FastPictureViewer is a useful application that allows you to open and to view image files in order to sort them and to mark the ones that are usable for certain projects. The program also includes a lot of powerful features that makes it suitable to replace the default Windows viewer.
The program displays a lot of information about the images and enables you to customize the interface in order to get the data that is important to you. You can open a single image or select the folder with multiple images from the program’s interface. Right-click on the menu bar to display the main menu and all the important functions.
The image information is displayed in small panels that are displayed over the image. The panels are transparent by default and you can change the opacity from the context menu in order to increase the visibility. The GPS Location Info panel allows you to view the location using Google Maps or Nokia Maps.
You can create your own workspace by arranging the panels into a certain order and select the ones that are displayed. The program remembers the layout for the next usage. Among the information displayed in the program you can view the image RGB Histogram, the XMP and EXIF metadata, the GPS information and the filters applied to the images.
The program allows you to quickly zoom in the image by simply clicking it. Navigating an image using this method can be a little inaccurate but the application also provides you with a Loupe tool that you can use to inspect certain parts of the image. The loupe can be linked with the histogram in order to view the color information at the same time.
The goal of this program is to allow you to inspect a large number of images and to mark the ones that can be published. If you need to view over one hundred images you need to be fast and FastPictureViewer allows you to do that. All the options and commands from the main menu have a keyboard shortcut so you can get a lot of information from one look at the screen and select an image with one button.
The program does not have a significant impact on the computer performance. It used only about 35 MB of memory but that depends on the image that you preview. The processor load was quite high, especially when using the loupe linked with the histogram to inspect a part of the image. However, the program’s response was very good and we did not notice any problems during our tests.
FastPictureViewer is a flexible tool that allows you to view all the popular image formats but also supports professional formats such as RAW, MPO or TDI.

Limitations:
· 45 days trial period
· Nag screen

What's New in This Release:
· The lost shadows/highlights indicator feature, available as an option to the Zoom/Radar gadget (Z), has been enhanced and now works in full screen, through the C key, in GPU-accelerated mode. A program option on the Personalization page let you control the behavior of the C key, from spring-loaded Lo/Hi (press to see both lost shadows and highlights together, release to return to normal), to Sticky Lo/Hi (press and release to activate, then press and release to go back to normal), to Cycle through Lo, Hi, Normal (press and release to see lost shadows, press and release again to see lost highlights, press and release yet again to return to normal view). The default is spring-loaded, which requires only a single key press, under the assumption that you only need a quick glimpse at shadows/highlights. In default mode you can press Shift+C instead of just C to enter a sticky mode, which stays on until the C key is pressed again. You can zoom/pan, change the image, rate, preview in B&W et...