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Old 19-02-07, 14:54
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Fastones free image and viewing software suite has been updated.
Its a fantastic set of free software for viewing all formats, Raw and Jpgs etc. I have been using this program for a couple of years now. I find it extremely useful for picking 4 photo at a time blowing them up to picking the best ones and discarding the ones you don't want to keep. http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
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Old 19-02-07, 18:01
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Thanks for the info Christine, I,ve just downloaded the software and I'll give it a try as soon as it is installed.

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I too downloaded the program and I've been playing with it a bit. My only criticism so far is that I would like the thumbnails and menus to stay visible and that may be possible once i've played around some more. I've been using Picasa to sort files etc but get quite frustrated with it because it often hangs up if I'm browsing and come to a RAW file.
They are several other programs on the same site. Have you used them and are they useful?
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Snowyowl, when you double click on the thumbnail it opens up another window with the thumbnails at the top eg. below. As long as you don't put your curser in the main window the thumbnails stay put, just press on each photo along the top line and it will show the large photo in the main window. When you want to compare like photos to see if they are sharp. Hold down the ctrl and pick upto 4 thumbnails then press on the box in-between the rotate tool and the envelope, this will put the 4 photos on the screen, you can zoom and delete any you don't want.
The other programs are also good I use the screen capture, the photo below was done with it. You can use it for save as, email, clipboard and a couple of others.
Maxview is a simple program for viewing your photos at full size it will even read Canon Raw and I think Nikon.

The photo resizer is also a batch covert and rename tool for standard Jpeg, Tiff, Gif etc but not raw files.

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I downloaded it, Saphire, and think it's very good. Many thanks for the link.
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thanks for the info. I've downloaded it and like it. It is so easy and convenient to use.

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me too, looks great..thanks for the info..
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Me too. Thanks Christine - I find it particularly useful when I have mixed RAW images with jpg - it opens them all. Comparing images is also very useful.

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Glad you are all finding the program useful. I am still finding lots of new features in this version that makes it even better, there are lots more editing tools including simple sharpening, saturation and quite a few others, which weren't in the older version. The only drawback I see is the main viewing window, the photos look very soft. You will learn to ignore that and only discard the ones which are really bad or have no detail at all, and the usual that have camera shake. The example of the kestrel above doesn't look sharp but when edited are sharp. That is the one I posted in my gallery.
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I've dumped Picasa in favour of Faststone and seem to become happier with it day by day. I haven't found any kind of text tool so still have to switch to other programs for that sort of thing but right now between using Faststone and DPP my PS7 is getting very little use.
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