FastRawViewer Manual

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User Manual
Copyright 2014-2017, LibRaw LLC, www.libraw.com

FastRawViewer user manual
How FastRawViewer Helps You

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.
Tired of rendering all those RAWs into JPEGs so that you can quickly browse through them
with your client, CMO, senior designer, editor in chief; or 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 dont, 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 (brightness) right while
browsing through the shot.
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 Strengths:
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 the power of modern processors and video cards to process RAW
images:
o 6-8 frames per second on a modern desktop computer for files from modern photo cameras
(16-36 Mpix, testing was conducted on a mix of shots from recent cameras, SSD recommended
for peak performance).
o 24-30 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)1, 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.
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With only one significant exception: Foveon cameras are not supported.
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The convenience of working with the shots taken in the 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.
b) The settings panel allows you to turn off the ones you dont need, and change the others to
your preferences.

Table of Contents
How FastRawViewer Helps You ................................................................................................................ 2
Conventions used in this Manual ............................................................................................................. 9
System Requirements............................................................................................................................... 9
Windows ........................................................................................................................................... 9
Mac ................................................................................................................................................... 9
Software Installation .............................................................................................................................. 10
Windows Installation .......................................................................................................................... 10
Mac OS X ............................................................................................................................................. 13
Windows: Hardware Acceleration Method Selection ............................................................................ 14
Program Activation ................................................................................................................................. 15
Activating the Trial Version ................................................................................................................ 15
Activation of the License Youve Purchased ....................................................................................... 17
Manual Activation .............................................................................................................................. 18
Using the Program: First Steps ............................................................................................................... 21
Launching FastRawViewer .................................................................................................................. 21
Main Screen ........................................................................................................................................ 21
View modes: Grid and single-file ................................................................................................ 21
Workspace ...................................................................................................................................... 25
Changing the Settings ......................................................................................................................... 28
Help with the Keyboard Shortcuts ..................................................................................................... 29
Navigating the Files in a Folder while in Grid mode ............................................................................... 30
Working with a Single File ...................................................................................................................... 32
Copying and Moving Single Files ........................................................................................................ 33
Deleting Files: the _Rejected folder ................................................................................................... 35
Clearing out the _Rejected Folder .................................................................................................. 35
Integration with External Programs ................................................................................................... 36
Metadata: Ratings, Labels, Title, and Description .................................................................................. 36
Creating and Reading XMP Files ......................................................................................................... 36

Compatibility with RawPhotoProcessor (.rpps files) .......................................................................... 38

Ratings and Labels .............................................................................................................................. 38
Embedded XMP blocks ................................................................................................................... 39
Title and Description........................................................................................................................... 40
Filtering Files Using Labels and Ratings .................................................................................................. 41
Operations with Multiple Files ............................................................................................................... 42
Undo: Reversing File Operations ............................................................................................................ 45
EXIF, Histogram, and Exposure statistics in Grid Mode ......................................................................... 46
Folder Navigation ................................................................................................................................... 48
Limiting the displayed folder tree ...................................................................................................... 49
Working with Removable Media (Flash Cards, etc.) .......................................................................... 51
Automatic Recognition of Inserted Media ..................................................................................... 51
Un-mounting (Ejecting) Removable Media .................................................................................... 53
Favorite Folders Panel: Easy Access to Select Folders ....................................................................... 54
Close File/Folder.............................................................................................................................. 56
Single File View Mode and the Filmstrip Panel ...................................................................................... 57
Additional Methods of Navigating Folder Files ...................................................................................... 58
Opening a File/Folder Using the Menu .............................................................................................. 58
Drag and Drop..................................................................................................................................... 58
Program Start Modes ............................................................................................................................. 59
Launching Several Instances of FastRawViewer................................................................................. 59
Starting without a Filename ............................................................................................................... 60
Working with a Single Image .................................................................................................................. 61
Right-click context menu .................................................................................................................... 62
Embedded and External JPEG ............................................................................................................. 63
Zooming and Panning ......................................................................................................................... 64
Changing Image Orientation............................................................................................................... 65
Sharpening for Display........................................................................................................................ 66
Viewing File Channels, Viewing in Black and White Mode ................................................................ 67

Boosting the Shadows ........................................................................................................................ 67

Inspection of Highlights ...................................................................................................................... 68
Adjusting the Image Contrast ............................................................................................................. 69
Using Monitor Profile For Display ...................................................................................................... 69
Support for Cameras Modified to Black and White ........................................................................... 70
Working with Exposure ...................................................................................................................... 71
Histogram ....................................................................................................................................... 71
Exposure Statistics .......................................................................................................................... 72
Spotlighting the Areas of Over- and Underexposure ..................................................................... 75
Exposure correction........................................................................................................................ 77
Manual Exposure Correction .......................................................................................................... 78
Recording of the exposure correction to XMP files: Interaction with Adobe Programs ............... 79
Exposure Adjustment when Browsing to the Next File .................................................................. 79
White Balance..................................................................................................................................... 79
Indication of the White Balance ..................................................................................................... 79
White Balance Presets .................................................................................................................... 81
Controlling which White Balance will be Used when Opening a File ............................................. 82
Setting White Balance by Click-Gray Method ............................................................................. 82
Manually Setting the Color Temperature ....................................................................................... 83
Outlining In-Focus and Highly Detailed Areas .................................................................................... 84
Performance Settings ............................................................................................................................. 86
Sequential and Random Browsing .................................................................................................. 86
Hard Disk Drives (HDD) and Hybrid drives (HDD with SSD cache) ..................................................... 86
Flash Cards and Network Volumes ..................................................................................................... 87
Customizing Display Modes ................................................................................................................ 88
Troubleshooting ..................................................................................................................................... 90
Windows: Changing the Active Graphics Engine................................................................................ 90
Manually Changing Graphics Modes .............................................................................................. 93
OpenGL Error Warning when Starting the Application ...................................................................... 95

Black Screen in Image Display Window .............................................................................................. 96

