catdad / raw-viewer

📷 raw image viewer

📸 raw viewer

RAW Viewer is a desktop app which allows you to quickly cull your photos. You can view, rate, manage, and delete all your RAW photos straight out of camera without requiring conversion or importing, allowing you to get to editing your best photos as fast as possible. This application focuses on ease of use and speed, removing all the lag your culling workflow.

All ratings are saved directly to the RAW file, so when you are done culling, you can import the remaining photos into Lightroom (or any other software) and all the ratings will show up.

Maybe you are under the impression that viewing RAW photos in your favorite program is already fast? Or maybe you've been told that RAW photos are really hard to work with and slow is just the nature of RAW photos? Well, RAW viewer is here to tell you that all of that is a lie and culling your photos can be fast!

Download

You can get the latest Windows and MacOS versions here: https://github.com/catdad/raw-viewer/releases/latest

Windows

This is a self-contained portable app. Unzip the download and run Raw Viewer.exe.

If you no longer wish to use this app, you can just delete the folder where you unzipped it -- but don't worry, all your photos as well as their ratings will stay right where you left them.

MacOS

This is a self-contained portable app. Unzip the download and run Raw Viewer.

The first time you run it, it will fail to verify the app and show a message saying "Raw Viewer can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer". If this happens, open System Preferences > Security & Privacy. There, you will see a message at the bottom saying "Raw Viewer was blocked from opening because it is not from an identified developer" with an "Open Anyway" button next to it. Click that button and now you will able to run the app. You will only need to do this once on your computer.

If you are a developer and know more about how to sign the application or wish to sponsor this effort, please let me know at issue #191.

If you no longer wish to use this app, you can just delete the folder where you unzipped it -- but don't worry, all your photos as well as their ratings will stay right where you left them.

Linux

Linux support is not quite there yet. If you would like to help, please see this issue.

raw-viewer's Issues

integrate exiftool

Consider modules:

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/exiftool-vendored
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-exiftool

Include:

• Camera
• Focal length
• Aperture
• Shutter
• ISO
• Dimensions
• Timestamp
• Size
• other stuff 🎉

exiftool does not exit when the app exits

resolve issues with quick scrolling through filmstrip

If you quickly scroll to the end of a long list, and scroll back (when there are multiple mouse wheel turns involved), once you get to the end, you will see that the visible thumbnails are discarded and reloaded a few times, likely executing existing resolveVisible calls. Make this experience better.

pan by default, without holding Space

image pan controls listen to image container, break when mouse leaves image area while dragging

allow selecting multiple photos

• select individual with Ctrl + click
• select all photos in range with Shift + click
• select all photos filtered in filmstrip using Ctrl + A
• delete all selected
• rate all selected

implement deleting images

move files to trash: https://npmjs.com/package/trash

add viewing jpeg files

filter filmstrip by file type

retain center point when zooming

assign rating to main image using 1-5 keyboard keys

add 'fit' and '1:1' quick buttons

panning in main view

filter filmstrip by rating

add rotation to meta

assign ratings to images

use 1 - 5 keys to assign star ratings

using stars in the filmstrip view

zoom position is not preserved consistently

Most notably, it is completely broken when navigating between vertical photos. But also, when navigating between horizontal photos, sometimes the position is not preserved.

keep cache of metadata

gracefully handle drag/dropping a file rather than directory

implement method to clear rating

try to parse jpeg out manually

JpgFromRawLength: 8557491
JpgFromRawStart: 422630

This sure looks like the place where the jpeg is embedded within the raw file, right?

native drag and drop images into photoshop

copy/paste is broken because of tracking keys

add file size to meta

load only thumbnails in view, defer the rest to when the user scrolls to them

what is this error?

This one made the whole window go white... had to restart:

[13292:0909/131036.097:ERROR:texture_manager.cc(3369)] [.RenderWorker-0000011636F0EAC0.GpuRasterization]GL ERROR :GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY : glTexImage2D:
[13292:0909/131036.812:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(2523)] [.RenderWorker-0000011636F0EAC0.GpuRasterization]GL ERROR :GL_OUT_OF_MEMORY : BackFramebuffer::Destroy: <- error from previous GL command

always-active drop zone to load new directory

use webworkers to load images

when click zooming, preserve center

when zoomed, vertical images load sideways by default

regression due to #75

Scaling is no longer applied when an image is loaded (except for when "fit" was selected), and rotation is applied by the scaling code.

