RAW Viewer

There are a lot of image viewers that cannot process the photographs captured by digital cameras. In this case, you need to look for a specialized app that also supports RAW files, such as RAW Viewer.

One of the most important features of this utility is the fact that it is portable. In other words, you do not need to install it onto your computer in order to have access to its functions.

You can also take it with you on a removable device, so you can launch it whenever you want to view RAW images.

When running RAW Viewer for the first time, it asks you to select the folder where you store your images, then it remembers the location. The following times when you launch the app, the files from the selected directory are automatically loaded.

On the downside, the application does not seem to filter the graphic formats, so instead of browsing exclusively images, it tries to load additional formats. To overcome this issue, you can just move or copy all your pics to an image-only folder.

In addition to showing the RAW image, the application also displays several details about the camera used to capture the shot.

More specifically, you get the camera make and model, lens, focal length, aperture, shutter, ISO, focus distance or orientation.

Another handy feature of RAW Viewer is its support for keyboard shortcuts.

At the moment, there are only a handful of them, mostly related to zooming in or out, and rating the images using hotkeys.

In a nutshell, RAW Viewer can help you quickly and effortlessly view RAW images and associated info. It would come in handy if you could only explore your pictures, yet rating them surely comes in handy.