Imaging Professionals
See what FastPictureViewer Professional can do to make your life easier :-)
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Much to our surprise, we found that FastPictureViewer Professional was used in areas
we never thought about, thanks to its unmatched speed, accurate color rendition
and overall efficiency.
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The purpose of this page is to highlight FastPictureViewer Professional's major
features and benefits, from an imaging professional point of view, and to expand
a little on their use and unique abilities.
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FastPictureViewer Professional, or FPV Pro for
short, does not create previews or 'thumbnails' of all your images, hogging your
computer for hours doing so, instead you just point FPV Pro at the folder containing
the pictures and the program will show your images nearly instantly: you can start
working within seconds.
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Unmatched Speed...
FastPictureViewer Professional makes the best of your computer. It knows about multi-processing
and multiple CPU cores, 32 and 64-bit architectures, advanced memory management
and hardware-accelerated display adapters. The program leverages several decades
of experience in writing high performance computer applications and was developed
as a tight, native application, making use of CPU-specific instruction code throughout
the most performance-critical path. The result is a small program that will, quite
simply, blow you away.
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Browse 100,000's...
There is no artificial limits on the number of images the program can handle. We
routinely test it on a 200,000 images set with no significant impact on performances.
The Quick Navigation slider let you jump anywhere in the image list in an instant,
and the Quick Bookmarks are just as instantaneous as they are with 20,000 or 2,000
images.
Customers use FPV Pro to breeze through huge amounts of digital images, in various
scenarios including...
- Selecting images in the media industry
- Reviewing computer generated images
in the film and animation industry
- Exploring image server farms in internet
photo-sharing back-ends
- Inspecting tens of thousands of multi-page files in
the document imaging field
- Crawling through hundreds of thousands of snapshots
in consumer behavior studies
FastPictureViewer Professional quickly established itself as the only image
viewer with the speed, capacity and rock-solid reliability required to fulfill those
tasks. FPV Pro is also compatible with Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition and all
64-bit editions of Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows
7, in addition to classic 32-bit versions. Integration tests were conducted at various
customer's sites, including compatibility with Citrix Systems' remote computing
environments, so be confident that FPV Pro will work seamlessly in your
environment, today and tomorrow.
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Large Images Support...
FPV Pro in only limited by the capacity of your hardware, but sometimes images are
so huge that even the most powerful PCs struggle to open and display them. FPV Pro
introduce an innovative technique that let you control the maximum amount or memory
to be allocated to any image. When an image is so big that it would exceed this
preset limit, the program automatically scales it down to make it fit within the
allowed constraints. As a result, FastPictureViewer Professional is able op open
very large images, like for example 466 megapixels, 21,600 x 21,600 Hubble Space
Telescope images.
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Saved Bookmarks...
FastPictureViewer let you set up to 10 different bookmarks, accessible through the
keyboard or a popup menu, to flag certain images among those currently viewer. A
single keystroke (or popup menu option) let you to jump back quickly to any previously
set bookmark. This function is invaluable when dealing with large number of images,
for example to mark the beginning or an interesting sequence, or the last image
viewed in a given session. Bookmarks are automatically saved across viewing sessions,
to you will find them the next time you browse the image folder. The bookmarks are
also folder-specific, you'll get 10 bookmarks for, say, C:\Pictures and another,
different set of 10 bookmarks for, say, D:\Archives and so on.
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Multipage MTIFF Support...
FPV Pro supports multipage documents in TIFF (MTIFF),
DjVu and GIF formats. The
program let you flow seamlessly across documents and their contained pages, you
just scroll into and between document in one continuous sequence. FastPictureViewer
Professional also let you bookmark individual pages within documents, while the
Quick Navigation slider let you jump to any page in any document seamlessly.
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Custom Monitor Profiles...
Accuracy of color rendition is paramount for many imaging applications. FastPictureViewer
Professional features full color management and understands color profiles embedded
within supported image file formats. Moreover, the program supports custom-profiled
monitors and will perform a one-step conversion from the source profile (image)
to the target profile (monitor). The program already uses a wide internal pixel
pipeline and will be able to adapt to up-coming High Dynamic Range (HDR) image formats
and display monitors of the future. From version 1.0.68.0, the program also supports
High-DPI display modes, the entire user-interface scales smoothly to adapt the larger
base font.
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One Key Accept/Reject/Copy...
The built-in rating and copy/move mechanism originally designed for photo culling
can be used as an extremely efficient Accept/Reject or Copy/Leave mechanism. For
example the XMP rating could be used to tag "Accepted", "Maybe" and "Rejected" pictures
with a single key press, for example 5 meaning "Accepted", 3 meaning "Maybe" and
1 (or no rating at all), meaning "Rejected". The rating is made using industry-standard
Adobe XMP metadata conventions and can later be read and interpreted by many digital
asset management software suites, including those from Adobe and other professional
software vendors.
Another scheme could be based on file copy/move functions, where the files to be
kept are copied in a pre-designed folder at the press of a key. The workflow would
then go on from the subset that was copied in the folder.
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Deep Subfolder Browsing and Watching / Monitoring...
By default FastPictureViewer Professional crawls the image folder it's pointed at
and all the nested subfolders. All files are kept in perfect order according to
the sort mode currently in effect, either alphabetically by folder and file name,
or by creation/modification date. For photos documents, sort modes based on EXIF
"Date Taken" and GPS time stamps are also available. The Quick Navigation slider
and numerous navigation keystrokes makes it easy to navigate around the image list
in the chosen order. FPV Pro makes it easy to browse entire drives, DVDs or network
shares: just point it at the root folder from where you want to start, and let it
crawl the entire subfolder tree, grabbing all recognized images along the way. Any
image added anywhere in the folder tree will be caught automatically and added to
the internal image list, ready for viewing.
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Native 64-bit support...
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"FastPictureViewer works with the latest 64-bit operating systems and multi-core
microprocessors."
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High-resolution imaging raise the bar in terms of computing power as well as memory
space for viewing and processing. FastPictureViewer 64-bit edition takes advantage
of the large memory space and increased computing power of 64-bit operating systems
and microprocessors to help imaging professionals open and view large images
at maximum possible speed, by tapping into the full power of today's 64-bit
processors and operating systems. We provide our own 32/64-bit FastPictureViewer Codec Pack which adds full platform support to Windows 32 and 64-bit
for more than 320 digital cameras and some specialized image formats.
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Specialist's file formats support...
48-bit, 64-bit, 128-bit / pixel...
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Specialists image formats such as Truvision
Targa (TGA) and Industrial Light & Magic
OpenEXR, a 64 bit/pixel floating point
format (with 128 bit/pixel variants) popular
in the Computer Graphics industry, are well
understood by FastPictureViewer
Professional (those codecs are part of the
separate FastPictureViewer Codec Pack
product). The TIFF format, including 48
bit/pixel and CMYK variants, is well
supported too. Of course the
bit depth has to be reduced to match today's
displays, but with the advent of
30-bit-color desktop monitors and graphic
cards, with Windows 7 and beyond, be assured
that FastPictureViewer Professional will be
ready when the hardware is available! |
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Check out our video demos and tutorials:
Visit the
Help & Tutorials Page.
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