Screen does not fully update .............................................................................................................. 96
Other problems .................................................................................................................................. 96
Debug Information (Debug log) .......................................................................................................... 97
Program Settings .................................................................................................................................... 98
File Handling ....................................................................................................................................... 98
Copy/Move/Reject ....................................................................................................................... 100
Removable Media ......................................................................................................................... 102
RAW+JPEG .................................................................................................................................... 103
XMP................................................................................................................................................... 105
Interface............................................................................................................................................ 107
Zoom ............................................................................................................................................. 109
Grid/Filmstrip ............................................................................................................................... 111
Image Display.................................................................................................................................... 113
Exposure ....................................................................................................................................... 115
White Balance............................................................................................................................... 117
Color Management ........................................................................................................................... 119
GPU Processing ................................................................................................................................. 120
External Editors................................................................................................................................. 122
Performance ..................................................................................................................................... 123
Other ................................................................................................................................................. 125
Additional Settings............................................................................................................................ 128
Using Additional Settings Scripts: Windows................................................................................. 128
Using Additional Settings Scripts: Mac OS X ................................................................................ 130
Additional Settings Description .................................................................................................... 132
Support of non-standard cameras ................................................................................................... 138
Backing up the Settings .................................................................................................................... 140
Informational Panel Settings ................................................................................................................ 141
Folders Panel .................................................................................................................................... 141

Favorite Folders Panel ...................................................................................................................... 142

Filmstrip/Thumbnails Panel .............................................................................................................. 143
Grid View Panel ................................................................................................................................ 144
EXIF Panel ......................................................................................................................................... 144
XMP Metadata Panel ........................................................................................................................ 145
Exposure Statistics Panel .................................................................................................................. 146
Customizing the Status Bar................................................................................................................... 146
Setting the Keyboard Shortcuts............................................................................................................ 149
Settings for Apple Magic Mouse/Trackpad ...................................................................................... 151
Standard FastRawViewer Keyboard Shortcuts ................................................................................. 152
List of Supported Cameras (RAW formats) .......................................................................................... 160
Copyrights and Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................... 182

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 7 Windows 8.1, 64-bit.
32-bit versions Windows: Windows Vista Windows 8.1
Windows XP is 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.
o 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 (thats every Intel Mac, excluding Mac Mini 2005).
Mac OS X 10.6 or later.
We recommend a video card with OpenGL 2.1 support (thats 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.

Software Installation
Windows Installation
The program installation starts by running the executable file of the distribution package
(FastRawViewer-1.2.0.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.

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:

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

4. 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.

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).

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).
During FastRawViewers 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.

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:
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 cant 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) 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 cant 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).
Activation of the License Youve 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.
Manual Activation
If the program fails to connect with the activation server (one-minute timeout happens), you will see
a pop up 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:
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.

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 programs 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
programs 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.

Menu View Switch to single image.

Navigation by using the arrowkeys 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/Batch actions with several files.
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, JPEG for JPEG display).
o Over/Underexposure statistics.
o XMP Rating and XMP Label.
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 file 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.

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.

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-F7 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.

Setting Preferences Interface 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.

MenuPanelsHide all panels (or, press Tab) hides all informational panels:
With this, the top menu bar is hidden as well (this can turned off through Preferences Interface
Hide menu bar when hiding information panels). You may, also, hide bottom information bar (status
bar) by setting Preferences Interface 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 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).

Changing the Settings

To bring up the settings control window, use MenuFilePreferences (Ctrl-P) on Windows,
Cmd-comma (,) on Mac/. You will be presented with the following:
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.

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 MenuHelp:
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).

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.
In the upper-right corner of this section are the following icons (from left to right):
Turning the following information panels on and off: EXIF-data, RAW-histogram, exposure
statistics for the selected file.
By default, these panels are turned off to save space and maximize speed.
Controlling the file filtration by label and rating.
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.

You can customize the file preview using the gear icon in the upper-right corner of the Grid mode
window:
A detailed description of the settings can be found in the Customizing Display Modes section
below.

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:

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.

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 JPEG-file (in RAW+JPEG mode).
XMP- sidecar file (if it exists).
.rpps sidecar file (if .rpps sidecar file recording is turned on).
.ORI file, if the current file has a .ORF extension and a .ORI file exists.

Deleting Files: the _Rejected folder

FastRawViewer doesnt 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 cant 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 shouldnt 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 Copy/Move/Reject:
Use global rejected folder Check.
Select the path for the Global Rejected Folder.
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, Im 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.
Attention: Mac OS X does not support the Read-Only attribute on the FAT/exFAT systems, so on OS
X the Read-Only checkmark will only work on local and network drives, but will not work (i.e.
checked on) on removable media (memory cards).
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).
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) are read.
When the file data is changed, both XMP sidecar files and XMP blocks embedded into RAW
files (for those RAW file formats where such XMP blocks exist: DNG files mainly, but also some
other formats) are read, and the most recent XMP data is chosen using the modification date.
Ratings and Labels in XMP blocks are ignored to ensure that the data displayed in Grid View
mode and single file mode is the same.
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 for RAW Files 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 turns on the creation of XMP files, even if
nothing was changed manually. The parameters that were (automatically) set up when
opening the file will be set as the parameters in the XMP file.
The settings for reading embedded XMP blocks are described below in the Embedded XMP
blocks section.

Exposure compensation and white balance are written to newly created XMP files according to the
setting of Adobe Process Version in Preferences XMP Adobe process version for newly created
XMP files.
To set color labeling scheme to be compatible with CaptureOne, set Preferences XMP 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.
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
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:
1. 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.
2. 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 15 buttons in the XMP Metadata panel.

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.
For the compatibility with Adobe Bridge FastRawViewer supports Reject rating (-1). To enable this,
set Preferences XMP 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:
1. Adobe Bridge style (Select, Second, Approved, Review, To Do).
2. Adobe Lightroom style, color marks (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple).
3. Adobe Lightroom Review Status style (To Delete, Color Correction Needed, Good to Use,
Retouching Needed, To Print).
4. Custom user labels.
You can select the appropriate label style through PreferencesXMPXMP 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. 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 are read from XMP files, but the program prevents
any changes to them.
Embedded XMP blocks

Many RAW file formats can contain XMP blocks embedded in the file itself. In FastRawViewer they
often can be treated as placeholders, since they contain just an empty label and a rating of zero, so
there is no point in using these blocks. Moreover, the analysis of the metadata can be fairly time-
consuming, especially when RAW files are located on a network drive or a slow HDD. For the
aforementioned reasons, the analysis of embedded XMP blocks is, with default preferences, turned
off most users will get only a slow-down of their workflow and zero benefit.
However, in a few cases, these blocks can contain meaningful data, in particular:
When using the DNG format, and editing metadata using Adobe programs, the XMP data is
recorded in the DNG file, not in separate XMP sidecar files.
When setting ratings to images with the camera (for example, Canon cameras can do this).
Some cameras (in particular, some Leica models) assign all shots the Red label, probably so
that the new (unsorted) images stand out immediately when looking at them in Lightroom.
In the aforementioned cases, it is recommended that one turn on Preferences XMP Read
ratings/labels from XMP blocks embedded into RAW files.

