Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features

How to Customize FastRawViewer

Preferences
• Menu -> File ->Customize -> Preferences

Keyboard Shortcut Editor

• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Keyboard Shortcuts

A Gear Icon at the Top of Panels or Bars

User Manual
• comes with the installation of FastRawViewer
• Menu -> Help -> Online manual
• http://www.fastrawviewer.com/usermanual (can be downloaded in .pdf format as well)

Quick Start Tips

• Menu -> Help -> Usage tips
• http://www.fastrawviewer.com/tips-and-videos (to download in .pdf format)

Customer Support
• [email protected]
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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Preferences

Tuning Preferences (#1)

Preferences allow to set useful features, including tailoring to your needs the modes that facili-
tate file browsing, image inspection, further raw processing, image presentation, etc. For exam-
ple, to enable certain Focus Peaking modes, look into Preferences.
Spending some time on Preferences will help you understand FastRawViewer better and use it
more efficiently:
• Press   Ctrl+P or Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Preferences

Tuning Preferences (#2)

If you feel that some feature is missing or inconvenient, or you don’t know how to set it, please check
the Preferences menu and adjust as necessary, and if it is not there, please email us or visit our forum.

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Examining Shortcuts

Examining Keyboard/Mouse Controls (#1)

FastRawViewer is designed to be controlled mostly with keyboard and mouse, without much
reaching for menus.

You can examine the default/current key/mouse control combinations and change them to your
preferred ones anytime:
• Press   Ctrl+K or Menu -> File -> Customize -> Keyboard Shortcuts

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Examining Shortcuts

Examining Keyboard/Mouse Controls (#2)

We suggest that you spend some time familiarizing yourself with the shortcuts with the help of
the Keyboard Shortcuts Menu, tips, and FastRawViewer Manual; it is not just an overview of
the program (that is, showing what can be done in FastRawViewer), but will also help you to do
more things in less time.

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Adjusting Shortcuts

Changing Keyboard/Mouse Controls

Many features are already pre-programmed and assigned to shortcuts. Nevertheless you can
change the shortcuts so that they will be similar to the ones you use with other graphic programs.

Press here to delete

the Shortcut Combination
Press here to add
a Shortcut Combination
Press here to change
a Shortcut Combination

If you feel that some feature or shortcut is missing or inconvenient, please check the Keyboard
Shortcuts Editor and adjust as necessary, and if it is not there, please let us know.

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Interface Customization

Background Color Schemes, Font Size, other General Interface Settings

Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Interface
The background color scheme can be changed to any shade of grey, from black to white. Also,
many other interface settings, including bottom bar settings, can be changed here.

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Interface Customization

Filmstrip Settings and Panels Color Schemes, Font Size, etc

• Menu -> FastRawViewer -> Customize -> Preferences -> Interface -> Panels
Everything that has to do with panels in general as well as with the Filmstrip panel has be found
in a separate group in this tab.

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Interface Customization

Tuning Settings for Grid View

• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Grid View

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Interface Customization

Control Panel Display in Grid View Mode

To switch display of the Histogram and the Exposure Statistics for the selected image in Grid mode
“on” and “off” press a graph icon at the Raw Histogram Panel.

Choosing EXIF Data to be Displayed

EXIF data is now displayed in Grid Mode without any additional user actions.
EXIF data can now be displayed right in the Grid/Filmstrip above the thumbnail or below the
thumbnail. The settings for EXIF data display are accessible through the “gear icon” separately for
the Grid and Filmstrip modes.

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Interface Customization

Arranging Panels
1. All panels can be placed anywhere on the screen or even other monitor — just drag-and-drop it
where you want it to be.
2. If the Filmstrip panel is outside the program window, it can be easily organized into a light-table.
3. The filmstrip can be docked at the top, bottom, or left side of the main window. All other panels
— at the right or left side. You can dock a panel to the most recent docking position by pressing
an arrow icon.

