FastPictureViewer Codec Pack 3.8 Windows Add-In (32/64 bit)
&(3.8.0.97)
We lead the pack! More formats, more camera models supported, from Windows XP SP3 to Windows 10, all editions 32 and 64 bit: you can't go wrong with the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack! Maximum compatibility guaranteed(*).
The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack adds fast thumbnail and preview support to Microsoft Windows for many image formats, including RAW formats from more than 580 digital cameras, Photoshop PSD, OpenEXR, TGA, DDS, HDR, Maya IFF, SGI RGB, JPEG 2000 and more! The Codec Pack is compatible with Windows 10 Desktop, Windows 8.x Desktop, Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP SP3 and also creates thumbnails for Google SketchUp, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, EPS and Adobe PDF-XMP.
Find all your images visually, directly in Windows Explorer just like JPEGs, without the need to launch any program!
New for version 3.8: Got a new digital camera not supported by your version of Adobe Photoshop(R)? The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack helps bridge the gap: open any raw image supported by the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack in most versions of Adobe Photoshop(R) using the included FastPictureViewer Import Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop(R). More features, same low price!
April 23, 2017: Version 3.8.0.97 addresses a
technical issue with Windows 10, where the Codec Pack
sometimes gets un-registered when certain Windows
updates are applied.
The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack contains image decoders (codecs) that enables
robust support for 45+ image formats,
including RAW formats from more than 580 digital
in Windows Explorer, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows
Photo Viewer, Windows Live(TM) Photo Gallery and, on
Windows 7, 8.1 and 10, also within Windows Media Center and Windows
Media Player 12, with full
64-bit compatibility.
The Codec Pack supports raw formats
from digital cameras from Canon,
Olympus, Sony,
Hasselblad, Fuji,
Panasonic, Leica
and more, as well as
Adobe DNG, Photoshop PSD, Google SketchUp
(thumbnails), and Computer Graphics image formats
including OpenEXR,
Radiance HDR,
TGA, Softimage PIC,
Autodesk Maya IFF, PNM, and
DirectX DDS
including ATI 3Dc compression. See
full list below.
(*) Due to technical limitations currently imposed by Microsoft for their WinRT platform, the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack decoders are not exposed to "Metro" aka "Modern" aka "Windows Store" applications at this time, as they elected to block non-Microsoft codecs for those apps.
Choose your license, from $14.99&$9.99:
Single-User $9.99 USD (reg. $14.99)
3-Users $26.97 USD (10% off)
5-Users $42.46 USD (15% off)
10-Users $79.92 USD (20% off)
15-Users $112.39 USD (25% off)
20-Users $139.86 USD (30% off)
30-Users $194.81 USD (35% off)
50-Users $299.70 USD (40% off)
75-Users $412.09 USD (45% off)
100-Users $499.50 USD (50% off)
Download link provided automatically by email after license purchase.
Companies like Disney, Electronic Arts, Sony and Kaspersky Lab purchased this product: they trust us, you can too!
A sample of our corporate customers:
Need any more convincing? Try for yourself, on your own computer, with your own files:
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Our codecs expose EXIF/IPTC metadata where applicable so Windows Explorer is able to display information such as
shutter speed, F-stop, ISO and date taken, as illustrated below. Integration with
Windows Search let users find their images instantly
from any Explorer search prompt, for example by camera model,
date and more. Fast extraction of JPEG preview
images embedded within raw files enables
near-instant previewing of most supported raw
formats. Thumbnail extraction from most recent XMP-enabled
Adobe InDesign (INDD) and Adobe Illustrator (AI) files is supported, as well as EPS
TIFF previews.
Running Windows 7 with Media Center
and have an Xbox 360 or another
Media Center Extender? Wirelessly
stream your images - including RAW files - straight
from your 64-bit PC to your living room TV set, with
EXIF-based auto-rotation, thanks to our product's
uncompromised Windows compatibility!
Why the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack?
Superior performance, rock-solid stability The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack far outperforms
competing codecs, starting from existing manufacturer codecs or codecs supplied by Adobe or Microsoft, making near-instant large size previewing a reality for most popular raw formats, with rock-solid stability.
In fact, the Microsoft team behind the Image
Composite Editor panorama stitcher lists the
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack as "tested
and recommended". The Codec Pack is in
use in the largest game studios in the
world, including
Broadest compatibility
The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack is second
to none regarding Windows compatibility,
from XP SP3 to Vista to Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and Windows 10, including
64 bit editions, as well as for timely
camera model support (more than 580 digital camera models including
the latest and greatest from 15
top manufacturers, updated several times a
Extensive formats support The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack goes beyond raw formats by supporting Adobe Photoshop(R) PSD and Adobe Lightroom(R) previews, as well as a wide selection of image formats popular amongst graphic artists and in the Computer Graphics industry, plus some unique specialties like 2D previewing of images taken with 3D cameras e.g. Fuji FinePix Real 3D W1/W3 (MPO), or JPEG-Stereo (JPS) images.
Best feature set The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack includes a
faster JPEG codec that performs automatic rotation of thumbnails and previews in Windows Explorer,
according to EXIF information. We make
Windows "EXIF orientation-aware". Our codecs
expose all of the metadata contained in most
raw formats, including color-space
information as well as any embedded IPTC/XMP
metadata, in addition to the full EXIF data.
Finally, all our components are optional and
can be opted-out during setup.
User quotes:
“I can't tell you the pure joy of having the codec work flawlessly without any tweaking or painful crashes.” – Bro Bob, via email
“What a difference! It's so nice to be able to see the PSD and RAW files without having to launch PSE” – Senior contributor,
Some of our most distinguished corporate customers includes:
Sony Online Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Orbit Studio, Blizzard Entertainment, Avid Technology, Hidden Path
Entertainment, as well as countless photo
studios, graphic and game artist's studios, imaging
professionals and
photographers all around the world.
Product description
& installation guide (Vista screenshots, the Codec Pack works similarly on Windows 7/8/10)
Beware of imitations: the FastPictureViewer
Codec Pack delivers true Windows-compliant image decoders
that enable the full RAW viewing experience in Windows
Vista and Windows 7, including extra-large
thumbnails and fast, large
size previewing and slideshows, as well as EXIF metadata
display in Windows Explorer and full integration with Windows Search, which let users locate RAW files by author, tags,
camera model, date taken etc., instantly, from any
Explorer &search& box in Windows Vista or
Windows 7. Last but not least, our product enable
raw support in Windows Media Center 6.1 (the version
that ships with Windows 7), including support for
Media Center Extenders (stream slideshows to TV
w/Xbox 360).
Check out our short video
demonstrating the
easy installation procedure and benefits of the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack
on Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP (all editions
are supported, 32-bit and
Installation on Windows 10 and Windows 8.x Desktop, Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
Installation on Windows XP SP3
How is this possible?
