alt-D), or double-click on the title or description field in the XMP Metadata panel; this
summons the editing dialog:

After editing the name and description they are shown in:
1. The floating tooltip in the Filmstrip/Thumbnails panel.
2. The XMP Metadata panel:

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Sorting and filtering files in a folder

The sorting and filtering of files is controlled via the Sort & Filter panel,
which, by default, is located in the right-hand column of panels.
The following icons are placed at the title bar of this panel (left to right):
• Filter files by name/mask
• File Sorting
• Re-reading the current folder
• Panel Settings.
The panel displays filtering parameters, which extend the filtering over
ratings/labels that we had in previous versions.

File Sorting
The sorting of files can be set in the menu that appears when pressing the sorting icon (second from
the left in the panel header).
The following sorting methods are supported:
• By filename, natural (meaning that numeric
components will be sorted by value)
• By filename, alphanumerically (meaning that 11 will
precede 2)
• By file type (extension)
• By file modification time
• By file size
• By shooting date (EXIF Timestamp)
• By XMP rating
• Reverse sorting order
• Read-only/Locked/Protected first – see the section
Working with Read-Only/Locked Files below
In cases when two files have the same value for the category by which they are being sorted, the
natural filename is used as an additional “sorting key” (when sorting by filename, the file extension is
the second key).
To sort by metadata, which needs to be read from the file (EXIF, XMP), the sorting occurs dynamically
and is animated, synchronously with the reading of the current folder.

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File Filtering
Filtering is controlled by the rest of the Sort & Filter panel.
The panel displays the types of parameters (XMP Rating,
XMP Label, EXIF Timestamp) and value options. You can
check the checkbox to the left of the sorting and filtering
parameter, and only files that pass the filtering conditions
will be displayed.
In the Exif Timestamp group, you can select the necessary
ranges of dates. You can edit those ranges if necessary,
changing the standard Today/Yesterday/This Week/…
tailoring them to your current needs. The number of ranges
is fixed. The first value for the range is always “from;” the
last one is always “to.”
Aside from setting 'fixed' date ranges, using calendar days, date ranges can also be set in the form
"last NN days." In this case, the boundaries for the date range are calculated as “from NN days ago to
today.” Last “1 days” is a synonym for “today.”
The boundaries of the range of dates for Last NN days is set:
• At the moment of pressing the “OK” button, when editing the range.
• At the moment of launching the program, when applying a date range that is already defined
in the settings.
This way the “Last NN days” range will not change the actual range of absolute calendar dates even if
during the course of work the current date has changed.
If there are any selected files in the folder (see the next section), you can check the checkbox to the
left of the word Selected in the Files/Metadata group, and only the selected files will be displayed. In
this case, if you unselect some file, it will be excluded from the display, which means that in order to
have it displayed again, you need to uncheck Selected and select the file again, after which you can
check Selected once more.
The filtering inside one group is of OR-type. The filtering among groups is AND-type. That is, if, for
example, you select XMP Label Yellow and XMP Label Green, files that have either of those two labels
will be displayed. If, however, you checked XMP Rating: 3, XMP Label: Green, and EXIF Timestamp:
This week, only the files which conform to all three conditions simultaneously will be displayed.
The numbers in the respective lines indicate how many files there are with a given parameter value.
If the numbers are in the form nn/mm, mm indicates how many files with the given parameter value
are present, while nn indicates how many of those passed through the filters. If only one number is

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indicated, then all of the files passed through the filters. If the numbers are displayed in italics, the
reading of the metadata is still in progress.
With standard settings, the metadata (EXIF, XMP) is read only when this data is needed – for Icon
display, or when filtering is on. This accelerates the browsing. This can be changed in the preferences
by switching off File Handling - Sorting and Filtering - Lazy metadata read.

File Filtering: saving, cancelling, and restoring

To save, cancel, and restore filters, use the new File - File filtering in folder submenu, or use the
corresponding hotkeys.

• Disable/Enable file filtering (assigned to V by default) flips the status of filtering. If it’s on, it’s
switched off; the filtering conditions are temporarily stored so that when the filtering is re-
enabled, the previous filtering conditions are automatically applied.
• Remember current file filter (assigned to Alt-V by default). This action stores the filtering
conditions in a non-volatile fashion. Filtering settings are preserved and can be recalled
through Recall saved filter even after program restart:
• Recall saved file filter (Ctrl-V) – restores the non-volatile saved filter settings.
• Filter files by name – turns on/off the filtering of files by filename (please see below)
If the setting File Handling - Reset filtering on folder change is on, Disable file filtering will be
automatically triggered when the folder is changed while the filtering is on; the filter settings will be
preserved and recallable through the V hotkey.

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Filtering by filename
Filtering by filename is switched on and off through Menu - File - File filtering in folder - Filter files
by name (Alt-F) or the “page with magnifying glass” button, located in the Sort & Filter panel’s title
bar.
When this filtering is on, an edit line appears that allows one to enter:
• a substring of any symbols that are contained in
the filenames of the images that you want to be
displayed
• a mask for the filename (this condition is
recognized by the presence of the * symbol in the
edit)
• A regular expression in PCRE syntax; this is
recognized by the / symbol in the first position of
the edit line; this symbol will be ignored when
evaluating a regular expression.
After pressing Enter (or the folder-with-magnifying-glass icon located to the right of the edit line),
the files in the current folder will be filtered, i.e., only the names of the files that meet the condition
in the edit line will be displayed. Any other present filtering conditions such as label/rating/date/etc.,
are also applied.
Name filtering precedes metadata filtering. This filter isn’t cancelled/restored/saved/recalled by the
Disable/Enable/Remember/Recall actions (see above) and isn’t switched off when moving to a
different folder.

Other parameters and properties of the Sort & Filter panel

The Refresh button in the title bar opens a menu with two items:
• Re-read current folder – the current folder will be re-read as if it has just been opened with
Menu – File – Open Folder – Open Folder (but the current file will still be displayed or
highlighted). To re-read the current folder you can also use Menu – File – Reload – Reload
current folder.
• Forced full metadata read – the metadata of all files will be re-read (as if Lazy metadata read
were turned off).

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Panel settings (gear icon)

• Show Files/Metadata status – turns on the display of this group in the statistics/selection
table
• Show Selected files – turns on the display of the Selected line in the current group.
• Show zero values for completely fetched data – if this setting is off, then the table display the
lines that do not don’t correspond to any of the files in the current folder. Display is only
turned off when the metadata for all of the files in the folder has been read.
• Hide groups with only one value – if the corresponding group (XMP Rating, Label, EXIF
Timestamp) contains the same data; in other words, all of the files in the current folder fall
into the same line in the group, the entire group will be hidden.

Additional sorting and filtering settings are described in the “Program Settings” section below.

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Working with Read-Only/Locked Files

Most digital cameras allow one to set the Protected or Locked attribute for files picked by the
photographer. When importing (copying) RAW files from a memory card, this is translated as:
• Windows: Read-Only attribute
• Mac OS X/macOS: uchg (UF_IMMUTABLE) flag, which is translated in the Finder as locked
(padlock symbol).
These attributes are kept when copying/moving files using standard system methods.
FastRawViewer works with such files in the following way:
In Grid View mode, Locked files are displayed with a “padlock” symbol.
Displaying the “padlock” is turned on or off through the Show Read-only status (Locked/Read-
only on Mac) in the Grid/Filmstrip settings, by default turned on for Grid, off for Filmstrip.

If there are one or more Read-only/locked file in the folder, then the line Read-only files
(Locked/Read-only on Mac) appears in the Files/Metadata section of the file filtering
panel. If it’s checked with a checkmark, then only Read-
only/Locked files will be displayed.
In the sorting preferences (see to the right), one can set
the Read-only files first (Locked/Read-only on Mac)
setting, and then such files will be displayed at the
beginning of the list in Filmstrip/Grid (the order within
the RO/Locked group, and others, is set by the other
sorting settings).
When copying/moving files using FastRawViewer, the attributes are kept.
On Mac, with default settings, the moving of locked files is forbidden. The
Copy/Move/Reject - Allow move/reject for locked files setting allows for the moving of
such files and placing them in _Rejected.

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Operations with Multiple Files

Selecting/marking files
While developing FastRawViewer we realized that the standard way of selecting files is not to our
liking:
• An accidental mouse click destroys the whole selection
• The currently displayed file is always included in the selection, and that is not necessarily
convenient
Because of this, in FastRawViewer versions 1.3.0 – 1.4.6 we used a different, free of those
inconveniences, method for selecting files; there is a thing with it, however: to add a file to selection
one needs either to use Ctrl-Click, or to click on a checkbox in the upper right corner of the
thumbnail.
Starting with FastRawViewer version 1.4.7, we also support the standard method of selecting files,
the same as the one used in Windows Explorer/Mac Finder. To switch to this mode, uncheck the box
in Preferences – Grid/Filmstrip – Advanced selection mode: accidental click does not ruin selection.

Advanced selection mode (enabled by default)

To mark a file for group operations in Grid View (or in the Filmstrip), you can do one of the following:
• Ctrl-Click on the file preview thumbnail.
• Set a checkmark in a checkbox in the upper-right corner of the preview thumbnail (the
checkbox appears for the files that are currently unmarked when you hover a mouse over its
preview; the checkbox is permanently visible for those files which are already marked).
• Shift-Click in Grid View/Filmstrip selects a consecutive group of images:
o the images selected start from the last one whose selection status was changed (using
Ctrl-Click or the keyboard), and go up to the one that was Shift-Clicked
o if there is no image whose selection status was changed (like it is in the cases when the file
was moved, or a new working folder was selected), the Shift-Click operation uses the first
file instead; the selected range starts with the first file and goes to the one that was Shift-
Clicked
The behavior of Shift-Click can be changed through the hidden setting
ShiftClickSelectionMode, see the “Additional Setting” section below.
• Through the actions in Menu – Select
o (De)select and move to next – reverses the mark status and navigates to the next file.
o Move to prev. and (de)select – navigates to previous file and reverses its mark status.
o Select All, Invert Selection, Deselect All.

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o Save Selection to file – saves the list of marked files to a text file on the disk.
o Load/Append selection from file – loads the list of marked files from the previous bullet
and marks the corresponding files for the load operation or adds to the list of the
currently-marked files for the append operation.
The previews of the marked files have a different background color:

This color can be changed through Preferences – Interface – Selected files background.

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If some files with the same name (but different extensions, such as CR2 / DNG pair) are highlighted,
then the operations to change the orientation or to change / set ratings or labels will be disabled: it is
impossible to apply such operations over a pair of files with the same name and different extensions,
because for such a pair only one XMP file can exist:

To allow XMP operations, disable the setting "XMP settings - Disable batch XMP operations if files
with same name are selected". If it is turned off, the XMP files will be created for all selected files,
but because of the naming conflict only the last recorded file will contain actual data.

Standard Selection mode

The standard mode of selecting files works the same way as selecting files in Windows Explorer/Mac
Finder does:
• Mouse click (without pressing any additional keys / modifiers) leaves only the «clicked» file
selected
• Ctrl-Click – switches the file selection mode
• Shift-Click, Shift-arrow – extends the selected area.

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Actions on marked/selected files

Context menus
When clicking on any of the selected files, a context menu that displays possible actions over the
group appears.

Program menus/hotkeys
Starting with version 1.4.6, FastRawViewer uses the same hotkeys/menu items for operations with
several files as for single files.
This mode can be turned off by turning on the setting: Preferences – Interface – Grid/Filmstrip –
Single file keys work for multiple files too, in which case FastRawViewer will work in a mode that is
compatible with older versions, when operations over separate files and over groups of selected files
is performed via separate hotkeys/menu items.
• Since in Advanced selection mode the current file may be not a part of the selection, we
introduced a special setting to make the behavior determined:
Preferences – Interface – Grid/Filmstrip - If the current file is not in the group of selected
files, single-file shortcuts will work with, with the options:
o Current file - the buttons to act on files work on the current file
o Selected group - works with the selected group
o Both - the current file is implicitly added to the selected group. When turning on Single
file keys works for multiple...:

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• Default actions, specifically:

o Menu – File – Copy, Move, Pass to (program), Move to Rejected
o Menu – Adjust – Rotate/Flip
o Menu – XMP Metadata
can work with one file or with several, depending on the context:
• In Single-file View Mode, the actions always work with the current file, not the group.
• In Grid View Mode, if there are selected files, the actions will work with the group:
o If the current file is not present (e.g. folder just opened) or is in the group of selected files
o If the current file isn't in the group of selected files, but the setting If the current file... is
set to Selected group or Both.
• Group mode is indicated in the menu:
o File: Move, Copy, "Move to Rejected", Run - instead of the filename, you will see "Move
(Copy, Pass to) NN files to"

o Adjust: the header "Rotate NN selected files" appears above the Rotate group; and
"Adjust filename" above the edit single file (In Single file View Mode) group.
o XMP Metadata: the first line of the menu becomes the "Rate/Label nn selected files"
header

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• Group mode is indicated in the XMP Metadata panel and in the application's bottom bar
(please see the picture below: single mode - the left part, group mode - the right part):
o The panel header changes to XMP Batch change: NN files
o The asterisks change to snowflakes
o The filled-in square marks change to colored borders
On the picture below, work with a single file is displayed on the left, work with multiple files is
displayed on the right:

• If the selected group has identical ratings/labels, then the corresponding snowflakes/borders
will be highlighted (picture below, on the left), if they’re non-identical (or unknown, see the
next point), then they won’t be (on the right).

• If for part of the files, the metadata hasn't been read yet, then if there are fewer than 30 such
files, they will be read. If there are more, then the "common rating/common label" will be
unknown.
The Title/Description fields are displayed the same as for ratings/labels:
• If they are the same for all selected files, then a field that matches the contents of all of the
files will be displayed in the XMP/Metadata panel.
• If they are different (or unknown because the metadata hasn’t been read), multiple values is
displayed there instead.
If, when working with a group of files, with the setting XMP -> Disable batch XMP operations if files
with same name are selected turned on (default value), then if in the group of selected files there

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are files with identical names (for example file.CR2 and file.DNG), then XMP operations (rotation,
rating, label, title, description) will be restricted (in fact, disabled).
XMP operation restriction mode (due to a naming conflict) is indicated:
• In the Adjust and XMP menu, with the header 'XMP change disabled: filename conflict'
• In the header of the XMP Metadata panel (XMP Change disabled), and textually in place of the
Title/Description fields.
When turning on Single file keys works for multiple files too mode, the (old) buttons for group
actions disappear from:
• The keyboard shortcuts editor (Ctrl-K)
• Current keyboard macros help (F1)
The check for one button is assigned to several actions happens at the start of the application.

Batch editing of Title/Description

Title/Description for a group of files is changed through the standard menu (XMP Metadata) and/or
the standard hotkey (Alt-D), or through the context menu for the group of files, or by clicking on the
Title/Description field in the XMP Metadata panel.

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The Batch editing dialogue differs from Title/Description editing for a single file:
• Each of the two fields has an additional checkbox (when first used, it's not checked -
afterwards, it's saved for the duration of one session)
• If the checkbox isn't checked, then the corresponding field can't be edited and it won't be
changed for file groups.

If a group of selected files has the same Title/Description, then they will be displayed in the editing
dialog. If different, then it will say in the dialog (as a gray text in the editing panels) that the values
are different.

When applying changes of Title/Description to a group of files, Undo works.

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Operations with selected files: compatibility mode with older versions

When turning off the setting Preferences – Interface – Grid/Filmstrip – Single file keys work for
multiple files too, FastRawViewer will work in a mode compatible with versions 1.3-1.4.3:
If, however, one turns on Single file keys works for multiple files too mode:
• Menu - Select is renamed to Menu - Select/Batch
• Actions over groups of files appear in the menu.
• The corresponding actions appear in:
o Hotkey settings (Ctrl-K)
o Help with current hotkeys (F1)
o The “one button is assigned to several actions” check that runs at program start.

• Under default settings, no group action has any hotkey, they will need to be set manually.
• The behavior of context menus doesn’t change.

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Undo: Reversing File Operations

The Menu – File – Undo can reverse the last file operation (in reverse order of their completion).
The undo is possible for:
• Setting a rating and/or label;
• Copy operation;
• Move operation;
• Moving to a _Rejected subfolder (“deletion”).
It is also possible to undo the rotation of the group of marked files (there is no undo for the rotation
of a single file – you can simply rotate it back).
After cancelling a move operation (to another folder or into _Rejected) for a group of files, the
original rating for that group will be restored. When cancelling other operations, the rating will not
be restored.

Drag and Drop from of the program

A selected file, or a group of files, can be dragged with the mouse (Drag and Drop) into other
programs that accept the file list.
If a selected file is dragged, then all selected files will be dragged to the same destination.
Dragging a file opened in single window mode works in the case that:
• If, for the action “left mouse click without modifiers,” either no action is set
• Or, the default action is set to the standard “drag the image in the window” but the current
zoom is such that the image fits within the window completely.
Drag-and-Dropping happens in copy mode, so files don’t disappear from the program window.

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Drag and Drop within FastRawViewer

Files can be dragged within FastRawViewer itself to

file trees; with default settings, this mode is turned
on (it can be turned off by unchecking Enable file
drops to folder tree in the settings of the Folders
panel).

In the same Folders panel settings, one can turn on Folder tree
autoexpand on drop target selection – in this case, folders will
automatically open upon dragging a cursor with files “attached” to it.
The folder that is currently under the drop cursor is automatically
highlighted in red.

You can not only drop files into the Folders panel, but also into the Favorite Folders panel.
With default settings, the dropped file is copied, not moved. FastRawViewer Preferences – File
Handling – Copy/Move/Reject – Drop file(s) to folders tree allows one to select one of the following
drop modes:
• Copy w/o prompt – the file is copied; no user confirmation is requested.
• Select copy or move – at each drop action, the user will be prompted to select what to do
with the file (copy, move, cancel the action).
• Move files – the files will be moved and the request for confirmation is set by the Confirm file
move checkbox in the same Copy/Move/Reject pane.
If this option is selected, and Confirm file move is not set to Always, the user will be
additionally warned about the potential problems of moving files with the drop action, and
will suggest choosing among following options:
o Proceed with the operation
o Additionally, switch on Move confirmation
o Switch back to select drop mode each time
Settings Copy/Move/Reject - Remember drop targets in last used copy/move lists affects adding
the folder that was the target for the drop operation to the lists of Copy/Move to ... last used folder.

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Histogram, and Exposure statistics in Grid Mode

The defaults for the Grid mode are optimized for speed. Only preview and XMP-data are read for a
file, the decoding of the RAW data is not preformed. Thus, the Histogram and Exposure Statistics
panels remain empty:

To switch decoding of RAW data on, press the “statistics” ( ) button in the in the upper bar of the
Histogram panel.

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When you click this icon, it brightens up and the decoding of the RAW data is turned on, thus
enabling the display of the Histogram, Statistics, and EXIF data:

RAW data decoding takes some time; during the decoding the active file (for which the RAW data is
read and decoded) is highlighted with a red frame:

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Folder Navigation
Folders can be navigated via the Folders panel, the standard location of which is to the left of the
main program window:

The folders can be navigated with the:

Mouse:
a. Clicking on the triangle to the left of the folder name opens the subfolder tree.
A second click on the triangle closes the subfolder tree.
b. Clicking once on the folder name loads the first preview in the Filmstrip panel.
c. A double-clock on the folder name loads the first preview and opens the first file of the
folder in the main program window.
Keyboard:
a. The up/down arrows, PgUp/PgDn keys, and Home-End move across the list while loading
the previews into the Filmstrip.
b. Right/Left arrows open/close subfolders.
c. Enter loads previews and opens the first file in the folder.

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If folders tree has changed outside of FastRawViewer one may refresh folders tree in Folders panel
by using Menu – File – Reload – Refresh (sub/full) folders tree or corresponding shortcut.

Limiting the displayed folder tree

For convenience of browsing, the folder tree, displayed in Folders panel, can be limited using
File – Folder tree filter menu or corresponding keyboard shortcuts:
• Start Folder tree at current folder (Ctrl-T) – the folder tree will be limited to the current
folder and its sub-folders.
• Start Folder tree at one level up (Ctrl-Shift-T) – the folder tree is limited with the folder one
level up and its subfolders (includes the current folder).
• Move folder filter one level up (Shift-T) – the filtering point is moved to one level up on the
folder tree.
• Reset folder filtering (Alt-T) – resets the filters.

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Upon choosing Start folder tree at folder name, that folder will serve as the root of the folder tree,
with its subfolders also being displayed:

Also, an informational panel appears at the top of the tree with two icons and a Folder filter: ON
message. The buttons/icons work in the following manner:
• (x) – turns off the filtering, and displays the entire folder tree again (same way as Reset folder
filtering in menu)
• [↑] –moves the "root" of the filtering one level up (same way as Move folder filter one level
up in menu).
Furthermore, the folder filtering will cease when opening a file or a folder outside of the current tree
branch (for example, when opening something through File - Open or by Drag-and-Dropping
something into the program window).
Apart from Menu – File – Folder tree filter (and corresponding hot-keys), the filtering of the folder
tree can be switched on with the mouse:
• Ctrl+Left Click in Folders panel (or in the Favorite Folders, please see below) makes the folder
clicked on the top-level folder in the folder tree (same as Ctrl-T)
• Ctrl+Shift+Left Click – limits the folder tree “by one level above” (same as Ctrl-Shift-T)

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Folder filtering can also be set through Folders panel context menu (mouse right-click):

With default settings, folder filtering is not re-applied when re-launching the program. This can be
changed by turning off File Handling – Startup – Reset folder tree filtering on start.

Editing the folder tree

The Folder panel settings now contain a setting to
Enable add/rename/remove folders.

When this setting is on, the following appears in the

context menu for the folders:
• Create subfolder – creates a new folder and
immediately suggests renaming it to something
sensible.
• Rename folder – allows one to rename a folder.
• Delete folder – allows one to delete a folder
(but only if it’s empty and not the current one)
If a folder is currently in use by some other folder, renaming or deleting it may not be possible; in this
case, an appropriate message will be displayed.

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Working with Removable Media (Flash Cards, etc.)

Automatic Recognition of Inserted Media

Under default settings, FastRawViewer recognizes the removable media (memory card, USB flash
drive), and, having recognized it, shows the following dialog:

“Removable Media insertion detected, FastRawViewer will open the newest folder found on it under
the DCIM folder”.
The action resulting from detecting removable media can be changed in Preferences – File Handling
– Removable Media to one of the following variants:
• Do nothing (Do nothing);
• Open predetermined folder (by default, \DCIM);
• Opens the most recent (by date of modification) folder in the predetermined folder.
• Opens a predetermined folder in “browse nested subfolders” view mode (see below the
section on “Working with subfolders”).
You can also turn off the above-shown warning in the same Preferences section.

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Un-mounting (Ejecting) Removable Media

If the removable media doesn’t use any application except FastRawViewer, then it can be ejected
without closing the program.
For this, one needs to right-click the respective media icon in the Folders panel and to select in the
context menu the (only) item, Unmount MediaName:

After a successful un-mount, the media will be freed up without additional messages. If there are any
problems, then the following error message will be displayed:

This message means that the removable media is in use by some other program as well, and
FastRawViewer cannot safely un-mount it.

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Favorite Folders Panel: Easy Access to Select Folders

An additional Favorite Folders panel can be found at the bottom of the Folders panel. Favorite
Folders panel is intended to be used to store a list of select folders in the file system, for easy and
fast access.

The “behavior” of the elements in this panel is analogous to that of the Folders panels:
• One click: The Thumbnails panel will be populated with the previews of the files in the chosen
folder.
• Double-click: opens the first file in the folder.
• Ctrl-Click/Ctrl-Shift-Click – opens the selected folder, while the folder tree in the Folder panel
will be limited by the selected folder/one folder above selected.
You can add to the Favorite Folders list in two ways:
The Favorite Folders panel’s menu (the “gear” icon at the head of the panel), Add current
folder to favorites adds the current panel to the list of favorites.

The context menu in the Folders panel allows you to do the same with a chosen folder
(Add *folder name* to favorite folders):

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Clearing the list:

Panel menu: Clear favorites list (see above) clears the entire list.
The context menu for a single item on the list allows you to delete that one item:

“Close” File/Folder
FastRawViewer background process scans files and receives system signals upon folder updates. This
prevents safe ejecting of removable media, including flash memory cards and cameras connected to
the computer via a cable.
Menu – File – Close File (or Ctrl-U) «closes» the currently opened file:
• All background processes are stopped as fast as possible.
• The monitoring of the current folder is cancelled.
• The current file display is cancelled.
• The current / working folder is changed to %HOME%/Pictures, or, if that one is not present,
to %HOME%.
• Upon the completion of the Close File command the removable media can be safely un-
mounted and ejected, as usual.
Un-mounting a portable media through the context menu in the Folder panel automatically preforms
the Close File action.

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Special view modes for folders

Working with subfolders (nested folders)
FastRawViewer allows one to view folders not only in the current folder, but also in its nested folders
(subfolders). In this mode, some constraints on the functions available to the program are in effect
(see the section “Constraints while working with subfolders” below).
Switching to the mode where you can view a folder with its subfolders can be done by:
• Menu – File – Open Folder – Open Folder with subfolders (Alt-O/Option-O)
• The folder’s context menu in the panel Folders – Open in subfolder mode

After this, a dialog for scanning the subfolders will appear:

In this dialog:
• Folder: the current folder, which you are opening

• Arrow up: go one level up

• […] button: select a folder through the standard folder selection dialog
• Recurse depth: how many levels down should the file search be implemented
• Limits: the ultimate depth of scanning, in subfolders and files (which limit to hit first).
The limits are set through Preferences – Special browse mode – Subfolder browse – limit
fetched file/subfolder count group.

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After pressing OK, FastRawViewer will perform a scan of the subfolders and files, and the resulting
list of files will be displayed in the program window.
When first switching to this mode, FastRawViewer will display a warning with a detailed description
of the constraints that are active when in subfolder browsing mode.

To turn off displaying this warning, check the checkbox Do not show this message again, before
closing the window.
The order of sorting the files by name is set through the Preferences – Special browse modes –
Subfolder browse – Filename sort in subfolder browse mode setting, which allows one to turn
on/off accounting for folder name (as in “full path”) with such sorting.
Subfolder browse mode is indicated in the upper bar of the program in Grid View mode; Subfolder
browse will be written before the name of the most upper-level folder:

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If while scanning the nested folder tree duplicates are discovered, then under the default settings the
following warning will be displayed:

This warning can be turned off through Preferences – Special browse modes – Subfolder browse –
Warn if duplicated subfolders were found in subfolder tree.
Duplicated subfolders are detected in two cases:
Cyclic symbolic links (symlinks) in the file system.
Subfolders with identical names, differing only in letter case: FastRawViewer
(purposefully) is insensitive to character case in file names; accordingly, it cannot display
two subfolders with identical names in different cases.

