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FastPictureViewer is a freemium image viewer for Windows XP and later. Its aim is to facilitate quick review, rating and annotation of large quantities of digital images in the early steps of the digital workflow, with an emphasis on simplicity and speed. As an app with a freemium license, a basic version is available cost-free for personal, non-profit or educational uses, while a commercial license is required for the professional version with additional features. The basic version starts as a full version trial. == Features == FastPictureViewer is optimized for full-screen, borderless preview of digital images. It covers a limited number of scenarios, such as for example the initial pre-selection and rating of a relatively small number of images from a large set of potentially thousands ("culling"). The program has no image editing or image enhancement features and does not create and maintain a thumbnail database (it uses the system-provided thumbnail cache on Windows Vista or later), on the other hand it can browse deeply nested folder/subfolder trees containing many thousand images quickly and in a simple manner; the user interface is kept to the strict minimum and the program relies heavily on keyboard shortcuts.〔(FastPictureViewer Professional Cheat Sheet (keyboard shortcuts help) )〕 The software has been dubbed ''"the Porsche of image viewers"'' and described as ''"unbeatably fast"'' by German magazine c't Magazin für Computertechnik〔(Artikel aus c't 19/08, S.162, zu FastPictureViewer 1.0 )〕 (the program also appeared in the magazine's software collection〔(Software-Kollektion 6/08, c't 19/08 )〕 and in a subsequent article on Adobe DNG raw workflow software roundup〔(c't-Archiv, 5/2009, Seite 174 )〕). According to the publisher the program features full color management, including support for custom-profiled wide-gamut monitors and ICCv2 and ICCv4 profile formats. Image rating is supported using industry-standard conventions (Adobe XMP), along with image pre-loading and caching if computer resources allows (the 64-bit edition of the program takes advantage of the memory than can be present beyond the 4GB boundary). The program can make use of multi-core CPUs for parallel image loading. It uses DirectX hardware acceleration when available to accelerate zooming and panning, black & white preview and lost shadows / lost highlights views, and can also downsize very large images (e.g. astronomic pictures) to make them fit in video memory or computer RAM if necessary. The software also features an IPTC metadata editor〔(IPTC Web - Software supporting IPTC Photo Metadata standards )〕 letting users annotate pictures (add or edit headline, caption, keywords, author and copyright information) in a way that is compatible with established industry standards. New images can be added to the browsed folder(s) and the program catches them on the fly, allowing continued browsing without the need to exit and reload the folder(s), while a tracking mode can automatically displays that last image added to the folder tree, useful when photographing in tethered mode or with a Wi-Fi enabled camera that transfers images to a computer using PTP or FTP, so images can be displayed as they are shot. An automatic advance mode (simple slide show) is also provided, along with a navigation slider that can be used to jump to different places in the current image list (under Windows Vista or later, the navigation slider displays a thumbnail image picturing the target location; a thumbnail strip is also displayed at the top of the program's window). The program supports the Unicode international character set (so it can browse images and folders whose names are written in any language) and features a multi-lingual user-interface. It integrates with the Windows shell, for example for context menus and AutoPlay events. It provides a simple external program launcher and a file copy function that copies (or moves) the image currently displayed to a pre-set folder, by pressing a hotkey, along with a file renaming function. Real-time RGB histogram and Exif information (shutter speed, F-stop, ISO speed, exposure compensation, ...) can be displayed in floating windows. The program adapts to screen resolution and supports large fonts and high-DPI display modes, as well as relatively low resolution Netbooks and sub-notebooks screens. The program integrates with the Windows 7 and 8.x taskbars and exposes a list of recently used folders through a mechanism known as "jump lists", introduced in Windows 7. An entry-level version of the program is available free of charge for home, non-commercial use. This free version supports the JPEG and Microsoft HD Photo / JPEG-XR image formats and can read/write Adobe XMP rating metadata in external sidecar files ( *.xmp) or embed it within JPEG (JFIF), HD Photo and TIFF containers. FastPictureViewer is extensible via COM-based plug-ins, whose specifications are available from the software publisher upon request. The software adopts the user's language automatically (currently available for Brazilian/Portuguese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish). In addition to the core functionality of the cost-free version, the commercial version is said by its publisher to have exclusive features, such as: * Support for web and Windows image formats such as PNG and GIF with transparency, BMP, and ICO. * Support for TIFF, MTIFF (multi-page TIFF), CMYK TIFF, TGA and DjVu. * RAW formats previewing with color-management. * Support for persistent bookmarks working across viewing sessions. * Support for multi-cameras tethered shooting (MTP/PTP over USB 2.0 or WI-FI). * Ability to configure more than one external tool in the program launcher. * Ability to create and use preset renaming templates. * Batch file mark/delete function. * Batch file management functions (copy, move, delete, save-for-web) through a multi-function rule-based plug-in. * Batch IPTC metadata editing (apply headline, caption, keywords, author and copyright information to a set of images). * Batch Web publishing and local export (publish photos to photo-sharing websites or to a local drive or USB storage device). * "Geo-clustering" (group images into folders according to their spatial or temporal proximity). * Support for Controlled Vocabularies with assisted keyword entry in the IPTC Editor.〔(Taxonomies, Structured Keywords, Controlled Vocabularies support in FastPictureViewer Professional )〕 * Support for Reverse Geocoding in the IPTC Editor〔(Reverse-geocoding support in FastPictureViewer Professional )〕 allowing users to fill the IPTC Location information from geotagged images. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「FastPictureViewer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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