get more sample raw files to test with

https://www.rawsamples.ch/index.php/en/

fail gracefully for unknown filetypes (e.g. PSD)

consider using embedded thumbnails for the filmstrip

electron live reload

restarting electron sucks

thumbs visible after deleting are not loaded, not clickable

white vertical images don't look that great in filmstrip

fix MaxListenersExceededWarning

(node:15524) MaxListenersExceededWarning: Possible EventEmitter memory leak detected. 11 finish listeners added. Use emitter.setMaxListeners() to increase limit
MaxListenersExceededWarning: Possible EventEmitter memory leak detected. 11 finish listeners added. Use emitter.setMaxListeners() to increase limit
    at _addListener (events.js:280:19)
    at Writable.addListener (events.js:297:10)
    at Writable.once (events.js:341:8)
    at Promise (D:\Git\raw-viewer\node_modules\node-exiftool\src\lib.js:110:19)
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at Object.executeCommand (D:\Git\raw-viewer\node_modules\node-exiftool\src\lib.js:106:25)
    at ExiftoolProcess._executeCommand (D:\Git\raw-viewer\node_modules\node-exiftool\src\index.js:133:20)
    at ExiftoolProcess.readMetadata (D:\Git\raw-viewer\node_modules\node-exiftool\src\index.js:150:21)
    at execWithHooks (D:\Git\raw-viewer\lib\exiftool.js:27:30)
    at exec (D:\Git\raw-viewer\lib\exiftool.js:51:10)
(node:15524) MaxListenersExceededWarning: Possible EventEmitter memory leak detected. 11 finish listeners added. Use emitter.setMaxListeners() to increase limit
MaxListenersExceededWarning: Possible EventEmitter memory leak detected. 11 finish listeners added. Use emitter.setMaxListeners() to increase limit
    at _addListener (events.js:280:19)
    at Writable.addListener (events.js:297:10)
    at Writable.once (events.js:341:8)
    at Promise (D:\Git\raw-viewer\node_modules\node-exiftool\src\lib.js:117:19)
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at Object.executeCommand (D:\Git\raw-viewer\node_modules\node-exiftool\src\lib.js:113:24)
    at ExiftoolProcess._executeCommand (D:\Git\raw-viewer\node_modules\node-exiftool\src\index.js:133:20)
    at ExiftoolProcess.readMetadata (D:\Git\raw-viewer\node_modules\node-exiftool\src\index.js:150:21)
    at execWithHooks (D:\Git\raw-viewer\lib\exiftool.js:27:30)
    at exec (D:\Git\raw-viewer\lib\exiftool.js:51:10)

Put this in the main process (that's where it's coming from):

process.on('warning', (w) => {
  console.log(w.stack);
});

base layout

drag folder into view and show all images

• filmstrip on the bottom (progressively load thumbs)
• main view
• info view on the right side

auto-rotate in main view

Filename: raw_buf
Timestamp: Sat Jul 28 17:29:48 2018
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel SL2
DNG Version: 1.4.0.0
ISO speed: 6400
Shutter: 1/80.0 sec
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal length: 250.0 mm
Embedded ICC profile: no
Number of raw images: 1
Thumb size:  6000 x 4000
Full size:   6288 x 4056
Image size:  6024 x 4020
Output size: 4020 x 6024
Raw colors: 3
Filter pattern: RG/GB
Daylight multipliers: 1.864162 0.931875 1.370170
Camera multipliers: 1.759767 1.000000 2.322265 0.000000

zoom image

• + and - zoom
• zoom by holding z and dragging mouse left/right

add UI to show errors

allow pre-caching metadata when a directory is opened

Or maybe even do it in the background automatically when a directory is opened

This is a continuation of #69

add option to display full metadata

navigate filmstrip with arrow keys

zoom to best-fit by default

update to electron 4

When doing so, sharp cannot be loaded, even after rebuilding with electron-rebuild. It can be loaded in the actual version of node 10, but not in electron apps.

add drag-based zoom when holding Z key

create build to output installers

produces portable packages:

• https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager

• create packages directories
• zip and upload Windows package to GitHub releases
• zip and upload a MacOS page to GitHub releases, see electron-zip-installer
• debug CI publish process

unload thumbnails when they scroll out of view

touch touch touch touch touch

I wanna use this on my Surface

• add pinch to zoom