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Constraints in Subfolder browse mode

In Subfolder browse mode, the following constraints on FastRawViewer’s functionality are active:
• The list of displayed files is fixed at the moment of “opening” the subfolder tree.
o If, because of other programs working, new folders or files are added/deleted to the tree,
FastRawViewer ignores these changes: the new files/folders will not be visible, and if a
file/folder is deleted then when accessing them a barrage of messages warning of
impossibility of access will appear.
• Within FastRawViewer, actions that modified the current list of files are banned, specifically:
o Moving files
o (including) moving files to the _Selected/_Rejected subfolders
o Copying files to the displayed subfolder tree
o Clearing the _Rejected subfolder
o Editing the folder tree.
• The files are displayed in a flat list; the current file’s folder is shown only in the Folders panel.
These constraints are related to the fact that:
a. Monitoring a large number of (sub)folders for changes (adding/deleting files) is a very
resource-intensive operation, especially on slow carriers and (even moreso) over a
network.
b. Rebuilding the current (large) list of files can also lead to a substantial slowdown of the
application.
c. Moving files in the tree being examined looks very strange in the interface: either nothing
changes (if files are sorted by name or by metadata, such as date of shooting or XMP
rating), or the files simply change order (if the sorting is done by the full path of the file).

Exiting Subfolder browse mode

Exiting subfolder browse mode into regular (default) mode can be done two ways, explicit and
implicit:
• Explicit exit (through the explicitly-indicated desire of the user) can be done through the basic
opening of a file or folder
o Menu – File – Open
o Menu – File – Open Folder – Open Folder

• Implicit exit: all additional methods of opening a file or folder:

o Opening a file through:
▪ Menu – File – Recent files – selecting a file
▪ Drag and Drop a file into the program window

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▪ Opening a file through the command line, the context menu in the file manager, etc.
(Windows: only if the Single Instance mode is on, Mac: always)
o Opening a folder through:
▪ Menu – File – Open Folder – recent folders – selecting a folder
▪ Drag and Drop a folder into the program window
▪ Selecting a folder in the Folders panel or Favorite folders
When implicitly exiting subfolder browse mode, FastRawViewer will display a warning (see below)

This can be turned off through Preferences – Special browse modes – Subfolder browse – File
(folder) open attempt:
• Ignore – stay in subfolder browse mode (with this setting, one can only explicitly switch to
regular browse mode, see above).
• Ask – request confirmation.
• Open w/o confirmation – switches to regular browse mode without asking.

Viewing a set list of files (virtual folder mode)

FastRawViewer supports working with a list of files (in text format, one full filename per line), the
work mode is fully analogous to working with nested folders (the same constraints for accessible
actions: only copying, and only to those folders where none of the files being viewed are located).
To open a list of files, use:
• Menu – File – Open Folder – Open filelist (Alt-Shift-O)
• Drag and Drop a list of files into the program window; the list file should have the extension
indicated in Preferences – Special browse modes – Subfolder browse – Treat files with these
extensions as file lists.
In this mode, the same features and constraints as for subfolder browse mode are active.
To create a file list, one can save a list of selected files through Menu – Select – Save selection to file.

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Hotfolder mode: monitoring the current folder

The Hotfolder mode is intended for use together with programs for the remote control of cameras
(Tethered shooting), when:
• Another program is controlling the shooting and downloads the just-taken shots from the
camera onto the computer’s local drive into a folder
• FastRawViewer
o Monitors this folder and finds new files in it
o Upon finding them, moves to the last-found new file.
To switch to this mode, one must:
o Point FastRawViewer to the folder where the files will appear
o Select the mode via Menu – File – Open Folder – Hotfolder mode (Alt-Shift-H)
When first switching to this mode, the following warning with a description of the mode will be
displayed:

This can be turned off via the checkbox Do not show this message again.
After turning on this mode, FastRawViewer will regularly re-scan the current folder and when new
files appear in it, will open them.
In RAW+JPEG mode, one can set whether there ought to be expected a pair of files, or any file
(default), or a RAW file. The other settings of this mode are described in the section «Program
settings – Special browsing modes»
Exiting Hotfolder mode can be done through one of the following methods:
• Menu – File – Open Folder – Stop hotfolder mode
• Explicitly opening a folder or file (Menu – File – Open, Menu – File – Open Folder – Open
Folder)
• Implicitly opening a file or folder (reaction to an implicit opening can be set in the
corresponding settings section).

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Slideshow Mode
FastRawViewer has a basic “slideshow” mode, which is to say automatically moving from one file to
the next.
To turn on this mode, use Menu – File – Open Folder – Slideshow (Alt-Shift-S), when doing this the
following dialog, for setting the slideshow settings, will be shown:

This dialog sets:

• The direction of file flipping (forwards, backwards)
• Time delay while changing files
• The maximal number of displayed files.
Essentially, slideshow mode is just pressing Next File (or Prev File) with set intervals.
Slideshow mode ends:
• Explicitly, through Menu – File – Open Folder – Slideshow
(or by pressing the hotkey Alt-Shift-S a second time)
• Implicitly, if the current file does not correspond to the expected file
(that is to say, some sort of navigation through folders and/or files was used).
Slideshow mode is compatible with subfolder browsing.

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Single File View Mode and the Filmstrip Panel

When activating one of the files in the Grid View mode (double-click, press Enter on the file, Menu –
View – Switch to single image) the program switches to Single File View mode.
With default settings, the Filmstrip panel appears under the main window. The Filmstrip panel
contains the thumbnail previews of the files in the current folder:

When choosing a file from this panel (using the mouse, arrow keys on the keyboard, Menu – File –
Next/Prev File and Last/First file) the selected file is displayed in the main window, and the controls
of exposure, white balance, and contrast will act over this active RAW file (see below the “Working
with a single image” section).
You can use the same file operations in the filmstrip as those described previously for the Grid View
mode:
• Copy, move, move to _Rejected;
• Editing metadata (ratings, labels, title and description);
• Orientation;
• Passing the file to external programs;
• Selecting a group of files and group file operations (copying, moving, labels, ratings, passing
to external programs) is also possible.

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Additional Methods of Navigating Folder Files

Aside from visual navigation through folders and files, FastRawViewer also supports additional
methods of opening files or folders.

Opening a File/Folder Using the Menu

To open a file, you can use one of the following:
• Menu – File – Open (or Ctrl-O).
• Through the list of recently opened files (Menu – File – Recent Files).
• Drag-n-Drop the file onto the program icon.
• Drag-n-Drop the file onto the program window.
A folder (catalogue) can be opened in similar ways:
• Menu – File – Open Folder – Open Folder (Ctrl-Shift-O).
• Menu – File – Open Folder – Recent Folders – a list of recently visited folders.
• Drag-n-Drop folders onto the icon of the program.
• Drag-n-Drop folders onto the program window.
When opening a folder:
• With default settings, the first (in current sort order) RAW or JPEG/PNG/TIFF/HEIC file in the
folder is displayed.

Drag and Drop

Files and Folders can be “dropped” onto the window of the program, as well as on the icon on the
desktop or the OS X Dock. If so:
If you dropped several files, then the first one opens (the order follows the order of the file
selection in the file manager). All others will be ignored.
If you dropped several folders, then the first one opens. The others will be ignored.
If you dropped a mix of files and folders, then the first folder will be opened, while the
separate files will be ignored.
Mac OS X: it is recommended that files/folders (if there are a lot of them) be dropped on the opened
window, rather than the icon; this way it works a lot faster.

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Program Start Modes

During the launch of FastRawViewer, one can additionally pass a filename or a folder to the program
through one of the following methods:
• A file can be opened through the Open With menu, accessible through the right-click in the
Windows Explorer/OS X Finder.
• FastRawViewer can be installed as a “default” program (through Set Default Program in
Windows or Get Info – Open With – Change All for Mac OS X) – in this case FastRawViewer
will start when double-clicking on any file of the associated type.
• Drag-Drop of a file or a folder onto the FastRawViewer program icon.
• Start using the command line.
The same as with Dragging and Dropping into the program window (see above), the first file/folder
will be opened.

Launching Several Instances of FastRawViewer

Mac OS X: a single instance of the program is started. Second click on the icon in Applications, or
drag-n-drop of the file or folder on the application icon activates the already started instance of the
application.
You can start a second instance of FastRawViewer through the Terminal Utility with the command
/Applications/FastRawViewer.app/Contents/MacOS/FastRawViewer
Windows: Several instances of the program can be started by (double-)clicking the icon or
performing a drag-n-drop operation. With the start of each instance, a new window (displaying a
new file, if started with a drag-n-drop operation) will be opened.
If you prefer to use “single instance” mode in Windows, you may do so by switching on Preferences –
Other – Run single program instance setting. While this setting is on: clicking on a file, which is
associated with FastRawViewer, will result in displaying the file in the existing program window.

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Starting without a Filename

If FastRawViewer is started without a filename to view (like with double-clicking on the program
icon) and the settings under Preferences – File Handling – Start without filename are at defaults no
RAW file will be initially opened. To change this default behavior, please go to Preferences – File
Handling – Start without filename:
• Empty Screen – FastRawViewer starts up "without file".
• Last opened file – opens the top (last) file from the Recent Files list.
• Last visited folder – opens the folder from the list of Recent Folders.
• Specified folder – allows you to set a "start folder".
In the case of FastRawViewer being started up over a particular file (through any method; drag-n-
drop on the icon, clicking on the file, associated with FastRawViewer), this setting is, of course,
ignored.
This setting is also ignored in the Single instance mode, if the second FastRawViewer copy is started
up without selecting the name of a file/folder, then nothing happens.
Under default settings, FastRawViewer doesn’t “recall” files/folders from portable and network
media. This behavior can be changed by un-checking Preferences – File Handling – Do not recall
removable media on startup.

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Working with Touchscreen

FastRawViewer for Windows 7 – 10 supports the Touchscreen interface. This support is disabled by
default; one can enable it via Preferences – Interface – Touchscreen – Enable Touchscreen features.
This support includes the following:
Toolbars for the main action: file navigation, interface mode switching, zoom, setting XMP
ratings and labels, RAW data inspection, setting exposure compensation, contrast, and
white balance.
Support for basic gestures on the touchscreen.

When this interface is switched on, the following settings become accessible:
• Enable toolbars, Toolbars size – switches Toolbars on, and allows one to adjust the size of the
Toolbars. Toolbars can be switched on for desktops as well, however in this case you may
want to change the size down from the default Large. Each Toolbar can be switched on and
off via Menu – Panels – Toolbars.
• Highlight toolbar items under mouse – turns on backlighting for the “button under the
mouse” (mouse hover): under the default settings (turned on), the button in the toolbar
where the mouse is located changes its background color. When navigating with one’s
fingertip, this setting may be a bit inconvenient, as moving one’s fingertip outside the screen

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is not tracked – the last “mouse position” will just be the last button that was pressed. If this
is irritating to the user, then this setting ought to be turned off.
• Image Display - Dim image while switching to next – turns down the brightness of the
current image while the program is preparing the display of the new image (decoding it and
loading it into the video card). This gives visual feedback if working on a slower tablet to
indicate that switching between images is in progress.
Options
o Do not dim – works as previous; no brightness decreases while switching between images
o While switching to next file – decreases the brightness by 40% while in the process of
switching to another image. This is the default.
o Next file or RAW/JPEG switch – the same as previous, plus a 25% decrease in brightness
when switching between RAW and JPEG.

• The White Balance dialog size setting allows one to increase the size of the dialog that
manually sets the white balance in Touch screen mode, so as to make it easier to shift with
one’s fingers.
Other checkboxes control touch features:
• Single finger filmstrip scroll/grid scroll – the scroll is performed with a single figure gesture.
• Double tap to switch grid/single mode – switches between Grid Mode and displaying a Single
File with a double-tap.
• Gesture support in Single File View:
o Single finger pan to switch – allows one to switch images with one finger gesture from left
to right. If the zoom is larger than Fit to Screen, instead of switching images the current
image is scrolled.
o Pinch to zoom/unzoom – change the zoom level of the image with a pinch.
o Double tap to unzoom (if zoomed): if the image zoom level is larger than Fit to Screen, a
double-tap will bring it to Fit to Screen.
If Double tab to switch grid/single mode is turned on, another double tap will return to
Grid Mode.

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If there is a need to frequently switch to Touchscreen mode and back (for example, when
disconnecting-connecting a keyboard), a button for just this function can be activated in the bottom
bar.
• To do so, in the settings for the program’s bottom bar (Menu – File – Customize – Customize
bottom bar) one needs to turn on Toggle touchscreen functions element:

• After it has been turned on, an icon/button for changing touchscreen mode will appear in the
bottom bar:

This button works identically to the way that one changes the touch screen mode through the
settings.

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Working with a Single Image

In single image display mode, FastRawViewer displays the image in the main window, while the
auxiliary data (EXIF, histogram, exposure statistics, XMP-data) are displayed in additional panels:

Right-click context menu

Right-click within main window area will show context menu similar to that in the grid
mode/Filmstrip panel:

This menu is always for current (single) file even if current file is within selected group.

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Embedded and External JPEG

For every file, there can be up to three “representations”:
• RAW file.
• Embedded JPEG preview (Internal JPEG).
• External JPEG file with the same name (if the setting Preferences – File Handling – File
formats – Handle RAW+JPEG together is on).
The existence of representation is displayed in the status (lower) bar of the program, between the file
dimensions in pixels and the EXIF data:

• R I – denotes the existence of RAW and Internal JPEG.

• R I E – RAW, Internal JPEG, External JPEG (or External HEIC for RAW+HEIC mode).

• J – only JPEG (or PNG, or TIFF), without a RAW-file.

A capital letter indicates that the representation is available for viewing. Lowercase means that it
exists, but is unavailable for viewing for one of the following reasons:
• i – the internal JPEG is not shown. This is a default setting for when there is an internal JPEG
file and the RAW+JPEG mode is on (can be changed in settings: Preferences – File Handling –
File formats – Do not show internal JPEG if external JPEG is present).
• r – RAW representation is not shown. This happens for unsupported RAW formats (Sigma
Foveon) or for too large RAW files (limits can be changed in Preferences – Performance –
RAW file size limit).
• File representation is damaged (errors while decoding of file data).
To switch between representations, use Menu – View – Switch RAW/intJPEG/extJPEG or press the J
key on the keyboard. The representation that is currently displayed is denoted with letter indicator
going white.
Tuning the behavior of the program in regards to the display of embedded/external JPEG files is done
through Preferences – File Handling – File formats:
• Handle RAW+JPEG together – turns on the pairing of the RAW file and JPEG of the same
name. If you turn off this setting, the pairing won’t happen – the files will be shown
separately and treated as separate.

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• Do not show internal JPEG if external JPEG is present – disables decoding and displaying of
an embedded JPEG when there is an external one.
• Non RAW-files Decode priorities – if set to “None” for a certain type of JPEG (Embedded –
those that are contained in RAW files, External – those paired with RAW files, commonly a
result of setting a camera to shoot RAW+JPEG), decoding and display of JPEGs of such types
are disabled. Other options (On prefetch, On demand, On file open) – set the event that
triggers the decoding of JPEG files. Those options are explained below, in Performance
Settings chapter – JPEG/TIFF/PNG/HEIC Handling section.
• Default image to Display (same as Previous/RAW/internal JPEG/external JPEG) – controls
what representation will be used for display when opening the next file.

Zooming and Panning

To change the zoom level of the displayed image, you can use the following commands available
through Menu - View and also through the keyboard shortcuts:
• Menu – View – Zoom In or Ctrl-+ – magnifies the image on the display.
• Menu – View – Zoom Out or Ctrl— (Ctrl-Minus) – zooms out.
• Menu – View – Fit to Window or Ctrl-0 – changes the zoom factor in such a manner that the
image fits into the current size of the window (and when changing the size of the window, the
magnification factor will follow).
• Menu – View – Fit to Window width or Ctrl-Alt-0 – the image will take up the width of the
window.
• Menu – View – Actual Pixels (100%) or Ctrl-1 – set the image scale to “100%” (each image
pixel is displayed as one monitor pixel).
• Menu – View – Toggle Zoom or Z – toggles zoom level between the setting in Preferences and
the current zoom level. In more detail,
o If the current Zoom level is less than the value of the “Toggle Zoom” Zoom to setting (this
value is 100% by default), then the current zoom/magnification value will be stored and
the image will be magnified/zoomed up to this value (again, to 100% for the defaults).
o If the current magnification/zoom value is greater or equal than the value of the “Toggle
Zoom” Zoom to setting, then
▪ If there is a stored zoom value from a previous use of Toggle Zoom, the zoom level
returns to that stored value.
▪ If there is no stored value yet, it switches to the Fit to Screen mode.
If the image does not completely fit into the window:

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• Pressing and holding the left mouse button turns on the Drag mode: the image moves with
the mouse cursor.
• Pressing and holding the right mouse button turns on the fast panning mode: the program
window becomes ‘Navigation Pane’, moving the mouse, for instance, to the top-right corner
of the window will show you the top-right region of the image.
Furthermore, the fast combined “Zoom + Panning” modes are available as well:
• Left mouse button + Shift – turns on temporary zoom and Drag mode.
• Right mouse button + Shift – turns on temporary zoom and panning mode.
The zoom factor for these modes is set in the Preferences – Interface – Zoom section:
• “Zoom and Drag” Zoom to
• “Zoom and Pan” Zoom to
• “Toggle Zoom” Zoom to
• If you want to limit the range of the zoom available through the keyboard, please use the
following setting: Interface – Zoom – Zoom In/Zoom Out range.

Changing Image Orientation

When you open the image, its orientation is calculated from the XMP file (if it exists), or from the
EXIF data and the image is rotated accordingly.
• Menu – Adjust – Rotate 900 CCW (or Ctrl-7) – turns the image 90 degrees counter-clockwise.
• Menu – Adjust – Rotate 900 CW (or Ctrl-9) – turns the image 90 degrees clockwise.
• Menu – Adjust – Rotate 1800 (or Ctrl-8) – turns the image 180 degrees.
• Menu – Adjust – Flip Horizontally – flips image horizontally (changes left and right sides).
• Menu – Adjust – Flip Vertically – vertical flip, change top with bottom.
The orientation changes are recorded in an XMP-file.

De-Bayering (demosaicking): CPU and GPU modes

Most of the current color digital cameras have “Bayer” sensors, that is, each pixel having peak
sensitivity to one color component, red, green, or blue. These pixels are arranged in 2x2 square
groups, each group having one “red”, 2 “green”, and one “blue” pixel.
De-Bayering (demosaicking) is a common name for interpolation schemes used to calculate 2 missing
color values for each pixel (for example, for a “red” pixel green and blue values are calculated) to
form a full-color image. Such interpolation is always a trade-off between the image quality (sharp,

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artifact-free image) and speed: faster demosaicking methods are not as good in terms of image
quality as slower ones.
Because FastRawViewer is aiming at fast browsing through the RAW files, we use fast demosaicking
methods, and the resulting image quality is not as good as the ones commonly found in commercial,
free of time constraints, and also applying default sharpening behind the scenes, RAW converters:
• Maximum speed demosaicking on a CPU
• Fast enough but visibly higher quality demosaicking on a GPU
On the figure below, we compare two demosaicking methods implemented in FastRawViewer at
about 100%, GPU to the left, CPU to the right:

Demosaicking on GPU works sufficiently fast if:

• The GPU itself is a fast one (7 years old “top speed”, current mid-range). Demosaicking on
slower GPUs will work slower than CPU-based demosaicking, but still with acceptable speed,
even if it is an integrated GPU like Intel HD 4000.
• The video mode (Graphics Engine) is set to OpenGL or DirectX 11.
Demosaicking on GPU is switched on automatically on the first launch of FastRawViewer if all of the
below is true:
• Fast GPU (Intel Iris, Nvidia GTX, AMD/ATI R7/R9/RX/Vega)

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• CPU supports the command to convert data to 16-bit floating (Intel Ivy Bridge and newer)
• Video mode is set to OpenGL or DirectX 11 (those will be set automatically on the first launch
if the fast GPU is detected)
In all other cases opening a RAW file for the first time with GPU-based demosaicking selected can be
slower than with CPU-based demosaicking, but if you still want a higher quality demosaicking, switch
to GPU-based one manually.
Changes in RAW rendering parameters (white balance, lightness/exposure adjustments, contrast –
see below) are always nearly instant in GPU mode; if you are a heavy user of such adjustments, it may
make sense to switch to GPU even if the video card is very slow.

Sharpening for Display

While being processed in a RAW converter, RAW images generally have had some sort of sharpening
algorithm applied to them (this is true for both out-of-camera JPEGS and offline RAW conversion).
In FastRawViewer, the sharpening is applied only for display. You can switch between two levels of
sharpening and also set sharpening to “off.” The settings are available through Menu – View –
Screen sharpening (the default shortcut is S) and also through the USM button located on the bottom
bar of FastRawViewer.
The following image has sharpening applied to the right side, while the left side doesn’t:

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To fine-tune the amount and mode of sharpening, you can use Preferences – Image Display –
Sharpening. We will cover this in more detail in the “Program Settings” section below.
This is also the place where you can switch off the sharpening for JPEG representation, turning on the
Sharpen RAW files only setting.

Viewing File Channels, Viewing in Black and White Mode

FastRawViewer allows per-channel view of the RAW file and also conversion to black and white:
• Menu – View – R channel (Ctrl-3) Red channel is displayed.
• Menu – View – G channel (Ctrl-4) Green channel is displayed.
• Menu – View – B channel (Ctrl-5) Blue channel is displayed.
These modes work with internal RGB image (after demosaicking, exposure adjustment, white balance
setting).
In these modes, the RAW and RGB histograms are shown only for the displayed channel. If the RAW
file is not RGB, then the histogram will be for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd channels respectively.
• Menu – View – RGB full color (Ctrl-2) – back to RGB display mode.
• Menu – View – BW-conversion full color (Ctrl-6) – will show the black and white variant” of
the image (conversion from RGB is performed using the lightness channel formula, same as
the one used while coding JPEG).

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Boosting the Shadows

The Boost Shadows mode is intended to assess the quality of the shadows in the RAW: it opens up
the shadows at the expense of compounding the highlights:

For the image above: on the left part, the shadow boost mode is on, on the right, it is off. When the
mode is on the indicating S in the SHL group on the bottom bar turns bright white.
You can turn the boost on/off through Menu - View – Boost Shadows (or by pressing Shift-S on the
keyboard).
Setting the amount of boost: Preferences – Image Display – Boost Shadows Amount controls the
additional gamma adjustment; the range is 0.2 to 2.0.

Inspection of Highlights
Highlight Inspection mode (Menu – View – Highlights inspection or Shift-H) does the “opposite” of
the Shadow Boost mode:
• The brightness of the shadows and midtones is decreased, and as a result the image looks
darker.
• The contrast in the highlights is increased.
• Additionally, you can “cancel” the white balance, by setting it to “UniWB” in the Highlights
inspection settings.

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As a result, you can evaluate the details in the highlights (left – Highlight inspection mode on, right –
default view mode; as we can see, the highlights contain plenty of details):

This mode is indicated by a white H letter in the SHL line at the bottom of the screen

Linear display mode

With the default settings, FastRawViewer displays RAW files with the following eye-candies applied:
• An S-shaped tone curve is applied to the image, increasing the contrast in the midtone (see
below the section on “Adjusting the Image Contrast”)
• Adobe ‘hidden’ exposure correction is applied (see below the section of the same name),
raising the midtone.
With these (default) settings, the RAW display is correlated to the embedded JPEG in both contrast
and overall brightness.
Both of these transformations can be turned off through the Preferences; or you can use Menu –
View – Linear mode display (Shift-L). In both cases this will result in a “flat, non-contrasty” image.
With the default settings, linear display mode turns on only the linear curve “Gamma 2.2”; the
Preferences – Image Display – Ignore exposure correction/baseline exposure in linear mode setting
further turns off all exposure corrections (both explicitly applied and hidden).
As mentioned earlier, the result will be a “flat, non-contrasty” image, which corresponds to what the
camera captured much more accurately:

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(in the illustration, the linear mode is in the right part of the screen, and the regular mode is on the
left).

This mode is indicated by the white L button in the S-H-L line (Shadow boost, Highlight Inspection,
Linear mode) in the program’s bottom bar.

Adjusting the Image Contrast

FastRawViewer allows one to apply “standard” tone curves (sRGB, Gamma 1.8 и 2.2, L*), but also
offers the Variable Contrast mode for tone curves. To switch between those two types, you can use
Preferences – Image Display – Contrast Curve Type.
In Variable Contrast mode, the image contrast can be adjusted in “grades”:
• -5 to +5 for “normal contrast”.
• U+0 to U+5 for “ultra contrast” (useful, for example, for underwater photography).
Normal contrast curves correspond to the contrast setting in Adobe RAW converters, process version
2012, from -100 to +100 (with a step of 20); that is, +2 corresponds to 40 on the Adobe scale,
while -3 corresponds to -60.

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Ultra contrast corresponds approximately2 to Adobe Contrast +100 with the Blacks slider from 0
to -100.
To increase contrast, you can use Menu – Adjust – Increase Contrast (or press K on the keyboard),
to decrease contrast Menu – Adjust – Decrease Contrast (or Shift-K).
By default, the contrast settings are recorded to an XMP file only in FastRawViewer format. To
record it in the format that is acknowledged by Adobe converters, turn on Preferences – XMP –
Exposure, Contrast, WB – Write Adobe-compatible Contrast/Blacks into XMP file.

Using Monitor Profile for Display

FastRawViewer supports Color Management when showing RAW and JPEG files, however this mode
is turned off in the Windows version by default for the following reasons:
• The majority of modern monitors are sRGB (or close to it) and using sRGB as a workspace
when displaying RAW gives very acceptable results.
• Furthermore, in many cases supplied monitor profiles are inadequate, and they have a
negative impact on the image appearance.
• Moreover, a noticeable number of users have optimized their video settings for computer
games, manually turning on the anisotropic filtering of textures. This mode is incompatible
with the Color Management function of FastRawViewer.
Color Management can be turned on through Preferences – Color Management – Enable Color
management. Further color management settings are described in the “Settings – Color
Management” section below. If the system profile of the monitor is set up properly, then further
tuning of settings will, most likely, not be needed.

Support for Cameras Modified to Black and White

FastRawViewer supports black and white cameras that are made from color cameras by removing
the color filter array (CFA) from the sensor.
This mode is turned on through Preferences – Image Display – Use Monochrome mode for Bayer
images, available choices are:
• None – Off
• Always – All Bayer RAW files will be processed as monochrome

2
Adobe programs clip the shadows below the setting for “blacks,” in FastRawViewer we use a curve with a very gentle
slope.

