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FlashView

Browse 100,000 photos. At the speed of thought.

A fast, lightweight photo viewer for Windows - built for photographers who want to see and cull huge archives at speed. Ratings, color labels, picks - all written as standard XMP.

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What FlashView is

FlashView is a fast, lean photo tool for Windows. Open a folder with thousands of photos and scroll through smoothly. Rating comes on top: keepers with a single keystroke, reject the rest, filter down to what matters. Ratings are stored as standard XMP - readable in Lightroom, Bridge, Photo Mechanic, or digiKam.

Stays responsive across archives of 100,000+ photos - smooth even on modest hardware, given an SSD.

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Built for massive folders

No pre-indexing wait - open the folder and start scrolling immediately. Stays responsive across archives of 100,000+ photos.

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Speed of thought

Cursor keys, mouse wheel, scroll - every input moves to the next image without perceptible lag, even on large, high-resolution JPEGs. That's the Flash in the name. The speed is no accident - it comes from game- and demoscene engineering: wringing every millisecond out of ordinary hardware.

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Native Windows workflow

Right-click any image → Open with FlashView → you're in the Loupe right away, with the entire folder already loaded. Press G for the grid.

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Your machine, not the cloud

The trend offloads computing to the cloud - even though the machine on your desk is fast and mostly idle. FlashView brings the work back to it: no upload, no detour via distant servers, no subscription for what runs locally in milliseconds.

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XMP metadata

Stars, color labels and flags written as standard XMP - readable in Lightroom, Bridge, Photo Mechanic, digiKam.

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Batch-rate hundreds

Select 1,000+ files, press 3, done. Ctrl+Z undoes the last batch.

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Live filtering

By rating, color label, pick, reject, or hide RAW entirely.

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Compare A/B

Two photos side by side to pick the sharpest keeper from a burst.

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Histogram

RGB and luminance histogram in the loupe - check exposure while you cull.

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Keyboard-first

0–5 rate, P pick, X reject, G/L grid/loupe, F fullscreen, I EXIF. Every action works across many files at once - Ctrl+Z to undo. F1 shows the full list.

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Sort and group

Name or date, ascending/descending. Group a parent folder by shoot with configurable depth.

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Five color labels

Red, yellow, green, blue, purple - written as standard XMP.

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Wide RAW support

Canon (CR3, CR2), Nikon (NEF, NRW), Sony (ARW, SR2), Adobe DNG, Fujifilm (RAF), Panasonic (RW2), Olympus (ORF), Pentax (PEF), Hasselblad (3FR, FFF), Samsung (SRW).

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Zoom and inspect

1:1 pixel view, fit-to-screen, pan.

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EXIF panel

Camera, lens, focal length, aperture, shutter, ISO, date, pixel size, artist, copyright - toggle in the loupe with I.

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Filter by EXIF

Narrow a folder by camera, lens, ISO, aperture or focal length - and sort by them too.

Stars, color labels and picks are embedded directly in JPEGs or written as XMP sidecars next to RAW files - as standard XMP, the way Adobe defined it. Any program that reads XMP shows your ratings: Lightroom, Bridge, Photo Mechanic, digiKam - and everything else that speaks XMP.

Works with StarRate

FlashView works hand-in-hand with StarRate. Shoot → FlashView for your own first pass → upload to Nextcloud → StarRate collects external ratings → back in FlashView you see your own and the guest ratings consolidated, all in standard XMP.

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