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:

Filtering Files Using Labels and Ratings

This can be accomplished using Menu File Filter files by rating/label or by clicking the funnel
icon ( ) on the Filmstrip and Grid panels:
When this menu item is selected or the funnel icon is clicked, the dialog to set the filtration
parameters is activated. In this dialog, you can set:
The desired XMP-rating (any or some combination of ratings)
The desired XMP-label

After the Apply button is pressed, the Thumbnails and Grid View will keep displaying only those
images that pass the filtration criteria.
When the filtration is on, the funnel icon is displayed brighter.

When filtration is activated in the current folder for the first time, the program will read all of the
XMP files in the folder and store their ratings and labels. If for the files in the current folder the
ratings and/or labels are changed with an external program, while the folder is opened in
FastRawViewer, to re-read the XMP files you can use the gear button for the Filmstrip/Grid View,
selecting Refresh thumbnails/ratings.
With standard settings the labels and ratings are read only from sidecar XMP files. However, in
certain cases the XMP data can be embedded right into the RAW files. To use those embedded XMP
blocks for file filtration, you need to switch on the setting in Preferences XMP Read
ratings/labels from XMP blocks embedded into RAW files. This is described in more detail in the
Embedded XMP blocks section, in the Ratings and Labels chapter.
Operations with Multiple Files

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-Click'ed
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-Click'ed
Through the actions in Menu Select/Batch
o (De)select current file reverses the mark status.
o (De)select and move to next reverses the mark status and navigates to the next file.
o Select All, Invert Selection, Deselect All.
o Select by Rating/Label marks files based on their labels/ratings.
o Save Selection to file saves the list of marked files to a text file on the disc.
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.
With a group of marked files, one can preform all of the operations that can be done with a single
file:
Changing orientation.

Settings labels and ratings.

Copying to another folder.
Moving to another folder.
Passing to an external program.
Deleting (moving) to the _Rejected subfolder.
To perform these actions, you can use the corresponding menu items either from
Menu Select/Batch menu.
Context menu (activated by right-clicking on any of the marked files):

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 name conflict only the last recorded file will contain actual data.
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).

EXIF, 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, Exposure Statistics, and
EXIF Data panels remain empty:
To switch decoding of RAW data on, press the statistics ( ) button in the upper-right corner of the
Grid mode display window.

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:

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.

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.

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 filtration, and displays the entire folder tree again (same way as Reset
folder filtering in menu)
[] moves the "root" of the filtration one level up (same way as Move folder filter one level
up in menu).
Furthermore, the folder filtration 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).

Folder filtration can also be set through Folders panel context menu (mouse right-click):
With default settings, folder filtration 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.
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 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.
You can also turn off the above-shown warning in the same Preferences section.

Un-mounting (Ejecting) Removable Media

If the removable media doesnt 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.

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.
You can add to the Favorite Folders list in two ways:
1. The Favorite Folders panels menu (the gear icon at the head of the panel), Add current
folder to favorites adds the current panel to the list of favorites.

2.
3. The context menu in the Folders panel allows you to do the same with a chosen folder (Add
*folder name* to favorite folders):
Clearing the list:

1. Panel menu: Clear favorites list (see above) clears the entire list.
2. 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.

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.

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 (Ctrl-Shift-O).
Menu File 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 alphabetical order) RAW or JPEG 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:
1. If you dropped several files, then the first one opens (the order is follows the order of the file
selection in the file manager). All others will be ignored.
2. If you dropped several folders, then the first one opens. The others will be ignored.
3. 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.

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 RAW or JPEG 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.

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 doesnt 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.

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.

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 RAW+JPEG 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.
J only JPEG, 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:
o 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 RAW+JPEG
Do not show internal JPEG if external JPEG is present).
o 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).
o File representation is damaged (errors while decoding of JPEG or RAW data).
To switch between representation 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 RAW+JPEG.
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 wont happen the files will be shown
separately and treated as separate.
o Do not show internal JPEG if external JPEG is present disables decoding and
displaying of an embedded JPEG when there is an external one.

o Do not show external JPEGs disables the decoding and displaying of external JPEGs
(still, both RAW and JPEG files will be relocated with a move operation).
Ignore internal JPEGs disables any processing of embedded JPEGs in all Handle RAW+JPEG
modes.
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 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:

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-Zoom section:
Interface Zoom and Drag zoom to.
Interface Zoom and Pan zoom to.
Interface Toggle Zoom zoom to.
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.
The orientation changes are recorded in an XMP-file.

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 doesnt:
To fine-tune the amount and mode of sharpening, you can use Preferences Image Display On-
screen 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 JPEG 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 brightness channel formula, same as
the one used while coding JPEG).
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 companding 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 EDS 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.
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):

Adjusting the Image Contrast

FastRawViewer allows one to apply standard tone curves (sRGB, Gamma 1.8 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.
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
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:
o The majority of modern monitors are sRGB (or close to it) and using sRGB as a workspace
when displaying RAW gives very acceptable results.
o Furthermore, in many cases supplied monitor profiles are inadequate, and they have a
negative impact on the image appearance.
o Moreover, a noticeable number of users have optimized their video settings for computer
games, manually turning on the anisotropic filtration 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.
2
Adobe programs clip the shadows below the setting for blacks, in FastRawViewer we use a curve with a very gentle
slope.

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 Force Black-White mode for Bayer
images.
In this mode:
Demosaicking (de-Bayerization) 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.
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, its set to 3 photographic stops below the saturation level of a camera.
-5 the level that corresponds to normal clean easily workable shadows for the majority of
modern cameras.
+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.
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:

1. 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 below the
saturation point for the camera.
2. 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 Exposure Underexposure detection limit.
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 wont be distracted by the changes in the size of the panel. This can be done
by going into the Exposure Stats panels 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:

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 MenuViewOverexposure
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 skys tone normally via Highlight recover wont 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
Preferences 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 MenuViewUnderexposure
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).
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 themself in
the preferences (Preferences 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 Exposure
Apply Adobe hidden exposure correction.
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 amount of
pixels in the image are pushed to saturation (receive the value of 255 on the 8-bit scale).