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• Detect – monochrome images are detected automatically, and if such an image is detected it
will be processed as a monochrome (this mode is slower, because first such an image will be
processed as a color image).
In this mode:
• Demosaicking (de-Bayering) is skipped.
• Per-channel viewing is turned off.
• White balance preferences are turned off.
• RAW histogram and exposure statistics are for one channel.
The image is black and white:

This mode is not applicable to JPEG images; they stay colored.

Working with Exposure

FastRawViewer offers several tools to analyze the exposure on a photograph, recommend exposure
adjustments during a shooting session, and select exposure adjustment during RAW conversion:
• RAW-histogram.
• Over/Underexposure statistics.
• Showing the areas of over- and underexposure on the image.
• Automatic setting of positive (lightening) exposure adjustment.

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• Manual Exposure adjustment setting.

Histogram
The RAW-data histogram is created based on the unmodified (disregarding any exposure
adjustments metadata) RAW data from the file:

Horizontal Scale:
• EV0 – the level that corresponds to the middle gray. If exposure adjustment has not been
applied, it’s set to 3 photographic stops below the saturation level of a camera.
• -5 – the level that corresponding to the level of the underexposure indication (see below)
• +3 (when exposure adjustment is turned on it can be +2 or +1) – extreme highlights.
• The leftmost mark of the scale is the level that corresponds to the value of “1” in the RAW
data.
The histogram step on the horizontal axis is 0.1EV, so there will always be a “comb” in the shadows,
as there are less possible levels than 10 levels per stop.
When applying exposure adjustment (see below) the histogram itself does not change – instead the
horizontal axis shifts. During a positive exposure adjustment, the EV0 level shifts in the direction of
the shadows (because the shadow sections shifts to brighter ones – closer to middle gray),
correspondingly the other vertical marks move as well (and if needed, the numbers for the marks
change as well). During a negative exposure adjustment, the axis shift is in the opposite direction.
With this, the underexposure level indicator stays in place because the quality of the shadows
doesn’t change with the change of exposure compensation.

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Exposure Statistics
For RAW data, the exposure statistics are calculated for each channel. These statistics are displayed
in the Exposure stats panel, which by default is located in the right side of the program window.
If no positive exposure compensation was applied (that includes automatic exposure correction,
please see below “Hidden Adobe exposure compensation”), the table consists of three columns: name
of the Raw “color” channel, percentage of underexposed pixels, and percentage of overexposed
pixels:

For the shot above, the statistics table shows that:

Underexposure (UnExp) is 2.45% in the Red channel, 0.29% in the Green channel, and
1.78% in the blue channel – those pixels are in the underexposure zone, that is 8EV (with
standard settings) below the saturation point for the camera.
Overexposure (OvExp): no overexposure.
8EV is a standard value for the photographically usable dynamic range. You can change it to match
your particular camera through Preferences – Image Display – Exposure – Underexposure detection
limit.
The underexposure indication limit (meaning the dynamic range of the camera) can be set even more
flexibly, depending on the ISO settings. For this, one needs to turn on the Preferences – Image
Display – Exposure - ISO-based underexposure limit setting and set three parameters for the
camera: underexposure level (dynamic range) for ISO 200, ISO 1600, and “for high ISO.”
Calculating the Underexposure Limit (dynamic range) will happen in the following manner

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• For ISO values of 1600 and lower, down to ISO 6, the linear change is such that the line passes
through the value for ISO 200. In other words, the line passes through two user-defined
points: ISO 1600 and ISO 200.
• For ISO settings 1601 and above, the dynamic range decreases by one stop for each stop of
ISO setting increase, but the limit is always greater or equal to the value that is entered for
high ISO.
If positive exposure compensation was applied to the image the table may contain an additional
column OE+Corr, indicating the number of pixels, which will be above the maximum value after the
exposure compensation is applied.

After the positive exposure compensation was applied as in the shot above, 10% of “green” pixels are
above the maximum, most probably because the value of the exposure compensation is a little bit
overboard.
For a fast review of a significant number of files, it may be convenient to keep the OE+Corr column
always on. This way, you won’t be distracted by the changes in the size of the panel. This can be done
by going into the Exposure Stats panel’s settings (gear icon) and checking Always display OE+Corr
column.
In the same settings menu, you can also enable the count of the number of over- and underexposed
pixels by checking Show pixel counts:

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Spotlighting the Areas of Over- and Underexposure

The over/underexposure areas can be identified using a colored overlay.
Spotlighting the overexposure zones can be turned on and off through Menu–View–Overexposure
Display (or by pressing the O key on the keyboard):

If some pixels of a channel hit the overexposure limit the values for such pixels are clipped.
FastRawViewer is using the following color scheme to spotlight the areas of overexposure:
• Magenta – areas where the green channel is clipped.
• Cyan – areas where only the red channel is clipped.
• Yellow – areas where only the blue channel is clipped.
• Blue – areas where both green and red channels are clipped.
• Green – areas where both blue and red channels are clipped.
• Red – areas where both blue and green channels are clipped.
• Black – areas where all 3 channels are clipped.
For this image, we see the blown-out green channel on almost the entire sky over the sand dune;
while on the central portion of the sky the blue and green are both blown out. More likely than not,
recovering the sky’s tone normally via Highlight recover won’t be possible.
With standard settings, the positive exposure adjustment has the effect on the overexposure area
display: the areas shown are the ones that would be overexposed, if we had taken the shot with this
exposure compensation on the camera. This behavior can be changed by turning off the setting

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Preferences – Image Display – Exposure – Exposure adjustments affects OverExposure display, in

this case only those areas that are overexposed (clipped) in the RAW file itself will be shown as the
overexposed areas (obviously, the exposure adjustment in FastRawViewer has no effect on the
content of RAW files).
Viewing the underexposure zone can be turned on and off through Menu–View–Underexposure
Display (or by pressing the U key on the keyboard):

Like in the previous, the underexposed pixels are spotlighted with saturated colors:
• Blue – where the blue channel is underexposed.
• Red – where the red channel is underexposed.
• Green – where the green channel is underexposed.
• Magenta – where both red and blue channels are underexposed.
• Cyan – where both green and blue channels are underexposed.
• Yellow – where both green and red channels are underexposed.
• White – where all three channels are underexposed.
Exposure adjustments do not affect the display of underexposure areas (or underexposure statistics).
For this shot, part of the foreground is underexposed; also, one can see areas with the red channel
underexposed (red), and, also areas where both red and blue channels are underexposed (magenta).

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Unlike for overexposure, which is determined fairly unambiguously in digital cameras (by the
“blowout” of one or more channels, the channel histogram pressed to the right edge and having a
characteristic spike), the limit of the unacceptable underexposure area cannot be exactly
determined, because it depends on:
• Planned print size.
• Planned shadow boost in the current shot.
In FastRawViewer, the limit that controls the underexposure warning is set by the user themselves in
the preferences (Preferences – Image Display – Exposure – Underexposure detection limit). The
default value (8EV) is fairly conservative, and works pretty well for low ISO settings, 100-800 ISO. In
the case of using high ISO, or strict demands to the image quality, this parameter may to be set lower
(to 6-7EV, and sometimes even lower), according to the technical requirements for the resulting
image.

Exposure correction

Adobe 'hidden’ exposure correction

By default, an exposure correction equal to the one that is automatically applied by Adobe
converters is also applied when a RAW file is opened in FastRawViewer (for more details, please see
https://photographylife.com/adobes-silent-exposure-compensation).
As a result, the overall brightness of the rendition on the screen is a close match to a JPEG preview;
and, given the contrast curve in Preferences is set to 'Variable Contrast' and contrast is set to default,
it also matches the rendition in Adobe converters with all the sliders there being set to '0'.
The application of this standard exposure offset can be switched off via Preferences – Image Display
– Exposure – Apply Adobe hidden exposure correction.
To «roll out» hidden correction in Adobe tools (Camera Raw, Lightroom) use Preferences – XMP –
Exposure, Contrast, WB – Force Adobe software to match FastRawViewer brightness (exposure).
This setting is enabled only if Apply Adobe hidden exposure correction setting is turned off.

Automatic exposure correction

If Shift-A is pressed, or Menu – Adjust – Auto Exposure Correction is enabled, FastRawViewer
calculates and applies automatic exposure correction in such a way, that 1% of the total number of
pixels in the image are pushed to saturation (receive the value of 255 on the 8-bit scale).

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The following settings for the automatic exposure correction are user-adjustable:
• Mode:
a. Fixed shift by the given number of stops (EV), the value is controlled through Preferences
– Image Display – Exposure – Auto Exposure – Fixed Exposure shift.
b. Automatic calculation of the exposure compensation to shift the histogram ‘to the right’,
controlled through Preferences – Image Display – Exposure – Auto Exposure – ETTR-style
autoexposure (shift histogram to the right).
• Fine-tuning of the automatic exposure compensation:
a. Saturate up to NN% pixels – controls the percent of the pixels that will reach the
saturation as the result of the automatic exposure correction.
b. Exposure shift limits:
i. Unlimited – no limit, goes all the way to the setting for Saturate up to NN% pixels
ii. Hard limit – no more than the number of stops set in this field.
iii. Virtual ISO – the limit depends on the ISO setting that was used to take the shot:
▪ If the shot was taken at ISO in-camera setting higher that this limit, the maximum
exposure correction is 0.
▪ For the shots taken at lower than this limit ISO setting in camera, the maximum
value for the exposure correction is equal to the difference
(in stops, EV) between the ISO setting in the camera and the limit set (for example,
if the limit is set to ISO 6400, and the shot was taken at ISO 1600, the maximum
amount of exposure correction is 2EV).

To switch off the exposure correction, making it 0 (or, if Apply Adobe hidden exposure correction is
ON, making it equal to that value of hidden correction), press the ‘A’ key on the keyboard. Second
press of ‘A’ will restore the previous correction.

Manual Exposure Correction

• Increase exposure adjustment: Menu – Adjust – Adjust exposure correction – Increase
Exposure (Alt-Plus/Alt-Ctrl-Plus keys) or the + button in the lower bar of the window. Shift-
Click on bottom bar button will use larger step.
• Decrease exposure adjustment: Menu – Adjust – Adjust exposure correction – Decrease
Exposure (Alt-Minus/ Alt-Ctrl-Minus keys) or - button in the lower bar of the window. Shift-
Click on bottom bar button will use larger step.
The amount of exposure adjustment change per click / key press can be set through Preferences –
Image Display – Exposure – Manual Exposure step size for small/big steps separately.

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Recording of the exposure correction to XMP files: Interaction with Adobe Programs
Exposure adjustment is recorded in XMP-file in the FastRawViewer format (if reading/recording XMP
is on).
Moreover, exposure adjustment in a format that is compatible with Adobe (Bridge, Camera Raw,
Lightroom) is recorded in XMP as well. This recording can be turned off through Preferences – XMP –
Exposure, Contrast, WB – Adobe Compatible Exposure and White Balance.

Exposure Adjustment when Browsing to the Next File

The value of the exposure correction can be read from an XMP file. If, upon opening a file, exposure
correction is available in the XMP sidecar, this exposure correction will be applied. Both Adobe and
FastRawViewer’s tags for exposure correction can be used. The priority is determined by XMP –
Preferred tags for exposure/WB setting.
If XMP file does not exist, or the exposure correction records are absent in it, exposure correction will
not be applied (however, if Apply Adobe hidden exposure correction is ON, it will still be applied).
This behavior can be altered through the setting Preferences – Image Display – Exposure – Exposure
correction on file open:
• No correction (default) – exposure correction is not applied.
• Autoexposure – Automatic exposure correction will be applied, according to the respective
settings for this type of correction.
• Keep from prev. file – same value of the exposure correction, as it was set for the previous
file is applied. If the file is the first one opened during this session, no exposure correction is
applied.

Forcing Adobe tools to render tones accurately

Some photographers prefer to start processing RAW from neutral settings as was suggested about 10
years ago by Dan Margulis. There is also the question of the default silent clipping of highlights in raw
converters, which sometimes is confusing and you may want to disable it.
For example, with Adobe CameraRaw and Adobe Lightroom we have:
• Hidden lightness adjustment (correction for baseline exposure) which makes the lightness of
the rendered midtone accord with the lightness of the midtone in the out-of-camera JPEG.
This is described in Adobe hidden exposure correction section (above);
• An S-curve, adjustments to blacks, overall brightness, and contrast, as well as some other
basic tone-mapping parameters are applied, to enhance the rendering and make it more
pleasing right out of the box. If the scene has high dynamic range, strong saturated colors, or
if some serious image editing is planned, then that enhanced view may be not the best
starting point.

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Our experiments show that we can achieve pretty good linearity using just a few simple overrides
over the default settings if we start with Adobe process 2010 aka Process Version 2 (and convert to
more recent PV later, if needed). Essentially, all that is needed in PV2 is to select the linear tone curve
and set all the basic adjustments, starting with Exposure, to zero.
If you want to switch to highly linear mode, you need to adjust Preferences:
• Set Image Display - Exposure - Apply Adobe hidden exposure correction setting to not
checked.
• Image display - Contrast curve type: set to any fixed contrast one: sRGB, gamma 1.8, 2.2, L*
(gamma 2.2 is recommended for proper lightness match)
• XMP - Exposure, Contrast, WB - Adobe process version: set to Version 2 (2010)
• XMP - Exposure, Contrast, WB - Force Adobe software to match FastRawViewer brightness:
set to checked.
This will result in silent "exposure boost" / baseline exposure being rolled back in Adobe
CameraRaw/Lightroom, preventing false clipping indications and allowing one to regain the
highlights that were not truly clipped.
• XMP - Exposure, Contrast,WB - Write linear curve to XMP: set to checked.
If this setting is enabled, Adobe-compatible exposure and white balance tags will be written
with the following additions and amendments:
o the curve will be set to Linear (both name and values)
o tag crs:Shadows will be set to 0
o tag crs:Contrast will be set to 0
o tag crs:Brightness will be set to 0
o tag crs:ProcessVersion=5.7 will be forced
o tags crs:ToneCurvePV2012, crs:ToneCurvePV2012Red, crs:ToneCurvePV2012Green,
crs:ToneCurvePV2012Blue will be deleted
Enabling these settings will not automatically rewrite existing XMP files or create new XMP files if
they are absent. To set new XMP parameters for the linear mode or to roll back Adobe's "exposure
boost", you need to do the following after enabling appropriate settings:
• either check "Force XMP files creation" (Preferences -> XMP - Force XMP files creation for
RAW files) and open the files where you want the new settings in FastRawViewer.
• or open the files where you want the new settings in FastRawViewer and at the Bottom Bar
change the White Balance or Exposure; clicking twice on "Exposure correction on/off" to
switch it off and then back on should do the trick.

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White Balance
FastRawViewer offers several methods of setting white balance:
• Choose one of the standard presets (As Shot/Auto/Daylight/Tungsten) and presets fetched
from RAW file (most modern cameras save several standard presets in RAW metadata).
• Set it by clicking on the known neutral gray area of the image.
• Set it by choosing the color temperature/tint value.

Indication of the White Balance

The white balance is displayed:
3. As the name of one of the presets (or Custom) in the drop-down list of white balance presets
(see the next picture).
4. As the values shown on the button for manual editing of white balance (to the right of the
drop-down list of available white balance presets).
The available white balance indication modes are chosen through Preferences – Image Display –
White Balance – White balance display mode:
• Color Temperature/Tint – a mode commonly used in RAW converters.
• Mired/Tint – instead of correlated color temperatures, the value indicated is in Mired.
• WB Coefficients – the per-channel coefficients (factors) of white balance are shown.
• Channel EV Correction – the per-channel correction factors in EV (stops) of white balance are
shown.
The calculation of color temperature/tint is not possible for all the cameras. It is also not possible for
extreme white balance coefficients. Here are the limitations:
1. FastRawViewer must have the color data for the camera (for the vast majority of modern
cameras, it does).
5. The camera has to be RGB and tricolor. CMYG, RGBE, and other non-RGB cameras are not
supported.
6. A range of color temperatures from 1667 to 25000K is supported. If you set the manual
balance (see below) from a deep blue or a dark red area, then calculating the temperature
may be impossible.
For those cases where the calculation of color temperature is impossible, the indication of CCT/Tint
or Mired/Tint values is changed to “---/--“.

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White Balance Presets

For the majority of modern cameras, FastRawViewer contains a large amount of standard presets
(settings) of white balance.
Choosing a preset can be done via the drop-down list menu in the lower bar of the program window:

Virtually everything is in this menu:

• As Shot (excluding a small amount of old cameras, which don’t record white balance in RAW).
• Daylight.
• Auto.
• UniWB (sets all coefficients of white balance to 1.0).
The other modes in this drop-down correspond to those individual camera presets, and those vary
depending on camera manufacturer and camera model.
Standard white balance modes (As Shot, Daylight, Auto, Custom) can be cycled through using Menu–
Adjust–Toggle White Balance (or by pressing W key on the keyboard).

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If the RAW file contains a list of standard white balances in its EXIF data, this list will be shown in the
drop-down menu (between Auto and UniWB). If there is no list of white balances in the file, then the
generic table for the camera model that took the shot will be used instead.
If two neighboring files are taken with one camera, and a mode to preserve white balance when
moving between files is active (Preferences – Image Display – White Balance – White balance for
next file (same camera), see detailed description below), but the two above-listed files contain
different balance preset lists (for example, one file is in the camera’s original RAW format, while the
other is converted to DNG), then:
• If possible, the setting (preset) with the same name is preserved.
• If no such preset exists, then the “White balance for the next file (another camera)” is used,
meaning that the program assumes that if the lists of white balances are very different
between two files, then the camera must have been changed.

Controlling which White Balance will be Used when Opening a File

When opening the next file the White Balance is set in accordance to the settings in Preferences–
Image Display – White Balance:
• White Balance for next file (same camera) – sets the white balance mode when opening a file
coming from the same camera model as the current file is. Choices here are: Same as
previous, As Shot, Daylight, Auto, Tungsten, and Camera Auto/As Shot. Last one is ‘use WB-
Auto stored by camera, fallback to As Shot if no camera stored WB preset is found.
• White Balance for next file (another camera) – sets the white balance mode when opening a
file coming from a different camera model. The choice of “Same as previous” normally does
not fit here – all other choices are the same as for the previous.
• Keep Custom WB for next file (same camera) – instructs FastRawViewer if the current white
balance coefficients should be applied to the next file coming from the same camera model.

Setting White Balance by “Click-Gray” Method

To set the white balance using an arbitrary area of the image as a reference, use Alt-left mouse click.
The size of the area which is evaluated to calculate the white balance can be set through Preferences
– Image Display – White Balance – WB Sampler size
Coefficients will be calculated for the chosen area so as to make whatever is “clicked” gray. The
image will change its look (automatically calculated exposure adjustment may change as well).
If the correct color temperature can be calculated with the given coefficients, then it will be displayed
on the button for the manual white balance adjustment.

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Manually Setting the Color Temperature

When pressing the button with the values of color temperature/shades (to the right of the drop-
down list with white balance presets) the manual white balance adjustment dialogue appears:

The changes made in this dialogue are applied to the image on the screen on the screen with a slight
delay (up to 200ms). If the changes you’ve made satisfy you, hit OK. If not, continue adjusting, or hit
Cancel to disregard any changes.

Undo editing
Menu – Adjust – Reset image rendering to defaults (Ctrl-Shift-R, Ctrl-Command-R) applies default
image editing settings that are enabled in Preferences – Image Display – Reset rendering to default
parameters. Initial defaults are:
• White balance is set to «As Shot»
• Exposure correction is set to «No correction»
• Contrast is set to «0».
These changes are recorded to XMP if XMP support is turned on (default).

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Outlining In-Focus and Highly Detailed Areas

FastRawViewer can help identifying if the sharp areas are indeed where you wanted them to be on
the image. This is accomplished through outlining the following:
• Bold high contrast edges.
• Areas containing small (“pixel-level”) sharp details.
• Additionally, you can turn on the simultaneous display of both types of outlines (not possible
for some video cards).
You can cycle through these modes using Menu–View–Toggle Focus Peaking (or by pressing the P
key on the keyboard), like following: Everything off – High contrast edges – Fine details – Both filters
– everything off.
Unnecessary/unused modes can be turned off through Preferences – GPU Processing – Focus
Peaking mode.
The High Contrast Filter shows contrasting, but not necessarily very sharp areas of the image:

When this filter is on the letter E in the USM-ED group on the bottom bar takes the same color that is
used for the outline (green by default).

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The Fine Detail Filter outlines small, acute, but not necessarily contrasting details:

When this filter is on the letter D in the USM-ED group on the bottom bar takes the same color that
is used for the outline (red by default).
The colors that are used outlines for both filters, as well as the opacity of the filter overlay are
controlled through the settings in the Preferences – GPU Processing – Focus Peaking mode section.
For GPU-based demosaicking the overlays indicating the areas of sharpness and sharp details have
lower brightness, as this demosaicking creates less artifacts and the algorithm has less data to cling
to.

Overlay Grid
One can overlay a grid over an image, available grids are:
• Standard grids: Golden rule, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5
• Two custom grids (regular grid up to 25x25)

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To switch the grid on, use Menu – View – Grid Overlay – and select the one or more grids. If several
grids are selected, they can be cycled through Menu – View – Grid Overlay – Next Overlay Grid (the
default hotkey is Alt + G).
The selected grid is displayed as dashed lines, with black and white dashes interleaved, over the
image.

The grid settings are available in Preferences – Image Display – Sharpening/Other.

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Performance Settings
Depending on the characteristics of your computer, the most important ones being
• Amount of RAM.
• Number of processors and cores per processors.
• Type and performance of the video card.
You may need to tune the performance settings of FastRawViewer to be more comfortable.
FastRawViewer is optimized for work with files on modern high-speed storage devices: SSD drives,
disk arrays (RAIDs), fast flash cards (UHS-I and similar in fast USB3 readers).
When using slower media, additional optimization of FastRawViewer may be necessary, because the
default settings will not be optimal.

Settings for Different Types of Data Storage

Sequential and “Random” Browsing

While you are moving sequentially from one file to another (using Menu – File – Next File or by
selecting the next file through the Filmstrip or Grid), FastRawViewer is decoding the next file ahead,
so as to make the transition to the next file faster.
When you are browsing through the files in a “random” manner, that is selecting files that are two
files ahead or two files behind, the program can’t predict what will be the next file to process.
Because of this, it is recommended that one browse the shoot in a sequential manner, which is only
logical as in most cases, one wants to look through all of the shots that one made. As was already
mentioned for sequential browsing, decoding looks ahead, working in the background, making the
whole process smoother, without any delay for reading and decoding files.

Hard Disk Drives (HDD) and Hybrid drives (HDD with SSD cache)
Hard disk drives, cannot read the data from multiple locations at once: the delays are caused by the
time spent on the positioning of magnetic heads.
Accordingly, when using HDDs for optimal performance of FastRawViewer it is necessary to decrease
the number of parallel reads:
1. Preferences - Performance - Memory usage and performance - Number of simultaneous
RAW decode threads
recommended values for HDD: 2-3

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7. Preferences - Performance - Thumbnail cache - Thumbnail decoder thread count.

Set 1-3 for HDD (the higher, the more priority will be given to the preview generation over the
other functionality of FastRawViewer).
8. Preferences - Performance - Thumbnail cache - Thumbnail prefetch depth
This parameter can be lowered (down to zero), which will lessen the load on the HDD.

Flash Cards and Network Volumes

Like HDDs, portable media and network volumes work slower than modern SSD storage devices.
FastRawViewer can additionally limit the parallel functionality when working with such devices.
Default preferences are intended for work with today’s typical storage media: Gigabit Ethernet
network and flash cards of “average speed” in USB3 readers; for slower devices, the default settings
ought to be changed:
For Network volumes:
• When using a Wi-Fi-network:
Lower the preferences values.
Preferences – File Handling – Removable Media – Prefetch depth on network volumes
to 2-3.
• When using fast network/NAS (1Gb/s and faster, in NAS with 4 and more disks in RAID):
Raise the preferences values.
Preferences – File Handling – Removable Media – Prefetch depth on network volumes
to 6-8.
For Flash cards:
• Slow cards (USB2 readers, Class 6 cards and slower):
Lower the preferences values.
Preferences – File Handling – Removable Media – Prefetch depth on removable media
to 2-3.
• Fast cards (USB3/SATA readers, UHS-I/CFast cards):
Raise the preferences values.
Preferences – File Handling – Removable Media – Prefetch depth on removable media
to 6-8.

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TIFF/PNG/JPEG/HEIC Handling
The event that triggers the decoding of JPEG files is defined in Preferences - File formats – Non-RAW
files decode priority, separately for each type of RGB files:

• None – do not decode at all, so this "representation" will be inaccessible;

• On demand – the decoding will happen during switching from RAW to JPEG;
• On file open – the decoding will happen at the moment of file load;
• On prefetch – the decoding will happen during the file prefetch (this option is available only
on 64-bit versions of FastRawViewer).
Depending on how often you look at embedded JPEGs or external JPEGs paired with RAW, you can
select one of the following settings:
• Always or often – “On prefetch”
• Rarely or almost never – “On demand”.
For files not accompanied by RAW (Lone JPEGs, Lone PNGs, Lone TIFFs, Lone HEICs) only two options
are available, naturally: On file open (as it was before) and On prefetch; other options don’t make

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sense. Because On prefetch is implemented only for 64-bit versions, 32-bit version doesn’t have a
tunable setting for Lone files
The “On prefetch” mode uses a lot of memory, for example: 20 Mpix JPEG takes up 3-4 MB before
unpacking, and 80 MB unpacked (as RGBA); that means a 20-file cache of such JPEGs will take up 1.6
GB instead of 60 to 80 MB.

Customizing Display Modes

FastRawViewer uses the advanced features of modern video cards to display images and can use a
GPU for all the stages throughout the cycle of RAW data display. Depending on the particular set of
features and performance of your video card, you may wish to tune the settings controlling the
display:

Graphics Engine: video mode (Windows only)

Three video modes are supported, DirectX 9, DirectX 11, OpenGL.
If RAW data is processed on GPU (see below) DirectX 9 mode is guaranteed to be the slowest, while
OpenGL mode is most of the cases (but not always) the fastest one.

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Unfortunately, due to the multitude of GPU, driver version, OS combinations, it is impossible to

provide some sort of universal recommendations. If RAW data is to be processed on a GPU, try
switching between DirectX 11 and OpenGL, if it is to be processed on a CPU – try all three video
modes.

GPU Memory Usage: video RAM

• Minimal/Minimal+ modes – those use as little video memory as possible, but they are
guaranteed to be the slowest. Use if the GPU has 512MB or less of video RAM.
• Optimal mode – provides a balance between performance and video RAM usage.
• Maximal mode – the fastest one, this mode is recommended if more than 2 GB of video RAM
is available.