How does it work? Some background information:
Windows Vista
introduced a brand new and extensible imaging
framework called Windows Imaging Component
(WIC), enabling far better imaging support
at the operating system level than what was
available during the Windows XP era. The new operating system came
with built-in support for most standard
image formats including JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF,
TIFF and HD Photo in both Windows Explorer and in
the newly introduced Windows Photo Gallery,
a built-in application replacing the venerable Windows XP Picture
and Fax Viewer (together with the outdated
Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer add-in) with a much improved, modern and slick photo organizer.
Imaging Component made
it possible for 3rd parties to add first-class support
for additional image formats to the operating system
through plugin components known as
&codecs&, providing thumbnail views in Explorer,
as well as previews and slideshows
in Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Photo
Viewer and, on Window 7, also within Windows
Media Center 7 and Media Player 12, as well
as integration with the built-in desktop
search engine.WIC-compliant codecs also
enable a number of applications to directly
open new file formats, such as for
example Microsoft ICE, Sony Creative Software's Vegas
Professional or The Panorama Factory, just
to name a few. We
at FastPictureViewer even created an optional (and experimental)
Photoshop Import Plug-in
which let older versions of Photoshop (CS,
CS2, CS3...) import newer raw files through
our codecs (currently with some
restrictions), provided that the plug-in is
installed as well.
The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack provides
what Microsoft calls &platform support& for
many additional
image formats, beyond what's supported by
the Windows Operating System out-of-the-box, including most popular &camera raw&
image formats, covering the latest digital cameras on the market.
The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack effectively turns
Windows 7 and Windows Vista's Explorers into
image viewers. The Codec
Pack also works on
Windows XP SP3
with some limitations: thumbnail views are
enabled in Windows XP Explorer but separate
applications, such as our own
FastPictureViewer Professional or
Microsoft's Window Live(TM) Photo Gallery, are required to open
files for previewing and full-size viewing
on Windows XP.On Windows 7 and Windows
Vista, the FastPictureViewer Codec
Pack goes far beyond providing simple
thumbnail functionality by enabling
large size viewing in
Windows Photo Viewer, Photo Gallery and
Windows Media Center 7 and Media Player 12, as well as providing
metadata integration with
Windows Search (so you can find your images instantly
from any Explorer search box!). The
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack also enable
automatic rotation of JPEG images
in the aforementioned applications.
The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack contains 28 different image
decoders, or &codecs&, at last
count, each
in 32-bit and 64-bit flavor,
supporting 48 image file extensions such as
PSD, DNG, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, ORF, SR2, SRW and more,
including specialists image formats such as
OpenEXR, Radiance HDR, TGA, PNM, DDS and JPEG2000. For
example our CR2 codec and
NEF codec supports the
latest top cameras from Canon and Nikon,
respectively, and ships as
part our codec pack in both 32-bit and
64-bit form, enabling the broadest
compatibility with both the latest cameras
and the latest operating system editions.
Some of our codecs also take advantage of
the latest processor technology, providing
previously unheard of raw previewing speed,
rivaling (and sometimes exceeding) the usually
fast display speed experienced when using
the standard JPEG
Windows Vista and Windows 7 users also get
automatic rotation of JPEG images,
provided that orientation data was written
in the images
by the camera.
Images containing the EXIF
orientation data will be presented in the
correct orientation automatically in Windows
Explorer. This
feature works with thumbnails and previews in
Explorer and for large-size viewing
in Photo Viewer, Photo Gallery, the
Slideshow sidebar gadget and in Windows Media
Center 7. Photographers shooting in portrait
orientation will instantly appreciate this
Digital cameras owners venturing into &raw shooting& to get the most
of their equipment will find the FastPictureViewer
Codec Pack a must have essential tool,
as it makes raw file handling in Windows
Explorer as simple and easy as it is with
the JPEG format: quick identification of
images straight in Windows Explorer (and
standard &Open File& dialogs in most Windows
applications), as well as instant search and
previews means faster workflow, and since time is
money this product fully pays for itself
within minutes of use!
In addition to Windows Explorer,
a growing number of codec-enabled
applications such as our own
image viewer, Windows Live(TM)
Photo Gallery from Microsoft, Vegas
Professional from Sony Creative
among others, &automagically& gain
the ability to open new image formats once
our decoders are installed.
See our FAQ to learn
standalone photographer-oriented image
When possible, the full metadata is exposed
by the codecs so Windows Search can pick
up and index your files, gathering
information about date taken, camera model, tags etc,
enabling Windows' built-in search to locate your
pictures from metadata!Once the
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack is installed on
your computer, do not miss the
Microsoft Registered Partner, and Microsoft refers their customers to this page
directly from their own
website as we are listed as one of the
approved suppliers of Windows-compatible image codecs
in the Microsoft Pro Photo Resources section of
alongside camera manufacturer
like Canon, Nikon, Olympus,
Panasonic, Pentax and Sony (our
product goes beyond what camera
manufacturer offers in terms of
image formats support, 64-bit platform
and operating systems compatibility, and
Microsoft Research also
lists the FastPictureViewer
Codec Pack on the WIC Codecs for Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE) page, where they
describe our product as
&much faster at decoding CR2 raw
images& in their experience.
The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack is
listed as Compatible with
Windows 8.1 (64-bit and
32-bit) in the
: you can rest assured that our
product is robust and stable, well tested, and
performs as advertised (in fact, we
guarantee it, see below).
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One-stop shop: includes support for all RAW formats, DNG, Photoshop PSD and all other formats described on this page.
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10-Users $79.92 USD (20% off)
15-Users $112.39 USD (25% off)
20-Users $139.86 USD (30% off)
30-Users $194.81 USD (35% off)
50-Users $299.70 USD (40% off)
75-Users $412.09 USD (45% off)
100-Users $499.50 USD (50% off)
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for great savings: discounts start at 10% for 3
users, all the way to 50% for a 100 users site
license. Please contact us for larger deployments:
we have pricing ready for up to 1,000 users licenses,
at a very low cost per user.
License upgrades or cross grades (for example trading a
single-user license for a 5-users site license or
any similar upgrade operation) can be arranged within 60 days of purchase, contact us for details!
Installation:
Installation of the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack is
simple and easy:
download the 17 MB universal installer to your computer,
for example to your &Documents& folder, from the
download link provided by email.
Double-click the file to
launch the installer, then restart the computer at the
end of the straightforward installation procedure.
You could be up and running
just a few minutes from now!
The installer let users customize their
setup on the Custom Setup page pictured below: it is possible to unselect some of the
codecs if desired, but most people should find easier to
accept the default options, which are to install
everything, and simply click the Next button.
Codecs are silent &system components& and there is
no &executable program& in the package, so there is
no shortcut or icon added to your desktop
(screenshot taken from an earlier version).
After restarting, the Windows operating system will begin displaying high
quality miniature images instead of white, generic
&document& icons, as pictured below on
this web page. Additionally, Windows Vista and
Windows 7 users will see their image's metadata
displayed in Explorer's lower pane (which can be
resized), and will be able
to open images for larger viewing in Window's
built-in photo viewers, as illustrated on this web
System requirements:
Disk space:
Approximately
of free disk space are required for a full 64-bit installation, or about 24MB on
32-bit systems. Other system requirements such as
RAM, processor etc. are as per Windows requirements.