The following settings for the automatic exposure correction are user-adjustable:
Mode:
a. Fixed shift by the given amount of stops (EV), the value is controlled through Preferences
Exposure Auto Exposure Fixed Exposure shift.
b. Automatic calculation of the exposure compensation to shift the histogram to the right,
controlled through Preferences 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-Shift-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-Shift-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
Exposure Manual Exposure step size for small/big steps separately.

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
Adobe Compatible Exposure and White Balance.
Exposure Adjustment when Browsing to the Next File

If the value of the exposure correction can be read from an XMP file (the priority is given to the value
recorded in FastRawViewer format, and if it is not found, we take the value from the record in Adobe
format), it will be applied when the file is displayed.
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 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.
White Balance
FastRawViewer offers several methods of setting white balance
Choose one of the standard presets (As Shot/Auto/Daylight/Tungsten).
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:
1. As the name of one of the presets (or Custom) in the drop-down list of white balance presets
(see the next picture).
2. 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 White
Balance White balance display mode
a. Color Temperature/Tint a mode commonly used in RAW converters.
b. Mired/Tint instead of correlated color temperatures, the value indicated is in Mired.
c. WB Coefficients the per-channel coefficients (factors) of white balance are shown.
d. 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).
2. The camera has to be RGB and tricolor. CMYG, RGBE, and other non-RGB cameras are not
supported.
3. 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 ---/--.

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 dont 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
AdjustToggle White Balance (or by pressing W key on the keyboard).
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 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 cameras 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
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, and Tungsten.
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
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.

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 youve made satisfy you, hit OK. If not, continue adjusting, or hit
Cancel to disregard any changes.

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 MenuViewToggle 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 EDSH group on the bottom bar takes the same color
that is used for the outline (green by default).

The Fine Detail Filter outlines small, acute, but not necessarily contrasting details:
When this filter is on the letter D in the USM EDSH 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.

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.
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 cant 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 amount of parallel reads:
1. Preferences - Performance - Memory usage and performance - Number of simultaneous
RAW decode threads
recommended values for HDD: 2-3
2. 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).
3. 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 todays 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 WiFi-network:
Lower the preferences values.
Preferences 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 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 Removable Media Prefetch depth on removable media
to 2-3.
Fast cards (USB3/SATA readers, UHS-I/CFast cards):
Raise the preferences values.
Preferences Removable Media Prefetch depth on removable media
to 6-8.

Customizing Display Modes

FastRawViewer uses the advanced features of modern video cards to display images. In particular,
zooming in and out is performed using video card processor, GPU. Depending on the particular set of
features and performance of your video card, you may wish to tune the settings controlling the
display:
Preferences GPU Processing Image Resampling method sets the method to be used for
calculating zoom-in (going above 100% view):
o No resampling for large zoom factors, the image will look as if it is constituted of
small square tiles.
o Bilinear resampling fast, mid-quality method.
o Bicubic resampling high-quality method, a relatively fast vast video card is
recommended.
Preferences GPU Processing Downsampling options sets the method for zoom-out
calculations:
o None no additional processing is involved.
o Generate low resolution previews most compatible method, but relatively slow.

o 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 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.
2. 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.
In some cases (older video cards, buggy drivers) you may encounter equipment compatibility
problems. In this case, you may need to use the compatibility options under the Preferences GPU
Processing GPU Compatibility settings section:
o Synchronous GPU Operations turns on a slower but more stable mode operation for the
misbehaving video cards.
o Force Window refresh by slight resize the screen refresh is implemented through the
slight resize of the window. You may want to turn this mode on if the images on the
screen are not redrawn properly.
o Exit program on OS Sleep/suspend some versions of Windows XP video card drivers
perform an incorrect wake up and FastRawViewer crashes when the computer wakes up
after Sleep/Suspend. In this case, you will need to use this mode and start FastRawViewer
again each time the computer wakes up.

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).
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.

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:

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.

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.
2. 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]

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.
2. 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 Force window refresh by slight resize
in the Preferences.
When turning on this setting, the application window will twitch by one pixel for each image
redraw.
2. 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.

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.

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".

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.
File sort order sets the order of file selection when browsing through the files:
o Filename, natural sort by filename, in alphabetical order, the digits in the filename
will be sorted as ordinal numbers (that is to say in order like 1, 2, 11, 12).
Natural sorting is not accessible in the Windows XP version of FRV.
o Filename, natural sort, reversed the order is opposite to the previous.
o Modification time, newest to oldest sorts the files by date of creation/last
modification of the files, new files in the top of the list.
o Modification time, oldest to newest the order is opposite to the previous.
o File type (extension) files are sorted by extension; files with the same extension are
sorted alphabetically.
o EXIF Timestamp newest to oldest/oldest to newest sorting by date/time of shoot.
When sorting by time of modification of the file or by EXIF timestamps, files that have
the same modification time (usually, time is kept to an accuracy of within a second)
are sorted alphabetically when sorting oldest to newest, and reverse alphabetically
when sorting newest to oldest.
o Filename, alphabetical by filename, in alphabetical order, without accounting for
letter case, accounting the current localization settings (like with previous
FastRawViewer versions).
o Filename, reversed the order is opposite to the previous.
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:
- will be ignored during file browsing;
- 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).

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 move to the same destination 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).
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).
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).
o Open folder opens the selected folder.
o Do nothing Do Nothing.
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 theyre not actually present.
Preferences Removable Media 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.
RAW+JPEG
Handle RAW+JPEG together turns on the pairing of RAW and JPEG of the same name:
displaying them as different representations of the same image, and treating them as a single
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 Decode and show external JPEGs enables the decoding and the display of external
JPEG files.
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.
Ignore internal JPEGs unconditionally disables decoding of embedded JPEG previews.
Automatically turns on and disables changing of Do not show internal JPEG if external JPEG is
present setting.
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.

XMP
This group of settings controls the processing of XMP files
Use XMP for RAW files turns on/off the use of XMP files.
Read Only XMP turns on the mode, where XMP files are read, but not changed.
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 Menu -
Select/Batch and in context menu.
Force XMP file creation 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.
Refresh XMP metadata and thumbnails after batch operation turns on the unconditional
rereading of the current folder after an operation over a group of files is preformed.
XMP rating and labels Section:
o 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.
o XMP Label Style sets the label format in XMP files:
Adobe Bridge: Select, Second, Approved, Review, To Do.
Color labels/Adobe Lightroom: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple.
Review status/Adobe Lightroom: To Delete, Color Correction Needed, Good to
Use, Retouching Needed, To Print.
Custom user labels (any text you choose).
o 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.
o Read ratings/labels from XMP blocks embedded into RAW files turns on the
reading of XMP blocks embedded in RAW files. For more detail, see the Embedded
XMP Blocks section above.
Adobe compatible Exposure and White Balance turns on reading and recording into XMP
files exposure compensation and white balance in Adobe format:
o Adobe process version for newly created XMP files. Default: 2012, can be set to 2010
or 2003.
Features:
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.
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");
For 2012 process, Exposure2012 (equal to expo 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.
For the 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).
o Write adobe-compatible Contrast/Blacks into XMP files enables the recording of the
contrast settings in the Adobe-compatible format.