Process RAW data on GPU: controls processing of the RAW data on the GPU
• None – all processing is performed on the central processor (CPU), video card is loaded with
fully prepared RGB images.
• Bayer RAW only – only Bayer RAW data will be processed on the GPU (and a higher quality
demosaicking will be used, see De-Bayering (demosaicking): CPU and GPU modes).
• All RAW files – all RAW data will be processed on the GPU.
When RAW data is processed on a GPU:
1. Adjustment to white balance, lightness/exposure, contrast have nearly instant effect
9. Better demosaicking
10. However, the first time the file is displayed (on file open) it can be slower, as more data is
loaded into the GPU.
Note: Consequently, the optimal set of parameters depends on the hardware and software
(drivers); but it also depends on your preferred workflow: if you are using inspection tools
heavily and/or adjusting rendering parameters often enough, especially if going through
iterations, processing on GPU will save you time even if the video adapter is a slow one and
the delay associated displaying the file for the first time is longer.

Image Resampling method – sets the method to be used for calculating zoom-in (going
above 100% view):
• No resampling – for large zoom factors, the image will look as if it is constituted of small
square tiles.
• Bilinear resampling – fast, mid-quality method.
• Bicubic resampling – high-quality method, a relatively fast vast video card is recommended.

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Preferences – GPU Processing – Downsampling options – sets the method for zoom-out
calculations:
• None – no additional processing is involved.
• Generate low resolution previews – most compatible method, but relatively slow.
• Suppress downsampling artifacts – we recommend turning this on when you are viewing a
noisy image (high ISO, underexposure, deep shadows bumped, etc.)
Not all of the above-listed modes are available on all video cards. If you have an older video-card,
bicubic resampling and artifact suppression may not be available at all.
Default settings are optimized for low performance (older) video cards, but if you happen to have
one of modern cards (including those based on Intel HD4xxx and higher), we recommend changing
the settings in the following way:
1. Turn on Preferences – GPU Processing – Image resampling method – Bicubic.
11. Set Preferences – GPU Processing – Image downsampling to None or to Suppress
downsampling artifacts.
In this case, the amount of the data transferred into the video card is minimized, and the image
display is faster.

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Troubleshooting
Windows: Changing the Active Graphics Engine
In some cases (to the best of our knowledge, this will only happen due to an old graphics driver),
FastRawViewer cannot use the automatically selected graphics engine.
When this happens, one of the following warnings is displayed:
OpenGL mode, unsupported version of OpenGL

FastRawViewer informs the user that the version of OpenGL made available by the OS is not recent
enough for the program to operate, and offers to manually switch to the graphics acceleration
through DirectX 9 (see below, the section “Manually Changing Graphics Modes”).
OpenGL mode, context is not initialized properly

FastRawViewer informs the user that the version of OpenGL available in the system does not support
the features necessary for the program to operate, and offers to manually switch to the graphics
acceleration through DirectX 9 (see below, the section “Manually Changing Graphics Modes”).

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DirectX9 context is not initialized properly

FastRawViewer informs the user that the version of DirectX available in the system does not support
the features necessary for the program to operate; and switches to OpenGL, which will be used upon
the next program launch.
DirectX11, context is not initialized properly

FastRawViewer informs the user that the version of DirectX 11 available in the system does not
support the features necessary for the program to operate; and switches to DirectX9, which will be
used upon the next program launch.

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Manually Changing Graphics Modes

When installing FastRawViewer on a Windows platform, several additional items are installed into
the Start menu, which allow one to change the graphics engine without launching FastRawViewer
(if the automatically selected graphics engine turns to be inadequate, then access to the settings is
impossible, as the program itself cannot be launched).
The following is accessible:
Windows XP – Windows 7, Windows 10 (and Windows 8 with an installed Start8 or Classic Shell)
Windows menu – All programs – LibRaw – FastRawViewer, Set Graphics Mode to:

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Windows 8/8.1, access through the list of Windows 8 programs

LibRaw, Set Graphics Mode to:

The Registry scripts shown above must be used in the case that FastRawViewer informs the user that
the available version of OpenGL is inadequate and suggests switching to DirectX.

Scripts that switch video modes will disable Process RAW data on GPU mode, should you wish to
continue using it, please switch it back manually via Preferences – GPU Processing

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OpenGL Error Warning when Starting the Application

During the first start-up, FastRawViewer may warn the user of an error with the graphics subsystem,
showing the following dialog window:

This window indicates that the graphics driver cannot process those sub-routines that
FastRawViewer needs to execute on the video card.
Possible solutions:
1. Switch to the other version of the graphics engine (if you're using OpenGL – change to
DirectX and vice versa). A description of the engine switch is given in the previous section.
12. Update the driver of your video card to the newest version.
If neither of the above-listed helped you, copy the error message using the ‘Save to file’ or ‘Copy to
clipboard’ buttons and send it to our tech support at
http://www.fastrawviewer.com/contact/Technical-support or [email protected]

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Black Screen in Image Display Window

When opening a file, a black screen is shown instead of the image.
This problem is due to some incompatibility between FastRawViewer and the installed graphics
drivers.
Possible solutions:
1. Switch to the other version of the graphics engine (if you're using OpenGL – change to
DirectX and vice versa). A description of the engine switch is given in the previous section.
13. Update the driver of your video card to the newest version.
If neither of the above-listed helped you, turn on the debug log (see below «Debug Information»),
restart the program, open a RAW file, and send the debug log to tech support at
http://www.fastrawviewer.com/contact/Technical-support or [email protected]

Screen does not fully update

When moving to the next file, or when changing the white balance or the contrast curve, the screen
does not fully update, and square-shaped areas filled with the previous image remain.
This problem only happens for Windows XP, and only for old Intel graphics cards (845G and the like).
Solutions:
1. Turn on GPU Processing – GPU Compatibility settings – Refresh window after image changed:
Slight resize in the Preferences.
When turning on this setting, the application window will twitch by one pixel for each image
redraw.
14. Upgrade to Windows 7 – Intel graphics drivers for Windows 7 do not have this problem.

Other problems
If your problem is not listed above, then, to make troubleshooting faster, please turn on your Debug
Log, (see below) and when contacting support please attach a copy of the debug information.

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Debug Information (Debug log)

To turn on the output of debug information, turn Other –Debug log messages in the Preferences to
‘All’.
After turning it on, the Debug log appears in the Help menu, and pressing it will display a window
with the debug info:

The contents of the window:

• Can be saved in a text file (the Save to file button).
• Can be copied as text into the clipboard (for applications which expect text in the clipboard:
most email applications).
• Can be copied as HTML into the clipboard (for applications which expect 'rich text' in the
clipboard, like text processors).
When turning to tech support, please remember to attach the debug log.

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Program Settings

File Handling
This group of settings controls the file processing rules.

Program startup group

• Start without filename – to set the behavior if FastRawViewer was started without passing a
filename to view:
o Empty Screen – FastRawViewer starts up "without file".
o Last opened file – opens the top (last) file from the Recent Files list.
o Last visited folder – opens the folder from the list of Recent Folders.
o Specified folder – allows you to set a "start folder".
o Flexible, last file or folder – opens last file or last folder, what it was later.

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• Do not recall network/removable media – forbids the automatic display of files/folders from
network volumes and removable media.
• Reset folder tree filtering on start – will clear folder filtering on program start.
File Browsing group
• Warn on broken RAWs – turns on the warning if a damaged RAW file is encountered.
• Warn on empty Folders – turns on notifications for situations when folders have no files the
program can process.
• Additional RAW extensions – additional extensions for the RAW files FastRawViewer should
process (appended to the built-in extension list).
• Ignore extensions when file browsing – this setting allows the user to supply a list of file
extensions. Files having the extensions listed here:
o will be ignored during file browsing;
o will not be displayed in the "Open file" dialogue window.

• Open folder dialog starts at – sets the folder at which the “Open Folder” dialog starts:
o Current folder – Current folder.
o One level up – One level up.
o Specified folder – the folder specified by the user, always the same (until a different folder
is specified here).
Sorting and Filtering Group
This group controls behavior for the sorting and filtering of files in the current folder.
• Lazy metadata read – if, for the current sorting/filtering method, file metadata (EXIF or XMP)
isn’t necessary, then metadata won’t be read (ahead).
• Reset filtering on folder change – if this setting is turned on, then file filtering will be turned
off when changing the current folder.
• Reset filtering on selection load – will reset file filtering when Menu – Select Load/Append
selection from file is used. Without this option only not filtered files will marked based on file
list loaded, while filtered out will remain invisible and so unmarked.
• Scroll to selected image while filtering/metadata being read – if metadata is necessary for
filtering/sorting, then the files in the current folder will be re-sorted/re-filtered as metadata
reading progresses. When this setting is turned on, Grid/Filmstrip will auto-scroll to the
currently selected file (meaning scroll the Grid/Filmstrip at the same time as re-
sorting/filtering – it will automatically return to the current file).
• Ignore dashes and apostrophes on file/folder sort – sorts files without accounting for
punctuation marks in filenames.

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Copy/Move/Reject

• Use global rejected folder – sets the folder for Rejected files as a global folder, or as a
subfolder in the current folder (checkbox is unchecked).
• Subfolder for rejected files – the name of the subfolder to store the rejected files.
• Warn when file(s) are moved to rejected – customizes the warning settings for when files are
moved to the _Rejected subfolder:
o No – never warn me.
o Always – always warn me.
o Multiple files – warn only moving several files to the _Rejected subfolder.
• Confirm file move – customizes the warning about moving a file(s) to the same destination as
for the previous operation, with same options as for the setting directly above this.
• Show progress bar on copy/move/reject – controls the display of the progress bar for these
operations (the progress bar also allows to stop the operation, if necessary).

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• Drop file(s) to folders tree – allows one to select one of the following drop modes:
o Copy w/o prompt – the file is copied; no user confirmation is requested.
o Select copy or move – at each drop action, the user will be prompted to select what to do
with the file (copy, move, cancel the action).
o Move files – the files will be moved, while the request for confirmation is controlled by
the Confirm file move checkbox in the same Copy/Move/Reject pane.

• Enable move to _Selected subolder – turns on support for the _Selected subfolder, you can
set a custom name for it in the neighboring field.
• Verify file contents after copy – turns on the verification of files after copying or moving a file
to another file system.
• Show detailed _Rejected folder stats before clearing the folder – enables extended statistics
for files to be deleted: (NN RAW files, MM RAW+JPEG…)
• Remember drop targets in last used copy/move lists – turns on the recording of the names
of folders that are used in drag and drop to the list of folders in copy file to/move file to.
• Change/Cleanup recent folders/file lists and favorites on folder tree edits – when renaming
folders, whether to rename/remove elements in the Recent files/Recent folders/Favorite
folders lists, etc.
• Allow move/reject for locked files (Mac only) – allows for the moving/copying of locked files.
• Copy/Move folder selector starts at – controls the dialog to select a destination folder when
preforming copy/move operations, with the following options:
o Last used – the folder that was used last for Copy or Move operation (for Copy and Move,
separate “last used” lists are kept).
o One level up from last used – a folder one level above (“parent”) the previous option.
o Current folder – current folder
o One level up from current folder – a folder one level above (“parent”) the previous
option.
o Specified folder – the specified folder (an additional text line input will pop up to enter the
folder path with folder selection button).

• Additional file extensions to copy/move with file. Allows one to list the additional file
extensions of the files to be copied/moved along with the main (raw) file of the given
extension.
Syntax: RAWext+AUXext, several such pairs can be listed, separated by spaces. If AUXExt
starts with a dot, then the extension will be added to the end of the FILENAME.RAWext
(FILENAME.RAWext.AUXExt); if it starts with a letter, then RAWext will be replaced by
AUXext, forming FILENAME.AUXExt. An asterisk (*) can be indicated in place of RAWext, in
this case, this will be applied to all files.

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Default: ORF+ORI *+.dop

means: copy FILENAME.ORI along with FILENAME.ORF, and copy FILENAME.EXT.dop along
with FILENAME.EXT (.dop is a DXO Photolab file containing metadata)
Attention: the rules that govern copying JPG, XMP, .rpps are defined separately via the Handle
RAW+JPEG together, Use XMP, Write RPPS files settings, accordingly.
• Undo settings – Customizing the Undo mode:
o Clear undo history on folder change – clears the undo history when the undo is changed.
o Undo history length – sets the number of undo levels.

Removable Media
This group of settings sets the specifics of work with removable media and network volumes.

• On removable media arrive – what to do when removable media is detected:

o Open most recent subfolder in – opens the most recent (by date of modification)
subfolder in the selected folder (/DCIM by default).

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o Open folder – opens the selected folder.

o Do nothing – Do Nothing.
o Open in subfolder browse mode – opens the indicated folder together with the nested
folders (with this, the depth of subfolder browsing is fixed: two levels).

• Warn before automatically open folder on removable media – display a warning before
automatically opening a folder on removable media.
• Disable A: and B: floppy access – prevents any access to the A: and B: drives, as well as
monitoring of changing media for those drives (Windows only). This preference is intended
for the (fairly common in our day) case of a computer having a floppy drive controller, and
one or two drives being “visible” to the system, though they’re not actually present.
• Show unmounted network volumes in Folders panel
– this setting will switch on the display of the contents of the current un-mounted volume in
this panel (if this setting is Off, the network devices that do not have a drive letter assigned
will not be displayed).
• Monitor folder changes on removable media/network volumes – monitor changes in
removable media/network volume folders, updating the Folders and Filmstrip panels when
new subfolders and files are added.
• Prefetch depth on removable media/network volumes – sets how many files to decode
before moving to the next file.

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File formats

• PNG file support, TIFF files support – turns on support for the respective formats.
• Check if .TIF files are RAW: The point of this is the following: some (old) cameras wrote
RAW files with the .TIF extension. Accordingly, FastRawViewer checked each TIF file to see
"is this a RAW file," which in some cases leads to false triggers. This setting organizes the
above-described checking procedure in the following way:
o Do not check: consider .TIF files to be just TIF files, without suspecting them of being
RAW
o Known vendors: check the file to determine camera manufacturer, only trust a "this is
RAW" verdict if the "vendor / number of colors in the file" combination fits known
cases. This is the default, and it should work in 99% of cases
o All TIFF files: same behavior as for FastRawViewer 1.5.0 - 1.6.0
• Handle RAW+JPEG together – turns on the pairing of RAW and JPEG of the same name:
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unit for move operations, so that both are relocated to a different folder when a move
operation is invoked.
o Do not show internal JPEG if external JPEG is present – removes the embedded JPEG
from the list of available representations if there is an external JPEG (which, usually, has
better resolution).
o Analyze external JPEG Orientation tag and image dimensions to match RAW
– FastRawViewer will rotate the external JPEG if necessary, to match the orientation of
the RAW image.
o Use external JPEG as thumbnail: use external (associated) JPEG for thumbnail generation
(in most cases this is much slower than embedded JPEG decoding):
▪ Do not use: if no embedded thumbnail present, ‘No preview’ will be displayed
in Grid/Filmstrip
▪ If no built-in preview in RAW: use only if no embedded preview present in
RAW.
▪ Prefer external JPEG: use associated JPEG (if any) even if embedded preview
present in RAW.
• HEIC/HEIF files support – turns on support for HEIC/HEIF files.
o HEIC/HEIF file extensions (types) – the list of file extensions for files that are
considered to be HEIC/HEIF
o Join RAW+HEIC – joins a RAW and a HEIC/HEIF (analogous to RAW+JPEG mode)
o Prefer thumbnails in grid/filmstrip – in cases when the size of the thumbnail
embedded in the HEIC file is smaller than the thumbnail size set in FastRawViewer,
this setting controls whether to “zoom up” the embedded thumbnail (this is quicker)
or build a preview from the full-resolution data.
• Non-RAW files decode priorities – sets the decoding mode for each RGB file type (Lone
JPEGs/TIFFs/PNGs, not paired with RAW; embedded JPEGs, contained in RAW files; external
JPEGs, paired with RAW, as in RAW+JPEG:
o None – do not decode at all (only for Embedded/External JPEGs)
o On demand – the decoding will happen during switching from RAW to JPEG (only for
Embedded/External JPEGs also)
o On file open – the decoding will happen during the file load
o On prefetch – the decoding happens in advance, decoded data is cached.

• Default image to display – which representation to display when switching to the next file:
o Same as previous – the same as for the current file.
o RAW, internal JPEG, external JPEG – explicit designation of the representation.

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Special browse modes

This group of settings controls special folder browse modes

Subfolder browse mode group: settings for subfolder browse mode:

• Treat files with these extensions as file lists – sets the list of extensions that will be treated as
files containing lists of files: this will open them as a list when Drag and dropping, and these
extensions will be offered when reading or saving lists of files.
• Filename sort in subfolder browse mode:
o Folder + Filename – consider the full name of the folder where the file is located when
sorting
o Filename – sort only by filename

• On indirect file/folder open attempt…. what to do with an indirect move out of subfolder
browse mode:
o Ignore: stay in subfolder browse mode.
o Ask: ask

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o Open w/o confirmation: move to default mode without asking.

• Remember visited subfolders in recent folder list: the subfolders that were visited when
viewing files in subfolder browse mode will be remembered in the list of Recent folders.
• Warn if duplicated subfolders were found in subfolder tree: if, when scanning the subfolder
tree, duplicates are found (cyclic symbolic links, symbolic links or folders with the same name
but different letter cases), then a warning will be displayed. If this setting is turned off,
duplicates will be ignored.
• Limits on the depths of subfolder scanning
o File limit: stop scanning if the indicated number of files is found
o Subfolder limit: stop scanning if the indicated number of subfolders is found.
This limit is not a hard one: if, while scanning, 99 subfolders are found, and in the next
folder there are a further 1000, then in all 1099 subfolders will be browsed, but the
program will not go any deeper.
Hotfolder mode group: settings for folder monitoring mode:
• On indirect file/folder open attempt…. – what to do if, while in Hotfolder mode, the current
folder is changed, or there was an “indirect” file opening (Drag and Drop):
o Ignore – do not open the new file/folder, stay in Hotfolder mode.
o Ask – asks
o Open w/o confirmation – interrupt the Hotfolder mode, open the indicated file/folder.

• RAW+JPEG mode: this setting is available if

o Wait for any file – all files that appear in the folder will be opened.
o Wait for RAW file – only RAW files will be opened
o Wait for pair – only legitimate RAW+JPEG pairs will be opened

• Forced folder reread each – forces a reread of the folder with the indicated frequency (if this
is turned off, then only a notification from the operating system that “something in the folder
has changed” will be used).
• Sort order if multiple files arrived – if several files appear in the folder, they will be sorted
according to this setting and the last of them will be displayed.
Check metadata integrity for arrived files – for new files that appear, the integrity of the metadata
will be checked.

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XMP
This group of settings controls the processing of XMP files

• Use XMP – turns on/off the use of XMP files.

• Read Only XMP – turns on the mode, where XMP files are read, but not changed.
• Use XMP for TIFF/PNG/HEIC-HEIF files – turns on XMP support for files of the indicated type.
• Warn about XMP writing errors – informs the user of any errors that occurred during the
XMP file recording process.
• Warn if overwrite XMP for file with same name – If it is "on", FastRawViewer will ask user
for confirmation before overwriting an XMP sidecar file containing settings for a file with the
same name but different extension.
• Disable batch XMP operations if files with same name are selected – If it is "on" (default)
and the selected files contain filenames that differ in extension only, the batch editing of XMP
(setting or changing orientation, labels, ratings) will be grayed out / disabled in Menus and in
context menu.

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• Force XMP file creation for RAW files – turns on the unconditional creation of XMP files, even
if no adjustments were changed manually while viewing the RAW file (those adjustments are
orientation, white balance, exposure adjustment, labels and ratings). Useful for automatic
propagation of adjustments to the next file.
• Accept XMP date fields in (wrong) YYYY:MM:DD format – some applications may write
incorrect XMP date tags with YYYY:MM:DD date format (instead of ISO 8061 YYYY-MM-DD).
This setting allows correct parsing of that tags. Disabled by default because most tools use
correct format.
• Write XMP blocks to JPEG files instead of creating sidecars – when working with JPEG files,
record XMP blocks directly to the JPEG files, instead of creating sidecar files.
o Fallback to XMP sidecar if XMP block write to JPEG fails – if XMP block could not be
recorded into JPEG file (e.g. because of read-only file), FastRawViewer will create XMP
sidecar file for this JPEG file.
o Restore original JPEG file date after writing XMP block – if this setting is turned on, then
after writing an XMP block, the original file modification data will be restored.
o RAW+JPEG mode: embed XMP block into JPEG – in RAW+JPEG mode, writes not only
XMP sidecars, but also XMP blocks into JPEG files.

• XMP files naming scheme:

o Filename.xmp, Filename.XMP – sets the naming scheme to be without indicating the
source extension of the RAW file, and selects the preferred extension case.
o Filename.ext.xmp, Filename.ext.XMP – naming scheme with source extensions is set.

• If both embedded and sidecar…. – sets the criterion for choosing between two XMP sets of
data, embedded in the file or XMP sidecar: analyze the metadata, or always take the sidecar.
• Use GPS tags from XMP….:
o Do not use: always take GPS data (only) from EXIF
o Prefer EXIF, Prefer XMP: if GPS data is available both in EXIF and in the XMP, prefer the
source that is indicated

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Ratings & Labels

This section dedicated to XMP:Rating and XMP:Label tags creation

• Use XMP Reject Rating – turns on the possibility of setting the rating to -1. This rating is
supported in Adobe Bridge. The setting is turned on automatically when selecting XMP Label
Style: Adobe Bridge.
• XMP Label Style – sets the label format in XMP files:
o Adobe Bridge: Select, Second, Approved, Review, To Do.
o Color labels/Adobe Lightroom: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple.
o Review status/Adobe Lightroom: To Delete, Color Correction Needed, Good to Use,
Retouching Needed, To Print.
o Custom – user labels (any text you choose).

• Use custom string for not set labels – allows one to set text for a un-set mark (if the text isn’t
set, then when setting a mark in “un-set” the xmp:Label tag is deleted from the XMP file).

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This is intended for use with the PhaseOne C1 program, which doesn’t reread deleted tags
from modified files, but does reread xmp:Label=None.
• Write photoshop:Urgency tag with color labels (for PhaseOne C1) – Turns on the recording
of the XMP-tag photoshop:Urgency, which is used by CaptureOne to recognize and set color
labels. The setting is activated only if the mode XMP labels is set in 'Color Labels' (this is the
default). In other modes, the XMP Labels photoshop:Urgency tag is not modified: if it was in
the XMP file, it stays unchanged.
• Visual feedback on rating label change – give easily-seen visual feedback when ratings/labels
are changed (as in Adobe Lightroom).

Exposure, Contrast, WB
This section defines processing settings transfer to Adobe software

• Adobe compatible Exposure and White Balance – turns on reading and recording into XMP
files exposure compensation and white balance in Adobe format:

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• Adobe process version for newly created XMP files. Default: Version 3 (2012), can be set to
Version 1 (2003)…. Version 5 (2019).
Features:
o If the tag crs:ProcessVersion is set already in XMP file, the version doesn't change and the
exposure is written according to the version.
o If the crs:ProcessVersion tag isn't present in XMP file, then it's added in accordance to the
setting (this way, XMP-files created in older versions of FastRawViewer and then not
changed by ACR/LR will be "upgraded");
o For Version 3 – Version 5 process, Exposure2012 (equal to exposure correction in
FastRawViewer plus Adobe Shift) and the tags Contrast2012, Whites2012, Blacks2012 (set
to 0, if these tags are not present in the file) are recorded.
o For the Version 1/2 (2003/2010) processes the tags crs:Exposure, crs:Brightness, and
crs:Contrast are recorded (if the file already had the values for those tags, they are
preserved, otherwise they are set to 0).

• Write adobe-compatible Contrast/Blacks into XMP files – enables the recording of the
contrast settings in the Adobe-compatible format.
• Force Adobe software to match FastRawViewer brightness – Available only if the Image
Display - Exposure - Apply Adobe hidden exposure correction setting is not checked. This will
result in silent "exposure boost" / baseline exposure rolled off in Adobe
CameraRAW/Lightroom, preventing false clipping indication and allowing to re-gain the
highlights that are not truely clipped.
• Write linear curve to XMP – this setting It is available if the following is already selected:
XMP - Exposure,Contrast,WB - Adobe process version: Version 2 (2010);
Image display - Contrast curve type: any fixed contrast one (sRGB, gamma 1.8, 2.2, L*);
If this new setting is enabled, Adobe-compatible exposure and white balance tags will be
written with following additions and amendments:
o the curve will be set to Linear (both name and values)
o tag crs:Shadows will be set to 0
o tag crs:ProcessVersion=5.7 will be forced
o tags crs:ToneCurvePV2012, crs:ToneCurvePV2012Red, crs:ToneCurvePV2012Green,
crs:ToneCurvePV2012Blue will be deleted

• Preferred tags for Exposure/WB – controls the priority of FastRawViewer/Adobe exposure

and white tags:
o FastRawViewer – use tags recorded in FastRawViewer (libraw: ), if they exist.
o Adobe Camera Raw/Lr – use Adobe tags
o Flexible: last recorded – choose between FastRawViewer/Adobe according to the date of
the last change made to the file (only works with the FastRawViewer tags of version 1.4 or
newer).

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Interface
The group of settings for user interface adjustments.

• Bottom bar font size – controls bottom bar font size (Small – Extra Large on Windows and
Normal – Extra Large on OS X).
• Background Gray level allows you set the brightness of the main program window
background.
• Selected/active files contrast – allows one to change the contrast (against the
FastRawViewer background) of selected or active files when showing them in Grid mode or in
the Filmstrip panel.
• Selected files background – allows one to set the background color for selected files.
• Active (current) file border – to set the color for the frame around the current file.