Some of the codecs are multi-core enabled and take
advantage of current computer's multi-processing
abilities to improve performances during full-size
raw decoding and embedded preview JPEG
decompression.
Operating systems:
Windows 10,
Windows 8.x,
Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3).
All 32-bit and 64-bit editions
are supported:
the universal installer
detects the OS details and automatically installs
the appropriate versions and components depending on
the computer it's deployed on. On Windows 8.x, support is provided for desktop applications.
systems, both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of the
codecs are deployed, as required by Microsoft in
their codec developer's guidelines, as such, all
64-bit and 32-bit codec-enabled applications are
supported on x64. Our codecs
are read-only and follow
Microsoft recommendations for codec development
regarding threading model and deployment: they conform to the the Windows 7 requirements.
Server operating systems such as
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are also
supported.
On Windows XP, thumbnail views are enabled in
Windows Explorer for all supported image formats
through our own 64-bit and 32-bits &thumbnail
providers& (which also enable JPEG-XR / HD
Photo thumbnails), but users need to install separate
applications for large-size viewing, as the
built-in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer (and Windows XP Explorer's
thumbnail strip preview pane) were never designed to
be extensible by the way of installable codecs.
Processor requirements:
IA-32 (x86)Pentium 4, Xeon, Centrino
or later, with SSE2 extensions (or
compatible).
Intel 64 (EM64T)Prescott micro
architecture or later, with SSE3 extensions
(or compatible).
The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack is optimized for
the latest microprocessors (such as for example the
Intel Core i7-9xx series) and automatically takes
advantage of multiple processors, multiple processor
cores and Intel Hyper-Threading technology, where
available, for better performance on modern
computers.This product should work fine on compatible non-Intel processors, provided they support the minimum requirements outlined above (the level of optimizations may vary).
Windows Explorer Settings (Windows Vista and Windows 7):
After restarting the computer, you may have to
enable &Large icons& or &Extra large icons& views
using Explorer's context-menu (right-click in an
unused area within an Explorer file pane to display
the menu):
If thumbnails are not showing, make sure that the
icons option is
not checked in Explorer's Folder Options:
Also verify that your computer's Performance Options
are set for best appearance:
(The appearance options can be opened by typing
Adjust the appearance of Windows in the
Start menu search box.)Last, but not least,
if thumbnails are not showing and Windows displays a
little &security lock& icon instead, make sure to take
ownership of the files in question, or ask the
file's owner to give you access to them:
TIP: The height of the bottom pane displaying file
information and metadata on Windows 7 and Vista can
be adjusted to show more or less metadata items:
just click and drag the top edge of the bottom pane
with the mouse.
How to rebuild thumbnails on Windows 7 and Vista:
Windows 7 and Vista both use a central thumbnail store where miniature copies of all images are kept. Windows Explorer use this database to quickly retrieve thumbnails when browsing folders. After having installed the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack, your thumbnail database may need to be refreshed, for example to take advantage of the automatic rotation of JPEG files
where new thumbnails needs to be created.
To clear the thumbnail database, use the built-in
Disk Cleanup utility, which can be started by clicking the Start menu and typing
Disk Cleanup in the search box, then pressing the Enter key.
Select drive C: when asked, then make sure the Thumbnails option is checked in the list of items to cleanup, then press the OK button. Once the cleanup process is complete,
please logout from your Windows session (or restart the computer) to complete the cleanup task.
Windows Explorer Settings (Windows XP SP3):
Windows XP, one may need to set the current viewing
mode to &Thumbnail views& from Explorer's toolbar
(or View menu) to enable thumbnails in Explorer
Control Panel:
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack ships with a Control
Panel applet that let advanced users configure some
aspects of the codec's operations. The tool allows
to configure certain codecs to force them to always
use the embedded JPEG preview image, and never decode
the raw data from scratch.
Using the JPEG preview is appropriate in most cases
for Explorer thumbnails and quick previews in
Windows Photo Viewer, moreover the preview image
typically reflects all camera settings such as white
balance, sharpening, contrast, picture controls and
usually looks better than the &as shot& basic raw
conversion performed otherwise. Our raw codecs also
operate much quicker for large size viewing
in Windows Photo Viewer or Photo Gallery when using
the JPEG data instead of the raw data as a basis to
create the images.
Some of our codecs (DNG, NEF, CR2...) ship with the
JPEG option enabled by default, but you can use the
supplied control panel configuration applet to
change this behavior in a few clicks.
In case you run into any issue while downloading or installing the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack, please let us know by writing to support
{at} fastpictureviewer {dot} com. We'll do our best to help you ASAP.
Licensing:
The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack is licensed on a
per-user basis and the license terms allows for
installation of the software on multiple computers
belonging and used by the same user.
Site licenses, with
substantial quantity discounts starting from 3 users, are available directly from this
page for up to 100 users.
Please contact us for server licensing (for
example to use the codecs in an ASP.NET 3.x / 4.x server
application), redistribution (if you are an
application developer), or for large corporate
deployments beyond 100 users per site, we have
quotes ready for up to 1000-users licenses.
NEW LICENSING:(From April 24, 2010)
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack licenses
now covers
maintenance releases and all future
3.x versions: we are now in a position to
offer free minor updates (3.x) to our
licensed customers,
through our own software delivery system.
The download link that licensed users receive as part of the delivery instructions can be used again in the future to retrieve
3.x updates.
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Fri Aug 20, 2010:
We finalized our first
Fortune 500 corporate deal for the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack:
Electronic Arts
from Redwood City, CA, USA - the world's
largest game software publishing company
- acquired a site license covering all the CG workstations
of their largest development studio in
Burnaby, British Columbia!
We got the purchase order today, thanks
Colin and Claude for making this happen!
Sat Aug 21, 2010:
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack 2.3 is available, with a distinctive new feature
for Windows 7 and Windows Vista users: automatic,
on-the-fly JPEG
files rotation, based on orientation
data written by compatible digital
The files are left intact on disk: our
JPEG codec rotates the images, as
needed, when images gets loaded by compatible
applications. JPEG thumbnails and
previews in Windows Explorer, Photo
Gallery, Photo
Viewer and Media Center 7 and Media Player 12 are shown in the
correct orientation, and we even managed
to improve performance over the standard
Windows JPEG decoder, speeding up JPEG
viewing throughout in Windows Explorer
and Windows' built-in image viewers
about 25%.
Overall raw preview JPEG decoding
performance was also improved markedly
across all major raw formats codecs in
this release, in particular when running
on dual-processor or multicore
computers.
Tue Aug 24, 2010:
Radiance HDR codec was added to the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack
! The new codec enable support for the HDR
format, popular in the Computer Graphics
industry, and preserves the full dynamic
range of the images by returning true 32 bit
RGBE pixels.
Thu Aug 26, 2010:
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack 2.3 R5
improves compatibility of the newly
introduced JPEG auto-rotation feature
and brings additional performance
improvements. Full-size JPEG viewing in Windows Photo Viewer,
Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Media Center 7 is now
up to 30% faster,
compared to the stock JPEG decoder on
Windows 7.
