FastPictureViewer Codec Pack: PSD, CR2, NEF, DNG RAW codecs (and more) for Windows 8.x Desktop, Windows 7, Windows Vista and XP

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Some customers prefer to use a separate email account for online transactions: that's perfectly fine, but be sure to check the right account, then! You should receive two messages: your receipt sent by the payment processor and the download instructions sent by our own delivery system. Those messages are sent from two different locations and may not arrive at the same time. If the message(s) does not arrive after a couple of hours, please check your "spam filter" and your "junk email folder" first (look for a message titled "FastPictureViewer Codec Pack: Download Link"): 90% of the "non delivery" issues are caused by spam filters on the receiving side, the rest being caused by typos in email addresses or "mailbox full / exceeded quota" type of errors. If you don't find the message(s), please write to support {at} fastpictureviewer {dot} com to let us know: you can submit an alternate email address if you like, and we'll forward the message or send it again (during business hours of course, as this requires manual intervention).

Updates: Please keep the delivery instructions (save the message) as the same download link can be used to retrieve future updates. As a side note, we never share, rent or lease email addresses to anyone and we don't send 3rd-party advertisements, ever. Your payment details are handed entirely by the payment processing company and are never sent to us. Businesses my want to consider our site licenses 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 page. System requirements: Disk space: Approximately 48MB 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. On 64-bit 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:

(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): On 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 views: Control Panel: The 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. Support: 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.