Interface
The group of settings for user interface adjustments.
Panels group
Panels 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.

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
Further Settings
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 FRV
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.
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.
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.
Use built-in drive/folder icons in Folders panel show icons built-in into FastRawViewer in
the Folders panel (in several cases, using the systems 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
programs bottom bar.
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.
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.
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+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.
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 (Mac OS X only):
o If turned on (default, "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, 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.

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 programs main window will
be hidden; they will reappear when switching to Single File View 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.
Extra smallExtra Large the font size is set to the same as that of the Panels (using the
same setting).
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):
o No concurrency; Thumbnail decoding is not postponed while RAW decoding takes
place.
o Single file mode Thumbnail decoding is postponed in Single File View Mode until the
RAW decoding is finished.
o Single file and grid modes Thumbnail recording is postponed for any RAW decoding
action.
Center edge filmstrip items controls what happens when the first or the last visible image in
the Filmstrip is selected. If on, the Filmstrip is moved in such a way that this image is placed in
the center of the visible portion of the Filmstrip.

Image Display
The settings in this group control the processing and the display of the images (except for white
balancing, as the WB settings are in a separate group).
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.
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.

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.
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.
Force Black-White mode for Bayer images turns on the blacknwhite mode for color
cameras. This mode is intended for modified cameras, where the color filter array is removed.

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.
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.
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.
Under/Overexposure layer opacity controls the perceived contrast of the highlighting for
over- and underexposed areas.
Underexposure detection limit NN EV below sensor saturation sets the usable dynamic
range of the camera. Everything below this limit will be displayed as underexposed.

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 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.
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.

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 cameras color space).
Color space for untagged JPEGs allows one to set a color space for JPEG files for which the
color space is not specified (not recorded in EXIF tags or ICCProfile of JPEG sections).
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).

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. 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.
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):
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 Store all renderings in GPU memory if the setting is on, all of the file
representations (RAW, internal JPEG, and external JPEG) will be stored in the video
memory, right after the first use; this makes switching between RAW and JPEG for the
same file nearly instantaneous.
o Synchronous GPU operations turns on the synchronous mode of video card work
(slower, but more reliable).
o Force window refresh by slight resize turns on bouncing to force image redraw
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).

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 Select/Batch Batch Run program and in the context menu for
groups of files.
Use [] buttons to lookup executable file on your system.
Add slot button adds additional slot for external program (up to 10).
Check external programs presence on startup enables check each program existence on
FastRawViewer start.

Performance
Memory usage and performance Group

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.
JPEG cache size the number of JPEG files that are kept in the operational memory to boost
the speed of the browsing.
Number of simultaneous RAW decode threads the number of concurrent processes of
RAW decoding.
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.
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)
All changes made to this group of settings come into effect only after restarting FastRawViewer.

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:
o Intel Core2Duo and older.
o Intel i3-i7 1st generation with fewer than 4 cores.
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.
Thumbnail cache Group:

Prefetch thumbnails for preceding images: to decode previews for the files before those
visible on the screen.
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).
Thumbnail prefetch depth: how many files (relative to those viewed on the screen) to read
ahead and decode previews.
Thumbnail decoder thread count: how many parallel decode streams (threads) are enabled.
Other settings:
Re-read current folder in 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 wont be reread very often).

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).
Check for updates 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.
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.
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.
Faster program close (Windows only) turns on the fast program completion mode.
Manage File Associations (Windows-only, not supported in Legacy Windows version):
activates the system dialogue to edit file association with FastRawViewer:


Additional Settings
A few of FastRawViewers 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).

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:

Using Additional Settings Scripts: Mac OS X

The OS X version of FastRawViewer contains the scripts in the applications resource folder.
To use the scripts:
1. Use Menu Help Auxiliary settings scripts
2. The Scripts folder will open:
3. Open the Terminal program

Applications Utilities Terminal.

4. Drag the needed script onto the Terminal window, and you will see the full path to the script
you are about to execute.
5. Switch to the Terminal window and press Enter. The script will be executed without any
output to the Terminal window; if theres some sort of message, it means that there was an
error.

Additional Settings Description
Name of script file Description
Advanced Troubleshooting
Windows: choosing the program graphics acceleration method
GraphicsToDirectX9 Sets the graphics engine DirectX9, OpenGL, or DirectX11
GraphicsToOpenGL
GraphicsToDirectX11
Turning resource-intensive graphics operations on and off
EnableAdvancedShaders Turns on (default)/off resource-intensive graphics operations:

Bicubic interpolation
DisableAdvancedShaders Simultaneous use of focus peaking in the Edge and Fine
detail modes
Artifact reduction filtration.
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).
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 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/disc system icons leads
to FastRawViewer not being able to work.
DisableFoldersRefresh Enables/disables automatic folder tree refresh in Folders panel.

EnableFoldersRefresh Use if you have problems with automatic folders refresh
(program crashes after copy/move to newly created destination).
SimpleFoldersHandling Simplified/normal folder tree handling. In simplified mode some
NormalFoldersHandling features are disabled (automated folder tree refresh, removable
media monitoring, etc).
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 isnt 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.
Advanced Tune
Using Adobe DNG SDK
UseDNGSDKAllFiles Use DNG SDK for
UseDNGSDKSelectedFiles All files
Linear DNG/Floating point DNG (default)
NoDNGSDK Do not use

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

Multi-thread mode gives greater efficiency, but may take up over
DNGSDKMultiThread the processor, getting in the way of other computer programs
running at the same time.
DngUseColorMatrix Type of embedded color data used to display DNG files:

DngUseForwardMatrix ColorMatrix or ForwardMatrix
EnableRawDecoding Enables (default)/disables RAW data decoding. If disabled,

