FastRawViewer v2 Manual TOC

FastRawViewer manual in PDF format is available here, on the Download page, and also in the application itself via FastRawViewer -> Menu -> Help -> PDF manual.

Below is the table of contents for easier navigation:

• How FastRawViewer Helps You
  
• FastRawViewer (FRV) is the only solution for those who:
  
• FastRawViewer Strengths and Features
  
• Conventions used in this Manual
  
• System Requirements
  
• Windows
  
• Mac
  
• “Recommended minimum” computer configuration
  
• Network storage
  
• Software Installation
  
• Windows Installation
  
• Unattended Windows installation
  
• macOS
  
• Unattended macOS installation
  
• First Launch and Program Activation
  
• Activating the Trial Version
  
• Activation of the License You’ve Purchased
  
• Major version upgrade
  
• Manual Activation
  
• Frv-activate: Command-line Activation tool
  
• First launch: automatic search for RAW-capable applications
  
• 1st Run: Windows Hardware Acceleration Method Selection
  
• Using the Program: First Steps
  
• Launching FastRawViewer
  
• Main Screen
  
• View modes: Grid and Single file
  
• Workspace
  
• Changing the Settings
  
• Help with the Keyboard Shortcuts
  
• Supported file formats
  
• Out-of-camera RAW files and DNG files
  
• JPEG files
  
• PNG files
  
• TIFF files
  
• HEIC/HEIF files
  
• Determining the file type
  
• Maximum file sizes
  
• RAW+JPEG Mode
  
• RAW+HEIC Mode
  
• Preview and Metadata cache
  
• Disk cache for previews
  
• Navigating the Files in a Folder while in Grid mode
  
• Working with a Single File
  
• Copying and Moving Single Files
  
• Resetting the lists of recently used folders
  
• Fast Copying/Moving into a subfolder in the current folder
  
• Deleting Files: the _Rejected folder
  
• Clearing out the _Rejected Folder
  
• Undelete: move from _Rejected
  
• File selection: _Selected Folder
  
• Integration with External Programs
  
• Metadata: Ratings, Labels, Title, and Description
  
• Creating and Reading XMP Files
  
• XMP sidecars and embedded XMP blocks
  
• XMP sidecar files are supported for file formats other than RAW (TIFF, PNG, HEIC)
  
• Rules for naming XMP sidecar files
  
• What happens when you use several applications simultaneously to modify XMP files
  
• Compatibility with RawPhotoProcessor (.rpps files)
  
• Ratings and Labels
  
• Title and Description
  
• Sorting and filtering files in a folder
  
• File Sorting
  
• File Filtering
  
• File Filtering: saving, cancelling, and restoring
  
• Filtering by filename
  
• Other parameters and properties of the Sort & Filter panel
  
• Panel settings (gear icon)
  
• Working with Read-Only/Locked Files
  
• Operations with Multiple Files
  
• Selecting/marking files
  
• Advanced selection mode (enabled by default)
  
• Standard Selection mode
  
• Actions on marked/selected files
  
• Context menus
  
• Program menus/hotkeys
  
• Batch editing of Title/Description
  
• Operations with selected files: separate shortcus
  
• Undo: Reversing File Operations
  
• Drag and Drop
  
• Drag and Drop from out of the program
  
• Drag and Drop within FastRawViewer
  
• Histogram, and Exposure statistics in Grid Mode
  
• Renaming Files
  
• How It Works
  
• Generating Names for Rename
  
• Specifying the date in arbitrary format
  
• Folder Navigation
  
• Limiting the displayed folder tree
  
• Editing the folder tree
  
• Working with Removable Media (Flash Cards, etc.)
  
• Automatic Recognition of Inserted Media
  
• Unmounting (Ejecting) Removable Media
  
• Favorite Folders Panel: Easy Access to Select Folders
  
• “Close” File/Folder
  
• Special view modes for folders
  
• Working with subfolders (nested folders)
  
• Constraints in Subfolder browse mode
  
• Exiting Subfolder browse mode
  
• Viewing a set list of files (virtual folder mode)
  