Panels and Filmstrip Settings Customization

A little gear icon at the top right corner of a panel (or the top left corner of the filmstrip placed at
the bottom) allows customization of the panel or bar.

Toggle Panel Display

1. Every panel can be toggled open and closed through:

• Menu -> Panels or a keyboard shortcut (default or assigned)
To change panels keyboard shortcuts, please look at:
• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Information Panels

2. The Tab key toggles all presented on the screen panels hide and unhide together.

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Bottom Bar

Bottom Bar Structure

Bottom Bar has both Information fields and Action fields with buttons. Given the total number of
possible fields and buttons they can’t be displayed all together, so the user should customize
Bottom Bar according to personal preferences by choosing which fields should be always visible,
which fields should be visible if fits (if the size of the window permits it), which fields to hide (please
see the the Bottom Bar Customisation for details). Of course all these choices are easily reversable.
Bottom Bar Information Fields

Current folder Current filename Current EXIF summary File load/

image size processing time

Bottom Bar Action Buttons

Open File navigation RAW / JPEGs Zoom ratio R - G - B - BW Screen Sharpening (USM), Exposure Control Overexposure /
File buttons (internal - i, and channel Focus Peaking (E,D), buttons Underexposure
button external - E) zoom buttons selector Shadow Boost (S), buttons
switch Highlight Inspection (H)
buttons
2-window mode 4-window mode

White balance White balance Contrast display Rotation XMP rating XMP Label Toggle Single file / Grid,
presets display and and control buttons buttons Fullscreen On/Off,
manual tune adjustments buttons Hide/show filmstrip
Hide/show inform. panels,
Customize FastRawViewer
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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Bottom Bar

Bottom Bar Customization

1. Open Bottom Bar Customization Dialog
• Through the gear icon at the lower right corner
of the Bottom Bar:

Press here to open

Bottom Bar Customization Menu

or through
• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Customize bottom bar
or through
• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Interface
press the button

2. At the Bottom Bar Customization Dialog choose

Bottom Bar options to be displayed
(see the image to the right).
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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Color Management

Color Management
Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Color Management
If you use Custom monitor profile
Do not override if the system color profile is already the one you want to use; in this case
“Use color profile of display” is enough.

If you use a Wide Gamut monitor

Try to use Adobe RGB as the selected color space (“RAW processing color space” field)

If your Custom monitor profile is accurate

You may benefit from selecting ProPhoto RGB (“RAW processing color space” field)
If you use a generic monitor with a canned profile
The image may look better with color management off
(leave the box “Enable Color Management” at the top of Color Management Menu unchecked)

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: EXIF View

Customization of EXIF Fields display

1. At the top right corner of the EXIF panel press

gear button and open EXIF Display Preferences:

Press to open EXIF Display Menu

2. Choose EXIF fields to be displayed

(see the image to the right).

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Working with Removable Media

Access Files and Folders Using Folders Panel

Folders and files can be accessed through a folder tree.
Working with a Memory Card
1. When you mount removable media in your system,
it will immediately appear in the folder tree.
2. If you don’t need it anymore, you can eject it directly
through the Folder panel (right click on removable media
folder name and choose “Unmount removable media).
3. You can have the most recently created subfolder
on the removable media be opened in the DCIM folder:
Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Removable media

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Working with Folder Tree

Editing the Folder Tree

The Folder panel settings now contain a setting
to Enable add/rename/remove folders (access
through gear icon).
Also here you can disable Drag and Drop from
Grid/Filmstrip/Single View to the folder tree
(enabled by default) and switch on Folder tree
autoexpand on drop target selection.
When Enable add/rename/remove
folders is on, you can choose the de-
sired action in the context menu
(right-click on the folder):

Drag-and-Drop Files to Folder Tree

The folder which is currently under the drop cur-

sor is automatically highlighted in red.
You can not only drop files into the Folders panel,
but also into the Favorite Folders panel.
With default settings, the dropped file is copied,
not moved.

