PHOTO MECHANIC VS FASTRAWVIEWER FREE
It does have some cool features that PM doesn’t have, like a close-up panel that lets you see zoomed-in image detail even closer than a full-size preview, and it can do Eye and focus assessments so you can see which ones aren’t sharp so you don’t waste time when doing your initial culling (though that last part is limited in the free version). It’s very much like a stripped-down version of Photo Mechanic with all its speed and lightning-fast previews (but of course, it doesn’t have many of Photo Mechanic’s more advanced features). That’s why I’m so intrigued with a relatively new program called “Narrative Select.” I ran across it this weekend totally by chance, downloaded the FREE version, and I have to say – it works great thus far. Just about every sports shooter I know uses it because when you’re on a deadline covering games you’ll never hit your deadline if you wait for Lightroom to pokily draw your thumbnails and large previews.
No “Loading” message – It’s lightning-fast. I can drag any folder of Raw images onto it and boom – big large size previews on-screen that appear as fast as I can hit my right-arrow key.
That’s why I paid $150 for Photo Mechanic – a separate program that lets me see my imported images really fast. To speed this up even more, grab my Keyboard Shortcuts here and just upload them to Fast Raw Viewer on your computer using the Load button at the bottom of the customization window.If LIghtroom has an Achilles Heel, it’s the speed in which not only thumbnails appear after importing a shoot, but more importantly how long you have to wait to see a large size preview. Lightroom doesn’t have a shortcut for Purple, so I never use it and didn’t add it here either. Here’s how it should look once you’re done: Next go to XMP Labels and do the same thing to make the color labels the same as in Lightroom: So, change the No Rating option to 0 and do the same for 1-5. The default setting is to press ⌥ (Option or Alt key) and the number, but in Lightroom, we just press the number 0-5 to set our ratings, and we want this to be a seamless experience so we don’t screw everything up ? Rejected images won’t be permanently deleted, just moved.įrom the same screen, click on the XMP Rating tab. Move current file to _Rejected Subfolder – Change this to “X”ĭoing this will make the keyboard shortcuts the same as in Lightroom BUT FRV will create new subfolders in your original folder and move the rejected and selected images to those folders. Move current file to _Selected Subfolder – Change this to “P” (you will get a warning telling you that the key P is already assigned to another function – that’s ok, you can assign a new shortcut for Focus Peaking in the Image Display tab) Next, go to: FILE / CUSTOMIZE / KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS On the same tab, change the warnings to NO or MULTIPLE SELECTED, otherwise every time you select or reject an image you’re going to get a warning. Sometimes I also give my images a star or color rating, so the first thing I did was customize Fast Raw Viewer to use the same keyboard shortcuts.įirst, head to the menu, Click on FAST RAW VIEWER / PREFERENCES, go to FILE HANDLING / COPY/MOVE/REJECT and check the option “Enable move to Selected subfolder” In Lightroom, I cull using the P key to “pick” and the X key to “reject” an image. *Fast Raw Viewer allows you to cull directly from your SD card, but I’m not really comfortable with doing it that way. Normally I import my images directly through Lightroom, but since I’m going to cull before going into Lightroom I am going to import directly to a folder on my hard drive.
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