• Hotfolder mode: monitoring the current folder
  
• Slideshow Mode
  
• Single File View Mode and the Filmstrip Panel
  
• Additional Methods of Navigating Folder Files
  
• Opening a File/Folder Using the Menu
  
• Drag and Drop
  
• Program Start Modes
  
• Launching Several Instances of FastRawViewer
  
• Starting without a Filename
  
• Working with Touchscreen
  
• Working with a Single Image
  
• Right-click context menu
  
• Embedded and External JPEG
  
• Zooming and Panning
  
• Changing Image Orientation
  
• De-Bayering (demosaicking): CPU and GPU modes
  
• Sharpening for Display
  
• Viewing File Channels, Viewing in Black and White Mode
  
• Boosting the Shadows
  
• Inspection of Highlights
  
• Linear display mode
  
• Adjusting the Image Contrast
  
• Using Monitor Profile for Display
  
• Support for Cameras Modified to Black and White
  
• Working with Exposure
  
• Histogram
  
• Exposure Statistics
  
• Spotlighting the Areas of Over- and Underexposure
  
• Exposure correction
  
• Adobe 'hidden’ exposure correction
  
• Automatic exposure correction
  
• Manual Exposure Correction
  
• Recording of the exposure correction to XMP files: Interaction with Adobe Programs
  
• Exposure Adjustment when Browsing to the Next File
  
• Forcing Adobe tools to render tones accurately
  
• White Balance
  
• Indication of the White Balance
  
• White Balance Presets
  
• Controlling which White Balance will be Used when Opening a File
  
• Setting White Balance by “Click-Gray” Method
  
• Manually Setting the Color Temperature
  
• Undo editing
  
• Outlining In-Focus and Highly Detailed Areas
  
• Overlay Grid
  
• Multi-window Mode
  
• How It Works
  
• Synchronous Zoom / Pan
  
• Synchronizing Special Display Modes
  
• Scope of Hotkey and Menu Actions
  
• Copying RAW Rendering Parameters from a Secondary to the Main Window
  
• Why Do We Have the Main - Secondary Window Distinction?
  
• Other Points
  
• Performance Settings
  
• Settings for Different Types of Data Storage
  
• Sequential and “Random” Browsing
  
• The limits of parallel file reading
  
• TIFF/PNG/JPEG/HEIC Handling
  
• Customizing Display Modes
  
• Graphics Engine: video mode (Windows only)
  
• GPU Memory Usage: video RAM
  
• Process RAW data on GPU: controls processing of the RAW data on the GPU
  
• Image Resampling method – sets the method to be used for calculating zoom-in (going above 100% view):
  
• Preferences – GPU Processing – Downsampling options – sets the method for zoom-out calculations:
  
• Other video adapters’ compatibility parameters
  
• Troubleshooting
  
• Windows: Changing the Active Graphics Engine
  
• Manually Changing Graphics Modes
  
• Black Screen in Image Display Window
  
• Other problems
  
• Debug Information (Debug log)
  
• Program Settings
  
• File Handling
  
• File operations
  
• Removable Media
  
• File formats
  
• Special browse modes
  
• XMP
  
• Ratings & Labels
  
• Exposure, Contrast, WB
  
• Interface
  
• Panels
  
• Zoom
  
• Touchscreen
  
• Grid view
  
• Selection
  
• Multi-window mode
  
• Image Display
  
• Exposure
  
• White Balance
  
• Sharpening/Other
  
• Color Management
  
• GPU Processing
  
• External Editors
  
• Performance
  
• Decoded files cache size group:
  
• Global File Prefetch parameters Group
  
• Thumbnail cache
  
• Slow media
  
• Other
  
• Additional Settings
  
• Using Additional Settings Scripts: Windows
  
• Using Additional Settings Scripts: macOS
  
• List of Additional Settings
  
• Support of non-standard cameras
  
• Backing up the Settings
  
• Informational Panel Settings
  
• Folders Panel
  
• Favorite Folders Panel
  
• Filmstrip/Thumbnails Panel
  
• Grid View Panel
  
• EXIF Panel
  
• XMP Metadata Panel
  
• Exposure Statistics Panel
  
• Sort & Filter Panel
  
• Customizing the Status Bar
  
• Setting the Keyboard Shortcuts
  
• Settings for Apple Magic Mouse/Trackpad
  
• List of Supported Cameras (RAW formats)
  
• Copyrights and Acknowledgements
  
• LibRaw
  
• Qt 5.12
  
• RawSpeed library
  
• LibJPEG-turbo
  
• LibJPEG
  
• LibXML2
  
• LibTiff
  
• Libde265
  
• LibPNG
  
• Adobe XMP SDK
  
• Adobe DNG SDK
  
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