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• Activate program on file drop – controls program behavior for file Drag-n-Drop operations
and if started in ‘Single instance’ mode:
o None – the program remains on the background (if it is already there)
o Fullscreen – the program brings itself to the foreground if it is in Fullscreen mode
o Always – the program brings itself to the foreground for both Fullscreen and “windowed”
modes.
• Ignore successive wheel events for NN msec – this setting is designed to tame the stream of
events generated by mouse wheel, Apple Magic Mouse, or trackpad.
• Enable global interface scaling (and additional controls if checked): Controls global UI scaling,
intended for HiDPI displays. If checked, additional drop-down will open with selectable
choices:
o Auto: use automated scaling calculations
o Manual: use fixed UI items increase
o Env. Variable: use external settings via QT*SCALE* environment variables.
• Combine multiple next/prev file keypresses into one jump:
With the default settings, FRV will store up to 5 clicks of the navigation buttons and executes
them sequentially (this can be turned off and back on using the DisableNextPrevQueue /
EnableNextPrevQueue additional settings scripts).
If discussed setting is turned on:
o The size of the queue in which button clicks are stored is not limited.
o The queue is executed “in a single step” – the file to which the program needs to jump is
calculated based on what is stored in the queue and the currently-open file; all
intermediate files are skipped.
• Use scrollbars in Single View mode: turns on the Scrollbars in the single file view window
(only for Windows and macOS 10.12+).
• Set the main menubar colors to match the main window – (Windows only) colors of main
menu bar will match main window color scheme
Note: color of program top bar is controlled by Windows and could be edited only via
Windows Colors Control Panel/PC Settings page.
• Restore last View settings on program start – when closing the program the following image
display parameters are saved (independent of the status of the settings):
- Display mode (RGB, per-channel, BW Conversion)
- Focus Peaking mode
- Boost Shadows mode
- Exposure correction on/off
If 'Restore last View settings' is turned on, then during the next start-up of the program, the
above-listed parameters will be in effect.

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• Use built-in drive/folder icons in Folders panel – show icons built-in into FastRawViewer in
the Folders panel (in several cases, using the system’s icon can lead to problems).
• Use system Open file/Open folder dialogs – switches between standard and smaller dialogs
when opening files/folders.
o Use built-in file/folder icons in Open File/Open Folder dialogs – when using non-system
dialogs for opening files/folders – use built-in icons.
• Force open Folders panel if started without filename – if this setting is on, starting the
program without a file to be opened, or with an invalid / non-existent filename will result in
the display of Folders panel, even if this panel was switched off previously.
• Disable splash screen – switches off the display of logo at FastRawViewer start.
• Edit bottom bar items – launches the dialog that allows one edit the composition of the
program’s bottom bar.

Panels

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• Panel’s font size: sets the font size in the informational panels.
• Panels color scheme – sets the brightness of the panel background.
• Hide Menu bar when hiding information panels – for the hide informational panels mode
(Tab), controls if the menu bar should be hidden too.
• Hide bottom window bar when hiding information panels – hide main program window
status bar in ‘hide information panels’ (Tab key) mode.
• Disable transparency for panels outside of main window – allows disabling transparency for
informational panels that are placed completely outside the main program window.
• Dim Histogram/Stats/Exif panels while changing files – enables dimming of those panels for
the time needed to switch to the next file. Dimming takes additional 6 to 15 milliseconds, if
maximum performance is needed, you can turn this off.
• Restore Panels -> Hide all state on program start – allows the program to recall the “all
panels are hidden” state when it’s opened.
Attention: the setting Interface -> Force open Folders panel if started without
filename activates AFTER Restore Panels -> Hide All. If you want to always start without
panels, you will need to either explicitly close them all, or turn off Force open folders.
• Hide floating panels – controls floating (not “docked”) informational panels behavior on
Menu-Panels-Hide All panels action:
o Hide all – hide all panels
o Those inside main window – hide only panels, that float within main program window
o Do not hide – do not hide floating panels

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Zoom

• Image zoom on next file – sets the zoom factor to be used when displaying the next file:
o Keep zoom ratio – will keep the zoom factor.
o Keep image width – will keep the visible width of the image
o Fit to window – the Fit to screen mode will be turned on.
o Fit to width – the image takes up the entire width of the window.

• Zoom and Drag Zoom to – sets zoom factor to use in the Zoom and Drag mode (Shift – left
mouse click).
• Zoom and Pan Zoom to – sets zoom factor to use in the Zoom and Pan mode (Shift – right
mouse click).
• Toggle Zoom Zoom to – sets the magnification/zoom level used for the Toggle Zoom (Z)
mode.

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• Zoom step (for shortcut) – controls the zoom step for keyboard (and mouse) shortcuts:
o Large – fixed zoom step value of about 50%, to be used for keyboard control.
o Medium – zoom step is set to 20%.
o Small – zoom step is set to 5%.
The last two settings are designed to be used while zooming with the Mouse Wheel or
trackpad.
• Zoom In/Zoom Out range sets the range for zoom values for Zoom In/Out actions for any
zoom mode, be it through menu, keyboard shortcuts, or mouse wheel.
Fit to Window – sets the minimum zoom level such that the image fits in the window.
• Zoom+Pan within visible area – if this setting is on, then the panning will take place inside the
area visible before the start of the panning. If it is off, then the panning will be over the entire
image.
• Allow Fit-to-screen to zoom above 1:1 – this allows one to zoom (small) images to more than
100% in the Fit To Screen/Fit to Width modes.
• Zoom anchor at mouse cursor – zooming will happen taking the position of the mouse cursor
into account; the point underneath it will retain its position respective of the window during
zooming.
• Use Logical pixels for zoom calculation (available on Mac version and on Windows if Interface
scaling is turned on):
o If turned on (default on Mac, "legacy" behavior), then the pixel in the screen is considered
to be the "logical pixel" (in the case of Retina, it's a block of 2x2 "physical" pixels) and the
calculation of the zoom size is done in these units.
o If turned off (default on Windows), the zoom value is calculated in "physical pixels", so for
Retina screens the displayed zoom value will now be doubled, and at 100% zoom the
image will be half the size compared to "legacy" behavior.

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Touchscreen
The settings in this group control working with the touchscreen

Touchscreen support is off by default, to turn it on one ought to use the setting Enable Touchscreen
features. After it’s turned on, the following settings become available:
• Enable Toolbars – turns on toolbars (their visibility can be controlled through Menu – Panels –
Toolbars).
o Highlight toolbar item under mouse – default: "on". If it is set to "off", the toolbar button
under the mouse is not highlighted.
This setting is meant to be used with a "true" touchscreen: when a button is pressed with
a finger, the last location where the pressure was detected is stored in the system as a
cursor position, and the respective button remains highlighted even if the button itself
doesn't change its status. This setting switches such highlighting off.
• Toolbars size – controls the size of the toolbar icons.

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• White Balance dialog size – it allows to enlarge the dialog size when manually setting the
white balance in touchscreen mode. Standard value: +30% (over normal).
• Dim image while switching to next – gives visual feedback about the status of the image
moving to another image:
o Do not dim – works as previous; no brightness decreases while switching between images
o While switching to next file – decreases the brightness by 40% while in the process of
switching to another image. This is the default.
o Next file or RAW/JPEG switch – the same as previous, plus a 25% decrease in brightness
when switching between RAW and JPEG.
Other checkboxes control touch features:
• Single finger filmstrip scroll/grid scroll – the scroll is performed with a single figure gesture.
• Double tap to switch grid/single mode – switches between Grid Mode and displaying a Single
File with a double-tap.
• Gesture support in Single File View:
o Single finger pan to switch – allows one to switch images with one finger gesture from left
to right. If the zoom is larger than Fit to Screen, instead of switching images the current
image is scrolled.
o Pinch to zoom/unzoom – change the zoom level of the image with a pinch.
o Double tap to unzoom (if zoomed): if the image zoom level is larger than Fit to Screen, a
double-tap will bring it to Fit to Screen.
If Double tab to switch grid/single mode is turned on, another double tap will return to
Grid Mode.

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Grid/Filmstrip
The settings in this group control the display of the image in Grid mode and the Filmstrip panel.

• Enable Grid mode – Turns on/off support for Grid Mode.

You must restart the program for the change to take effect.
• Start in Grid mode – when launched without passing a filename, FastRawViewer will start in
Grid mode.
• Remember Grid/Single file state on exit – turns on restoration of the previous mode for the
next time FastRawViewer is launched.
• Browse folders in Grid mode – when moving from the current folder to another one,
FastRawViewer will switch to Grid Mode.
• Hide panels floating within main window in Grid mode – if the setting is on, all floating
panels in the Grid Mode that are currently positioned inside the program’s main window will
be hidden; they will reappear when switching to Single File View Mode.

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• Keep current thumbnail visible on Grid resize – the current file will be held in the visible zone
of the Grid View, no matter how the zone was resized.
• Suppress image flicker on grid/single image mode switch: In some cases, when switching
from Grid to Single image mode, some flicker occurs: the previous image is displayed briefly
(so far, complaints came only from Windows users, and only when using the DirectX11 video
mode).
To turn off this effect, use this option (it slows down Grid-Filmstrip switch for 10-15ms, so by
default it is on only for Windows/DirectX11 mode).
• Hide Filmstrip in Grid mode – customizes the visibility of the Filmstrip panel in Grid Mode
(the Filmstrip panel can be brought back to display through Menu – Panels – Filmstrip):
o No – do not hide the Filmstrip panel
o If Docked at bottom – if the Filmstrip panel is at the bottom of the program window, it
will be hidden upon switching to Grid Mode. The setting has no effect for a Filmstrip that
is anywhere else.
o If Docked anywhere – the Filmstrip panel will be hidden if it is located in one of the main
dock areas of the main window (at the top, at the bottom, and on the left). If the Filmstrip
panel is dragged out of the main window, it will stay visible after switching to Grid Mode.

• RAW processing in Grid mode – customizes the RAW decoding when Grid Mode is enabled
and RAW decoding is switched on through the Show Histogram/Stats/EXIF icon:
o Partial – only partial decoding is preformed, enough for displaying the exposure statistics
and histogram. In this mode, browsing files happens faster.
o Full – full decoding is preformed, and switching to Single File view mode is nearly
instantaneous.

• Grid View Font size, Filmstrip panel font size – to set the size of the fonts for the Grid View
and Filmstrip panels:
o Auto – the font size is set automatically, based on the setting for the Panel Font size and
the preview size.
o Extra small…Extra Large – the font size is set to the same as that of the Panels (using the
same setting).

• Advanced Selection mode – enables the “advanced” mode of selecting files, for details see
Operations with Multiple Files

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• Single file keys work for multiple files too – turns on the mode in which work with groups of
selected files is down with the same menu items/hotkeys that are used with single files (see
the section “Alternate mode: using same shortcuts/menus for single file and for the group”
above)
o If the selected file is not in the group of selected files single file shortcuts will work with
– describes the program’s behavior with regards to operations over several files, if the
current file isn’t in the group of selected files:
▪ Current file – works with the current file
▪ Selected file – works with the selected group
▪ Both – considers the current file to be a part of the group and works with all of it.
• Select and Advance action changes last file selection state – when Select-And-Move action is
applied (to change the selection status of the current file and move to the next one) it's not
obvious what to do when the current file happens to be the last one. By default nothing
happens, but this setting allows to flip the selection status of this file.
• Apply automatic brightening to thumbnails – automatically increases the brightness of
previews in Grid/Filmstrip modes if they’re too dark.
• Ignore folder paths on selection load – selection lists are simple list of files with full path, one
file per line. With default settings, full path is checked against current visible files list, so
selection lists are bound to specific folder. With Ignore folder paths… option on, only
filename part is checked against current visible files list, so selection lists become folder-
independent.
• Center Filmstrip items – turns on Filmstrip automatic centering mode:
o No centering – never center.
o Edge items only – if the edge-most item is selected, it’ll be moved to the center.

• Always center – the active item will always be in the center.

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Image Display
The settings in this group control the processing and the display of the images (Exposure, White
Balance and Screen sharpening are tuned in separate preferences pages).

• Contrast curve – sets the tone curve to be used when displaying the image:
o Gamma 1.8, Gamma 2.2, sRGB, L* - sets one of the standard tone curves, typically used in
image editing.
o Variable contrast – corresponds to the variable tone/contrast curve, see Adjusting image
contrast section for details.
• Contrast setting on next file: Default contrast/keep from prev.file – which contrast setting to
use when opening the next file.
• Ignore exposure correction/baseline exposure in linear mode: when turning on this setting,
Menu – View – Linear mode display will turn off all forms of exposure correction, whether
manual or automatic (hidden).

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• Boost shadows amount – controls the additional gamma adjustment while in Boost Shadows
mode, the range is 0.2 to 2.0.
• Highlights inspection – this group of settings controls the Highlight Inspection mode:
o Gamma decrease – the amount by which the Gamma for the image will be reduced.
o Decrease Exposure by – additional image darkening.
o Apply UniWB white balance – White Balance will be substituted with UniWB, thus
avoiding any possible clipping caused by White Balance.
• Reset rendering to default parameters – sets the modes or values of white balance, exposure
correction (actually, lightening), and contrast that will be used for Menu – Adjust – Reset
image rendering to defaults
o White balance: As shot or one of 4 standard presets (daylight, auto, tungsten, camera
auto)
o Exposure correction: No correction or ETTR (ETTR settings are selected on the Exposure
tab).
o Contrast: values from -5 to U+5.

• Use embedded color data for – controls the use of color data embedded into RAW files and
allows using that data instead of data that comes with FastRawViewer.
• Raw Image crop mode:
o Max. visible area (exactly what you think it is)
o Std. vendor crop: uses the crop that is recommended by the camera manufacturer
o User crop: even deeper crop, for example
▪ DNG: set through the DefaultUserCrop tag (this is how camera crop works in
Leica cameras)
▪ Fujifilm: set an aspect ratio that differs from the standard. In this case, RAW is
recorded for the whole sensor, the "recommended crop" is unchanged, but
there is an additional tag with the Aspect Ratio.
• Use Monochrome mode for Bayer images – turns on the black-and-white mode for color
cameras. This mode is intended for modified cameras, where the color filter array is removed.
Available modes:
o None – Off
o Always – On for all files
o Detect – monochrome images are detected automatically, and if such an image is
detected it will be processed as a monochrome (this mode is slower, because such an
image will be processed twice, first as a color image; and after that, if it is detected that in
fact it is a monochrome image, it will be re-processed).

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Exposure

• Apply Adobe hidden exposure correction – switches ON the automatic exposure correction
similar to the one used by Adobe RAW converters, such as Camera Raw and Lightroom. With
this correction ON, same values in exposure correction will result in overall image brightness
being similar between Adobe converters and FastRawViewer.
• Set hidden exposure correction to – allows setting a user-defined value for the hidden
automatic exposure correction. Often this is not necessary, as FastRawViewer already comes
with the corrections for all cameras supported in Adobe converters.
• Exposure correction on file open:
o No correction – no additional exposure correction (apart from the Adobe-style one, if it is
ON) is applied when a file is opened, unless the correction is found in the accompanying
XMP sidecar file.
o Autoexposure – automatic exposure correction is applied, according to the settings listed
below.

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o Keep from prev. file – the new file will be opened with the same exposure correction that
was set for the previous file (it does not matter here how that exposure correction was set,
manually or automatically).

• Auto Exposure – controls the automatic exposure correction (the one that is applied when
‘automatic correction’ action is performed).
o Fixed Exposure Shift – the exposure is shifted by the fixed value.
o ETTR-style autoexposure (shift histogram to the right) – positive exposure correction that
forces the saturation of the given percentage of pixels (those saturated pixels are having
value of 255 on the 8-bit scale); the percentage is controlled through Saturate up to %NN
of pixels setting.
The amount of the positive exposure correction shift is limited by the ‘Limit to’ setting:
▪ Unlimited – no limit
▪ Hard limit – the limit is set to the given amount.
▪ Virtual ISO – limits the automatic exposure correction, taking into account the ISO
setting in the camera. For example, if the current shot is taken at ISO 400 setting in the
camera, while auto limit is set to ISO 6400 (the default value), the positive exposure
correction is limited to (6400/400 =) 16 times, or, in photographic units, to 4EV.
• Manual exposure step size (small step/big step) – sets the step sizes for manual exposure
adjustment change.
• The Over/Underexposure display section controls the over- and underexposure indications
o Exposure adjustments affect OverExposure display – when turning on this setting the
change in exposure adjustment (both automatic and manual) will affect the display of
overexposed areas.
o Under/Overexposure layer opacity – controls the perceived contrast of the highlighting
for over- and underexposed areas.
o Use camera linearity limit to detect clipping – displays overexposure for RAW for the
RAW values that are larger than the camera’s linearity limit as recorded in RAW file
metadata (not all the cameras record it; if the limit is unknown, then the maximum
possible value will be used).
o Underexposure detection limit NN EV below sensor saturation – sets the “usable
dynamic range” of the camera with one value, the same for all ISO settings. Everything
below this limit will be displayed as underexposed.
o ISO-based underexposure limit – the working range will be set by a kinked curve of the
following type:
▪ For ISO 6-1600 – straight line going through the points @ISO 200 and @ISO 1600
▪ For ISO above 1600 – the dynamic range decreases by one photographic stop for each
stop of ISO increase, but no less than the value set for @high ISO.

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White Balance
This group contains all the white balance processing controls:

• White Balance Sampler size – for “click-on-gray” (Alt-Click) method, sets the size of the area
used to evaluate the white balance
• White Balance for next file (same camera) – sets the white balance mode when opening a file
coming from the same camera model as the current file. Choices here are:
o Same as previous – keep the current white balance choice.
o Camera Auto/As Shot – if the camera records the metered white balance (which may
differ from that which is used during the shoot), then that balance is used. Otherwise, it
will be As Shot.
o All others – the respective white balance mode will be in effect.

• White Balance for next file (another camera) – sets the white balance mode when opening
a file coming from a different camera model.

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• White Balance display mode:

o Color Temperature/Tint – a mode commonly used in many RAW converters, including
those by Adobe
o Mired/Tint – instead of correlated color temperatures, the value indicated is in Mired.
Useful for selecting color filters to be used on the lens and on studio lights.
o WB Coefficients – the per-channel multipliers for white balance are indicated.
o Channel EV Correction – per-channel correction in EV (stops) for white balance are
indicated.

• White Balance edit mode:

o Color Temperature/Tint – a mode commonly used in many RAW converters, including
those by Adobe
o Channel EV Correction – per-channel correction in EV (stops) for white balance are
indicated.

• Keep Custom WB for next file (same camera) – instructs FastRawViewer if the current white
balance coefficients should be applied to the next file coming from the same camera model.
• Read White Balance presets from RAW (if present) – turns on reading white balance tables
from RAW files.

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Sharpening/Other

• On-screen sharpening – enables sharpening for display.

o Preset 1/Mode:
▪ Always on – sharpening for display is always on
▪ Button/Shortcut – turns on when the button is press.
o Preset 2/Enabled – allows one to use a second group of parameters for sharpening, thus
cycling will be between Off-Preset1-Preset2 or Off-Preset1.
o Radius – the radius the Unsharp Mask filter, which closely correlates to the Radius
parameter in Adobe Photoshop USM settings.
o Amount – the strength of the sharpening, same as Amount Photoshop USM amount.
o Sharpen RAW files only – if this setting is on, the sharpening for display will affect RAW
files only.
• Overlay Grid layouts to use – sets the grids that can be overlaid through Menu – View –
Overlay Grid
When setting custom grids, the first parameter sets the amount of steps along the long side of
the image.

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Color Management
This group of settings controls the appearance of the color on-screen in respect to color
management:

• Enable Color Management – turns on ICC-compatible color management.

• Use system profile (for monitor where program starts) – the ICC profile chosen in the system
for that monitor where the program is being started will be used as the profile for the
monitor.
• Display Color profile – allows one to specify a file with the ICC profile for the monitor.
• RAW processing color space – allows one to set a color space in which the last steps of the
RAW data processing are done (the first steps are performed in the camera’s color space).
Lab TIFF files will be converted to the same color space when displayed in Single File View
Mode.
• Color space for untagged files – allows one to set a color space for JPEG/TIFF/PNG files for
which the color space is not specified (not recorded in tags or ICCProfile sections).

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• Warn on incorrect, broken or nonexistent display profiles – turns on a warning for when one
tries to use an incorrect display profile.
• Warn on incorrect or broken embedded profiles – turns on a warning for incorrect profiles
built into the JPEG data.
• Color space for thumbnails: sets the mode for color space for previews (thumbnails).
Lab TIFF files will be converted to the same color space when building previews. Previews for
these files will be stored in the preview database (if it is in use) in RGB format. Because of this,
when you change the color space for thumbnails, we recommend purging the preview
database if it contains previews for Lab TIFF files.

GPU Processing
This group controls the video card modes and how the sharp areas of the image will be displayed.

• Graphics Engine (Windows only): sets the method of using the graphics hardware
acceleration: DirectX 9, DirectX 11 (Windows7 and newer), OpenGL, OpenGL emulator.

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The last option can only be set through an external script, as it results in extremely low
performance, and can be selected only for the purposes of testing.
• Image resampling method:
o No resampling – for large zoom factors, the image will look as if it is constituted of small
square tiles. The fastest method.
o Bilinear resampling – pretty fast, mid-quality method
o Bicubic resampling – high-quality method, could be slow; a relatively fast vast video card
is recommended.

• Downsampling options:
o None – no additional processing, the downsized image may have a low quality look.
o Generate low resolution previews – low-resolution previews are rendered in advance
with the help of video card driver.
Requires additional memory for the graphic textures, compatible with all video cards.
o Suppress downsampling artifacts – suppresses the colored noise on the high ISO images.
Not supported on all video cards.
• GPU Memory usage – video RAM
o Minimal – all unused graphic resources are immediately freed up, and allocated again if
necessary. This is the slowest mode.
o Minimal+ – uses one set of graphic resources, when moving to a smaller image, video
memory is not freed up.
o Optimal – two sets of graphics resources are used: the currently displayed image and the
"next" one; when refreshing the window, the whole image is redrawn at once, and not
piece by piece.
o Maximal – up to four sets of resources are used (RAW, embedded JPEG, external JPEG,
and the currently refreshed), the second switch between RAW and JPEG is instantaneous.

• Focus peaking mode:

o High contrast edges – enables the outlines for contrasty details using color contouring.
Edges display color sets the color for the contours.
o Fine details – enables the outlines for the areas with plenty of smaller sharp details using
color contouring. Details display color sets the color for the contours.
o Focus Peaking layer opacity – controls the fading of the main image for the Focus Peaking
contours to be visible better.

• GPU compatibility settings

This group of settings is helps with the cases when certain compatibility problems are
encountered (for instance, the image is not completely refreshed):

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o Refresh window after image changed – a choice of options to refresh the displayed
image:
▪ None – no forced refresh, the fastest mode, but may not work with all hardware
▪ Normal – forced refresh of the window using “standard methods”
▪ Slight resize – the application window changes its dimensions slightly, to force OS to
redraw it
o Parallel GPU data upload – enables parallel data loading to GPU, available only for
OpenGL video mode. This can improve performance, depending on the GPU and the
drivers.
▪ None – don’t use parallel data upload to GPU
▪ RAW GPU Processing – use only when processing RAW on GPU
▪ Always – use for all files.
o Process RAW data on GPU – process RAW data on GPU instead of CPU (for details, see
Performance Settings):
▪ None – don’t use GPU for RAW data processing
▪ Bayer RAW only – use GPU for processing Bayer files
▪ All RAW files – use GPU for processing of all RAW files.
o Use faster (but lower quality RGB bayer demosaic) – use lower quality demosaicking,
same quality as of the one used when processing RAW data on CPU.
o Store compile GPU programs (shaders) – on those video cards on which this is supported,
compiled GPU programs will be saved on the disk during the first startup. Program will
start faster ever after.
o Synchronous GPU operations turns on the synchronous mode of video card work (slower,
but more reliable).
o Exit program on OS Sleep/suspend – forces the program to exit when the computer goes
to sleep (that is to address the issue with some older OS being unable to correctly restart
OpenGL operations after the wake up).

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External Editors

This window displays the paths to external programs. FastRawViewer can launch those, passing to
them the name of the currently displayed file.
• Supports batch processing: if this checkbox is marked for the program, then this program will
be included in both Menu and in the context menu for groups of files.
• Use […] buttons to lookup executable file on your system.
• Supports batch processing – this program supports the import of several files into it at the
same time. Said programs will be displayed in the menu Run Program for file groups.
• Set custom name – allows one to set an arbitrary name for a program (said name will be used
in the menu in place of the application file name of the external program).
• Add slot button adds additional slot for external program (up to 10).

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• Rescan for known apps button starts a search for RAW-aware applications known to
FastRawViewer. After the search is finished, a dialogue similar to the following is displayed:

If, during the scan, some newer versions of applications are found, they will be displayed in
Replacement Applications column, together with an option to renew (Upgrade) the settings
for External Editors tab.
• Check external programs presence on startup enables check each program existence on
FastRawViewer start.
If during the startup it was determined that some application is absent, you will be presented
with a dialogue similar to the following:

If a “replacement” application was found, this replacement will be displayed in the

Replacement Application column; thus allowing to renew the settings without resorting to
manual editing.

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Performance

• Memory usage and performance section

o Decoded RAW cache size – the number of decoded RAW files that are kept in the
operational memory (RAM) to boost the speed of the browsing.
o JPEG/PNG/TIFF cache size – the number of JPEG files that are kept in the operational
memory to boost the speed of the browsing.
o Number of simultaneous RAW decode threads – the number of concurrent processes of
RAW decoding.
Note: All changes made to this group of settings come into effect only after restarting
FastRawViewer.
• File size limits section
o Downscale JPEGs larger than NN Mpix – JPEG files larger than the specified size will be
down-sampled during the decoding process, so less memory will be required, while
decoding and display will happen faster.

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o Do not decode RAW files larger than NN Mpix – RAW data with a pixel count more than
the specified will not be decoded; only an internal JPEG will be shown (if it exists)
o TIFF/PNG/HEIC single file display limit – TIFF/PNG/HEIC files above the set limit will be
ignored in single view mode.
o PNG/TIFF/HEIC thumbnail limit – for files above the set limit, previews will not be created
or displayed.

• Other performance settings section

o Generate high-quality previews – sets the preview quality. High-quality previews (the
checkmark is set) are built noticeably slower.
o Use high speed preview for Fujifilm X-Trans – this preference turns on faster (but lower
quality) processing for files created by Fujifilm X-Trans sensors.
This mode is recommended if you are not satisfied with the display rate of these files in
standard mode.
Automatically turns on during the first start-up, and when resetting to default the
preferences if the system has one of the following processors:
▪ Intel Core2Duo and older.
▪ Intel i3-i7 1st generation with fewer than 4 cores.
o Use all subframes for Pentax 4-shot files – enables merging all sub-frames into one when
working with Pentax frames shot in Pixel Shift mode.
o Flush decoded RAW/JPEG cache on file/folder refresh – if this setting is turned on:
▪ when using Menu – File – Reload – Reload current folder, the decoded file cache will
be reset.
▪ when using Menu – File – Reload – Reload current file – the cache for the current file
or file pair (if RAW+JPEG) will be refreshed
o Check for folder updates each – sets the refresh rate for the list of files in the current
folder (if the folder changes, for instance other files are copied into it, then it won’t be
reread very often).

