Faststone Viewer Download

[Roy Dassow]

Itis definitely something in your setup, I use Faststone to Affinity Photo as my workflow (for 5 years) and it works flawlessly. You need to add AP in the edit in external program dialog, it must point to the exact program path on your drive.

Did you see my previous post where there is a screenshot with the configuration of the external program in FastStone? Either set up your app the same, or as Walt already wrote, show a screenshot of your setup.

Hi, sorry to jump in on this conversation, but I've just recently put Affinity 2 and faststone image viewer on my PC (finally ditched Adobe) I found this conversation as I'm trying to link the 2 together so I can edit using external program, I've gone into settings but can't fathom out how to do it, can anyone give me step by step guidance please ?

Hi, OK open Faststone, go to Settings from top bar next to Help, Click on Programs when open click ADD button, I am on Windows so I go to C drive Program files, Affinity, open Affinity/Photo and down at the bottom you should see Photo Application click on that and open when box pops up just click OK. Russ.

Yes, that's the principle of MSIX installation, which complicates the external launch. For these cases it is therefore advisable to use MSI/EXE installation (this is mentioned many times on the forum).

With embedded jpg aka fast preview it works well. But I want to see the full raw preview. That's where I get black screen. I'm shooting compressed raw. There is a big capacity different between both and I rarely see the benifit of uncompressed raw in my Fuji x-t20

Although initial caching time of bridge is slow. It's working fine with my specs. Since FIV is free just wanted to give a try and I was unsuccessful. I think it's something related to my system or setting which I cannot find it. I decided to stick with bridge workflow now.

FastStone Image Viewer is using raw processing code from 2018 (DCRAW from Dave Coffin), and that code doesn't support newer raw encoding schemes.

A separate question is if the DCRAW rendering they are using is adequate for culling raw files.

Yes I heard about uncompress raw has support for more softwares. But in Adobe bridge which I was using from the beginning I didn't see any advantage for the size increase. If I remember correctly file was 50-80 percent more in size.

AFAIK Fuji compressed raw is lossless, so what is not raw?

Another thing is that some apps cannot read these files and apparently Faststone is one of those. Yous gets what yous pays for, I guess .

all good my bad, id opened 2 different raw files ,so i re checked to make sure i opened up the same one in both programs and they are the same.

fast raw viewer is much faster opening full size raw files its instant on my computer. but for a culling and image viewer i like the pop out panels on faststone if im culling images i need full screen and the straight into ACR , and the quick tagging and saving into folders is great not forgetting batch processing for my web orders super fast and efficient. but i have been using fast stone for a long long time.

FastStone Image Viewer is an image viewer and organizer software for Microsoft Windows, provided free of charge for personal and educational use. The program also includes basic image editing tools,[3] like cropping, color adjustment and red-eye removal.[4]

Upon release, the software site SnapFiles rated it five stars out of five.[6] It also received five stars by the editor of Download.com.[7] A PCWorld magazine review of version 4.0 of FastStone Image Viewer in 2011 noted the software's "lightning-fast" display of pictures. The reviewer felt that one of its greatest advantages was its "wide variety of file formats" the software supports.[8] Rick Broida of CNET wrote in 2015 about version 5.4: "This freeware gem remains an essential download for anyone looking to view, edit and organize their photos." Broida thought that it was a "bit more robust" compared to IrfanView.[2]

When I try to open an image from my faststone image viewer using the "open with"> external program>Photoshop CC..... It opens the image but the image is cut off on one side. I feel like this is a sizing issue, maybe canvas or something related. I have used this method many times before. So, I'm not sure what has changed. Unless my camera setting got changed and is creating too large of a file for photoshop. Anybody have any ideas regarding this? I sure could use some help....Uuuugh(pulls hair)

You can get Google Picassa to import from your camera directly into the folder for faststone, if you tick the right box it'll even "safe delete" (delete only the imported photos) so you're ready to start with a fresh camera. You might even be able to get it to do it automagically whenever you plug in your camera/memory card.

we use wifi unit on our cannon 5d,the one above should work with any cam that will take an sd card, it makes doing slideshows at events so easy, about 5 sec after the photo has been shot its there in lightroom waiting to be edited,(we just set lightroom to auto import from the foder where the pics are landing, if we are doing an ongoing slides show tweek/crop/censor ect then just export to a folder on another pc that is running faststone or if its just a one off run of the pics we just run a slideshow from lightroom and fade to it from watchout

In this tutorial, we learn how to make an image strip using FastStone Image Viewer. First, open up the images that you want to have inside the strip. Then, open up Fastone Image viewer and find the location of the images. From here, go to "create", then "image strip builder". This will bring up the builder window where you can add in the images you want to see on the strip. When finished, click on the "create" button. Now, the strip will come up on your computer in a new image and you will be finished1 You can edit further if you'd like if you want the size of the strip to be different.

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FastStone Image Viewer has been updated to version 7.5. It brings a couple of interesting features to what is an already polished software. Our last review dates back to 2018 when FastStone Image Viewer 6.6 was released.

The dark theme trend seems to be influencing many Windows programs. Emsisoft recently added a dark theme to its portable antivirus, Emergency Kit, and now FastStone has jumped to the bandwagon.

Technically, the program did have a slightly darker mode in the form of a Grey theme. The new Dark theme is a proper black one, and noticeably easier on the eyes. The toolbar, menu bar, status bar, the preview pane, and even the borders of each pane look visually better in the new theme.

That's not all that's new in FastStone Image Viewer 7.5. The application now supports audio tracks. Yes, the program did support videos (with audio playback) earlier, but it couldn't play audio files before this update.

The new feature isn't enabled by default, so you'll need to configure it manually. To do that, head to the Settings panel (press F12) and then click on the Video tab. There is a new option on the top of the list that is captioned "Support audio formats (mp3,wav,wma,midi..). Mark the checkbox next to it, and another option should appear at the bottom. This lets you set the visual effects for the audio, and you have five visualizations to choose from: Alchemy, Wave, Battery, Ocean and Fire.

Click the "Ok button", the program will refresh its interface and you'll see the thumbnails of all your music track's album art. Double-clicking on an audio file takes you to full screen mode and plays it. What you may want to do is select a song, and click on the large play button in the preview panel.

The preview pane displays the selected visualization during the playback and also the information about the song such as the bit-rate, file size, date, name, etc. You can also use it to pause, stop, rewind the playback or use it to jump to the previous or next track, and control the volume. While the release notes don't mention it, FastStone Image Viewer supports FLAC, M4A audio formats too.

It's impressive how the program has evolved from being an image viewer, to one that can play videos and audio. But it is very clear that FastStone Image Viewer is not intended to be used as a full-fledged audio player, because when you navigate to a different folder, or even select another file (image, video or audio), the current playback stops. If you select a different audio track while another one was playing, the application automatically plays the newer selection.

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