DisableRawDecoding
FastRawViewer will show embedded/external JPEGs only. If
disabled, it can be turned on temporarily by -enableraw
command-line switch.
Controlling the Filmstrip/Thumbnails panels behavior
EnableUnknown Turns on/off the monitoring of any changes in the current folder
DrivesMonitoring on:
Media (discs), whose type cannot be recognized by
DisableUnknown FastRawVewer (for example, RamDrive)
DrivesMonitoring
Media, which are recognized by FastRawViewer (CDROM,
EnableAllDrivesMonitoring Floppy disks), but for which there are no separate settings
in the Preferences (it is there only for Removable Media
DisableAllDrivesMonitoring and for network volumes).
FilmstripCenterOn Turns on (default)/off the centering of the highlighted Filmstrip

FolderUpdate element when changing the contents of the current folder.
NoFilmstripCenterOn
FolderUpdate
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 folder.
NoFileArrivalDelay
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 panel
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.
This script assigns a standard value (0) to the
ShiftClickSelectionModeDefau
ShiftClickSelectionMode parameter, which modifies the
lt
programs behavior while selecting a range of files using Shift-
Click. To change parameter 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
Alternate keyboard shortcuts handling
AlternateKeyHandler Alternate keyboard handler (Windows only) turns on the
alternative keyboard shortcuts processing mode. Turn on only if
NoAlternateKeyHandler
there are problems with the processing of keyboard shortcuts
(this happens when using utterly non-standard keyboard layouts,
for instance when switching between Qwerty Dvorak).
Performance
SetProcessingMaxParallel By default, FastRawViewer uses all of the available processing

cores to process RAW data.
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.

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 there
NoDragPanCursorWOZoom
is nowhere to Drag/Pan.
EnableNextPrevQueue Enable (default mode): if a user issues a new command to move
to the Next/Previous file while FastRawViewer was still executing
DisableNextPrevQueue
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.

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 program (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 sensors 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.

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
cameras 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 tables description in dcraw.c with the
one difference being that the CFA filters 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).
9. The Bayer filter CFA format, with the byte field taking one of the following values:
22 BGGR
97 GRBG

73 GBRG
148 RGGB
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 amount 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:
- the color displayed will be "raw", that is the saturation is low and hues are inaccurate;
- only Auto WB is available in drop-down;
- 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 programs settings:
Preferences.reg for the settings which are controlled through the Preferences
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. Quite 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:

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 arent affected.
Use natural folder sort order: consider digits in file/folder names to be ordinal numbers and
sorts those numbers in numeric value order.
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.

Filmstrip/Thumbnails Panel
Show filenames sets a mode for file name display in the Filmstrip: dont show, show under
the icon, or show over the icon.
Show Rating/Label sets a mode for XMP Rating/Label display in the Filmstrip: dont show,
show under the icon, or show over the icon.
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 ration 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 vertically-oriented Filmstrip:

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.
Grid View Panel

In the upper-right view of the Grid View Panel are the following three icons
o Controls the display of EXIF data, the histogram, and the statistics in Grid mode.
o Filters files by ratings and labels
o Settings
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.
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.
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 doesnt 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/Description Shows the title and description in the XMP panel.
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.
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 wont 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 programs 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 others way.
Hide: The element is not shown.
The following elements can be customized:
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/Batch,
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, lenss 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 Focus peaking and shadow boost: Buttons for turning those modes on
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.
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 maximum width.

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.

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.

Settings for Apple Magic Mouse/Trackpad

The standard settings for Apple Magic Mouse in OS X 10.9 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:

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
Open folder Ctrl+Shift+O O
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
Close current file Ctrl+U U
Filter Files by rating/label Shift+F F
Move current file to _Rejected subfolder Ctrl+Shift+Del
Undo last file operation Ctrl+Z Z
File Copy/Move
Move file to folder (ask destination) M M
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
Copy file to last used folder Shift+C C
Copy file to 2nd used folder Alt+Shift+C C
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
Zoom-Pan-Rotate
Toggle view: Image/Grid G G
Toggle show EXIF/Histogram/Statistics in
Shift+G G
grid 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
Toggle Zoom Z Z
Toggle Fullscreen mode F F
Return from fullscreen or single image
Esc
mode
Ctrl+7 7
Rotate 900 Counterclockwise
Ctrl+Home

Ctrl+9 9
Rotate 900 Clockwise
Ctrl+PgUp
Image Display
Display full color RGB Ctrl+2 2
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 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 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
Increase image contrast K K
Decrease image contrast Shift+K K
Exposure correction Off/On A A
Alt++ +
Increase Exposure
Alt+= =
Increase Exposure, big step Alt+Shift++ +

Alt+ Shift+= =
Decrease Exposure Alt+- -
Decrease Exposure, big step Alt+Shift+- -
Auto Exposure correction Shift+A A
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
Reset panels positions Alt+F10 F10
XMP Rating
No Rating Alt+0 0
Set Rating to Reject Alt+Del
Set Rating to 1 Alt+1 1
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 Program10 no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
File Selection for batch
Select/Deselect current file Ctrl+/ /
Select/Deselect current file and move to
Ctrl+. .
next
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
Batch operations
Rotate 900 Counterclockwise no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Rotate 900 Clockwise no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Batch rating
Batch: No Rating no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch: Set Rating to Reject no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch: Set Rating to 1 no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch: Decrease Rating no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch: Increase Rating no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch label
Batch: Clear XMP Label no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch: Red no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch: Yellow no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch: Green no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch: Blue no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch: Purple no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch copy/move
Batch move file to folder (ask destination) no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch move to last used folder no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch move to 2nd used folder no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch move to 3rd used folder no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch move to 4th used folder no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch move to 5th used folder no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch copy selected file to folder (ask
no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
destination)
Batch copy to last used folder no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch copy to 2nd used folder no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Batch copy to 3rd used folder no shortcuts set no shortcuts set

Batch copy to 4th used folder no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch copy to 5th used folder no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch move to _Rejected subfolder no shortcuts set no shortcuts set
Batch external edit
Run Program #1 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