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Thumbnail cache

• Thumbnail/Metadata fetcher group

o Prefetch thumbnails for preceding images: to decode previews for the files “before”
those visible on the screen.
o Pause thumbnail decoding while RAW being processed – this control allows one to set
priorities between the decoding of preview files and the decoding of RAW data (these two
processes compete for CPU resources and hard drive access):
▪ No – concurrency; Thumbnail decoding is not postponed while RAW decoding takes
place.
▪ Single file mode – Thumbnail decoding is postponed in Single File View Mode until the
RAW decoding is finished.
▪ Single file and grid modes – Thumbnail recording is postponed for any RAW decoding
action.
o Thumbnail prefetch depth: how many files (relative to those viewed on the screen) to
read ahead and decode previews.

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o Thumbnail decoder thread count: how many parallel decode streams (threads) are
enabled.

• In-memory thumbnail/metadata cache group

o Thumbnail cache size: maximum size of the cached previews in the memory (each
preview is stored in 4-byte per pixel format, so standard 200x133 preview is about 100kb,
so 200Mbytes cache limit translates to ~2000 images).
o Metadata cache size: the maximum number of files for which metadata will be stored in
the RAM

• Disk thumbnail cache group

o Thumbnail database path – the folder with which will contain the FRVThumbs.db file
Default locations:
▪ Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/libraw-llc/FastRawViewer
▪ Windows: $HOME/AppData/Local/LibRaw LLC/FastRawiewer
o Database size limit – the maximum size of the database (see below), by default: 4000MB
for 64-bit systems, 2000MB for 32-bit
o Stored thumbnail size – selects the size of previews that will be saved to the database:
▪ Current thumbnail size: the larger of the two sizes used in Grid and Filmstrip
▪ Maximum thumbnail size: the largest size available in FastRawViewer, 1600x1600
physical pixels for retina monitors, 800x800 for other monitors.
o Thumbnail image compression: compression type (uncompressed, JPEG-90%, JPEG-30%).
o Use disk thumbnail cache for:
▪ TIFF/PNG files: only thumbnails for TIFF and PNG files are checked for presence in disk
cache/stored in that cache.
▪ All files – thumbnail cache used for all files
o Save cached thumbnail if image thumbnail extraction was longer than – this is the main
parameter that selects for which files previews will be stored in the database.
Only those files, the building of previews for which will take greater than or equal to the
amount of time set in this parameter will be stored in the database. Consequently, the
only things that will go into the database are the previews that were built relatively
slowly, and the database itself will grow slower. If you want to store previews for all files
here, set the parameter to 0ms.

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Other
This section contains other settings that cannot be grouped with any other preceding group:

• Write RPPS files – saves an .rpps file (for RawPhotoProcessor) if manual changes of
WB/exposure are applied to the image
o Force RPPS files creation – saves an .rpps file with automatic settings for WB/Exposure
when a RAW file is opened.
o Never write Green2 white balance for RGB files – switches off the recording of the
separate white balance coefficient for the second green channel.
o RPPS Template – the name of the file that will be used as a template while creating
specific .rpps files (used if .rpps file does not yet exist for the raw file).

• Updates check frequency – this parameter schedules the checks for updates - at each
program launch or once in every 1-3-7-15-30 days.
• Debug log messages – turns on the debug mode, the debug messages are available through
Menu – Help – Debug log.

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• Save Debug log to file – Debug log recording to text file:

Windows: UserProfileFolder/AppData/Local/LibRaw LLC/FastRawViewer/FRV_DebugLog.txt
Mac: ~/Library/Application\ Support/libraw-llc/FastRawViewer/FRV_DebugLog.txt
If the setting is set to some on state, Show Debug log in Explorer/Reveal in Finder appears as
last item of Help menu.
Possible values for the setting:
o No – do not record log into file. If you’ll change to No from some Yes… settings, existing
log file will be removed.
o Yes, remove on quit – log file is recorded, but removed on program successful close (but
will be kept if program crashes).
o Yes, keep forever – log file recorded and not deleted, so it may grow indefinitely.

• Flush log to file immediately: (this is accessible if writing the log to a file is turned on).
This setting is intended to catch FastRawViewer crashes (the last things written to the log will
not be lost due to the crash). In all other cases it should not be turned on, as it decreases
efficiency (especially on slower disks).
• Check global folders presence on startup – checks for the presence of (and, if necessary, for
write permission) the following global folders, if they're configured (in the File Handling and
Copy-Move-Reject Preference sections):
o Start without filename - Specified folder
o Open folder dialog starts at - Specified folder
o Use global rejected folder - Subfolder for rejected files
o Copy/Move folder selector starts at - Specified folder.
• Determine the file type by its content: If checked (default): Non-RAW files type
(TIFF/PNG/JPEG/HEIC) to be determined based on file header content.
(note: this works only for Non-RAW file types /extensions/).
• Run single program instance – (Windows only) turns on the “one instance” mode of the
program. At an attempt of starting the second instance, the file is displayed in the already
existing program window.
• Use reduced Folders panel functions: switches off some potentially incompatible with your
applications / OS functions of the Folders panel, in particular:
o Monitoring of Removable media change (CD/DVD, USB devices).
o Monitoring changes in the folder tree structure.
o Editing the folder tree.
• Refresh folders tree after file copy/move: if enabled, folders tree in Folders panel will refresh
after file copy or move.
• Faster program close – (Windows only) turns on the fast program completion mode.

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Manage File Associations – (Windows-only, not supported in Legacy Windows version): activates the
system dialogue to edit file association with FastRawViewer.

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Additional Settings
A few of FastRawViewer’s settings are accessible only by running scripts that are installed alongside
the program. These “hidden” settings are needed extremely rarely, and should be applied, as a rule,
only once.
These settings are only read at program start, so if you apply scripts with FastRawViewer running,
immediately close the program and restart it. If the program is not closed immediately, and you
move to editing and saving the settings, the changes made by the script may be lost and require
repeating the procedure.

Using Additional Settings Scripts: Windows

Scripts installed with the program are copied into the folder
C:\Program Files\LibRaw\FastRawViewer\Scripts.
To open it, use Menu – Help – Auxiliary settings scripts:

Select the necessary script and launch it (double click or press Enter).

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Registry Editor will run, which will first display a Windows UAC message:

Press Yes to agree to the warning, after which Register Editor will warn you again:

Once again confirm by pressing Yes, and Registry Editor will inform you of your success:

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Using Additional Settings Scripts: Mac OS X

The OS X version of FastRawViewer contains the scripts in the application’s resource folder.
To use the scripts:
1. Use Menu – Help – Auxiliary settings scripts
15. The Scripts folder will open:

16. Open the Terminal program

Applications – Utilities – Terminal.
17. Drag the needed script onto the Terminal window, and you will see the full path to the script
you are about to execute.

18. Switch to the Terminal window and press Enter. The script will be executed without any
output to the Terminal window; if there’s some sort of message, it means that there was an
error.

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List of Additional Settings

Script filename Description

Advanced Troubleshooting

Windows: choosing the program graphics acceleration method

GraphicsToDirectX9 Sets the graphics “engine” DirectX9, OpenGL, or DirectX11

GraphicsToOpenGL
GraphicsToDirectX11

WindowsCheckForRemoteSession Enables detection of Windows terminal session. If detected,

video mode will be set to DirectX 9
NoWindowsCheckForRemoteSession

Turning resource-intensive graphics operations on and off

EnableAdvancedShaders Turns on (default)/off resource-intensive graphics operations:

DisableAdvancedShaders • Bicubic interpolation
• Simultaneous use of focus peaking in the Edge and
Fine detail modes
• Artifact reduction filtering.
These scripts are for both Mac and Windows, however for all
modern Macs, it is not necessary to turn off resource-intensive
operations – the efficiency of the graphics adapters is good
enough to use those.
Switching them off may be necessary for Windows platforms
using low-end graphics (chipset Intel graphics, the oldest and
weakest graphics processing cores).

Use16BitFloatingPoint Use / don’t use 16-bit floating point data while processing
RAW data on GPU
No16BitFloatingPoint

UseOEUEOnGPU NoOEUEOnGPU Use / don’t use GPU to create over- and under-exposure maps

Controlling the Folders panel

EnableFoldersOnStart Enable (default value) turns on the default behavior of the

Folders panel:
DisableFoldersOnStart
• When starting FastRawViewer passing the file name
as an argument (including through the Start without
filename setting) the last state of the Folders panel
(opened/closed, floating/docked) is applied.
• When starting without a filename as a parameter, the
Folders panel always opens.
Disable: FastRawViewer starts with a closed Folders panel. It

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Script filename Description

can be opened through Menu – Panels – Folders.
This setting is intended, first of all, as a test in extraordinary
situations – in a few rare cases, the monitoring of the
removable media status and/or the use of the folder/disk
system icons leads to FastRawViewer not being able to work.

ExpandCurrentFolder Enables auto-expansion of current folder in Folders panel

NoExpandCurrentFolder

UseBuiltinIcons Allows one to switch the Interface – Use built-In file/folder

icons setting without launching FastRawViewer.
UseSystemIcons
This is intended for the case when the additional icon provider
that is built into the system isn’t working (this has been known
to happen, for example, with some versions of Dell Backup)
and FastRawViewer cannot be launched to change these
settings because the program crashes during the
communication with the icon provider.

DriveStatusAsyncQueryOff Turns on/off asynchronous status checks of changeable media

DriveStatusAsyncQueryOn

UseBottomBarFontPixels Windows-only: sets font size on the bottom line in pixels, not
NoBottomBarFontPixels in points. This is intended for cases when two displays with
very different resolutions are being used.

DisplayNetworkSharesVolumeLabel (Windows only)

DisplayNetworkSharesShareNameShort Controls network volumes name display:
DisplayNetworkSharesShareNameFull
• …VolumeLabel – show volume label (same as Share
name for most NAS, may differ on Windows servers).
• ...ShareNameShort – display share name (last part)
• …ShareNameLong – display \\server\share

Advanced Tune

Using Adobe DNG SDK

UseDNGSDKAllFiles Use DNG SDK for

UseDNGSDKSelectedFiles • All DNG files
• Linear DNG/Floating point DNG (default)
NoDNGSDK
• Do not use

DNGSDKSingleThread Use/do not use DNG SDK in multi-thread mode.

DNGSDKMultiThread Multi-thread mode gives greater efficiency, but may take up
over the processor, getting in the way of other computer
programs running at the same time.

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Script filename Description

DngUseColorMatrix Type of embedded color data used to display DNG files:

DngUseForwardMatrix ColorMatrix or ForwardMatrix.

EnableRawDecoding Enables (default)/disables RAW data decoding.

DisableRawDecoding If disabled, FastRawViewer will show embedded/external
JPEGs only. If disabled, it can be turned on temporarily by -
enableraw command-line switch.

DNGShowEnhancedImage Hidden configuration parameter DNGPreferLargestImage, it is

DNGShowStandardImage a bit field:
• bit 0: if set, FRV will select largest DNG subimage
(default: select 1st subimage)
• bit 1: if set, FRV will extract Enhanced DNG image if
present in DNG file
Hidden configuration script DNGShowEnhancedImage will set
both bits to 1, so Enhanced DNG will be preferred image to
display. DNGShowStandardImage script will revert the change
back.

TIFF format support

AdditionalTIFFExts The list of additional extensions (apart from .tif and .tiff) that
will be interpreted as an indicator of TIFF files.
Changing this setting:
• Windows: Copy the file C:\Program
Files\LibRaw\FastRawViewer\scripts\AdditionalTIFFext
enstionSample.reg somewhere, edit it as you like: the
list of extensions can be set as *.EXT1 *.EXT2, or .EXT1
.EXT2, or even just EXT1 EXT2, the space is the
separator. After that, double-click on the file;
RegistryEditor will launch and import your setting.
• Mac: execute the following command in the Terminal:
defaults write com.libraw-llc.FastRawViewer
Prefs.AdditionalTIFFExts "*.fff *.yyy" Here *.fff and
.*yyy are those extensions that you would like to be
interpreted as TIFFs.

TIFFCMYKasGray Switches on the display of CMYK-TIFF files, they will displayed

in Grayscale

Controlling the HEIC decoder

HeicDecoderDefaults The HeicDecoderDefaults script sets the standard /

automatic values for the following parameters:
HEICDecoderPool1Threads – the number of threads that

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the file decoder runs for immediate display task (by
default this is 0, automatic optimization; the number sets
the amount)
HEICDecoderPool2Threads – the number of threads that
the file decoder runs for prefetch
HEICDecoderPool2Size – the number of decoders used
for prefetch
HEICDecoderPool3Size – the number of single-thread
decoders used for decoding the preview
HEICDecoderStartThreshold – the size of the queue for
the prefetch/preview decoder upon which additional
decoders are started.
Controlling the Filmstrip/Thumbnails panels behavior

EnableUnknown Turns on/off the monitoring of any changes in the current

DrivesMonitoring folder on:
DisableUnknown • Media (disks), whose type cannot be recognized by
DrivesMonitoring FastRawVewer (for example, RamDrive)
• Media, which are recognized by FastRawViewer
EnableAllDrivesMonitoring
(CDROM, Floppy disks), but for which there are no
DisableAllDrivesMonitoring separate settings in the Preferences (it is there only for
Removable Media and for network volumes).

FilmstripCenterOn Turns on (default)/off the centering of the highlighted

FolderUpdate Filmstrip element when changing the contents of the current
folder.
NoFilmstripCenterOn
FolderUpdate

RoundedThumbnails Turns on/off the rounded corners for the Thumbnails in the
SquareThumbnails Grid/Filmstrip.

RefreshFolderAfterProgramRun Intended for more flexible processing of a situation where an

external program creates files and you want those files to be
either visible or invisible to FastRawViewer.
Values:
• 0 (set by the RefreshFolderAfterProgramRunDefault
script) – before launching an external program, the
refresh of the current folder (triggered by the signal
“the content is changed” emitted by the operational
system) is suspended for triple the time set in

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Script filename Description

Preferences - Performance - Check for folder updates
each....
This is default and legacy behavior.
• 1 (set by the RefreshFolderAfterProgramRunSoft
script) – there is no suspension of the current folder
refresh; if the launched external program created a
file, FastRawViewer will detect it without any extra
delay (without Forced folder refresh). If this file is
being generated slowly, FastRawViewer will attempt
to track the process, based on the changes in the file
size and to delay opening this file while it is still
growing, but this is hard to guarantee.
• 2 (set by the RefreshFolderAfterProgramRunForced
script) – using the time set in Check for folder updates
each ... , FastRawViewer will force a re-read of the
current folder.
• 3 (no prepared script) – the combination of methods 1
and 2.

WheelScrollDefault Sets the default mouse wheel scroll step for all scrolling lists
(folders, thumbnails in Filmstrip and Grid View, EXIF table).
If one wants to increase/decrease the contrast – copy the
script, and edit it (change the default value to wheel step
needed) and run it.

FilmstripDefaultOpenDelay File selected by Filmstrip panel navigation is not opened

immediately. This delay allows arrow keys Filmstrip navigation
without CPU/disk overload (not every intermediate file will be
opened).
Default delay is 30 milliseconds. If one wants to
increase/decrease this delay – copy the script and edit it.

FileArrivalDefaultDelay Designed to prevent FastRawViewer from attempting to

display files that are not yet fully copied into the current
NoFileArrivalDelay
folder.
FastRawViewer
• waits for the file size on the disk to stop changing (to
determine that the size stopped changing the folder is
re-read with the frequency set in Preferences -
Performance - Re-read folder in...)
• additionally, delays the display of this new file for the
amount of time set in FileArrivalDelay (default setting
- 2 seconds)
• displays this file in Filmstrip/Grid panels

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Script filename Description

Scripts that control the delay:
• FileArrivalDefaultDelay - sets the default delay (2000
milliseconds); if you want a different value for the
default delay please edit the script
• NoFileArrivalDelay - sets the delay to zero, thus
disabling any extra delay and file size change analysis.

ShiftClickSelectionModeDefault This script assigns a standard value (0) to the

ShiftClickSelectionMode parameter, which modifies the
program’s behavior while selecting a range of files using Shift-
Click.
To change parameter’s value you need to edit the script
before apply.
This parameter is a bit field of 3 bits:
• Bit 0:
o 0 - the second limit for the Shift-Click's range will
be 'last Ctrl-Clicked', irrespective of whether the
action was "selection" or "de-selection"
o 1 - the second limit for the range will be 'last Ctrl-
Clicked' only if the action was "selection"
• Bit 1:
o 0 - If 'last Ctrl-Clicked' isn't there, the second limit
for the range will be the first file in the current
folder
o 2 - The second limit for the range will be the
current file if it wasn't Shift-Clicked (if it was, then
it will again be the first file in the current folder)
• Bit 2:
o 0 - Shift-Click always creates a new range
selection, overriding the previous one.
o 4 - Shift-Click always expands the selection, never
de-selecting previous selections.

File Processing

TryJPEGasRAW Attempts to decode files with a JPEG extension the same as

for RAW files.
NoJPEGasRAW
This setting is useful for cameras with modified Firmware (the
DiagRAW hack and old versions of the CHDK hack) because
these cameras save RAW files with JPG extensions.

UseGPSStatus Check GPS Status field (default) or ignore it and display GPS
coordinates regardless of status.
IgnoreGPSStatus

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ExposureRangeDefault A script for setting the range of changes in “exposure”. The

script sets the default values as (-5…+8), if you need to change
it, copy the script somewhere, edit it, and run it.

OEDetectionDefault OEDetectionMethod allows one to change the algorithm for

detecting overexposure.
OEDetectionHistogram
Default - invokes the default method, which searches for the
OEDetectionManual rightmost hump on the histogram.
Histogram - the algorithm looks for a one-bin wide peak in the
histogram highlights (the bin width in FastRawViewer
histogram is 1/20 EV).
Manual - a manual setting, the value is taken from the
OEManualLimit parameter.

CoolscanNEFGamma CoolscanNEFGamma sets the Gamma value for processing

Nikon Coolscan NEF files.
The value is multiplied by 100, that is for Gamma 2.2 use 220;
for Gamma 1.0 use 100. The default value is 220.
There are no scripts to edit this, please set this value into the
registry manually.

EnableRotationWithoutXMPDisableRotat Turns on the option of rotating in Single View mode while

ionWithoutXMP recording this to XMP is disabled. The orientation isn’t
recorded anywhere.

EnableDetectDNGfromTiff Turns on the detection of DNG files converted form RGB Tiff.
When such files are detected
DisableDetectDNGfromTiff
• An sRGB tone curve is set
• UniWB White Balance is set
• Color data is taken from the DNG file

Alternate keyboard shortcuts handling

AlternateKeyHandler Alternate keyboard handler (Windows only) – turns on the

alternative keyboard shortcuts processing mode. Turn on only
NoAlternateKeyHandler
if there are problems with the processing of keyboard
shortcuts (this happens when using utterly non-standard
keyboard layouts, for instance when switching between
Qwerty и Dvorak).

Performance

SetProcessingMaxParallel By default, FastRawViewer uses all of the available processing

cores to process RAW data.

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Setting the Prefs.ProcessingMaxParallel parameter to a smaller
value (taking HyperThreading into account) may increase the
performance if there are many cores while the RAW files are
relatively small.

UseAVX2 Turns on/off the use of AVX2 instructions where for those
NoAVX2 computers where this instruction set is supported. By default,
this is turned on.

UseMMappedIO Bit field:

NoMMappedIO • bits 0-7: thumbnail reader parameters
• bits 8-15: full-size image reader parameters.
lowest bit in each 8-bit set defines RAW reading, other bits are
reserved for future (JPEG, PNG,TIFF, etc).
UseMMapedIO script will set all bits to 1, NoMMapedIO wil
revert these bits back to zero

Other settings

DragPanCursorWOZoom Turns on (default)/off the display of the Drag and Pan cursors
in the case when the image fits completely in the Window and
NoDragPanCursorWOZoom
there is nowhere to Drag/Pan.

PrintSizeDefaults Default settings for Print Size line in EXIF panel:

PrintResolution – print resolution in ppi
PrintSizeUnit – 0: inches, 1: centimeters, 2: millimeters

UseLegacyOpenGL Switches graphics engine usage mode.Try Legacy mode if you

experience problems with single view display.
UseModernOpenGL

EnableNextPrevQueue Enable (default mode): if a user issues a new command to

move to the Next/Previous file while FastRawViewer was still
DisableNextPrevQueue
executing the prior Next/Prev File command, this new
command is queued and will be executed as soon as the prior
one is completed. This allows for fluid browsing through files
with just the Spacebar depressed, but can become
uncomfortable if very large files are present, as reading and
processing such files takes time.
Disable: the new command to move to Next/Previous file will
be ignored while the current command is in effect, and
transition to the current file is not completed.

AlternateXMPWrite Turns on alternate XMP write mechanics, use only if you

NoAlternateXMPWrite experience problems with standard method.

UseBottomBarFontPixels Turns on bottom bar font size setting via pixels (DPI-

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NoBottomBarFontPixels independent), not points (DPI depended). Use if you have
multiple monitors with very different resolution and OS is
unable to deliver resolution data to FastRawViewer
application.

EnableLargeJumps When this is turned on, the Menu adds the items Menu -> File
-> Jump +2 files (+3 files, -2 files, -3 files) and default hotkeys:
DisableLargeJumps
Ctrl-Alt-RightArrow (move +2), Ctrl-Shift-Alt-RightArrow (+3)
and similar for left arrow to move -2/-3.
The size of the jump can be controlled through the
Registry/Defaults Large2JumpStep and Large3JumpStep
settings.
The EnableLargeJumps script sets these settings to 2 and 3,
respectively.
If you need other values (for example, your standard
bracketing step is 3 and 5 shots), you will need to copy the
script somewhere where it can be edited, change the values,
and launch it (or change the values manually through Registry
Editor/defaults).
The changed values take place after FastRawViewer has been
relaunched.
If the step for "large steps" is set to 0, then the corresponding
menu points/hotkeys are deactivated.

ForceWindowSizeRestore Enables (second) forced main window size restore after main
NoForceWindowSizeRestore program window made visible.

Support of non-standard cameras

FastRawViewer can be used for the display and analysis of images from “engineering” cameras,
which are saved in the form of “sensor data dumps” without any other additional metadata.
A series of such cameras are already directly supported by the application (FastRawViewer contains
an internal table with the necessary data); to support other (arbitrary) sensors, one has to add a
description of the structure of the sensor’s data into the Windows Registry (on Windows) or OS X
defaults (on Mac OS X).
To do this one must:
Windows: prepare a registry-script with content similar to the following:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\LibRaw LLC\CustomCameras]
"Camera01"="24096096,4008,3006, 0, 0, 0, 0,0,148,0,0,Dalsa, FTF4052C 4:3,0"

And run it in Windows Explorer.

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OS X: run a command in the Terminal, similar to the following one-liner:

defaults write com.libraw-llc.CustomCameras "Camera01" "24096096,4008,3006, 0, 0,
0, 0,0,148,0,0,Dalsa, FTF4052C 4:3"

In both cases:
Camera01 (or Camera02 … Camera64) – the “number line” in the table, up to 64 records of this type
are supported.
The line “24096096,4008,3006, 0, 0, 0, 0,0,148,0,0,Dalsa, FTF4052C 4:3,0” defines the format of the
camera’s data and consists of 14 fields separated by commas (a note for engineers: the format of this
line is completely analogous to the line in the “sensor dump” table’s description in dcraw.c with the
one difference being that the CFA filter’s format is set in base 10):
1. The exact size of the file in bytes (in this example – 24096096). This is the only criterion by
which FastRawViewer recognizes a data “format”, files of a different size will be ignored.
2. The width of the sensor in pixels. Put the entire width, including the “black frame” in this
field.
3. The height of the sensor in pixels, including the black frame.
4. The width of the black frame at the left edge of the sensor (in pixels)
5. The width (height) of the black frame at the top.
6. The width of the black frame at the right edge.
7. The width (height) of the black frame at the bottom.
8. Additional parameters for the file decoding subprogram (see below).

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9. The Bayer filter CFA format, with the byte field taking one of the following values:
o 22 – BGGR
o 97 – GRBG
o 73 – GBRG
o 148 – RGGB
o 180 - GMYC
10. The amount of unused bit data (for example, if 14-bit data is recorded in a 16-bit format)
11. Additional metadata, bit mask.
a. Bit 0 – find a .JPG file with the same name and read the EXIF data from it.
b. Bit 1 – filter (average neighbors) for pixels with values of zero
c. Bits 2-4 – the orientation of the image (0 = do not rotate, 3 = 180, 5 = 90CCW, 6 = 90CW)
12. Camera manufacturer
13. Camera model
14. The offset of the beginning of the sensor data from the beginning of the file (the value range
is 0-65534, the special value 65535 means that “the rows are going in the opposite
direction”).
8, 10, 12, and 16-bit data formats are supported, the number of bits is calculated as (the size of the
file minus the offset from the beginning of the data)/number of pixels.
Depending on the bit-ness of the data, the 8th field (“additional parameters for the file decoding
subprogram”) can accept the following values for 10-bit data:
• 1: “4 pixels in 5 bytes” packing is used
• 0: “6 pixels in 8 bytes” packing is used
For the cameras that are supported through this method, the data needed for proper color
transforms is (obviously) missing in FastRawViewer. As a result:
1. the color displayed will be "raw", that is the saturation is low and hues are inaccurate;
2. only Auto WB is available in drop-down;
3. no calculation of CCT and Tint

Backing up the Settings

Windows: to back up the settings, please use the BackupSettings.cmd script, which is installed in the
same C:\Program Files\LibRaw\FastRawViewer\scripts\ folder as the scripts described above.
As a result of running this script, an FRV-backup folder will be created in your Documents folder. This
FRV-backup folder will contain three files containing a copy of your program’s settings:
• Preferences.reg – for the settings which are controlled through the Preferences

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• Shortcuts.reg – the settings for the keyboard shortcuts

• LastUsedSettings.reg – this contains the automatically saved settings such as a list of Recent
Files/Recent Folders, window position, etc.
To restore settings from the backup copy:
1. Quit FastRawViewer
2. Double-click the file with the backup copy of the settings you want to restore – this will
import them into the Windows Registry.
Mac OS X: the settings are stored in ~Library/Preferences/com.libraw-llc.FastRawViewer.plist
All of the standard backup procedures for Macintosh (TimeMachine, etc.) will save and restore those
settings without any trouble.

Informational Panel Settings

The settings icon ( ) is located in the header of the informational panels, allowing one to perform
actions or change preferences for the current panel. These setting can be changed at any moment
while the program is running and are effective immediately.

Folders Panel

• Refresh folder tree – re-reads the folder tree. This action is intended to sync the displayed file
structure with the current one on the disk; useful if the monitoring of the creation of new
files/folders (default setting for network collections and memory cards) is turned off.
• Show system/special files: turns on the display of files/folders which are usually hidden:

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o Mac: bundles (applications and disk images); folders, the names of which start with a dot;
standard Unix folders like /usr, /bin etc.
o Windows: C:\Windows folder.
o All systems: Lightroom folders.