Thu Aug 26, 2010:
Orbit Studio from Copenhagen, Denmark, joined the ranks of our corporate customers.
Fri Aug 27, 2010:
Today we supplied a small site license to
the Canadian offices of
Avid Technology, Inc,
a world leader in the digital audio/video
Mon Sep 13, 2010:
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack 2.4 was released, with improved performance in the OpenEXR codec for Zip-compressed images and an all-new
Adobe Photoshop PSD and
Adobe PhotoDeluxe PDD codec, supporting files saved in Maximum Compatibility mode, as well as providing simple layer blending for images saved without the compatibility option. The codec exposes EXIF and XMP metadata, if present in the files, as well as color profile information enabling color-managed display of PSD
and PDD files in Windows Explorer and other color-managed codec-enabled applications, including our own FastPictureViewer Professional 1.2.165 standalone image viewer.
Fri Sep 17, 2010:
Today we welcome
Hidden Path Entertainment, Inc., of Bellevue, WA, USA - a leading Xbox, PC and Mac game publisher,
author of the award-winning Defense Grid
game - among the growing ranks of our corporate customers. Thanks Jeff!
Mon Oct 11, 2010:
Blizzard Entertainment from Irvine, CA, USA, publishers of
the renowned StarCraft and World of WarCraft
games, purchased a FastPictureViewer Codec Pack site license. Thanks!
Thu Oct 14, 2010:
Electronic Arts from Redwood City, CA, USA purchased another
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack site license for
The SIMS team. Thanks!
Thu Oct 14, 2010:
The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack 2.5 was released with updated Nikon NEF and Canon CR2 codecs, enabling
color managed previews in Windows Explorer and Windows Photo Viewer (Vista and later), by exposing color profile data for raw
CR2 and NEF files shot with the camera set to Adobe RGB.
Sat Nov 06, 2010:
The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack 2.5 R2 is a performance update featuring even faster JPEG unpacking for unmatched raw preview speed in codec-enabled applications
and multi-processor computers. This version also features an important fix that corrects an issue that prevented Windows Search to properly index
image metadata in some cases, despite the
data being displayed properly in Explorer.
Some raw codecs and the Photoshop PSD codec also expose additional metadata elements to Windows Explorer (on Vista and later), such as the software version,
exposure program, focal length, flash mode
and more, where applicable. You can now use
Windows Search's Advanced Query Syntax (try for example to type datetaken: in an Explorer search prompt) to locate any
image by metadata directly from Explorer's
search boxes on Vista or later.
Thu Nov 11, 2010:
The FastPictureViewer Codec Pack 2.5 R3 adds support for several new cameras, including the Nikon D7000, D3100 and Coolpix P7000, Canon
EOS 60D, PowerShot G12, Hasselblad HD4, Panasonic FZ40, FZ100 and LX5, Pentax K-r, K-5 and 640D, Samsung GX20 and WB2000 as well as Sony A33 and A55V.
Sat Dec 11, 2010:
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack 2.5 R4 is a small maintenance update fixing an issue with the Photoshop PSD codec (related to 32-bit gray scale images) as well as a crash occurring in a very specific scenario.
Tue Dec 14, 2010:
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack 2.5 R5 rolls back some recent changes that caused intermittent stability issues when
processing some image types on multiprocessor computers.
Thu Feb 10, 2011:
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack 2.5 R6 is a camera compatibility update adding support for several new
models (Canon S95, Panasonic GF2, GH2, Samsung NX100, Sony A-580).
Wed Mar 23, 2011:
Version 3.0 (3.0.0.20) was released today with thumbnail support for Adobe InDesign (*.INDD), Adobe Illustrator (*.AI) as well as Encapsulated PostScript (*.EPS) and Portable Document Format (*.PDF)
provided that those files contains an
embedded XMP packet with a ready-made preview thumbnail.
EPS files containing a TIFF preview, such
as those saved by Adobe Illustrator 8 or
later, are also supported. XMP and IPTC4XMP metadata, if present, is exposed to Windows Explorer
for display and to Windows Search for indexing.
Sat Apr 02, 2011:
Version 3.0 was refreshed to v3.0.0.24 with support for Canon EOS 600D, Canon Digital Rebel T3i, Canon Kiss Digital X5, Canon EOS 1100D, Canon Digital Rebel T3, Canon Kiss Digital X50, Sony DSLR-A390 and Fuji FinePix X100 digital cameras.
Wed Apr 13, 2011:
Version 3.0 was refreshed to v3.0.0.25.
The only change is an improvement in memory
efficiency in our Adobe Photoshop PSD codec,
which helps performance when decoding huge
(1GB+) Photoshop PSD files on memory-starved computers.
Sun Apr 24, 2011:
Version 3.0 was refreshed to v3.0.0.26 to correct an issue which prevented correct detection of some very old Olympus raw files.
Wed Apr 27, 2011:
Version 3.0 was refreshed to v3.0.0.27 to better support non-standard (hacked) thumbnail sizes in Windows XP Explorer. For performance reasons, we don't recommend the use of non-standard thumbnail dimensions larger than 160 pixels on Windows XP.
Thu May 12, 2011:
Version 3.0 was refreshed to v3.0.0.29 with support for Nikon D5100, Sony DSLR-A230 and A290, Olympus E-PL1s and XZ-1, Fuji FinePix F550EXR and HS20EXR as well as Kodak EasyShare Z990.
Thu May 12, 2011:
Today we welcome Sony Online Entertainment, acquirer of a FastPictureViewer
Codec Pack Site License, among our distinguished
corporate customers.
Mon May 16, 2011:
Version 3.0 was refreshed to v3.0.0.30 with an enhanced
DirectX DDS codec, now supporting the
ATI 3Dc (ATI2N) compression format.
Mon May 23, 2011:
Version 3.0 was refreshed to v3.0.0.31 with a small update to our JPEG decoder regarding CMYK JPEG files handling
by our own
viewer, occurring on old Windows versions (Windows XP and pre-platform update Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008).
Users of the Codec Pack alone don't need to
install this update.
Mon Jun 20, 2011:
Version 3.1 (3.1.0.33) was released, featuring three
brand new codecs: Softimage PIC, Silicon Graphics RGB and Autodesk Maya IFF, as well as a cure for an issue some users have been experiencing
for some time when viewing deleted images
in the Recycle Bin or stored on DVD, Blu-Ray and CD medias.
