FastPreview — A PicaView replacement

Version: 4.1

FastPreview was created in need of a usable "PicaView" replacement which was discontinued at the time.

It is now a pretty handy tool to display images in a fast manner and is an alternative to the functionality Windows has built-in.

Furthermore people that want to display metadata attached to images will love it.

Also, it offers shell (e.g. Windows Explorer) thumbnailing capabilities.

Features

• Fast Viewer - Showing the image incl. different scaling types and JPEG rotations
  • Images are scaled to fit the screen when opened.
  • Lots of supported file types
• Shell integration - Integrates into File Context Menus
  • Configurable dimensions of the preview
• Shell integration - Integrates into File Properties Pages showing:
  • Adobe eXtensible Metadata Language (XMP) information
  • Exif Camera/Image information
  • IPTC Media information

Screenshots

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  The viewer window

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  Context menu integration

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  File Properties integration

Downloads

FastPreview-x86.exe
The "normal" 32-bit version. Try this one first, if in doubt

FastPreview-x86_64.exe
Windows Vista/7 or later 64-bit (requires SSE3 capable CPU)

The x64 version contains shell integration for x86/32bit as well.

System requirements

• Windows Vista, 7 or later - 32bit or 64bit (AMD64)
• SSE2 capable CPU
• x86_64 requires furthermore a SSSE3 capable CPU.

Changes

Source code and issues

If you'd like to have the source code or would like to report a problem, then head over to:
https://github.com/nmaier/fastpreview.

Legal stuff

The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright © 2006-2014, Nils Maier

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