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Favorite Folders

Working with the Favorite Folders Panel

This panel allows one to keep a list of often-used folders, and lets one readily access them.
Add a Folder to Favorite Folders
1. Right-click on the selected folder in the Folder tree and use the appearing context menu.

2. Highlight the selected folder in the

Folder Tree and press the Gear icon
on the Favorite Folders panel to ac-
cess the context menu.
Remove a Folder from Favorite Folders
1. Right-click on the selected folder
in the Favorite Folders and use
the appearing context menu.
Open folders
2. A click on an item (folder) in this list opens the chosen folder in the Filmstrip/Thumbnails panel
3. A double-click opens an item in the Filmstrip/Thumbnails panel and loads the first file in the
main window.
Clear Favorite Folders List
1. Press the Gear icon on the Favorite Folders panel to access the context menu.
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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Special Folder Browsing Modes

Special Folder Browsing Modes

1. Subfolder browse mode 3. Hotfolder mode

2. Filelist browse mode (Virtual folder mode) 4. Slideshow mode

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Subfolder Browse Mode

Subfolder Browse Mode

In subfolder browse mode, all of the files found in those nested folders will be presented as
a “flat list.” Sorting is possible both by the “full path” and also just by filename.
Switching to Subfolder Browse Mode
• Alt-O / Option-O or Menu –> File –> Open Folder –> Open folder with subfolders

• Context menu in the Folders panel –> Open in subfolder mode

In both cases, a dialog

for scanning the sub-
folders will appear for
a user to pick the initial
folder for browsing
(arrow up allows one
to easily go a level up),
and depth of browsing.
The limits are set through Preferences –> Special browse modes section.
Exiting Subfolder Browse Mode
• Explicit exit: Menu –> File –> Open File or Menu –> File –> Open Folder –> Open Folder

• Implicit exit: drag and drop (file or folder) into the application window, selecting a folder
in the Folders panel.

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Grid View / Single File View Modes

Grid View Mode

If FastRawViewer is launched without indicating a filename, it will start in Grid View mode,
displaying the thumbnail previews of all of the supported files from the selected folder
(current folder, if switched to Grid View mode from Single FileView mode) :

Navigating files
• Keyboard: arrowkeys in the
main window, PgUp/PgDn,
Home/End; customizable
shortcuts for Next File/Prev.
File and First/Last File
in folder.
• Mouse: the wheel scrolls
through the contents of the
folder up and down.

Switching to Single File View Mode

• G or Menu -> View -> Switch to single image    or
• Enter or A double-click on a file in the grid
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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Grid View / Single File View Modes

Single File View Mode

If FastRawViewer is launched over a specific file (for example, by dropping a RAW file onto the
program’s icon, or by double-clicking a file which is associated with FastRawViewer, etc.) it will start
in Single File View mode.

Navigating files
• Keyboard: arrowkeys in the
Filmstrip, customizable short-
cuts for Next File/Prev. File
and First/Last File in folder.
• Mouse: the wheel scrolls
through the contents of the
Filmstrip left and right;
• Buttons for navigating through
the current folder:
previous file, number of file in
the file list and the length
of the list, next file;

Switching to Grid View Mode

• G or Menu -> View -> Switch to image grid
• Esc or Menu -> View -> Close single image (Esc/close single image also exits full screen mode)
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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Multi-window View Mode

Switching to Multi-window mode can be done through Menu -> Multi-window -> Window layout.
Switching/toggling between multi-window and single view modes can also be done via the but-
tons (“2-window mode” or “4-window mode”) in the right part of the application’s bottom bar.
• The top-left widow (or just left
for two-subview mode) is the
main window, analogous in
function to the window in
Single Image View.
• The other windows are second-
ary (additional/ancillary), they
display copies of some im-
ages that cannot be edited.
• The order of the windows (main
is at the top left) is the default.
This order can be changed via
Preferences -> Multi-window
mode -> Main/secondary win-
dow order
To populate windows, you can use the following options:
• Drag-n-drop from the Filmstrip to the desired window or from one window to another one;
• The file’s context menu, both in the window or in Filmstrip;
• Сopying an image from the main window to a secondary one, using menu options/short-
cuts or the buttons in the left part of the top panel of the main window
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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Multi-window View Mode