Users of Windows XP will also find a new
option in the Codec Pack Control Panel
applet, letting them control the thumbnail's
background shown in Windows XP Explorer thumbnail views:
users can now choose between black, light
gray, dark gray, white and checkered
background, to be used underneath thumbnails
in XP Explorer thumbnail views for image
formats supporting alpha-transparency and
whose support is provided by one of our
codecs, such as DirectX DDS, Truevision TGA,
or the new Autodesk Maya IFF, Silicon
Graphics RGB and Softimage
PIC codecs. Windows Vista and later natively
supports thumbnail transparency and the
background color in Explorer thumbnail views
Tue Jun 21, 2011:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.34 with some fixes to the Maya IFF
codec (regarding mixed
compressed/uncompressed files) and Silicon Graphics SGI RGB codecs
(for 4 channels files, also fixes a small
memory leak and adds some level of parallel
decoding).All codecs have been
rebuilt, as an extra precaution, after we
applied the changes recommended in Microsoft
security bulletin MS11-025 (KB2538241 and
KB2542054).
Thu Jun 30, 2011:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.36 with
support for FUJI FinePix REAL 3D W1 and W3 stereo cameras (MPO files, displayed as 2D previews), as well as some minor fixes related to invalid or corrupt files handling for some formats.
Our fast JPEG decoder also benefits from
additional performance enhancements over
previous versions when running on Intel(R)
Atom CPU, as well as processors supporting
the Intel(R) AVX 256 bit instruction set.
Fri Jul 8, 2011:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.40 with
small compatibility updates and fixes in the
Truevision Targa, Silicon Graphics RGB,
Radiance HDR and Softimage PIC codecs,
providing better support for files created
by some less rigorous 3rd party
applications.
Mon Jul 25, 2011:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.41 with support for seven new cameras: Olympus PEN E-P3, Leica D-LUX 5 and V-LUX 2, Panasonic DMC-G3 and DMC-GF3, Sony NEX-C3 and SLT-A35. Up-to-date and timely!
Tue Jul 26, 2011:
Microsoft releases its Camera Codec Pack supporting 120 old cameras, pretends it's something new.
Thu Jul 28, 2011:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.42 with
improved detection and support of rebranded
camera models producing slightly different
files due to firmware differences, increases
the number of supported camera models to
Mon Aug 01, 2011:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.43
with a new codec supporting the VTF format (Valve Texture Format), as well as some additional raw previewing
performance tweaks aimed at Windows Photo Viewer and Windows Photo Gallery.
Minor update to our experimental Photoshop
import plug-in optional download.
Sat Aug 13, 2011:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.44 with support for 8 and 16 bit
gray scale linear DNG files created by scanner software such as Hamrick Software's VueScan.
Tue Aug 23, 2011:
A freely downloadable
of the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack has been made available.
Fri Oct 07, 2011:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.46 with support for
eight new cameras: Fuji FinePix F600EXR, Nikon
Coolpix P7100, Olympus E-PL3 and E-PM1, Panasonic DMC-FZ150, Sony NEX-5N,
SLT-A65 and SLT-A77, raising the total
number of supported models to 387.
Wed Oct 26, 2011:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.47 to fix an issue where the registration data was removed unduly when the installation got repaired, ending the trial
period too soon or unregistering the product. This small fix avoids the need to uninstall/reinstall the product.
Wed Dec 21, 2011:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.48 with support for seven new cameras:
Canon PowerShot S100,
Fuji X10, Nikon 1 J1,
Nikon 1 V1, Panasonic DMC-GX1,
Leica V-LUX 3 and Samsung NX200. Support for XMP-based PDF thumbnails is now a separate option which can be opted-out during setup (to avoid conflicts with Adobe Acrobat own PDF thumbnail provider if installed). The
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack installer now remembers previous feature
customizations across upgrades.
Fri Jan 06, 2012:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.49 to fix a bug in the JPEG decoder occurring with
rare files using the (rather uncommon and low-quality) 4:1:1
chroma subsampling. Oddly enough, this
format variant suddenly became more popular
this morning when someone at Nikon had the
strange idea to publish one of the (edited)
Nikon D4 samples using it (the full res
airborne red/blue wrestlers picture).
Mon Jan 09, 2012:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.50 to work around a
JPEG color space issue caused by inconsistent
EXIF color space information found in some
files (typically out-of-camera JPEG files
shot in Adobe RGB mode then converted to the sRGB
color space by applications failing to keep
metadata in sync with the actual data).
Sat Jan 14, 2012:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.51 to
resolve occasional license activation issues
encountered in some corporate networking
environments.
Wed Jan 18, 2012:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.52 to work around a crash induced by one of the new features introduced by Adobe in the (yet unpublished) next specification of its proprietary DNG format. The upcoming "fast load" and "lossy" DNGs
variants are undocumented to this day and
are ignored by our present codec.
Tue Jan 24, 2012:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.53 to fix a regression bug related to 4-channels CMYK JPEG files.
Tue Feb 21, 2012:
Version 3.1 was refreshed to 3.1.0.54 to fix a regression bug introduced in 3.1.0.52 and affecting some
Sigma X3F files. A bug was fixed in the XMP-based PDF thumbnail provider component registration. A bug was fixed in the Maya IFF codec where one of the
many supported variants, uncompressed RGBA8, was decoded incorrectly.
Wed Mar 28, 2012:
3.2 (3.2.0.55) was released, with thumbnail support for
Google SketchUp documents (SKP) as well as SketchUp material files (SKM). The JPEG 2000 codec was
enhanced and supports a few additional JPEG 2000 format variants. The fast JPEG decoder got a bug fix related to some
odd-sized CMYK files, finally the EXR, PSD and JPEG codecs got some speed improvements.
Fri Apr 06, 2012:
Version 3.2 was refreshed to 3.2.0.56 to fix a small memory leak discovered in the auto-rotating JPEG codec.
Mon Apr 16, 2012:
Version 3.2.0.57 adds support for Computerinsel's PhotoLine thumbnails.
Fri Apr 20, 2012:
Version 3.2.0.58 fixes an issue in the JPEG2000 codec
occurring under a specific usage scenario.
Sun Apr 29, 2012:
Version 3.2.0.59 fixes a small (and uncommon) issue affecting some codec-enabled applications performing their own auto-rotation, when auto-rotating JPEG files from some specific digital cameras.
Tue Jun 12, 2012:
Version 3.2.0.60 and 3.2.0.61 fixes another small (and uncommon) issue affecting
the JPEG auto-rotation feature when applied
to files from some specific digital cameras,
and that were edited in a certain way.
Thu Jun 19, 2012:
Version 3.3 adds support for
20+ new cameras (Nikon D4, D800/D800E, D3200, Canon EOS-1D X, EOS 5D Mark III, PowerShot G1 X, Fuji HS30EXR, F770EXR, X-Pro1, X-S1, Olympus E-M5, Panasonic DMC-GF5, Sigma SD15, DP1, DP1S, DP1X, DP2, DP2S, DP2X, Sony NEX-F3, A37, A57) as well ad DNG support for files created by Adobe Lightroom 4.x with "fast load" and / or "lossy" options.
This release also fixes small issues
reported by customers.
Sun Jul 01, 2012:
Version 3.3.0.64 discontinues support for JPEG auto-rotation inside Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery, due to a number of issues encountered when enabling this feature inside this specific application. Raw and raster formats support provided to Windows Photo Gallery by the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack is unaffected by this change and, as a side note, the JPEG Auto-Rotation feature of the FPV Codec Pack is entirely optional and can be opted-out during setup without affecting any of the remaining functionality.
