

#FASTRAWVIEWER UPDATE SOFTWARE#
While I can understand that software can be slow when doing the actual editing (since it is a complicated process that might require a lot of computer resources), going through images, zooming in and out them and starring / color-labeling them should not be as painful as it currently is in Lightroom.

Importing Starred and Color-Labeled Imagesġ) Image Culling: FastRawViewer vs LightroomĪs a long time Lightroom user, I have been extremely frustrated with its lack of performance, even on the fastest PC I can build.Culling Images Directly from Memory Card.Image Culling: FastRawViewer vs Lightroom.Thanks to this lightweight and powerful software, I am able to cruise through hundreds of images and select the ones that I will import and edit, while making sure that bad images never make it into my post-processing software in the first place. In order to avoid such issues and move away from Lightroom’s horrid performance, I have completely moved my image culling process to FastRawViewer. On top of that, if one has particular color, sharpness and other settings set on their camera, those settings could seriously impact JPEG previews and lie about what’s actually contained within the RAW file.

In addition, looking at the embedded JPEG previews from the camera is far from ideal due to the fact that JPEG images do not contain enough information to be able to judge underexposure and overexposure. Although Adobe updated Lightroom CC to be able to fetch embedded JPEG previews from RAW files for the sole purpose of speeding up image culling, the process is still painfully slow when going through many images. As you might already know, Lightroom is extremely slow when it comes to image culling.
