Considering it’s early stages, it has quite a bit of functionality already. However, Microsoft also provides its own codec pack for free, so that’s another option to consider.įastRawViewer is the new kid on the block, entering public beta in 2014, and is made by the folks whose other commercial project is RawDigger and who maintain open source LibRaw, on which FastRawViewer is based. There is also a FastPictureViewer Codec Pack for ten bucks that simply enables fast raw previews in Windows Explorer, nothing more. It’s 50 bucks for the version that does RAW. It doesn’t have any editing capability and instead specialises in image rating and selection. It exists in three editions, but only the most expensive one supports RAW formats (and the most basic one is free).
Commercial use is 35 bucks.įastPictureViewer dates back to 2008. It also has a few fancy functions, such as emailing contact sheets, and is free for personal or educational use. JPEG rotation is lossless in the FastStone viewer. It’s a fully featured image viewer that supports many RAW formats, some colour space operations, and a host of editing steps such as cloning, colour correction, curves, cropping, and sharpening. The purpose of this article is just to clear up the potential naming confusion.įastStone Image Viewer is actually the oldest of the bunch, launching in 2004.
Please note that these are not necessarily the fastest RAW viewers out there (I haven’t tested these or any others for that particular aspect). The candidates presented here are FastStone Image Viewer, FastPictureViewer, and FastRawViewer. I thought you would appreciate a resource that you can return to when you need to know, so here goes. No law suits have apparently been filed, so it’s left for us consumers to figure out which is which. Over the last few years, various RAW viewers have sprung up, all claiming to be “fast” and putting this in their name.
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