Sun Jul 01, 2012:
Version 3.3.0.65 is a raw compatibility update, adding support for three new cameras: Canon EOS 650D, Samsung NX20 and NX210, and Sigma SD1 digital cameras.
Sun Jul 01, 2012:
Version 3.3.0.66 is a raw compatibility update, adding support for two new cameras: Samsung NX1000, Sony DSC-RX100.
Thu Aug 09, 2012:
Version 3.3.0.67 improves raw decoding of Canon EOS-1D X CR2 files, reduces the memory footprint of the Photoshop PSD codec (uses less dynamic memory for decoding of some PSD files) and updates the OpenEXR codec - now built using the OpenEXR 1.7.1 library. The new OpenEXR codec implements support letting applications access the multi-resolution levels of tiled OpenEXR images through IWICBitmapSourceTransform, vastly minimizing the decoding memory footprint when the full resolution image is not needed or wanted.
Sun Aug 19, 2012:
Version 3.3.0.68 features an improved codec for the DirectX DDS format, adding support for several variants like BGR565, BGRA5551, 16bppGrayHalf, RGBA1010102 and RGBA1010102XR, 32bppRGBE, 1bppBW and couple of others. Our DirectX DDS codec now reads more than 60 (!) DDS flavors.
Fri Aug 24, 2012:
Version 3.3.0.69 fixes a bug in the PSD codec which prevented our FastPictureViewer image viewer to properly display some PSD files with embedded ICC profiles.
Mon Sep 04, 2012:
Version 3.3.0.70 is a minor maintenance release.
Wed Sep 19, 2012:
Version 3.3.0.71 is a Windows 8.x compatibility update.
Tue Nov 13, 2012:
Changed our code signing certificate from Comodo to VeriSign Class 3, re-signed all executable, codecs and installers for v3.3.0.72.
Fri Dec 21, 2013:
Today we welcome High 5 Games, of New York City, NY, USA, among our distinguished FastPictureViewer Codec Pack Site License customers.
Sun Dec 23, 2012:
Version 3.4 was released, adding support for 31 new cameras: Canon EOS 6D, EOS M, SX50 HS, S110, G15, Fuji FinePix F800EXR, X-E1, XF1, Leica D-LUX6, V-LUX4, Nikon D600, Nikon 1 J2, Nikon 1 V2, Coolpix P7700, Olympus E-PM2, E-PL5, XZ-2, Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200, DMC-G3, DMC-G5, DMC-LX7, Pentax K-5 II, K-5 II s, Samsung EX2F, NX210, Sigma DP1 Merill, Sigma DP2 Merill, Sony DSC-RX1, Alpha NEX-5R, NEX-6, SLT-A99V.
Tue Jan 1, 2013:
Version 3.4.0.75 fixes an issue in the Autodesk Maya IFF codec, which prevented files above a certain size to be recognized as valid.
Sun Feb 17, 2013:
Version 3.4.0.76 fixes a bug in the 32-bit OpenEXR codec which caused a crash under some particular circumstances.
Sun Mar 03, 2013:
Version 3.4.0.77 fixes a bug in Fuji RAF full decoding, which failed for some camera models like the S3Pro. This release also fixes some potential security issues and has been internally reviewed and rebuilt with the latest
guidance in mind. This version is now validated for use with the (highly recommended) .
Mon Mar 04, 2013:
Today we officially retired the Canon CHDK codec, a special codec that was handling raw files from some Canon pocket camera models owned by enthusiasts who hacked their camera's firmware to dump the raw sensor data and simulate a raw shooting mode that is normally not present on these models.While functioning as expected, due to the nature of those special raw files, this codec was likely to cause interferences with some applications and as such we did not install it by default.Users having this codec installed reported a number of issues in other applications lately, as well as incompatibilities with some recent Microsoft updates, so we took the decision to retire this component from the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack effective immediately.Raw files created from the following Canon PowerShot camera models, modified by their owners using the CHDK hacked firmware, are no longer supported: Canon PowerShot A460, A470, A530, A570, A590, A610, A620, A630, A640, A650, A710 IS, A720 IS, G7, S2 IS, S3 IS, S5 IS, SD300, SX20 IS, SX30 IS, SX110 IS, SX120 IS and SX220 HS. Support for JPEG files created by those models, as well as raw support for all other Canon models we handle is unaffected by this change.More information about the Canon CHDK hacked firmware can be found at
Tue Jun 11, 2013:
Version 3.5.0.78 is a recommended raw compatibility update and application compatibility update.
Thu Jun 27, 2013:
Version 3.5.0.79 is a bug fix release which resolves an unwanted interaction issue between our Targa (TGA) codec and Microsoft Office 2013.
Sat Jul 20, 2013:
Version 3.5.0.80 is a bug fix release which solves an ICC profile issue in our JPEG decoder which caused some JPEG files to be rendered as solid blue or otherwise incorrectly.
Sat Jul 27, 2013:
Version 3.5.0.81 is a bug fix release which solves a rare crash, only occurring with specially crafted 1 pixel JPEG files encoded in a certain way.
Thu Aug 01, 2013:
Version 3.5.0.82 is a bug fix release which solves an issue where some TIFF files created by Nikon Capture NX software (NEF files converted to TIFF) were misidentified.
Sat Aug 24, 2013:
Version 3.5.0.83 fixes an issue in our PSD codec, which now supports a couple more format variants that were previously ignored. This release also fixes an issue with some TIFF files created by onOne software, which were sometimes misidentified as raw files.
Sun Sep 15, 2013:
Version 3.5.0.85 fixes an instability issue in the 64-bit Photoshop PSD codec when used with PSD files without composite image and having multiple layers and/or effect layers. This is a recommended update.
Thu Sep 19, 2013:
Republished the installer.
Thu Oct 24, 2013:
Version 3.5.0.88 is a minor maintenance release: the Codec Pack has been rebuilt with updated tools (VS2013). FastPictureViewer Professional users must update the viewer together with this Codec Pack update, to version 1.9.326.0 or later.
Wed Jan 15, 2014:
Version 3.6.0.90 is a raw compatibility update.
Sun Apr 14, 2014:
Version 3.6.0.92 is bug fix release that corrects an issue occurring (only) with Sigma X3F files shot with the "Medium Resolution" camera setting.
Sat May 10, 2014:
Version 3.6.0.93 is a raw compatibility update.
Sun Sept 28, 2014:
Version 3.7.0.94 is a raw compatibility update.
Sun April 26, 2015:
Version 3.8.0.96 is a raw compatibility update and also introduces the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack Import Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop(R) - Install the codec pack then copy the plug-in in Photoshop's Import-Export plugin's folder and start importing any of the raw files we support into most versions of Adobe Photoshop.The plug-in comes in handy when your current ACR version does not support your latest cameras: the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack Import Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop(R) helps fill the gap until your next Photoshop upgrade!