• Show Drive/Folder icons – allows drive and folder icon display.

• Monitor removable media changes – allows automatic discovery and monitoring of
removable media.
• Show unmoumted volumes (Windows only) – allows drive letter display when the media is
offline.
• Shorten long folder names: for folders with names longer than 8 characters, the displayed
name for the folder will be automatically shortened to fit in the window.
This is done by removing the middle of the folder name from the display. Any folder names
shorter than 9 symbols aren’t affected.
• Show horizontal scrollbar: if enabled (default), Folders panel contents could be scrolled using
mouse/trackpad. If disabled, then horizontal scroll of panel contents is completely disabled.
• Use natural folder sort order: consider digits in file/folder names to be ordinal numbers and
sorts those numbers in numeric value order.
• Reverse sort order: folders are displayed in reverse order (ZZ.AA). Windows: this doesn’t
affect disk letters, which remain in their natural order A:…Z:
• Enable add/rename/remove folders – allows one to edit the folder tree.
• Enable file drops to folder tree – allows one to drag files into the folder tree.
• Folder tree autoexpand on drop target selection – enables the auto-expanding of subfolders
when a file being dragged is dragged to it

Favorite Folders Panel

• Add current folder to favorites – adds the current folder to the list of favorites
• Clear favorites list – clears the list of favorite folders.

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Filmstrip/Thumbnails Panel

• Show filenames – sets a mode for file name display in the Filmstrip: don’t show, show under
the icon, or show over the icon.
• Show Rating/Label – sets a mode for XMP Rating/Label display in the Filmstrip: don’t show,
show under the icon, or show over the icon.
• Show EXIF Data – EXIF data display mode:
o What to display: exposure (abridged), exposure (full), Timestamp, camera name, image
size in pixels.
o Where to show: Do not show, above thumbnail, overlay atop the thumbnail.

• Show Read-only status (Windows)/Show Locked/Read-only status (Mac) – read-only/locked

files will be shows with a “padlock” symbol to the left of the checkbox mark.
• Thumbnail size: setting the size of the Thumbnail preview:
o 11 sizes, starting with 75 and up to 600 pixels on the longer side.
o More space for vertical images – allows on to set the icon aspect ratio 1:1 instead of 2:3
o Display Thumbnails – allows one to turn off preview
display, allowing only file names, and, if desired, XMP
ratings/labels.
This mode is efficient when using a Filmstrip in vertical
orientation:
o To adjust the font size in this mode, first set the
thumbnail size and only after that switch the previews off.

• Tooltips – what to display in the floating hints: Title, Description.

• Refresh thumbnails/ratings: action for re-reading the file icons in the current folder.

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Grid View Panel

In the upper-right corner of the Grid View window there is a “gear” button that drops down the
settings menu:

These settings are very much like those for the Thumbnail panel, with the following exceptions:
• The list of sizes is different: from 125 to 800 pixels on the longest side.
• There is no setting to switch off the display of Thumbnails.

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EXIF Panel

EXIF Display preferences runs a dialog for editing EXIF display:

In this dialog:
• The up/down arrows allow one to move the groups of the displayed information.
• In each group, one can choose the elements that are necessary during display.
• Do not show empty values – forbids the output of empty lines (for which the displayed RAW
has no data).
• Show row labels – turns the left column of the EXIF-table (field names) on/off.

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XMP Metadata Panel

• Move to next file after – sets the automatic progression to the next file after setting a rating
or mark:
o Do not move – doesn’t move.
o Rating is set – moves when a rating is set.
o Label is set – moves when a mark is set.
o Rating or label – moves when setting either parameter.
• Show Title – shows the XMP title (name)
• Show Description – description view mode (do not show; 1,2,3 lines)

Exposure Statistics Panel

• Always display OE+Corr column: turns on the display of the third column of statistics
(OE+Corr), even if it has the same values as the OveExp column.
• Display statistics in color: turns on the output of table rows in the color corresponding to the
color of the pixels.
• Show pixel counts: display pixel counts together with percentage.
• Panel size: dynamic resize will adjust size based on current image color channel count; other
settings will result in fixed panel size.

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Sort & Filter Panel

The Sort & Filter panel contains the following icons, left to right:
• Filter files by filename
• File Sorting
• Re-reading the current folder
• Panel Settings.
The use of these items is described above in the “Sort & Filter”
section.

Panel Settings:

• Show Files/Metadata status – turns on the display of this group in the statistics/selection
table
• Show Selected files – turns on the display of the Selected line in the current group.
• Show zero values for completely fetched data – if this setting is off, then the table display the
lines that do not don’t correspond to any of the files in the current folder.
Display is only turned off when the metadata for all of the files in the folder has been read.
• Hide groups with only one value – if the corresponding group (XMP Rating, Label, EXIF
Timestamp) contains the same data; in other words, all of the files in the current folder fall
into the same line in the group, the entire group will be hidden.

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Customizing the Status Bar

Many control and information display elements characterizing the displayed image can be placed in
the status bar. As a rule, all possible elements are not needed to the user (and they won’t all fit on a
monitor of average resolution), so the display of these elements can be customized.
For customization choose File – Customize bottom bar in the menu, or choose Customize Bottom Bar
in the menu that pops up when pressing the settings button in the lower right corner of the program
window (if you have not switched off the display of this icon).
This settings window pops up:

Each line on the table corresponds to one element of the program’s status bar, and can be set to one
of three positions:
• Visibility always: always shows the element. If the program window size is too small, then the
elements will overlap.
• If fits: The element is shown only if the size of the window is such that the elements do not
get in each other’s way.
• Hide: The element is not shown.
The following elements can be customized:

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• File Navigation:
o Open File Button: Open file icon
o File navigation buttons: Prev File/Next file button and current file number indication (this
button opens up the set file by number dialog).
o Current folder: current folder being browsed.
o Current filename: File name (without the name of the folder).

• Selection status:
o Current file selection status: Sel (in red) If current file is selected via Select, empty field
otherwise.
o Selected files count: number of selected files (if any), empty field otherwise.

• File and Display information:

o Current image size: size of the image in pixels
o EXIF summary: shooting data (exposure, flash, lens’s focal length).
o Zoom ratio and zoom buttons: current file zoom (clicking causes Fit to Window) Zoom
In/Zoom Out buttons.
o File load/processing time: time spent on reading-decoding-processing the file in
FastRawViewer.

• Controlling the current file display:

o RAW/JPEG switch buttons: Buttons for switching between RAW/JPEG
o R-G-B-BW channel selector: Buttons for switching RGB channels and black and white
representation.
o Screen sharpening, Focus peaking, Details highlight: Buttons for turning on the
corresponding modes
o Shadow boost, Highlights Inspection, Linear mode display: Buttons for turning on the
corresponding RAW display modes.
• Exposure analysis, exposure compensation control:
o Exposure control buttons: current exposure compensation value (clicking on this turns
on/off exposure compensation).
o Over/Underexposure buttons: Buttons for turning on/off the display of
over/underexposed areas.

• White balance and contrast control:

o White balance presets: choose preset WB.
o White balance manual tune: current white balance indication; pressing on it summons a
dialog for adjusting white balance manually.

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o Contrast curve selector: drop-down list of contrast curve choices.

• Rotation control buttons: control of the image rotation, current orientation display
• Controlling XMP ratings and labels:
o XMP Rating buttons: indication and control of XMP ratings.
o XMP Label indicator: indication of current XMP labels.
o XMP Label buttons: indication and control of XMP labels.
o Fullscreen, hide/show filmstrip/dock, and customize buttons: Fullscreen, hide/show
filmstrip panel/all panels, and program settings block buttons.

• Text fields width:

This setting controls the width of the text field, such as file name, EXIF summary, etc.:
o Auto – the width varies according to predetermined, built-in boundaries
o Minimum allowed – always the minimum width;
o Maximum allowed – always the maximum width.

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Setting the Keyboard Shortcuts

FastRawViewer allows you to re-define all keyboard shortcuts, assigning an arbitrary amount of
alternative keystroke and mouse button combinations to each of the actions possible in
FastRawViewer.
To define or modify the sequences for the actions use the editor under Menu – File – Keyboard
Shortcuts (Ctrl-K):

The left pane contains the list of groups of actions. The right pane displays the names of the actions
in the highlighted group and current shortcuts for those actions.
Looking to the right of every action name:
• [+] – adds a new keyboard shortcut for the action
• [keyboard combination] – currently assigned shortcut
• [x] (to the right of every keyboard combination) – deletes this combination.
The Remove extra Shift from Shift-non-letter shortcuts option is Mac-specific: when saving
shortcuts of the form Shift-number in newer versions of MacOS, a "double shift" was accidentally
recorded (Shift-1 => Shift-!). The extent of the problem is currently uncertain, this option will remove
extra shift modifier. When it's turned on, Shift-1 (in the English configuration) will be recorded as !
(without additional modifiers), and it works correctly.

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When pressing the buttons to add or edit the combination the following dialogue appears:

Hit the combination of keys (and mouse buttons), which you want to assign to the action, and it will
be memorized. To close the window without modifying the current status (that is, to cancel the
assignment), press the Shift key three times.
It is possible that the selected combination is already in use somewhere, and then the program will
prompt with the following:

For some actions, only a specific mouse button can be assigned (this applies to the actions, which are
done with the mouse: setting the white balance for the “click-on-gray” method, etc.). In this case, the
dialogue to assign the combination changes a bit:

To transfer shortcut settings to another computer, use Export button on source and Load on
destination.

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Settings for Apple Magic Mouse/Trackpad

The standard settings for Apple Magic Mouse in OS X 10.9 и 10.10 are designed for smooth scrolling
(Natural Scroll). With these settings trackpad and Magic Mouse continue to send scrolling events for
some time even after the user stopped moving his finger.
The settings are very suitable for panning; but cause erratic behavior if we want to associate some
action to the trackpad or mouse. For example, if we associate “go to next/previous image” to the
Magic Mouse with default natural scroll settings several files will be skipped.
To disable Natural Scroll, please visit Accessibility - Mouse & Trackpad and there select Scrolling
without inertia and slow scrolling speed:

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Standard FastRawViewer Keyboard Shortcuts

Key Sequence Key Sequence

Action
Windows Mac OS X

File Handling

Open file Ctrl+O ⌘O

Ctrl+Shift+Left ⇧⌘←
Open first file in folder
Ctrl+Shift+Num+Left ⇧⌘+Num←

Ctrl+Left ⌘←
Backspace ⌫
Open previous file Ctrl+Num+Left ⌘+Num←
Left ←Num
Num+Left ←

Ctrl+Right ⌘→
Space Space
Open next file (in current folder) Ctrl+Num+Right ⌘+Num→
Right →
Num+Right Num→

Ctrl+Shift+Right ⇧⌘→
Open last file in folder
Ctrl+Shift+Num+Right ⇧⌘+Num→

Folder Handling

Open folder (in regular mode) Ctrl+Shift+O ⇧⌘O

Open Folder with subfolders Alt+O ⌥O

Open files list as folder Alt-Shift-O ⇧⌥O

Open current folder in Hotfolder mode Alt-Shift-H ⇧⌥H

Open current folder in Slideshow mode Alt-Shift-S ⇧⌥S

Start Folder tree at current folder Ctrl+T ⌘T

Start Folder tree at one level up Ctrl+Shift+T ⇧⌘T

Move folder filter one level up Shift-T ⇧T

Reset folder filtering Alt-T ⌥T

Reload (reopen) current file Ctrl+F4 ⌘F4

Reload current folder Ctrl+Shift+F4 ⇧⌘F4

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Key Sequence Key Sequence

Action
Windows Mac OS X

Refresh current subfolder tree Alt-Shift-F4 ⇧⌥F4

Refresh full subfolder tree Alt-Ctrl-F4 ⇧⌘F4

Reread the current folder and build previews Ctrl-Shift-F ⇧⌘F

Close current file Ctrl+U ⌘U

Filter Files by rating/label Shift+F ⇧F

Move current file to _Rejected subfolder Ctrl+Shift+Del ⇧⌘⌫

Move current file to _Selected subfolder Not assigned Not assigned

Undo last file operation Ctrl+Z ⌘Z

Filtering files in a folder

Turn on/off filtering by metadata V V

Remember filter by metadata Alt-V ⌥V

Recall filter by metadata Ctrl-V ⌘Z

Turn on/off filter by filename Alt-F ⌥F

File Copy/Move

Move file to folder (ask destination) M M

Move file to subfolder in current folder

Alt-M ⌥M
(ask destination)

Move file to last used folder Shift+M ⇧M

Move file to 2nd used folder Alt+Shift+M ⌥⇧M

Move file to 3rd used folder Ctrl+Shift+M ⇧⌘M

Move file to 4th used folder Ctrl+Alt+M ⌥⌘M

Move file to 5th used folder Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M ⌥⇧⌘M

Copy file to folder (ask destination) C C

Move file to subfolder in current folder

Alt-C ⌥C
(ask destination)

Copy file to last used folder Shift+C ⇧C

Copy file to 2nd used folder Alt+Shift+C ⌥⇧C

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Key Sequence Key Sequence

Action
Windows Mac OS X

Copy file to 3rd used folder Ctrl+Shift+C ⇧⌘C

Copy file to 4th used folder Ctrl+Alt+C ⌥⌘C

Copy file to 5th used folder Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C ⌥⇧⌘C

Zooming and Panning

Toggle view: Image/Grid G G

Toggle show EXIF/Histogram/Statistics in grid

Shift+G ⇧G
view

Ctrl++
⌘+
Zoom In Ctrl+=
⌘=
Shift+Wheel Up

Ctrl+-
Zoom Out ⌘-
Shift+Wheel Down

Mouse Panning Right Click Right Click

Quick Zoom and Pan Shift+Right Click ⇧Right Click

Mouse Drag Left Click Left Click

Quick Zoom and Drag Shift+Left Click ⇧Left Click

Actual Pixels (1:1) Ctrl+1 ⌘1

Fit to Window Ctrl+0 ⌘0

Fit image to window width Ctrl+Alt+0 ⌘⌥0

Toggle Zoom Z Z

Toggle Fullscreen mode F F

Return from fullscreen or single image mode Esc ⎋

Minimize Not assigned ⌘M

Ctrl+7 ⌘7
Rotate 90 grad Counterclockwise
Ctrl+Home ⌘↖

Ctrl+9 ⌘9
Rotate 90 grad Clockwise
Ctrl+PgUp ⌘⇞

Image Display

Display full color RGB Ctrl+2 ⌘2

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Key Sequence Key Sequence

Action
Windows Mac OS X

Display R channel Ctrl+3 ⌘3

Display G channel Ctrl+4 ⌘4

Display B channel Ctrl+5 ⌘5

Display BW conversion Ctrl+6 ⌘6

Switch to the next Grid (Grid Overlay) Alt-G ⌥G

Switch data to display

J J
(RAW, embedded JPEG, ext. JPEG)

Toggle Focus Peaking

P P
(None/Edges/Fine Details/Both)

Focus Peaking: contrast edges no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Focus Peaking: fine details no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Screen Sharpening On/Off S S

Image rotation

Rotate 900 Counterclockwise Ctrl+7 ⌘7

Rotate 900 Clockwise Ctrl+9 ⌘9

Rotate 1800 Ctrl+8 ⌘8

Flip image horizontal no shortcut set no shortcut set

Flip image vertical no shortcut set no shortcut set

Image Adjustments

Shadows boost On/Off Shift+S ⇧S

Highlights inspection On/Off Shift+H ⇧H

Show/Hide Overexposed areas O O

Show/Hide Underexposed areas U U

Toggle White Balance

W W
(Daylight/As Shot/Auto)

Manual White Balance Alt+W ⌥W

Custom WB Alt+Left Click ⌥Left Click

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Key Sequence Key Sequence

Action
Windows Mac OS X

Increase image contrast K K

Decrease image contrast Shift+K ⇧K

Exposure correction Off/On A A

Alt++ ⌥+
Increase Exposure
Alt+= ⌥=

Alt+Ctrl++ ⌘⌥+
Increase Exposure, big step
Alt+ Ctrl+= ⌘⌥=

Decrease Exposure Alt+- ⌥-

Decrease Exposure, big step Alt+Ctrl+- ⌘⌥-

Auto Exposure correction Shift+A ⇧A

Reset image display to defaults Ctrl-Shift-R ⌘⇧R

Information Panels

Show/Hide Histogram F2 F2

Show/Hide EXIF F3 F3

Show/Hide OE/UE Stats F4 F4

Show/Hide XMP Metadata panel F5 F5

Show/Hide Filmstrip panel F6 F6

Show/Hide Folders panel F7 F7

Show/Hide Favorite Folders sub panel Shift+F7 ⇧F7

Hide all panels Tab ⇥

Move keyboard focus to folders panel Ctrl+F7 ⌘F7

Move keyboard focus to favorite folders panel Ctrl+Shift+F7 ⌘⇧F7

Move keyboard focus to grid panel Ctrl+G ⌘G

Move keyboard focus to filmstrip panel Ctrl+F6 ⌘F6

Reset panels positions Alt+F10 ⌥F10

XMP Rating

No Rating Alt+0 ⌥0

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Key Sequence Key Sequence

Action
Windows Mac OS X

Set Rating to Reject Alt+Del ⌥⌫

Set Rating to 1 Alt+1 ⌥1

Set Rating to 2 Alt+2 ⌥2

Set Rating to 3 Alt+3 ⌥3

Set Rating to 4 Alt+4 ⌥4

Set Rating to 5 Alt+5 ⌥5

Decrease Rating Alt+, ⌥,

Increase Rating Alt+. ⌥.

XMP Labels

Clear XMP Label no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Red Alt+6 ⌥6

Yellow Alt+7 ⌥7

Green Alt+8 ⌥8

Blue Alt+9 ⌥9

Purple no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Edit Title/Description Alt+D ⌥D

External editors

Show in Windows Explorer Ctrl+F ⌘F

Run External Program 1 R R

Run External Program 2 Alt+R ⌥R

Run External Program 3 Ctrl+R ⌘R

Run External Program 4 no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Run External Program 5 no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Run External Program 6 no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Run External Program 7 no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Run External Program 8 no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

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Key Sequence Key Sequence

Action
Windows Mac OS X

Run External Program 9 no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Run External Program10 no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

File Selection for batch

Select/Deselect current file Ctrl+/ ⌘/

Ctrl+. ⌘.
Select/Deselect current file and move to next
Shift+Right ⇧→

Move to previous file and reverse its selection Shift+Left ⇧←

Select all files Ctrl+A ⌘A

Unselect all files Ctrl+D ⌘D

Invert selection Ctrl+I ⌘I

Select by Rating/Label Ctrl+' ⌘'

Save Selection to file no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Load Selection from file no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Append Selection from file no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

General Functions

Edit Preferences Ctrl+P ⌘,

Edit Keyboard Shortcuts Ctrl+K ⌘K

Customize bottom bar no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Exit program Ctrl+Q ⌘Q

Mac keys Legend

⌘ - Command key ⌥ - Option key, A.K.A Alt key ⌃ - Control key ⇧ - Shift key

⌫ - Delete key, A.K.A. Backspace key

⇥ - Tab key
⇞ - Page Up key ⇟ - Page Down key
↖ - Home key ↘ - End key

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List of Supported Cameras (RAW formats)

• ASUS
o ZenPhone4
o ZenPhone6
• AVT
o F-080C
o F-145C
o F-201C
o F-510C
o F-810C
• Adobe Digital Negative (DNG)
• AgfaPhoto DC-833m
• Alcatel 5035D
• Apple
o iPad Pro
o iPhone SE
o iPhone 6s
o iPhone 6 plus
o iPhone 7
o iPhone 7 plus
o iPhone 8
o iPhone 8 plus
o iPhone X
o iPhone 12 Max
o iPhone 12 Max Pro
o QuickTake 100
o QuickTake 150
o QuickTake 200
• AutelRobotics
o XB015
o XT705 (EVO II)
• BQ Aquarius U
• Baumer TXG14
• BlackMagic
o Cinema Camera
o Micro Cinema Camera
o Pocket Cinema Camera
o Production Camera 4k
o URSA
o URSA Mini 4k
o URSA Mini 4.6k
o URSA Mini Pro 4.6k
• CLAUSS pix500
• Canon
o PowerShot 600

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o PowerShot A5
o PowerShot A5 Zoom
o PowerShot A50
o PowerShot A410 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A460 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A470 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A480 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A530 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A540 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A550 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A560 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A570 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A590 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A610 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A620 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A630 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A640 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A650 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A710 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A720 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot A3300 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot D10 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot ELPH 130 IS / IXUS 140 / IXY 110F (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot ELPH 160 / IXUS 160 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot Pro70
o PowerShot Pro90 IS
o PowerShot Pro1
o PowerShot G1
o PowerShot G1 X
o PowerShot G1 X Mark II
o PowerShot G1 X Mark III
o PowerShot G2
o PowerShot G3
o PowerShot G3 X
o PowerShot G5
o PowerShot G5 X
o PowerShot G5 X Mark II
o PowerShot G6
o PowerShot G7 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot G7 X
o PowerShot G7 X Mark II
o PowerShot G7 X Mark III
o PowerShot G9
o PowerShot G9 X
o PowerShot G9 X Mark II
o PowerShot G10

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o PowerShot G11
o PowerShot G12
o PowerShot G15
o PowerShot G16
o PowerShot S2 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot S3 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot S5 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SD300 / IXUS 40 / IXY Digital 50 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SD750 / IXUS 75 / IXY Digital 90 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SD900 / Digital IXUS 900 Ti / IXY Digital 1000 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SD950 IS / Digital IXUS 960 IS / IXY Digital 2000 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SD1200 IS / Digital IXUS 95 IS / IXY Digital 110 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot S30
o PowerShot S40
o PowerShot S45
o PowerShot S50
o PowerShot S60
o PowerShot S70
o PowerShot S90
o PowerShot S95
o PowerShot S100
o PowerShot S110
o PowerShot S120
o PowerShot SX1 IS
o PowerShot SX40 HS (CHDK hack, CR2)
o PowerShot SX50 HS
o PowerShot SX60 HS
o PowerShot SX70 HS
o PowerShot SX100 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SX110 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SX120 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SX130 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SX160 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SX220 HS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SX510 HS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SX710 HS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SX10 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SX20 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SX30 IS (CHDK hack)
o EOS R
o EOS RP
o EOS R5
o EOS R6
o EOS D30
o EOS D60
o EOS 5DS

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o EOS 5DS R
o EOS 5D
o EOS 5D Mark II
o EOS 5D Mark III
o EOS 5D Mark IV
o EOS 6D
o EOS 6D Mark II
o EOS 7D
o EOS 7D Mark II
o EOS 10D
o EOS 20D
o EOS 20Da
o EOS 30D
o EOS 40D
o EOS 50D
o EOS 60D
o EOS 60Da
o EOS 70D
o EOS 77D / 9000D
o EOS 80D
o EOS 90D
o EOS 100D / Rebel SL1 / Kiss X7
o EOS 200D / Rebel SL2 / Kiss X9
o EOS 250D / 200D II / Rebel SL3 / Kiss X10
o EOS 300D / Digital Rebel / Kiss Digital
o EOS 350D / Digital Rebel XT / Kiss Digital N
o EOS 400D / Digital Rebel XTi / Kiss Digital X
o EOS 450D / Digital Rebel XSi / Kiss X2
o EOS 500D / Rebel T1i / Kiss X3
o EOS 550D / Rebel T2i / Kiss X4
o EOS 600D / Rebel T3i / Kiss X5
o EOS 650D / Rebel T4i / Kiss X6i
o EOS 700D / Rebel T5i / Kiss X7i
o EOS 750D / Rebel T6i / Kiss X8i
o EOS 760D / Rebel T6S / 8000D
o EOS 800D / Rebel T7i / Kiss X9i
o EOS 850D / Rebel T8i / Kiss X10i
o EOS 1000D / Digital Rebel XS / Kiss F
o EOS 1100D / Rebel T3 / Kiss X50
o EOS 1200D / Kiss X70 / REBEL T5 / Hi
o EOS 1300D / Rebel T6 / Kiss X80
o EOS 1500D / 2000D / Rebel T7 / Kiss X90
o EOS 3000D / 4000D / Rebel T100
o EOS D2000
o EOS M
o EOS M2

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o EOS M3
o EOS M5
o EOS M6
o EOS M6 Mark II
o EOS M10
o EOS M50 / Kiss M
o EOS M100
o EOS M200
o EOS-1D C
o EOS-1D X
o EOS-1D X Mark II
o EOS-1D X Mark III
o EOS-1D
o EOS-1D Mark II
o EOS-1D Mark II N
o EOS-1D Mark III
o EOS-1D Mark IV
o EOS-1Ds
o EOS-1Ds Mark II
o EOS-1Ds Mark III
• Casio
o QV-2000UX (secret menu hack)
o QV-3000EX (secret menu hack)
o QV-3500EX (secret menu hack)
o QV-4000 (secret menu hack)
o QV-5700 (secret menu hack)
o QV-R41
o QV-R51
o QV-R61
o EX-F1
o EX-FC300S
o EX-FC400S
o EX-FH20
o EX-FH25
o EX-FH100
o EX-S20 / M20
o EX-S100
o EX-Z4
o EX-Z50
o EX-Z500
o EX-Z55
o EX-Z60
o EX-Z75
o EX-Z750
o EX-Z8
o EX-Z850

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o EX-Z1050
o EX-ZR100
o EX-Z1080
o EX-ZR700
o EX-ZR710
o EX-ZR750
o EX-ZR800
o EX-ZR850
o EX-ZR1000
o EX-ZR1100
o EX-ZR1200
o EX-ZR1300
o EX-ZR1500
o EX-ZR3000
o EX-ZR3100
o EX-ZR3200
o EX-ZR3500
o EX-ZR3600
o EX-ZR3700
o EX-ZR4000 / 5000
o EX-ZR4100 / 5100
o EX-100
o EX-100F
o EX-100PRO
o EX-10
o EX-P505 (secret menu hack)
o EX-P600 (secret menu hack)
o EX-P700 (secret menu hack)
• Contax N Digital
• Creative PC-CAM 600
• DJI
o 4384x3288
o Mavic Air
o Mavic Air2
o Mavic Mini2
o Osmo Action
o Pocket
o Phantom4 Pro/Pro+
o Zenmuse X5
o Zenmuse X5R
• DXO One
• Digital Bolex
o D16
o D16M
• Epson
o R-D1

