#Fastrawviewer manual#
#Fastrawviewer software#
#Fastrawviewer trial#

People who own a DSLR know that they have the option of shooting in normal JPEG mode or in RAW mode. Some of them are hobbyist, some professionals and others just want to take better selfies. I have Fast Raw Viewer but seldom use it.Nowadays, we can find every other person with a DSLR. I came up from Elements to PS (before Lightroom) and established my own file protocol. Both Bridge and PS have ACR with whichI I have become expert. FRV given what I wanted out of it.culling.that's it, nothing more. However, I don't make money from photography, nor do I tend to take tons of pics. I do use PS Essentials and Affinity for some basic edits.Īpology to the OP for sidetracking the thread.įRV for me. Nope, I don't use LR or any other cataloging software. If you have already ingested into Lightroom the answer is 'yes but think hard before you do it'. My recommendation is always use PM before LR ingest, then just use LR, period. This is not so much a PM issue, or even a LR issue, just a 'it's really easy to confuse the human issue'. For example, you might use PM on an existing LR folder, and then LR will show you a metadata conflict warning and you might do a read-metadata to fix it, and find some or all of your LR metadata gone. So it is all too easy to get the metadata screwed up and do something unexpected. The problem is both LR and PM use XMP files to recording settings of metadata as well as some edits (like crops). Raws load instantly, so it's MILES ahead of LR. Settings -> uncheck 'ask before deleting', check 'automatically skip to next photo' and 'delete to recycle bin' and you can just use the arrows and delete key. Lately, I just use IrfanView - it's free, though Windows-only and lacks the Metadata features, but if I just want to delete 90% of the shots from an event, I can do it super fast. I've tried both and been impressed, but it's been a few years.

#Fastrawviewer trial#

Thanks! I'm off to download the trial version. I'd like to be able to (somewhat) easily go through those and cull/tag/etc.

I have quite a few existing photos organized by year/month/subject that I never took the time to properly flag. Can PM be easily used to reprocess existing photos? PM's crop tool is so much faster than LR (though the PM6 crop tool is several times slower than PM 5 - what happened guys, why did you make it worse!).Ī question for those using PM: From what I read on the PM web site, the emphasis seems to be on the ingest process. The result is that in LR I can finish up probably 80% of the shots in the quick develop pane and never have to go to the much slower develop section, as what I will need to do is usually just touch up exposure and white balance a bit. One note: I find as big, if not bigger benefit from PM is to do a crop and straighten pass on the keepers before taking into LR. PM 6 now is not so fast, but still worth it. PM 5 was really blindingly fast, and FRV was faster than lightroom, but not really in the same ballpark. I come back from an event with 1000-3000 shots usually, and want to distill that down to maybe 50-80 quickly before the press release needs to go out. I like to get GPS tagging out of the way before I do any edits.

#Fastrawviewer manual#

Using the cell app might be better for long hikes in the woods, but for normal urban photos, I find manual tagging in PM to be fast. It seems like there will always be quirks with using the cell app for GPS tagging, and Photo Mechanic makes GPS tagging very easy and fast to do manually. However I do appreciate feedback! See help > about for contact info. Fair warning - I wrote this for myself, so don't expect support. If anyone wants to give it a try, you can download it at Winnow. I think my poor head is going to explode. Learning c++, the Qt framework, image formats, multi-threading, colour management.

Well, I've learned that a good program is fast, ergonomic and reliable, but getting all three is difficult. I tried to write my own image culling program - after all, how hard can it be. If you have a lot of images and not much time then I would go for PM. FRV renders the raw image and gives you precise info on exposure etc and it is a great price. My version is 10 years old and I'm still getting updates.

PM is faster and has comprehensive metadata editing and is expensive.

#Fastrawviewer software#

What are the differences and strengths and limitations of these (or other?) software programs for the sorting and culling of large numbers of images before importing a select set into a post-processing program like Lightroom? FastRawViewer for sorting/culling before import?