Multi-window Mode Customization

Multi-window Mode Settings
These settings are located in a separate Multi-window mode tab of FastRawViewer Preferences.

Hotkeys
The hotkeys for multi-window mode are set through Menu -> File -> Customize -> Keyboard
Shortcut -> Multi-window operations tab.
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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Ratings and Labels

Choose XMP Label and Rating Style

• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Rating & labels

Assign XMP Label and Rating to the Image

• Menu -> XMP Metadata    or  corresponding keyboard shortcuts

Change Keyboard Shortcuts

• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> XMP Rating
• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> XMP Labels
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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Sorting and Filtering Files

Sort & Filter Panel 1 2 3 4 5

The panel Sort & Filter controls the sorting and filtration of files.
The panel’s icons at the title bar are follows:
1. Filter files by name/mask
2. File Sorting
3. Re-reading the current folder
4. Panel Settings
5. Move back to dock area.
Sorting: the sorting order can be changed on the fly.
Filtration: chechboxes to the left of the sorting and filtering pa-
rameteres allows to define conditions , and only files that pass the
filtering conditions will be displayed.
• In XMP Rating/XMP Label groups, you can set the desired
combination of ratings and labels.
• In the Exif Timestamp group, you can select the necessary
ranges of dates. You can edit those ranges if necessary.
• Filtring files by name/mask allows several different options
to define files to be displayed.

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Sorting and Filtering Files

Saving, Cancel and Restore Filters

To Save, Cancel, and Restore

filters, use:
• File -> File filtering in folder
  or  corresponding hotkeys

File Sorting Settings

With standard settings, the metadata (EXIF, XMP) is read only when this data is needed – for Icon
display, or when filtering is on. This accelerates the browsing. This can be changed in the prefer-
ences by switching off File Handling - Sorting and Filtering - Lazy metadata read.
• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> File Handling -> Sorting and Filtering

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: File Selection

To fulfill Batch operations (such as copy, move, rotate, set rating and label etc.) with multiple files
you will first have to select those files.

File Selection

To mark a file for group operations in Grid View or Filmstrip panel:

• Ctrl-Click on the file preview thumbnail;
or
• Set/unset 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).

or choose the actions through:

• Menu -> Select

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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Operations with Multiple Files

To fulfill operations with multiple files (such as copy, move, rotate, rename, set rating and label etc.)
with multiple files you will first have to select those files.

Operation with Multiple Files

Operations with multiple selected files availible through:

• Context menu (activated by right-clicking on any of the marked files)

right-click The context menu acts:

• On the group of
selected files in Grid/
Filmstrip, when the
menu is called up for
a file within the group
of selected files
• On one file in all
other cases.

or (if the option “Single file keys work for multiple files too” was checked out in
Menu -> FastRawViewer -> Customize -> Preferences -> Selection) use:
• Menu -> Select/Batch
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 Getting familiar with the FRV Tools and Features: Renaming Files

Renaming Files

To rename files, you can use:

• Context menu (Rename file(s)): in Grid view mode, Filmstrip, Single view mode, secondary
windows (in Multi-window mode)
• Menu -> File -> Rename File(s) or the shortcut Shift-F2
If the setting “Single File keys works for multiple files too” is turned off, then to rename sev-
eral selected files use Menu -> Select/Batch -> Rename Files

Generating Names for Rename

When renaming one file, a simplified renaming dialogue pops up on the screen, where you can
simply type the new filename, press Enter, and the file will be renamed.
When renaming several files, or
when the Extended Parameters
checkbox is checked when renam-
ing a single file, the full renaming
dialogue will be displayed.
Please read the FastRawViewer
manual for detailed description of
how to work with various fields of
this dialog to create files names.

