FastPictureViewer Professional is an image viewer with the speed and features to help you review digital photos faster than ever before.Comments on:

By: Lawrence Keeney

Lawrence Keeney — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:16:49 +0000

FastPricureViewer solved a problem I have been having with tethered shooting in my studio. With my original setup, it was taking about 9-10 seconds to display an image on my computer monitor after taking a photo. After installing FastPricureViewer the display time dropped to 2-3 seconds which works for my application.

By: bswarm

bswarm — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:43:56 +0000

Anyone know if the new update (10/18/2009) is valid for this giveaway?

By: Kirill

Kirill — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:27:10 +0000

Axel: “You can always uncheck any codec(s) that you don’t want to install ;-)”

I try installing Thumbnail provider for Windows XP and Canon RAW Codec 1.5.
After the computer restarts I don’t see any thumbnail for CR2 file. Why?
I’ve expected that it supports “any other existing WIC-enabled codecs”.

By: D

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:58:03 +0000

Installed Fast Picture Viewer and also installed the “Windows Imaging Component” that came with the GOTD download as well, restarted the computer, but upon trying to run Fast Picture Viewer, I got a message in a black window that said I needed to install the “Windows Imaging Component”…even though I just did! Instead of downloading from the official Microsoft website (as the message in the black window directed), I googled “Windows Imaging Component” and then downloaded it from Brothersoft at this address:

http://www.brothersoft.com/windows-imaging-component-78469.html

I ran the download to install the Windows Imaging Component, clicked on the Fast Picture Viewer and then it ran through without the message and I was finally able to activate it.

Maybe the problem was because the GOTD downlaod came with Windows Imaging Component 1.21 and the one I downloaded from Brothersoft is 1.0 …I don’t know.

If you’re harassed by Microsoft’s “Windows Genuine Advantage”, do not fret because in downloading the Windows Imaging Component from Brothersoft you need not worry about any of that since it goes through without any check.

By: J. Tenzer

J. Tenzer — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:18:15 +0000

I have Vista 64x and it kept saying that the program was registered on install but I could not find it on restart but the Codex configuration installed. Upon running the codex the only choice was to force run (Nikon) was the only choice available. I tried several times to then re-install Fast Picture Viewer and finally it came up as not registered as time to register had expired.
All the programs I have used from GOTD in the past have worked until I tried to use this one.
I just want it off my computer at this time. No Thanks GOTD on this one!

By: Geoff Taylor

Geoff Taylor — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 06:11:49 +0000

I had been using the same viewer since win95, that being vueprintpro, and hard as I looked could never find anything to match it for speed, simplicity and capability, until now that is.

“Fast Picture Viewer” is a gem and should be snapped up for free while you can get it.

Please note my experience with the program relates to Windows 7 only.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:31:26 +0000

Setting itself as the default viewer – WITHOUT asking permission and not allowing the installation folder to be selected were enough for a negative vote. -Uninstalled.-

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:28:24 +0000

Does not hjave even half the features or capacities of the free irfan viewer. Download irfan viewer and its plug in pack (both always have been and always will be free) and you will have a far superior viewer and image management system.

By: danzeb

danzeb — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:04:11 +0000

I don’t understand what this program does that all the other photo viewers don’t do. I have an 5 year old PC and pictures are always displayed fast. It may have useful features for professionals but I didn’t read anything in the program description that was interesting.

A free alternative could be Google Picasa 3.5 which has nice features like face recognition and organization by face. It also supports geotaging that will put location information into your pictures.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:32:48 +0000

Like #32 Tony I use ViewNX (browser), CaptureNX (RAW conversion), and Photoshop when working with my NEF RAW files. FastPictureViewer is nice and simple, and I like that. And it is indeed fast (although it can easily gobble up alot of memory based upon how many files are loaded)! Plenty of options to configure the browser as you wish. The GPU hardware acceleration is a nice feature, and I especially like the easy color management. Like Tony I find the histogram a bit troublesome… no where close to what the Nikon software shows for RAW histograms. FastPictureViewer won’t be replacing ViewNX (free) on my systems but thanks to Axel and GOTD.