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o R-D1s
o R-D1x
• Eyedeas E1
• Foculus 531C
• FujiFilm
o DBP for GX680 / DX-2000
o E550
o E900
o F500EXR / F505EXR
o F550EXR
o F600EXR / F605EXR
o F700
o F710
o F770EXR / F775EXR
o F800EXR
o F810
o F900EXR
o S2Pro
o S3Pro
o S5Pro
o S20Pro
o S1
o S100FS
o S5000
o S5100 / S5500
o S5200 / S5600
o S6000fd / S6500fd
o S7000
o S9000 / S9500
o S9100 / S9600
o S200EXR / S205EXR
o SL1000
o HS10/HS11
o HS20EXR / HS22EXR
o HS30EXR / HS33EXR / HS35EXR
o HS50EXR
o GFX 50S
o GFX 50R
o GFX 100
o GFX 100S
o X-Pro1
o X-Pro2
o X-Pro3
o X-S1
o XQ1
o XQ2

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o X100
o X100F
o X100S
o X100T
o X100V
o X10
o X20
o X30
o X70
o X-A1
o X-A2
o X-A3
o X-A5
o X-A7
o X-A10
o X-A20
o X-E1
o X-E2
o X-E2S
o X-E3
o X-E4
o X-M1
o XF1
o XF10
o X-H1
o X-T1
o X-S10
o X-T1 Graphite Silver
o X-T2
o X-T3
o X-T4 (uncompressed and lossless compressed only)
o X-T10
o X-T20
o X-T30
o X-T100
o X-T200
o IS-1
• GITUP
o GIT2
o GIT2P
o G3 DUO (16:9 mode only)
• Gione E7
• GoPro
o Fusion
o HERO5
o HERO6

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o HERO7
o HERO8
o HERO9
• Google
o Pixel
o Pixel XL
o Pixel 3a
o Pixel 4 XL
o Pixel 4a (5G)
o Pixel 5
• HTC
o UltraPixel
o MyTouch 4G
o One (A9)
o One (M9)
o 10
o U12
• Hasselblad
o H2D-22
o H2D-39
o H3DII-22
o H3DII-31
o H3DII-39
o H3DII-50
o H3D-22
o H3D-31
o H3D-39
o H4D-60
o H4D-50
o H4D-40
o H4D-31
o H5D-60
o H5D-50
o H5D-50c
o H5D-40
o H6D-100c
o A6D-100c
o CFV
o CFV-50
o CFV II 50C
o CFH
o CF-22
o CF-31
o CF-39
o V96C
o L1D-20c (DJI Mavic 2 Pro)

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o Lusso
o Lunar
o True Zoom
o Stellar
o Stellar II
o HV
o X1D
o X1D II 50C
• Huawei
o P8 Lite (PRA-LX1)
o P9 (EVA-L09/AL00)
o P10 (VTR-L09)
o P10+ (VKY-L09)
o P10 Lite (WAS-LX1A)
o P20 (EML-L09)
o P20 Pro (CLT-L29/L09)
o P30 Pro (VOG-L29)
o Honor6a
o Honor7a pro
o Honor8 (FRD-L09)
o Honor9
o Honor10
o Honor20
o Honor View 10 (BKL-L09)
o Honor View 20 (PCT-L29)
o Honor 20 Pro (YAL-L41)
o Mate8 (NXT-L29)
o Mate10 (BLA-L29)
o Mate20 Pro (LYA-L29)
o Mate20 Lite (SNE-LX1)
• ISG 2020x1520
• Ikonoskop
o A-Cam dII Panchromatic
o A-Cam dII
• Imacon
o Ixpress 96, 96C
o Ixpress 384, 384C (single shot only)
o Ixpress 132C
o Ixpress 528C (single shot only)
• JaiPulnix
o BB-500CL
o BB-500GE
• Kinefinity
o KineMINI
o KineRAW Mini
o KineRAW S35

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• Kodak
o DC20
o DC25
o DC40
o DC50
o DC120
o DCS200
o DCS315C
o DCS330C
o DCS420
o DCS460
o DCS460M
o DCS460
o DCS520C
o DCS560C
o DCS620C
o DCS620X
o DCS660C
o DCS660M
o DCS720X
o DCS760C
o DCS760M
o EOSDCS1
o EOSDCS3
o NC2000
o ProBack
o PB645C
o PB645H
o PB645M
o DCS Pro 14n
o DCS Pro 14nx
o DCS Pro SLR/c
o DCS Pro SLR/n
o C330
o C603
o P850
o P880
o PIXPRO AZ901
o PIXPRO S-1
o Z980
o Z981
o Z990
o Z1015
o KAI-0340
• Konica
o KD-400Z

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o KD-510Z
• LG
o G3
o G4
o G5 (H850)
o G6
o V20 (F800K)
o V20 (H910)
o VS995
• Leaf
o AFi 5
o AFi 6
o AFi 7
o AFi-II 6
o AFi-II 7
o AFi-II 10
o AFi-II 10R
o Aptus-II 5
o Aptus-II 6
o Aptus-II 7
o Aptus-II 8
o Aptus-II 10
o Aptus-II 12
o Aptus-II 12R
o Aptus 17
o Aptus 22
o Aptus 54S
o Aptus 65
o Aptus 65S
o Aptus 75
o Aptus 75S
o Cantare
o Cantare XY
o CatchLight
o CMost
o Credo 40
o Credo 50
o Credo 60
o Credo 80 (low compression mode only)
o DCB-II
o Valeo 6
o Valeo 11
o Valeo 17
o Valeo 17wi
o Valeo 22
o Valeo 22wi

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o Volare
• Leica
o C (Typ 112)
o CL
o C-Lux / CAM-DC25
o Digilux 2
o Digilux 3
o Digital-Modul-R
o D-LUX2
o D-LUX3
o D-LUX4
o D-LUX5
o D-LUX6
o D-LUX7
o D-Lux (Typ 109)
o M8
o M8.2
o M9
o M10
o M10-D
o M10-P
o M10-R
o M10 Monochrom
o M (Typ 240)
o M (Typ 262)
o Monochrom (Typ 240)
o Monochrom (Typ 246)
o M-D (Typ 262)
o M-E
o M-P
o R8
o Q (Typ 116)
o Q-P
o Q2
o Q2 Monochrom
o S
o S2
o S3
o S (Typ 007)
o SL (Typ 601)
o SL2
o SL2-S
o T (Typ 701)
o TL
o TL2
o X1

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o X (Typ 113)
o X2
o X-E (Typ 102)
o X-U (Typ 113)
o V-LUX1
o V-LUX2
o V-LUX3
o V-LUX4
o V-LUX5
o V-Lux (Typ 114)
o X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Lenovo a820
• Logitech Fotoman Pixtura
• Mamiya ZD
• Matrix 4608x3288
• Meizy MX4
• Micron 2010
• Minolta
o RD175 / Agfa ActionCam
o DiMAGE 5
o DiMAGE 7
o DiMAGE 7i
o DiMAGE 7Hi
o DiMAGE A1
o DiMAGE A2
o DiMAGE A200
o DiMAGE G400
o DiMAGE G500
o DiMAGE G530
o DiMAGE G600
o DiMAGE Z2
o Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum 5D
o Alpha/Dynax/Maxxum 7D
• Motorola
o PIXL
o Moto G (5S)
o Moto G7 Play
• Nikon
o D1
o D1H
o D1X
o D2H
o D2Hs
o D2X
o D2Xs
o D3

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o D3s
o D3X
o D4
o D4s
o D40
o D40X
o D5
o D50
o D6
o D60
o D70
o D70s
o D80
o D90
o D100
o D200
o D300
o D300s
o D500
o D600
o D610
o D700
o D750
o D780
o D800
o D800E
o D810
o D810A
o D850
o D3000
o D3100
o D3200
o D3300
o D3400
o D3500
o D5000
o D5100
o D5200
o D5300
o D5500
o D5600
o D7000
o D7100
o D7200
o D7500
o Df

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o Z5
o Z6
o Z 6 II
o Z7
o Z 7 II
o Z 50
o 1 AW1
o 1 J1
o 1 J2
o 1 J3
o 1 J4
o 1 J5
o 1 S1
o 1 S2
o 1 V1
o 1 V2
o 1 V3
o Coolpix 700 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
o Coolpix 800 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
o Coolpix 880 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
o Coolpix 900 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
o Coolpix 950 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
o Coolpix 990 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
o Coolpix 995 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
o Coolpix 2100 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
o Coolpix 2500 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
o Coolpix 3200 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
o Coolpix 3700 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
o Coolpix 4300 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
o Coolpix 4500 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
o Coolpix 5000
o Coolpix 5400
o Coolpix 5700
o Coolpix 8400
o Coolpix 8700
o Coolpix 8800
o Coolpix A
o Coolpix A1000
o Coolpix B700
o Coolpix P330
o Coolpix P340
o Coolpix P950
o Coolpix P6000
o Coolpix P1000
o Coolpix P7000
o Coolpix P7100

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o Coolpix P7700
o Coolpix P7800
o Coolpix S6 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
o Coolscan NEF
• Nokia
o 7 Plus
o 8.3 5G
o 9
o N95
o X2
o 1200x1600
o Lumia 930
o Lumia 950 XL
o Lumia 1020
o Lumia 1520
• Olympus
o AIR A01
o C-3030Z
o C-5050Z
o C-5060WZ
o C-7070WZ
o C-70Z / C-7000Z
o C-740UZ
o C-770UZ
o C-8080WZ
o X200 / D-560Z / C-350Z
o E-1
o E-3
o E-5
o E-10
o E-20 / E-20N / E-20P
o E-30
o E-300
o E-330
o E-400
o E-410
o E-420
o E-450
o E-500
o E-510
o E-520
o E-600
o E-620
o E-P1
o E-P2
o E-P3

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o E-P5
o E-PL1
o E-PL1s
o E-PL2
o E-PL3
o E-PL5
o E-PL6
o E-PL7
o E-PL8
o E-PL9
o E-PL10
o E-PM1
o E-PM2
o E-M1
o E-M1 Mark II
o E-M1 Mark III
o E-M1X
o E-M10
o E-M10 Mark II
o E-M10 Mark III
o E-M10 Mark IV
o E-M5
o E-M5 Mark II
o E-M5 Mark III
o Pen-F
o SP-310
o SP-320
o SP-350
o SP-500UZ
o SP-510UZ
o SP-550UZ
o SP-560UZ
o SP-565UZ
o SP-570UZ
o Stylus 1
o Stylus 1s
o SH-2
o SH-3
o TG-4
o TG-5
o TG-6
o XZ-1
o XZ-2
o XZ-10
• OmniVision
o 4688

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o OV5647
o OV5648
o OV8850
o 13860
• OnePlus
o 6 (A6003)
o 6T
o 7 Pro (GM1913)
o 8 Pro (IN2023)
o One
o A3303
o A5000
• PARROT
o Anafi
o Bebop 2
o Bebop Drone
• Panasonic
o DMC-CM1
o DMC-FZ8
o DMC-FZ18
o DMC-FZ28
o DMC-FZ30
o DMC-FZ35 / FZ38
o DMC-FZ40 / FZ42 / FZ45
o DMC-FZ50
o DMC-FZ70 / FZ72
o DC-FZ80 / FZ81 / FZ82 / FZ83 / FZ85
o DMC-FZ100
o DMC-FZ150
o DMC-FZ200
o DMC-FZ300 / FZ330
o DMC-FZ1000
o DC-FZ1000 II / FZ1000M2 / DC-FZ10002
o DMC-FZ2000 / FZ2500 / FZH1
o DMC-FX150 / FX180
o DMC-G1
o DMC-G10
o DMC-G2
o DMC-G3
o DMC-G5
o DMC-G6
o DMC-G7 / G70
o DMC-G8 / G80 / G81 / G85
o DC-G9
o DC-G90 / G95 / G91 / G99
o DC-G100 / G110

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o DMC-GF1
o DMC-GF2
o DMC-GF3
o DMC-GF5
o DMC-GF6
o DMC-GF7
o DC-GF10 / GF90
o DMC-GH1
o DMC-GH2
o DMC-GH3
o DMC-GH4
o AG-GH4
o DC-GH5
o DC-GH5S
o DMC-GM1
o DMC-GM1s
o DMC-GM5
o DMC-GX1
o DMC-GX7
o DMC-GX8
o DC-GX9 / GX7mkIII
o DMC-GX80 / GX85, DMC-GX7mkII
o DC-GX800 / GX850, DC-GF9
o DMC-L1
o DMC-L10
o DMC-LC1
o DMC-LF1
o DMC-LX1
o DMC-LX2
o DMC-LX3
o DMC-LX5
o DMC-LX7
o DMC-LX9 / LX10 / LX15
o DMC-LX100
o DC-LX100M2
o DC-S1
o DC-S1H
o DC-S1R
o DC-S5
o DMC-ZS40, DMC-TZ60 / TZ61
o DMC-ZS50, DMC-TZ70 / TZ71
o DMC-ZS60, DMC-TZ80 / TZ81 / TZ82 / TZ85
o DC-ZS70, DC-TZ90 / TZ91 / TZ92 / TZ93
o DC-ZS80, DC-TZ95 / TZ96 / TZ97
o DMC-ZS100 / ZS110, DMC-TZ100 / TZ101 / TZ110, DMC-TX1
o DC-ZS200 / ZS220, DC-TZ200 / TZ202 / TZ220, DC-TX2

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• Pentax
o *ist D
o *ist DL
o *ist DL2
o *ist DS
o *ist DS2
o K10D
o K20D
o K100D
o K100D Super
o K110D
o K200D
o K2000/K-m
o KP
o K-x
o K-r
o K-01
o K-1
o K-1 Mark II
o K-3
o K-3 II
o K-30
o K-5
o K-5 II
o K-5 IIs
o K-50
o K-500
o K-7
o K-70
o K-S1
o K-S2
o MX-1
o Q
o Q7
o Q10
o QS-1
o Optio S (secret menu or hack)
o Optio S4 (secret menu or hack)
o Optio 33WR (secret menu or hack)
o Optio 750Z (secret menu or hack)
o 645D
o 645Z
• PhaseOne
o IQ140
o IQ150
o IQ160

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o IQ180
o IQ180 IR
o IQ250
o IQ260
o IQ260 Achromatic
o IQ280
o IQ3 50MP
o IQ3 60MP
o IQ3 80MP
o IQ3 100MP
o IQ3 100MP Trichromatic
o IQ4 150MP
o LightPhase
o Achromatic+
o H 10
o H 20
o H 25
o P 20
o P 20+
o P 21
o P 25
o P 25+
o P 30
o P 30+
o P 40+
o P 45
o P 45+
o P 65
o P 65+
• Photron BC2-HD
• Pixelink A782
• Polaroid x530 (embedded previews only)
• PtGrey GRAS-50S5C
• RaspberryPi
o Camera
o Camera V2
• Realme 3 Pro
• Ricoh
o GR
o GR II
o GR III
o GR Digital
o GR Digital II
o GR Digital III
o GR Digital IV
o Caplio GX100

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o Caplio GX200
o GXR Mount A12
o GXR GR Lens A12 50mm F2.5 Macro
o GXR GR Lens A12 28mm F2.5
o GXR Ricoh Lens A16 24-85mm F3.5-5.5
o GXR Ricoh Lens S10 24-72mm F2.5-4.4 VC
o GXR Ricoh Lens P10 28-300 mm F3.5-5.6 VC
• Rollei d530flex
• RoverShot 3320af
• SMaL
o Ultra-Pocket 3
o Ultra-Pocket 4
o Ultra-Pocket 5
• STV680 VGA
• SVS SVS625CL
• Samsung
o EX1 / TL500
o EX2F
o GX-1L
o GX-1S
o GX10
o GX20
o Galaxy Nexus
o Galaxy Note 9
o Galaxy NX (EK-GN120)
o Galaxy S3
o Galaxy S6 (SM-G920F)
o Galaxy S7
o Galaxy S7 Edge
o Galaxy S8 (SM-G950U)
o Galaxy S9 (SM-G960F)
o Galaxy S9+ (SM-G965U / 965F)
o Galaxy S10 (SM-G973F)
o Galaxy S10+ (SM-G975U)
o NX1
o NX5
o NX10
o NX11
o NX100
o NX1000
o NX1100
o NX20
o NX200
o NX210
o NX2000
o NX30

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o NX300
o NX300M
o NX3000
o NX500
o NX mini / NXF1
o Pro815
o WB550 / WB560 / HZ15W
o WB2000 / TL350
o WB5000 / HZ25W
o S85 (hacked)
o S850 (hacked)
• Sarnoff 4096x5440
• Seitz
o 6x17
o Roundshot D3
o Roundshot D2X
o Roundshot D2Xs
• Sigma (X3F files: embedded previews only)
o fp
o SD9
o SD10
o SD14
o SD15
o SD1
o SD1 Merrill
o DP1
o DP1 Merrill
o DP1S
o DP1X
o DP2
o DP2 Merrill
o DP2S
o DP2X
o DP3 Merrill
o dp0 Quattro
o dp1 Quattro
o dp2 Quattro
o dp3 Quattro
o sd Quattro
o sd Quattro H
• Sinar
o eMotion 22
o eMotion 54
o eSpirit 65
o eMotion 75
o eVolution 75

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o 3072x2048 (Sinarback 23)

o 4080x4080 (Sinarback 44)
o 4080x5440
o STI format
o Sinarback 54
• Sony
o ILCE-1 (A1)
o ILCE-7 (A7)
o ILCE-7M2 (A7 II)
o ILCE-7M3 (A7 III)
o ILCE-7C (A7C)
o ILCE-7R (A7R
o ILCE-7RM2 (A7R II)
o ILCE-7RM3 (A7R III)
o ILCE-7RM4 (A7R IV)
o ILCE-7S (A7S)
o ILCE-7SM2 (A7S II)
o ILCE-7SM3 (A7S III)
o ILCE-9 (A9)
o ILCE-9M2 (A9 II)
o ILCA-68 (A68)
o ILCA-77M2 (A77-II)
o ILCA-99M2 (A99-II)
o ILCE-3000 / 3500
o ILCE-5000
o ILCE-5100
o ILCE-6000
o ILCE-6100
o ILCE-6300
o ILCE-6400
o ILCE-6500
o ILCE-6600
o ILCE-QX1
o DSC-F828
o DSC-HX95
o DSC-HX99
o DSC-R1
o DSC-RX0
o DSC-RX0 II
o DSC-RX1
o DSC-RX1R
o DSC-RX1R II
o DSC-RX10
o DSC-RX10 II
o DSC-RX10 III
o DSC-RX10 IV

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o DSC-RX100
o DSC-RX100 II
o DSC-RX100 III
o DSC-RX100 IV
o DSC-RX100 V
o DSC-RX100 VA
o DSC-RX100 VI
o DSC-RX100 VII
o DSC-V3
o DSLR-A100
o DSLR-A200
o DSLR-A230
o DSLR-A290
o DSLR-A300
o DSLR-A330
o DSLR-A350
o DSLR-A380 / A390
o DSLR-A450
o DSLR-A500
o DSLR-A550
o DSLR-A560
o DSLR-A580
o DSLR-A700
o DSLR-A850
o DSLR-A900
o NEX-3
o NEX-3N
o NEX-5
o NEX-5N
o NEX-5R
o NEX-5T
o NEX-6
o NEX-7
o NEX-C3
o NEX-F3
o NEX-VG20
o NEX-VG30
o NEX-VG900
o SLT-A33
o SLT-A35
o SLT-A37
o SLT-A55(V)
o SLT-A57
o SLT-A58
o SLT-A65(V)
o SLT-A77(V)

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o SLT-A99(V)
o XCD-SX910CR
o IMX135-mipi 13mp
o IMX135-QCOM
o IMX072-mipi
o IMX214
o IMX219
o IMX230
o IMX298-mipi 16mp
o IMX219-mipi 8mp
o Xperia 5 II (XQ-AS52)
o Xperia L
o ZV-1 (DCZV1/B)
• Vivo X51 5G (V2006)
• Xiaomi
o MI3
o MI 8
o MI 9 Lite
o MI MAX
o RedMi Note3 Pro
o RedMi Note7
o FIMI X8SE
• Xiaoyi YIAC3 (YI 4k)
• YUNEEC
o CGO3
o CGO3P
o CGO4
• Yi M1
• Zeiss ZX1
• Zenit M

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Copyrights and Acknowledgements

FastRawViewer uses Qt 5.12 (Qt 5.4 for legacy version), LibRaw library, RawSpeed library, LibXML2
and LibJPEG-turbo libraries, LibTIFF 4, LibPNG 1.6.36, Adobe XMP and DNG SDK, and Microsoft Visual
Studio 2010 runtime library.
All trademarks mentioned in this manual are the property of their owners.

LibRaw
LibRaw: raw images processing library
Copyright (C) 2008-2014 LibRaw LLC (http://www.libraw.org, mailto:[email protected])

Qt 5.12
Copyright (C) 2016 The Qt Company Ltd.
Contact: https://www.qt.io/licensing/
Qt library is used under the terms of GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 2.1, see file LICENSE.LGPL
in the RawDigger program directory.

Qt 5.4
Copyright (C) 2014 Digia Plc and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
Contact: http://www.qt-project.org/legal
Qt library is used under the terms of GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 2.1, see file LICENSE.LGPL
in the FastRawViewer program directory.
Qt uses a number of freeware libraries; their list and copyrights are contained in file QT-Third-Party-
Licenses.rtf LGPL in the FastRawViewer program directory.

RawSpeed library
RawSpeed - RAW file decoder.
Copyright (C) 2009 Klaus Post
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

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LibJPEG-turbo
Copyright 2009 Pierre Ossman <[email protected]> for Cendio AB
Copyright 2010 D. R. Commander
Based on x86 SIMD extension for IJG JPEG library - version 1.02
Copyright (C) 1999-2006, MIYASAKA Masaru.
This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors
be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permission is granted to anyone
to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and
redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:
1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote
the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product
documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as
being the original software.
3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

LibJPEG
The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software
This distribution contains a release of the Independent JPEG Group's free JPEG software. You are
welcome to redistribute this software and to use it for any purpose, subject to the conditions under
LEGAL ISSUES, below.
This software is the work of Tom Lane, Guido Vollbeding, Philip Gladstone, Bill Allombert, Jim
Boucher, Lee Crocker, Bob Friesenhahn, Ben Jackson, Julian Minguillon, Luis Ortiz, George Phillips,
Davide Rossi, Ge' Weijers, and other members of the Independent JPEG Group.
IJG is not affiliated with the official ISO JPEG standards committee.

LibXML2
Copyright (C) 1998-2003 Daniel Veillard. All Rights Reserved.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and
associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial
portions of the Software.

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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THEDANIEL VEILLARD BE
LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHERIN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE
USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Except as contained in this notice, the name of Daniel Veillard shall not be used in advertising or
otherwise to promote the sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written
authorization from him.

LibTiff
Copyright (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler
Copyright (c) 1991-1997 Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any
purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that (i) the above copyright notices and this
permission notice appear in all copies of the software and related documentation, and (ii) the names
of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics may not be used in any advertising or publicity relating to the
software without the specific, prior written permission of Sam Leffler and Silicon Graphics.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR
OTHERWISE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM LEFFLER OR SILICON GRAPHICS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL,
INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING
FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
DAMAGE, AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE
OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

Libde265
Copyright (c) 2013-2017 struktur AG, Dirk Farin <[email protected]>
libde265 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser
General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License,
or (at your option) any later version.
libde265 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.

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LibPNG
PNG Reference Library License version 2
---------------------------------------
* Copyright (c) 1995-2018 The PNG Reference Library Authors.
* Copyright (c) 2018 Cosmin Truta.
* Copyright (c) 2000-2002, 2004, 2006-2018 Glenn Randers-Pehrson.
* Copyright (c) 1996-1997 Andreas Dilger.
* Copyright (c) 1995-1996 Guy Eric Schalnat, Group 42, Inc.
The software is supplied "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, without
limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title,
and non-infringement. In no even shall the Copyright owners, oranyone distributing the software, be
liable for any damages or other liability, whether in contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of,
or in connection with the software, or the use or other dealings in the software, even if advised of
the possibility of such damage.
Permission is hereby granted to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software, or portions hereof,
for any purpose, without fee, subject to the following restrictions:
1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote
the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the
product documentation would be appreciated, but is not required.
2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as
being the original software.
3. This Copyright notice may not be removed or altered from any source or altered source
distribution.

Adobe XMP SDK

The BSD License
Copyright (c) 1999 - 2013, Adobe Systems Incorporated All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted
provided that the following conditions are met:
• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions
and the following disclaimer.

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• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of
conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
provided with the distribution.
• Neither the name of Adobe Systems Incorporated, nor the names of its contributors may be
used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior
written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL
THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS;OR BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT,
STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF
THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Adobe DNG SDK

DNG SDK License Agreement
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this Agreement. Any download, installation, use, reproduction, modification or distribution of the
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"Documentation" means the documents, specifications and all other items accompanying this
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You will not remove any copyright or other notice included in the Software or Documentation and
you will include such notices in any copies of the Software that you distribute in human-readable
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and enforceable according to its terms.
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MICROSOFT VISUAL C++ 2010/2013 RUNTIME LIBRARIES

Copyright 2010-2013 Microsoft Corp.
Microsoft runtime libraries are distributed under the terms described in file MSVC-Runtime-EULA.rtf
in the FastRawViewer program directory.

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How FastRawViewer Helps You

FastRawViewer Strengths and Features

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JPEG files ............................................................................................................................................. 35

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File Sorting .......................................................................................................................................... 57

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Working with subfolders (nested folders) .......................................................................................... 84

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Histogram ..................................................................................................................................... 110

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Other video adapters’ compatibility parameters ......................................................................... 132

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External Editors................................................................................................................................. 177

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Conventions used in this Manual

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“Recommended minimum” computer configuration

• RAW files 20-35Mpix (typical file size is 20-45MB):

• RAW files 40-60Mpix (files are 50-120MB):

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At the next screens of Setup Wizard:

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In case of any errors during installation, please contact us via www.fastrawviewer.com/contact or

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First Launch and Program Activation

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Activation of the License You’ve Purchased

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By using E-mail client with an automatically prepared message – click the

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First launch: automatic search for RAW-capable applications

1st Run: Windows Hardware Acceleration Method Selection

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Using the Program: First Steps

View modes: “Grid” and Single-file

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• Menu – View – Switch to single image (G key by default).

Switching back to Grid mode:

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• Located in the central part of the window:

• To the left, the following panels are displayed:

• The following panes are located to the right:

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Changing the Settings

Apart from general application settings

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Help with the Keyboard Shortcuts

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Supported file formats

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Determining the file type

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• .TIF, .TIFF – TIFF file formats

Maximum file sizes

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o The number of files stored in RAM is set through Preferences – Performance –

Preview and Metadata cache

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Disk cache for previews

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