List of Supported Cameras (RAW formats)
ARRIRAW format
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 QuickTake 100
o QuickTake 150
o QuickTake 200
Baumer TXG14
BlackMagic
o Cinema Camera
o Micro Cinema Camera
o Pocket Cinema Camera
o Production Camera 4k
o URSA
o URSA Mini
Canon
o PowerShot 600
o PowerShot A5
o PowerShot A5 Zoom
o PowerShot A50
o PowerShot A460 (CHDK hack)

o PowerShot A710 IS (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 G2
o PowerShot G3
o PowerShot G3 X
o PowerShot G5
o PowerShot G5 X
o PowerShot G6
o PowerShot G7 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot G7 X
o PowerShot G7 X Mark II
o PowerShot G9
o PowerShot G9 X
o PowerShot G10
o PowerShot G11
o PowerShot G12
o PowerShot G15
o PowerShot G16
o PowerShot S2 IS (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SD300 (CHDK hack)
o PowerShot SD950 (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 SX50 HS
o PowerShot SX60 HS
o PowerShot SX110 IS (CHDK hack)

o PowerShot SX220 HS (CHDK hack)

o PowerShot IXUS 160 (CHDK hack)
o EOS D30
o EOS D60
o EOS 5D
o EOS 5DS
o EOS 5DS R
o EOS 5D Mark II
o EOS 5D Mark III
o EOS 5D Mark IV
o EOS 6D
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 80D
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 Digital X2
o EOS 500D / Digital Rebel T1i / Kiss Digital X3
o EOS 650D / Digital Rebel T4i / Kiss Digital X6i
o EOS 700D / Digital Rebel T5i
o EOS 750D / Digital Rebel T6i
o EOS 760D / Digital Rebel T6S
o EOS 100D / Digital Rebel SL1
o EOS 1000D / Digital Rebel XS / Kiss Digital F
o EOS 1100D / Digital Rebel T3 / Kiss Digital X50
o EOS 1200D
o EOS 1300D
o EOS C500
o EOS D2000C
o EOS M
o EOS M2
o EOS M3

o EOS M5
o EOS M10
o EOS-1D
o EOS-1DS
o EOS-1D C
o EOS-1D X
o EOS-1D Mark II
o EOS-1D Mark II N
o EOS-1D Mark III
o EOS-1D Mark IV
o EOS-1Ds Mark II
o EOS-1Ds Mark III
o EOS-1D X Mark II
Casio
o QV-2000UX
o QV-3000EX
o QV-3500EX
o QV-4000
o QV-5700
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
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
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-ZR4000/5000
o EX-100
o EX-100F
o EX-10
o Exlim Pro 505
o Exlim Pro 600
o Exlim Pro 700
Contax N Digital
Creative PC-CAM 600
DJI 4384x3288
DXO One
Digital Bolex
o D16
o D16M
Epson
o R-D1
o R-D1s
o R-D1x
Foculus 531C
FujiFilm
o E505
o E550
o E900
o F700
o F710
o F800
o F810
o S2Pro
o S3Pro
o S5Pro
o S20Pro
o S1
o S100FS
o S5000
o S5100/S5500
o S5200/S5600
o S6000fd
o S7000
o S9000/S9500

o S9100/S9600
o S200EXR
o S205EXR
o SL1000
o HS10/HS11
o HS20EXR
o HS22EXR
o HS30EXR
o HS33EXR
o HS35EXR
o HS50EXR
o F505EXR
o F550EXR
o F600EXR
o F605EXR
o F770EXR
o F775EXR
o F800EXR
o F900EXR
o X-Pro1
o X-Pro2
o X-S1
o XQ1
o XQ2
o X100
o X100S
o X100T
o X10
o X20
o X30
o X70
o X-A1
o X-A2
o X-E1
o X-E2
o X-E2S
o X-M1
o XF1
o X-T1
o X-T1 Graphite Silver
o X-T2
o X-T10
o IS-1
GITUP GIT2
Gione E7
Google

o Pixel
o Pixel XL
HTC
o UltraPixel
o MyTouch 4G
o One (A9)
o One (M9)
o 10
Hasselblad
o H5D-60
o H5D-50
o H5D-50c
o H5D-40
o H4D-60
o H4D-50
o H4D-40
o H4D-31
o H3DII-22
o H3DII-31
o H3DII-39
o H3DII-50
o H3D-22
o H3D-31
o H3D-39
o H2D-22
o H2D-39
o CFV
o CFH
o CF-22
o CF-31
o CF-39
o V96C
o Lusso
o Lunar
o True Zoom
o Stellar
o Stellar II
o HV
o X1D
Huawei P9
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
Kodak
o DC20
o DC25
o DC40
o DC50
o DC120
o DCS200
o DCS315C
o DCS330C
o DCS420
o DCS460
o DCS460A
o DCS460D
o DCS520C
o DCS560C
o DCS620C
o DCS620X
o DCS660C
o DCS660M
o DCS720X
o DCS760C
o DCS760M
o EOSDCS1
o EOSDCS3B
o NC2000F
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 S-1
o Z980
o Z981
o Z990
o Z1015
o KAI-0340
Konica
o KD-400Z
o KD-510Z
LG
o G3
o G4
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
o Volare
Leica
o C (Typ 112)
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-Lux (Typ 109)
o M8
o M8.2
o M9
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 S
o S2
o S (Typ 007)
o SL (Typ 601)
o T (Typ 701)
o TL
o X1
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-Lux (Typ 114)
o X VARIO (Typ 107)
Lenovo a820

Logitech Fotoman Pixtura

Mamiya ZD
Matrix 4608x3288
Meizy MX4
Micron 2010
Minolta
o RD175
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 PIXL
Nikon
o D1
o D1H
o D1X
o D2H
o D2Hs
o D2X
o D2Xs
o D3
o D3s
o D3X
o D4
o D4s
o D40
o D40X
o D5
o D50
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 D800
o D800E
o D810
o D810A
o D3000
o D3100
o D3200
o D3300
o D3400
o D5000
o D5100
o D5200
o D5300
o D5500
o D5600
o D7000
o D7100
o D7200
o Df
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 E700 ("DIAG RAW" hack)


o E5000
o E5400
o E5700
o E8400
o E8700
o E8800
o Coolpix A
o Coolpix P330
o Coolpix P340
o Coolpix P6000
o Coolpix P7000
o Coolpix P7100
o Coolpix P7700
o Coolpix P7800
o Coolpix S6 ("DIAG RAW" hack)
o Coolscan NEF
Nokia
o N95
o X2
o 1200x1600
o Lumia 950 XL
o Lumia 1020
o Lumia 1520
Olympus
o AIR A01
o C3030Z
o C5050Z
o C5060Z
o C7070WZ
o C70Z,C7000Z
o C740UZ
o C770UZ
o C8080WZ
o X200,D560Z,C350Z
o E-1
o E-3
o E-5
o E-10
o E-20
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
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-PM1
o E-PM2
o E-M1
o E-M1 Mark II
o E-M10
o E-M10 Mark II
o E-M5
o E-M5 Mark II
o Pen F
o SP310
o SP320
o SP350
o SP500UZ
o SP510UZ
o SP550UZ
o SP560UZ
o SP565UZ
o SP570UZ
o STYLUS1
o STYLUS1s
o SH-2
o SH-3
o TG-4
o XZ-1
o XZ-2