Sun April 23, 2017:
Version 3.8.0.97 is a technical update
that addresses an issue that was
reported by many customers where the
Codec Pack gets unregistered when
certain Windows 10 updates are applied,
in particular major updates like the
Windows 10 Anniversary Update or the
Windows 10 Creator Update. From this
version (and going forward) registering
the Codec Pack should be permanent on
Windows 10 just as it is on other
versions of Windows!.
The Codec Pack in action on Windows 7 64-bit (Explorer
set to &Extra large icons& mode):
(CRW, RAF)
Windows 7's built-in Photo
Viewer learns new tricks (45+ additional file extensions
supported in total):
Fast previewing of NEF files from
embedded JPEG previews, reflecting all camera and
Capture NX settings. Photo credit:
Windows 7 Explorer Metadata Search Integration: find images by
Tags, Date Taken, Author...
Thumbnails, Large size viewing and Slideshows in Windows 7 Media Center. Works with MC extenders too!
On Windows 7, the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack enables RAW
support and automatic JPEG rotation straight into Windows
Media Center! If you own a Media Center Extender, such as
the XBox 360 and a wireless connection, you will be able to
stream all your images, including RAW files, to your living
room TV set.
CG and Gaming formats: OpenEXR,
DirectX DDS, Targa TGA, PNM, JPEG2000,
Radiance HDR, Photoshop PSD
Our product is used by some of the largest game
studios in the world, including Electronic Arts, Blizzard
Entertainment and Hidden Path Entertainment.
Indicative list of image file formats currently
supported by the FastPictureViewer Codec Pack 3.4
Raster Image Formats
Extension(s)
Auto rotate
DirectX DDS
Our DirectX DDS codec supports uncompressed textures and
several compression variants and pixel
formats, including DXT1/3/5, YUV422 and
R16G16B16A16 HALF, BGR565, BGRA5551, 16bppGrayHalf, RGBA1010102 and RGBA1010102XR 30-bit formats, 32bppRGBE, 1bppBW as well as ATI 3Dc texture
compression formats (ATI1N, ATI2N, ATI2N_XY,
ATI2N_DXT5). The codec currently reads all
sample images supplied with the June 2010 DirectX SDK and all format variants written by Visual Studio 2012's picture editor, except BC6H and BC7 which are DirectX11-specific. As of today the DDS codec reads more than 60 format variants!
*.jpg, *.jpeg
JPEG Auto-Rotation(exclusive feature!)
Yes(Win7,Vista)
Our JPEG codec adds automatic, on-the-fly rotation of images containing EXIF orientation information written in image files by compatible digital cameras. Please see your camera documentation to find out if it's equipped with an orientation sensor, and how to enable it. Our JPEG codec uses processor-specific optimizations and runs up to 30% quicker than the stock JPEG codec on Widows 7. The auto-rotation feature is not available on Windows XP. Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery users may want to opt-out this feature during setup, as it is know to create some conflicts with this particular application.
*.jp2, *.j2k
Supports baseline 8bpc JPEG 2000 (8bpp
Gray scale, 24bpp RGB) and S444 YCbCr.
*.tga, *.tpic,
*.vda,*.icb,*.vst
Truevision Targa (TGA)
Supports uncompressed and RLE-encoded gray
scale 8 and 16-bit,
true color 15, 16, 24 and 32-bit (with alpha) and 8-bit indexed with 15, 16, 24
and 32-bit color maps.
*.pnm, *.ppm,
*.pgm,*.pbm
Netpbm Portable Network Map
Supports 1, 8 and 24bpp binary encoded files
(P4/P5/P6)
and 1 to 32 bit text encoded files
(P1/P2/P3). Update: (Jul-13-2010) The PNM
codec supports 16bpp big-endian binary
gray scale and 48bpp big-endian binary RGB
formats, along with 32bit/channel IEEE float
extensions (32bit gray scale and 128bit
Pixar / ILM OpenEXR
Our OpenEXR codec produces highest quality 64bpp RGBA floating point
data (16 bits per components, with Alpha) and support many variants of the
EXR format, including tiled images and
several compression schemes. The codec reads
all sample images supplied by ILM with the
OpenEXR SDK. The codec uses
processor-specific optimizations to speedup
unpacking of zip-compressed EXR files. The current version also supports multi-resolution files and can extract lower resolution mipmap levels directly, through the IWICBitmapSourceTransform interface.
Radiance HDR
Our Radiance HDR codec supports the 32-bit RLE RGBE format variant and returns 32bpp Red-Green-Blue-Exponent pixel data, preserving the full dynamic range of the images.
*.psd, *.pdd
Adobe Photoshop PSD
Yes, EXIF, XMP
codec supports files
saved with the Maximum Compatibility option,
which contains a flattened preview image. The codec
also attempts to perform
simple layer blending for images
saved without a pre-rendered preview and
exposes EXIF and XMP metadata as well as
ICC color profile information, enabling
color-managed previewing of PSD/PDD files in
Windows 7 and Vista. Our PSD Codec 2.5.0.11
should support most PSD format
flavors including 1bit/pixel, indexed color,
Grayscale, RGB, L*A*B, CMYK and Multichannel
in 8 and 16-bit/channel variants, and
32-bit/channel RGB color and gray scale images. For files
not containing a ready-to-use
Maximum Compatibility preview, color rendition
may vary a little and may not perfectly match
Photoshop output for certain images, in
particular in some
color spaces, such as L*A*B or CMYK.
*.lrprev, *.noindex
Adobe Lightroom Previews
This codec if part of v2.4.0.3 and let users browse the
Lightroom preview cache (*Previews.lrdata) directly from Windows Explorer. Windows 7 and Vista users can also open LR previews directly in Photo Viewer or Photo Gallery. The codec was tested with LR2 and LR3 preview files.
JPEG Stereo Image
This codec if part of v2.5.0.1 and let users
display 2D previews of NVIDIA 3DVision
JPEG Stereo images, either as thumbnails in
Explorer or in full-size in Windows Photo
Gallery, Windows Photo Viewer and Media
Metadata editing is not supported.
Multi-Picture Object
This codec if part of v3.1.0.36 and let users
display 2D previews of MPO
files created by FUJI FinePix REAL 3D W1 and W3 stereo cameras, either as thumbnails in
Explorer or in full-size in Windows Photo
Gallery, Windows Photo Viewer and Media
Metadata editing is not supported.
Softimage PIC
This codec was added in v3.1 and returns
32bpp BGR and 32bpp BGRA data (24bpp RGB + 8bit
alpha). It supports uncompressed and
RLE-encoded files. The codec simulates
minimal EXIF information and exposes the
file description, if present, through the
standard ImageDescription tag
Autodesk Maya IFF
This codec was added in v3.1
supports 4-bytes-aligned (FOR4) files in the
following formats: 8 and 16 bit gray-scale,
32bpp BGR and BGRA (24bit + 8bit alpha)
files, as well as
Z-Buffer-only files which are rendered as
beautiful normalized 32bit IEEE floating
point gray-scale images. It supports uncompressed and
RLE-encoded files and decodes multiple tiles
in parallel on multicore computers, making
it particularly fast. The codec simulates
minimal EXIF information and the Author,
Comment, Software and Creation Date, when
present, are surfaced through the
appropriate EXIF fields and will be picked
up by Windows Search. The 3.1.0.33 IFF codec
does not support Amiga IFF files,
this support may be added later.