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 Assessing the Image: Tools and Features

Of course the composition is a priority while sorting images. If the image you are viewing is com-
posed well next thing you want to know is: if the technical quality of the image good enough.
FastRawViewer offers essential Image Assessing Tools:

FastRawViewer Image Assessing Tools

RAW Histogram
Over- and Underexposure Indication and Statistics
Focus Peaking
Screen Sharpening
Shadow Boost
Highlight Inspection
Exposure Compensation
White Balance
Contrast (Tone) Curve
Using these tools is super easy. They can be activated and deactivated through the Shortcuts, or
the Bottom Bar, or through the Menu. Parameters for the tools are set through the Preferences.
The detailed information about these tools can be found in FastRawViewer manual.
They also briefly covered in tips.

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 Assessing the Image: Matching Image Display

Matching FRV Image Display to Adobe CameraRaw/Lightroom

Defaults should be adequate, if you need to restore just these ones, here are the settings:
1. At the Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Image Display -> Contrast curve type
choose Variable Contrast:

2. At the Contrast Curve drop-down menu choose “0” (standard) curve:

3. At the Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Exposure
3a. “Apply Adobe hidden exposure correction” is “on” (check the proper box)
3b. Choose No correction from the drop-down Exposure correction on file open

3a

3b

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 Assessing the Image: Matching Image Display

Matching FRV Image Display to RAW Converter

If the image display in FastRawviewer does not match the display in Adobe ACR/Lr or other con-
verter (brightness is different, color is off, etc.), please check the following:
Disable Auto Exposure Correction
• Press A  or Toggle Exposure Correction button at the Bottom Bar

Bottom Bar

Enable Color Management

• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Color Management -> check the box
“Enable Color Management”

Choose correct Monitor Profile

If colors still look off, please check at the same Color Management menu that you’ve chosen
the correct Monitor Profile

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 Assessing the Image: Over- and Underexposure

Checking for Over- and Underexposure

Toggling Over- and Underexposure Indication
• O  or Menu -> View -> Overexposure Display

• U  or Menu -> View -> Underexposure Display

• or Toggle OverExposure (OE) and Underexposure (UE) buttons at the Bottom Bar

Bottom Bar
Toggle Overexposure Toggle Underexposure

Over- and Underexposure Statistics

At the Information Windows Dock you can find
Over- and Underexposure Statistics Window
(see the picture to the right).

To display Overexposure Statistics before and after applying exposure compensation, choose
Always display OE + Corr column in Exposure Stat panel settings (gear icon).

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 Assessing the Image: Over- and Underexposure

Over- and Underexposure Display Settings

To choose proper settings for Over- and Underexposure overlays use:

• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Exposure -> Over/Underexposure Display

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 Assessing the Image: In-Focus Areas

Focus Peaking
The Focus Peaking filter allows to assess the sharpness of the image and locate the areas
where the sharp edges (E) and/or fine details (D) exist.
To Control Focus Peaking Options
• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> GPU Processing -> Focus Peaking Mode

Circle Focus Peaking (Edges/Details/Both/Off)

• Press P  or  Menu -> View -> Toggle Focus Peaking

• or Toggle Edges (E) and Details (D) buttons at the Bottom Bar

Bottom Bar
Toggle Edges option Toggle Details option

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 Assessing the Image: Sharpness

While being processed in a RAW converter, RAW images generally have had some sort of sharpen-
ing algorithm applied to them. In FastRawViewer, the sharpening is applied only for display.