o XZ-10
OmniVision
o 4688
o OV5647
o OV5648
o OV8850
o 13860
Panasonic
o DMC-CM1
o DMC-FZ8
o DMC-FZ18
o DMC-FZ28
o DMC-FZ30
o DMC-FZ35/FZ38
o DMC-FZ40
o DMC-FZ50
o DMC-FZ7
o DMC-FZ70
o DMC-FZ100
o DMC-FZ150
o DMC-FZ200
o DMC-FZ300/330
o DMC-FZ1000
o DMC-FZ2000/2500/FZH1
o DMC-FX150
o DMC-G1
o DMC-G10
o DMC-G2
o DMC-G3
o DMC-G5
o DMC-G6
o DMC-G7/G70
o DMC-G8/80/81/85
o DMC-GF1
o DMC-GF2
o DMC-GF3
o DMC-GF5
o DMC-GF6
o DMC-GF7
o DMC-GH1
o DMC-GH2
o DMC-GH3
o DMC-GH4
o AG-GH4
o DMC-GM1
o DMC-GM1s

o DMC-GM5
o DMC-GX1
o DMC-GX7
o DMC-GX8
o DMC-GX80/85
o DC-GX800/850/GF9
o DMC-L1
o DMC-L10
o DMC-LC1
o DMC-LX1
o DMC-LF1
o DMC-LX2
o DMC-LX3
o DMC-LX5
o DMC-LX7
o DMC-LX9/10/15
o DMC-LX100
o DMC-TZ60/61/SZ40
o DMC-TZ70/71/ZS50
o DMC-TZ80/81/85/ZS60
o DMC-TZ100/101/ZS100
Pentax
o *ist D
o *ist DL
o *ist DL2
o *ist DS
o *ist DS2
o GR
o K10D
o K20D
o K100D
o K100D Super
o K110D
o K200D
o K2000/K-m
o K-x
o K-r
o K-01
o K-1
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
o Optio S4
o Optio 33WR
o Optio 750Z
o 645D
o 645Z
PhaseOne
o IQ140
o IQ150
o IQ160
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 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 JPEG only)
PtGrey GRAS-50S5C
RaspberryPi
o Camera
o Camera V2
Ricoh
o GR
o GR Digital
o GR Digital II
o GR Digital III
o GR Digital IV
o GR II
o GX100
o GX200
o GXR MOUNT A12
o GXR MOUNT A16 24-85mm F3.5-5.5
o GXR, S10 24-72mm F2.5-4.4 VC
o GXR, GR A12 50mm F2.5 MACRO
o GXR, GR LENS A12 28mm F2.5
o GXR, GXR P10
Rollei d530flex
RoverShot 3320af
SMaL
o Ultra-Pocket 3
o Ultra-Pocket 4
o Ultra-Pocket 5
STV680 VGA
SVS SVS625CL
Samsung
o EX1
o EX2F
o GX-1L
o GX-1S
o GX10
o GX20
o Galaxy NX (EK-GN120)
o Galaxy S7 (SM-G935F)
o NX1
o NX5
o NX10
o NX11
o NX100
o NX1000

o NX1100
o NX20
o NX200
o NX210
o NX2000
o NX30
o NX300
o NX300M
o NX3000
o NX500
o NX mini
o Pro815
o WB550
o WB2000
o S85 (hacked)
o S850 (hacked)
o Galaxy S3
o Galaxy S7
o Galaxy S7 Edge
o Galaxy Nexus
Sarnoff 4096x5440
Seitz
o 6x17
o Roundshot D3
o Roundshot D2X
o Roundshot D2Xs
Sigma (embedded JPEG only)
o SD9
o SD10
o SD14
o SD15
o SD1
o SD1 Merill
o DP1
o DP1 Merill
o DP1S
o DP1X
o DP2
o DP2 Merill
o DP2S
o DP2X
o DP3 Merill
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
o 3072x2048
o 4080x4080
o 4080x5440
o STI format
o Sinarback 54
Sony
o A7
o A7 II
o A7R
o A7R II
o A7S
o A7S II
o ILCA-68 (A68)
o ILCA-77M2 (A77-II)
o ILCA-99M2 (A99-II)
o ILCE-3000
o ILCE-5000
o ILCE-5100
o ILCE-6000
o ILCE-6300
o ILCE-6500
o ILCE-QX1
o DSC-F828
o DSC-R1
o DSC-RX1
o DSC-RX1R
o DSC-RX1R II
o DSC-RX10
o DSC-RX10II
o DSC-RX10III
o DSC-RX100
o DSC-RX100II
o DSC-RX100III
o DSC-RX100IV
o DSC-RX100V
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
o DSLR-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-A55V
o SLT-A57
o SLT-A58
o SLT-A65V
o SLT-A77V
o SLT-A99V
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 L
Xiaomi
oMI3
oRedMi Note3 Pro
YUNEEC CGO4

Copyrights and Acknowledgements

FastRawViewer uses Qt 5.3, LibRaw library, RawSpeed library, LibXML2 and LibJPEG-turbo libraries,
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, [email protected])
Qt 5.3
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.
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.
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How FastRawViewer Helps You

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Compatibility with RawPhotoProcessor (.rpps files) .......................................................................... 38

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Boosting the Shadows ........................................................................................................................ 67

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Black Screen in Image Display Window .............................................................................................. 96

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Favorite Folders Panel ...................................................................................................................... 142

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Conventions used in this Manual

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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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Windows: Hardware Acceleration Method Selection

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Activation of the License Youve Purchased

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

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Using the Program: First Steps

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Menu View Switch to single image.

Switching back to Grid mode:

On the program main screen:

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Additionally, the following settings can be indicated if desired:

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Changing the Settings

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Help with the Keyboard Shortcuts

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Navigating the Files in a Folder while in Grid mode

Navigation in Grid mode can be accomplished using the following:

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Working with a Single File

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Copying and Moving Single Files

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Deleting Files: the _Rejected folder

Clearing out the _Rejected Folder

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