FastRawViewer Software 2.0 (Download) - Manual (Page 39)

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To clear the rating, please press [X] button in the upper row of the XMP Metadata panel, or you can
also use Menu – XMP Metadata – No Rating.
For the compatibility with Adobe Bridge FastRawViewer supports Reject rating (-1). To enable this,
set Preferences – XMP – Use XMP Reject rating to ON (this is also switched on automatically if XML
Label style: Adobe Bridge is selected).
As the result, the button [R] is displayed in the row for setting the rating, and the action Reject
appears in the Label menu.
Color labels are named with text, and 4 styles of labels are supported:
1. Adobe Bridge style (Select, Second, Approved, Review, To Do).
2. Adobe Lightroom style, color marks (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple).
3. Adobe Lightroom ‘Review Status’ style (To Delete, Color Correction Needed, Good to Use,
Retouching Needed, To Print).
4. Custom user labels.
You can select the appropriate label style through Preferences–XMP–XMP Label Style section. For
the Custom style you can also edit the names for the labels.
Setting and changing the label for the image is performed through Menu– XMP Metadata or by
pressing the colored squares in the XMP Metadata panel. To delete the label, press the [X] button in
the row for setting the label, or use Menu – XMP Metadata – Clear Label.
When turning on the Read Only XMP mode, labels are read from XMP files, but the program prevents
any changes to them.
Embedded XMP blocks
Many RAW file formats can contain XMP blocks embedded in the file itself. In FastRawViewer they
often can be treated as placeholders, since they contain just an empty label and a rating of zero, so
there is no point in using these blocks. Moreover, the analysis of the metadata can be fairly time-
consuming, especially when RAW files are located on a network drive or a slow HDD. For the
aforementioned reasons, the analysis of embedded XMP blocks is, with default preferences, turned
off – most users will get only a slow-down of their workflow and zero benefit.
However, in a few cases, these blocks can contain meaningful data, in particular:
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When using the DNG format, and editing metadata using Adobe programs, the XMP data is
recorded in the DNG file, not in separate XMP sidecar files.
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When setting ratings to images with the camera (for example, Canon cameras can do this).
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Some cameras (in particular, some Leica models) assign all shots the “Red” label, probably so
that the new (unsorted) images stand out immediately when looking at them in Lightroom.
In the aforementioned cases, it is recommended that one turn on Preferences – XMP – Read
ratings/labels from XMP blocks embedded into RAW files.