Screen Sharpening
Setting the Level of Sharpening
You can switch between two levels of sharpening:
• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Sharpening

Toggle Screen Sharpening

• Press ⌘S  or  Menu -> File -> Screen Sharpening
• or Toggle Screen Sharpening (USM - unsharp mask) button at the Bottom Bar

Toggle Screen Sharpening Bottom Bar

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 Assessing the Image: Shadows

For ETTR practitioners or those who need to explore the shadows of an image, we have a tool
ready for you - Shadow Boost; it lifts the shadows without clipping the highlights.
All you need to do is set the Shadow Boost amount, and apply it using Shift+S. This will allow you
to see the level of noise in the shadows and to check if they are preserving details and colors well.

Boosting Shadows

To Set the Amount of Shadow Boost

• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Image Display -> Boost Shadows amount

Toggle Shadow Boost on/off

• Press Shift+S or  Menu -> View -> Shadow Boost
• or Toggle Shadow Boost (S) button at the Bottom Bar

Bottom Bar
Toggle Shadow boost

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 Assessing the Image: Highlights

Highlight Inspection mode does the “opposite” of the Shadow Boost mode: the brightness of
the shadows and midtones is decreased, thus the image looks darker; the contrast in the high-
lights is increased; white balance can be “canceled” by setting it to UniWB. As result it allows to
evaluate details in highlights and inspect which channels are clipped (if any) and where.

Highlights Inspection

Choose Settings for Highlights Inspection

• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Image Display -> Highlights Inspection

Toggle Highlights Inspection on/off

• Press ⇧H  or  Menu -> View -> Highlights inspection
• or Toggle Highlight Inspection (H) button at the Bottom Bar

Toggle Highlights Inspection Bottom Bar

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 Assessing the Image: Exposure Correction

You can save a lot of time spent on adjusting images in Lr/ACR or RPP, if you select and apply ad-
justments to Exposure, White Balance, and Orientation right in FastRawViewer, while browsing
and save the applied settings in sidecar XMP and/or RPPS files. Raw converter program will be
picking up those sidecar files prepared in FastRawViewer as the starting point for conversions.
This technique works well in combination with Propagation (see the tip “Time-saver: Propagation”)

Controlling Exposure Correction (#1)

Switch Auto Exposure Correction “on”

• Press Shift+A  or  Menu -> Adjust -> Auto Exposure Correction

Choosing the Step Size for Exposure Correction

• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Image Display -> Exposure adjustment steps

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 Assessing the Image: Exposure Сorrection

Controlling Exposure Correction (#2)

Switch Auto Exposure Correction on/off

• Press A  or  Menu -> Adjust -> Exposure Correction
• or Press the field Exposure Correction Value at the Bottom Bar

Increase/Decrease Exposure Correction

• Press Alt+”+” / Alt+”-”  or
• Click + / - at the lower Bottom Bar

Bottom Bar
Press to decrease Press to increase
Toggle Exposure Correction Value on/off

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 Assessing the Image: White Balance Presets

Quick Way: White Balance Presets

Cycle between Auto/As Shot/Daylight/Custom White Balance Presets
• Press W  or  Menu -> Adjust -> Toggle White Balance

More White Balance Presets

1. At the Bottom Bar:

Bottom Bar

Press here to open the drop-down

White Balance Presets Menu

2. choose one of the White Balance presets

(see the image to the right).
Note: UniWB preset switches white balance off
completely.

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 Assessing the Image: Custom White Balance

Sampling Grey Point

Choosing the Sampler Size
• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> White Balance -> White Balance Sampler Size

Setting the Grey Point

• Click on Alt+ LeftClick on the image on something you designate as neutral.
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 Assessing the Image: White Balance Display

Choosing White Balance Display Mode

• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> White Balance -> White Balance Display Mode

White Balance settings in the chosen mode will be displayed at the Bottom Bar:

Color Temperature and Tint Mired and Tint

White balance coefficients Per-channel correction in EV

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 Assessing the Image: Tuning White Balance

