FastPictureViewer and their Windows Codecs now support RWZ compressed images.

Now you can get previews of compressed .rwz images (and see all meta-data) within windows explorer using the FPV codecs pack.

And you can also use FastPictureViewer to quickly browse through your compressed photos.

Ability to see previews of compressed rwz images fills a large gap by making it much easier to work with Rawzor compressed photos.

Many thanks to Axel Rietschin for making this possible.

Manuel Llorens has released really fast precompiled dcraw binaries with Rawzor support. The speed results are really impressive in our tests and he has detailed charts on his website here and here.

You can download binaries for Windows and Linux. He is planning to release binaries for OSX too.

Thanks Manuel.

With this release we have focused on making Rawzor more power user friendly.

We have enhanced the batch processing engine and made the user interface more flexible to make life easier for frequent users. The new command line tool provides users with all the power they need to automate their use of Rawzor.

New in this release:

• Support for multicore processors. By fully utilizing power of modern processors, Rawzor now works 2x faster on dual-cores and 4x faster on quad-cores.
• Command-line tool to allow power users to automate their regular use of Rawzor.
• Enhanced batch-processing engine and improved user interface allow users more flexibility when specifying which files to compress or extract, and for other common related tasks.
• A more informative progress bar with improved time remaining estimates.

This new version of Rawzor is available for both Windows and Mac OSX.

Enjoy.

We told you about Czech language release of ZPS 12 that added support for Rawzor’s .rwz files. ZPS 12 is now available in English too, it includes loads of new features along with rwz support.

Zoner Photo Studio 12 on Windows

Enjoy!

XnView is coming up with a multi-platform version XnViewMP which is currently under alpha/testing phase. Its latest releases include native support for Rawzor’s .rwz files on each of Windows, Mac and Linux (no more manual installation of plugins as was required in XnView for Windows).

Screenshot of XnViewMP on Mac OSX

Its not exactly stable yet and doesn’t have all the features currently available on good old XnView for  Windows but its getting there fast. Check it out, you won’t be disappointed.

Now you can use Rawzor to compress and decompress your Raw images on Apple’s Mac OSX too.

Rawzor screenshot mac osx

It supports OSX 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard (unfortunately we are only supporting Intel platforms for now, no love for PPC).

SDK for Mac OSX was released few weeks ago and it supports both 32 and 64 bit Intel and PPC platforms. Any OSX application can add support to open Rawzor’s compressed RWZ images using the free SDK.

Try it to find out how much compression you get on your RAW images, without any quality loss.

Zoner Photo Studio now supports Rawzor’s compressed .rwz files in their latest release ZPS 12 (list of formats supported by ZPS12).

Its a full featured photo management and editing software.

Zoner Photo Studio 12 on Windows

ZPS 12 is only available in Czech language for now, English and other localized versions coming soon. Thanks to Zoner team, and especially Vojtech Tryhuk, for their effort.

We are happy to announce release of Rawzor’s SDK for Mac OSX. SDK supports both 32-bit and 64-bit applications on OSX by including the (optional) ‘fat’ binaries. Support for both PPC and Intel platforms on each of tiger, leopard and snow leopard goes without saying.

When we released Rawzor SDK for 64 bit Linux and Windows a few months back, we thought it would be easy to release a Mac OSX version too. Well, it wasn’t that easy but here it is now, all ready to roll into your favorite applications on Mac so that they can open your compressed .RWZ files directly.

It has already been integrated in some Mac applications so you will see more announcements coming soon as they release their next versions (thanks to them for helping us beta test this).

With this release we now fully supports 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, Mac and Linux. SDK includes pre-built binaries for each of these platforms, you only need to link with them and make the usual 2 simple functions calls.

PS. This is absolutely no hint that OSX version of Rawzor is coming soon (we know you believe us, right?).

RawTherapee’s latest release, V2.4 includes support for Rawzor’s .rwz files on all supported platforms (32-bit and 64-bit Windows and Linux). It is one of the most powerful raw editing software that I use regularly, so I am very excited to announce this.

RawTherapee V2.4 on 64-bit Windows 7. Rawzored NEF files loaded in browser and editor.

Thanks to Gabor and rest of the RawTherapee team. They are the first one to support compressed .rwz images on Linux and on 64-bit platforms using our SDKs.

Give it a try, its free.

I am glad to announce a major update to Rawzor that adds support for 5 new raw formats and 54 new cameras. As always, the compression is completely lossless, zero loss of quality or meta-data.

For a complete list of supported cameras and formats and the compression results for each of them, see www.rawzor.com/formats

The new raw formats now supported by Rawzor are Canon SRAW, Panasonic RW2, Hasselblad 3FR, Nikon NRW and Sony CRAW.

This release of Rawzor adds support for following cameras,

• Canon’s 1000D, 450D, 50D, 5D Mark_II, G10, A460, A530, A650, A720 and SD300.
• Canon’s SRAW format for 40D, 50D, 5D Mark_II and 1D Mark_III
• Contax 645
• Fujifilm’s IS Pro and IS-1
• Hasselblad’s .3fr format
• Kodak’s C603, C603v C603y and EOSDCS1B
• Leaf’s AFi7
• Leica DIGILUX_2, D-LUX_3 and V-LUX_1
• Nikon’s D3X, D60, D700, D90 and P6000
• Olympus’s E-420 and  E-520
• Panasonic’s DMC-FZ18, DMC-FZ30, DMC-FZ50, DMC-FZ8, DMC-L1, DMC-LC1, DMC-LX1, DMC-LX2, DMC-FX150, DMC-FZ28, DMC-G1, DMC-L10 and DMC-LX3 including the new .RW2 format.
• Pentax’s K200D and K20D
• Sinarback_54_FO
• Sony’s A200, A300, A350, A700 and A900 including the new craw and uncompressed ARWs.

For a complete list of supported cameras and formats and the compression results for each of them, see www.rawzor.com/formats. (Latest Rawzor SDK already supports these new formats).

ps, I will be at PMA09 on Tuesday and Wednesday (March 3rd and 4th, 2009), if you plan to be there, drop me a line.