Silicon Graphics RGB
This codec was added in v3.1 and supports 1, 2,
3 and 4 channels 8 and 16 bit per channel SGI files,
with or without RLE compression. The codec
use some level of parallelism while decoding
files and runs quicker on multicore
computers. It also simulates
minimal EXIF information and exposes the
file description, if present, through the
standard ImageDescription tag
Valve Texture Format
This codec was added in v3.1.0.43 and supports
most common VTF variants.
Raw Image Formats
Extension(s)
Auto rotate
DNG 1.3 specifications, with fast thumbnail extraction from most DNG files
and intelligent black borders removal.
Can be configured to skip raw conversion and
always use embedded previews instead, using
the provided Control Panel applet. Note that
preview images can be of lower resolution
than the real image. The DNG codec supports
files created natively by DNG-enabled
digital cameras, as well as files created
with the Adobe DNG converter, with or
without embedded raw original. Our DNG codec
is much quicker than the current "r2" v1.1
preliminary codec available from Adobe labs
and uses far less CPU resources to operate,
in addition to be fully compatible with
Windows Vista as well as installable on
Windows XP, to provide high -quality
thumbnails to all current Intel and AMD 32
bit and 64 bit desktop Windows versions and
*.cr2, *.crw
, with fast thumbnail extraction from most CR2, CRW files and
intelligent black borders removal.
Also supports "Small RAW" (sRAW) modes offered by some Canon camera models. See below for the complete list of supported
Canon cameras.
Can be configured to skip raw
conversion and always use embedded previews
instead, using the provided Control Panel
applet. Note that Canon JPEG previews are
usually of lower resolution than the real
image, except on very latest cameras like
the EOS 1D Mk IV whose files contains a full
16MP 1:1 preview. Color-managed previews in Windows Photo
Viewer and Windows Explorer (Vista and
Epson ERF Codec
, with fast thumbnailextraction from most RAF files and intelligent &black borders& removal.
*.3pr, *.fff
Hasselblad 3PR/FFF Codec
*.dcr, *.kdc
Kodak DCR/KDC Codec
*.raw, *.rwl
Leica RAW/RWL Codec
Mamiya MEF Codec
Full (and relatively slow) raw decoding only.
Minolta MRW Codec
Can be configured to skip raw conversion and always use embedded previews instead, using the provided Control Panel applet.
*.nef, *.nrw
, with fast thumbnail extraction from most NEF and
See below for the complete list of supported
Nikon camera models.
Can be configured to skip raw conversion and always use
full-size embedded previews instead
(shows Capture NX edits), using the provided
Control Panel applet. Also supports
previewing JPEG and TIFF files re-saved as
NEFs from Nikon Capture NX software. Color-managed previews
in Windows Photo Viewer and Windows Explorer
(Vista and later). Limited support for NEF
files created with Nikon Scan 4 software
(thumbnails only).
, wit fast thumbnail extraction from most ORF files, with intelligent &black borders& removal.
Can be configured to skip raw conversion and always use embedded previews instead, using the provided Control Panel applet.
Can be configured to skip raw conversion and always use embedded previews instead, using the provided Control Panel applet.
(*) The ISO speed is stored outside of the
standard EXIF segment in RW2 files, as such
Windows Explorer is unable to display this
specific metadata item.
, with fast thumbnail extraction from most PEF files, with intelligent &black borders& removal.
Can be configured to skip raw conversion and always use embedded previews instead, using the provided Control Panel applet.
Sigma Raw Image
JPEG Preview only
Can be configured to skip raw conversion and always use embedded previews instead, using the provided Control Panel applet.
Sinar CS1 Codec
Full (and relatively slow) raw decoding only.
Sinar CaptureShop 1 raw images.
*.arw, *.sr2, *.srf
Can be configured to skip raw conversion and always use embedded previews instead, using the provided Control Panel applet.
Additional Features and Extras
Extension(s)
Google SketchUp Document (*.SKP)
Google SketchUp Material (*.SKM)
Thumbnail Provider
Our Google SketchUp Thumbnail Provider enables thumbnail extraction from Google's SketchUp document and material files
for all supported platforms, including 64
bit operating systems.
PhotoLine Document (*.PLD)
Thumbnail Provider
Our Computerinsel PhotoLine Thumbnail Provider enables thumbnail extraction from PhotoLine documents for all supported platforms, including 64
bit operating systems.
Adobe InDesign (*.INDD)
Adobe Illustrator (*.AI)
Encapsulated PostScript (*.EPS)
Portable Document Format (*.PDF)
XMP-Based Thumbnail Provider
The XMP-based thumbnail provider enables thumbnail and XMP/IPTC metadata extraction from INDD, AI, EPS and PDF files saved
by recent Adobe software. The thumbnail provider looks for an XMP packet within the files and extracts the preview thumbnail
and metadata: any XMP and IPTC4XMP metadata present in the files is
surfaced to Windows Explorer and indexed by Windows Search, enabling users to locate files by keywords/tags, author, title
etc., from any Explorer search prompt in
Windows Vista or later. The thumbnail provider also supports TIFF previews that may be present in EPS files,
such as those created by Adobe Illustrator 8
or later. The XMP-based thumbnail provider
is a lightweight component that extracts elements
that must already be present in the files.
Files written by current Adobe software all
contain suitable thumbnail or preview data,
as well as metadata in XMP format and are
thus compatible with our XMP-based thumbnail
provider. Old files and files created with
non-Adobe software may need to be resaved
with newer software in order to contain the
necessary thumbnail and XMP metadata.
Rawzor (*.rwz)for CR2, NEF,
NRW,&PEF, ORF
Rawzor Compressed Format
Previewer (*.rwz)
PProvides previewing support for some of the
Rawzor compressed RAW formats. Rawzor is a
promizing special-purpose compression utility that
compresses raw files from many cameras into
its own, smaller format. The Rawzor
previewer included in this pack allows RWZ
file previewing and metadata extraction
without prior decompression, enabling
Explorer to handle Rawzor files as any other
raw format supported by our product.
All formats
Thumbnail Provider for Windows XP
Provides support for thumbnail views in
Windows XP Explorer (SP3), for all the above
formats, plus HD Photo / JPEG XR files. Also
works with Windows XP 64 SP2 and Windows
Server 2003 x64, provided that WIC 64 is
installed on the computer. Fast thumbnail extraction from most CR2, CRW, NEF, NRW, PEF, RAF, ORF
and DNG files, with intelligent black borders removal.
All formats
WIC Import Plug-In
for Adobe Photoshop CS3/CS4/CS5
Allows Adobe Photoshop CS3/CS4/CS5 to directly import images
using any codec part of the
FastPictureViewer Codec Pack. This plug-in is available as a
(click to get the file)
and comes as a couple of naked .8ba file
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