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Yep! For general purpose picture viewing.
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What programs are you using for viewing photos?
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FastStone for many tasks. Certainly for unloading the SD cards into auto day dated folders with separate RAW and jpeg folder trees. Takes two passes to do that but I'm used to it.
As an aside, Qimage Ultimate can do the separate folder streams to day dated folders in one pass but I only seem to use that program for my (infrequent now) printing.
As I use FastStone so much I did make the recommended donation. That will hopefully keep the author interested in developing the program, so please think about donating.
Another aside, to fix camera clock errors I use jpgtime as it is more versatile than FastStone at fixing time errors. Like getting all cameras used on the day in sync if forgotten to do before shooting.
Yet another aside, ages ago I donated to an early VueScan program and that morphed into lifetime free Pro version updates, early adopters being rewarded I guess. It can do camera RAW conversions as well as all the scanner stuff, also Qimage does RAW conversions, there's many possibilities.
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Photomechanic by Camerabits. Super fast browser for ingesting, editing, captioning, transmitting. A ton of other features.
Try the demo.
I sort, edit, caption raw files before sending them to Capture 1 Pro 7 or Lightroom 5(better noise reduction, or if image needs burning/dodging etc).
Speed of ingesting/browsing through images in C1 and LR5 is very slow compared to Photomechanic so that's why I use both PM & C1 pro.
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Try the demo.
I sort, edit, caption raw files before sending them to Capture 1 Pro 7 or Lightroom 5(better noise reduction, or if image needs burning/dodging etc).
Speed of ingesting/browsing through images in C1 and LR5 is very slow compared to Photomechanic so that's why I use both PM & C1 pro.
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Lightroom 4. I tried 5 and didn't find anything new worth spending a hundred bucks on.
It's great for its integration of browsing, tagging and raw processing.
Its thumbnail browsing is pathetically slow, unless you put your catalog and cache on a SSD. I used to use MediaPro (now from PhaseOne) which was much better in that respect.
If I were starting fresh, I'd probably give some of the free/open source options a look, before comparing MediaPro, Lightroom and Aperture.
It's great for its integration of browsing, tagging and raw processing.
Its thumbnail browsing is pathetically slow, unless you put your catalog and cache on a SSD. I used to use MediaPro (now from PhaseOne) which was much better in that respect.
If I were starting fresh, I'd probably give some of the free/open source options a look, before comparing MediaPro, Lightroom and Aperture.
Mostly Faststone for general viewing. Bridge at times, especially if working in Photoshop at all, although have adapted Fastone to be able to do so in place of Bridge (I like it better). Have used/tried pretty much all of the mentioned ones too in the thread, that are Windows compatible (Irfanview, Photoscape, Lightzone etc. etc.) and they are all pretty good. Since my version of Photoshop doesn't convert my Orf files, I either change them to DNG, or edit them in ACDSee, or Aftershot and send them over to Photoshop, finding that ACDSee is great for tone adjustments (and viewing) and Aftershot is great for catalog in my usage, since it's non destructive but saves a multiple edit small XMP file with the original (I find that handy since I'm always moving files around 3 computers, and a bunch of hard discs and the version I've got of Lightroom is very user unfriendly to my form of usage) But I basically like Faststone for viewing (had to add the other comments since they have a bearing on viewing also) Yeah I know my answer was a bit convoluted. Faststone is a great free program, and with every new version it's basic editing abilities improve.
As an afterthought, if you use manual lenses a lot (I do) and need to edit EXIF data, a program called PhotoMe(which can be called from either Faststone or Bridge) is very, very handy for adding lens data. It won't do batch yet, but it's my understanding that the creator is working on it. It's really hard with multiple manual lenses, to remember which ones were taken with which, unless you stick it in the file name or in the EXIF data.
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As an afterthought, if you use manual lenses a lot (I do) and need to edit EXIF data, a program called PhotoMe(which can be called from either Faststone or Bridge) is very, very handy for adding lens data. It won't do batch yet, but it's my understanding that the creator is working on it. It's really hard with multiple manual lenses, to remember which ones were taken with which, unless you stick it in the file name or in the EXIF data.
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Apple announced today that they have ended development of Aperture; it will continue to run in the next version of OSX but no guarantees after that.
This of course does not mean the end of support, but it is the beginning of the end.
This of course does not mean the end of support, but it is the beginning of the end.
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Hi
I use LR5.5 for PP.
However when I export jpegs, the jpegs reveal in Windows Pic viewer noise that is not there in LR and usually a little colour shift. When I go to the web again, there usually is another colour shift again. All from the same monitor.
Even after softproofing with printer and paper profile, I have a colour shift and a brightness shift.
So LR great though it is for easy and simple PP, as a viewer is unreliable. My audience will be viewing them in Windows Pic viewer, on the web or in print - and there is always some colour and brightness shift, as well as more noise than is apparent within LR.
LR gives its own unique beautified view of the picture file. Not one that matches what the audience will view.
Does anyone else have the same problem? How do you cope with this?
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Just curious what FastStone's game is. How do they manage to survive giving away this product. Do they offer other services or products ?
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There also is a major disadvantage of Faststone if you are a Lightroom user.
Say you import your images from the card directly into Lightroom and then make changes in LR but do not export the changed images. When you view those images in Faststone it will show you the file as it came out of the camera but it does not incorporate the metadata (editing) changes you made in LR. To see the "changed" images you need to export the images from LR then Faststone will show the newly exported images with the changes you made in LR.
Also Faststone is slow to display raw images and has trouble displaying .psd files.
Otherwise I love Faststone and used it all the time before I switched over to LR.
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Say you import your images from the card directly into Lightroom and then make changes in LR but do not export the changed images. When you view those images in Faststone it will show you the file as it came out of the camera but it does not incorporate the metadata (editing) changes you made in LR. To see the "changed" images you need to export the images from LR then Faststone will show the newly exported images with the changes you made in LR.
Also Faststone is slow to display raw images and has trouble displaying .psd files.
Otherwise I love Faststone and used it all the time before I switched over to LR.
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The big downside of Faststone is that it is not available for the Mac.
I used Fastview with Windows as a quick viewer, but have switched over to the Mac. XNviewMP was suggested to me and works ok. Xee has been suggested here by Mike Peat, and I may give that a try but he doesn't say much about .
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I used Fastview with Windows as a quick viewer, but have switched over to the Mac. XNviewMP was suggested to me and works ok. Xee has been suggested here by Mike Peat, and I may give that a try but he doesn't say much about .
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Michael Jardine
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It's been a very long time since I used a PC, but I liked compupic because it was so fast.
Not sure how it's doing now.
Also check out my other post http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/53929171
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Not sure how it's doing now.
Also check out my other post http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/53929171
No, it does not support the RAW format of any camera. It just shows the JPEG embedded in the RAW file. The Lightroom image browser, however, shows my edits, I have done with my RAW files in the thumbnail images as well as in full screen images. JPEG viewers, such as Faststone cannot interpret the edit of any RAW editor.
So, if one works with RAW images it only makes sense to browse the images with the image browser of your RAW editor. Therefore it is recommended to buy a RAW editor with good browsing capabilities, such as Lightroom, Capture One, and the now defunct Aperture. DxO, unfortunately, does not have a good image browser.
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