Fine-tuning White Balance

Choose White balance Edit Mode

• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> White Balance -> White Balance Edit Mode

Adjust White Balance

• Click White Balance Display at the Bottom Bar to adjust white balance using sliders in the
White Balance Adjustment Window

Bottom Bar Bottom

BottomBar
Bar
Press here to open
White Balance Adjustments Window

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 Assessing the Image: Contrast

If you want to add “bite” to the image display, or are opting for a flatter look for the scenes with
high dynamic range (which helps see maximum details), you need to play with the contrast.
FastRawViewer allows one to apply “standard” tone curves (sRGB, Gamma 1.8 and 2.2, L*),
but also offers the Variable Contrast mode for tone curves.

Choosing a Contrast (Tone) Curve Type

• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Image Display -> Contrast curve type

Adjusting Contrast
In Variable Contrast mode, the image contrast can be adjusted in “grades”:
• Menu -> Adjust -> Increase Contrast ( or  K ) / Decrease Contrast ( or ⇧K )
• or Press vertical arrows at the Bottom Bar

Bottom Bar
Press to decrease contrast Press to increase contrast

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 Time-saver: Getting Ready for RAW Conversion

Customizing XMP or RPPS Settings to Match You RAW Converter

Choosing XMP Settings in Preferences
• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> XMP
In XMP settings Window you will see several options tuning of which allows better communica-
tion between FastRawViewer and your preferred RAW converter.

For RPP Users

• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Other -> Write RPPS files (RawPhotoProcessor)
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 Time-saver: Getting Ready for RAW Conversion

Adjusting Settings and Basic Conversion Parameters

If you are using Adobe ACR or Lr you should:
0a. Switch on “Apply Adobe Exposure Correction”
• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Exposure
0b. Switch on “Adobe compatible Exposure, Contrast and White balance”
• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> XMP -> Exposure, Contrast, WB
To record Contrast in the format that is
acknowledged by Adobe converters,
check “Write Adobe-compatible
Contrast/Blacks into XMP file”
1. Check the Settings for Sidecar
Files .xmp/.rpps (please see the previ-
ous tip)
2. Set Image Orientation (if needed)
• Menu -> Adjust -> Rotate 900 CCW (or ⌘7 )/ Rotate 900 CW (or ⌘9 )
• or Press rotation arrows at the Bottom Bar

Press to rotate 900 CW Press to rotate 900 CCW Bottom Bar

3. Tune White Balance and Adjust Exposure Correction (see tips for ‘Assessing the Image: White
Balance’ and ‘Assessing the Image: Exposure Correction’)
5. Adjust Contrast (if using Adobe raw converters) (see tips for ‘Assessing the Image: Contrast’)
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 Time-saver: Propagation

It often happens that several files need the same adjustments to White Balance, Exposure
and Orientation. To do so, FastRawViewer offers Propagation Mode: in this mode adjustments
made to Exposure and White Balance are automatically applied to the next image you open
in FastRawViewer.

Propagation of Settings from the “Previous” Image to the “Next” (#1)

Keep Exposure Correction for the Next Frame

• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Exposure -> Exposure correction on file open
-> choose Keep from prev. file

Keep White Balance for the Next Frame

• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> White Balance -> White Balance for next file
-> choose Same as previous

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 Time-saver: Propagation to Sidecar Files

When using Propagation you may choose Forced Mode of recording sidecar files. In this case
even if no individual adjustments were applied to the image the sidecar file will be written
containing all the changes you’ve made last time within the session. Thus all RAW files will have
accompanying sidecar files with the parameter already set to be picked up by RAW converter.

Propagation of Settings from the “Previous” Image to the “Next” (#2)

Force XMP Files Creation
• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> XMP -> Force XMP files creation

Force RPPS Files Creation

If you are using RPP (RawPhotoProcessor) switch on the following:
• Menu -> File -> Customize -> Preferences -> Other -> Force RPPS files creation

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