v2.3.2

Sparkling new build.

• Updated to latest .Net 9. Marginally faster again.
• Dependent libraries updated to latest version.

No new features or bug fixes.

Note : Uninstall and do a new clean install.

v2.3.1

Note - Uninstall and do a clean install if Flyphotos is already installed.

Fixed Bug - When multiple tabs are open in Windows Explorer, FlyPhotos listed photos from the first tab always. This is fixed now.

Features added in 2.3.0

1. PSD (photoshop document) support has been added. This is the only format which is supported in addition to the default windows supported image formats. (FlyPhotos use windows imaging component in the fastest way possible to open each file except for PSD and HEIC files. Windows doesn't support PSD out of the box, so separate library is used. For HEIC, windows default handling is pathetic in speed, so separate library is used for that also)
2. Thumbnail strip as in Picasa. Thumbnail strip has been added at the bottom. It is just read-only at the moment, means no click to navigate feature and all. It is an experimental feature and you can disable it in settings.
3. Disk caching for ultra-fast preview loading. (\AppData\Local\FlyPhotosCache.db). Delete this db in case if you have any issues with previews.
4. Press CTRL and use scroll wheel to navigate to next or previous photo while cursor is on top of the photo.
5. Place cursor on top of Left or Right arrow keys on the screen and use scroll (no need to press CTRL in this case) to go to next or previous photo.
6. Place cursor on top of rotate button on the screen and use scroll wheel to rotate the photo.
7. While maximized, now we have close/restore/minimize buttons.

I feel FlyPhotos is one of the fastest photo viewer software out there right now. It is not memory optimized, but is heavily performance optimized. Just open FlyPhotos in a folder with 1000's of images and keep the next/back keys on screen or keyboard pressed (don't press again and again, instead keep it pressed). You can feel the performance. And next time you take the same folder, the speed will be multi-fold now due to disk caching.

Please mail your comments to [email protected].

Fly Photos 2.3.0

Note - Uninstall and do a clean install if Flyphotos is already installed.

Lot of changes and upgrades on the way.

1. PSD (photoshop document) support has been added. This is the only format which is supported in addition to the default windows supported image formats. (FlyPhotos use windows imaging component in the fastest way possible to open each file except for PSD and HEIC files. Windows doesn't support PSD out of the box, so separate library is used. For HEIC, windows default handling is pathetic in speed, so separate library is used for that also)
2. Thumbnail strip as in Picasa. Thumbnail strip has been added at the bottom. It is just read-only at the moment, means no click to navigate feature and all. It is an experimental feature and you can disable it in settings.
3. Disk caching for ultra-fast preview loading. (\AppData\Local\FlyPhotosCache.db). Delete this db in case if you have any issues with previews.
4. Press CTRL and use scroll wheel to navigate to next or previous photo while cursor is on top of the photo.
5. Place cursor on top of Left or Right arrow keys on the screen and use scroll (no need to press CTRL in this case) to go to next or previous photo.
6. Place cursor on top of rotate button on the screen and use scroll wheel to rotate the photo.
7. While maximized, now we have close/restore/minimize buttons.

I feel FlyPhotos is one of the fastest photo viewer software out there right now. It is not memory optimized, but is heavily performance optimized. Just open FlyPhotos in a folder with 1000's of images and keep the next/back keys on screen or keyboard pressed (don't press again and again, instead keep it pressed). You can feel the performance. And next time you take the same folder, the speed will be multi-fold now due to disk caching.

Please mail your comments to [email protected].

Fly Photos 2.2.1

• Fixed crash if failed to display right click context menu. Check FlyPhotos.log for reason if you are not able to get right click context menu.
• Updated windows sdk version and all dependent libraries.

Fly Photos 2.2.0

Right clicking an image on the display window shall display the Windows Explorer context menu applicable for the file type.

Fly Photos 2.1.0

Settings window created.
Frozen backdrop added.
Option to reset pan and zoom on navigating to next photo.

Fly Photos 2.0.0 RC

Find shiny new V2 Release candidate. Entirely rewritten using WinRT, WinUI3 and Win2D. Faster GUI, animations etc.
Works only on Windows 10 and Windows 11.

Features missing from V1

• Doesn't work on Windows 7 and 8
• Caching of photos to the left and right of current image is slightly slower compared to V1. This is because WinRT API calls related to Windows Imaging component are inherently slower than WPF version of Windows Imaging component APIs.

ToDo

• Settings window and Help Window
• Persist Settings

Fly Photos 1.1.0

• Rotate button added.
• Rewrote code of V1 to align with architecture of V2 which is currently under development
• This version is even more faster as edge conditions, live caching while keeping left/right button pressed etc has been optimized further. Removed redundancies in caching while keeping the left or right navigation button pressed. (Normally the app tries to cache 300 images to front and back of the current displayed image. While keeping the next/prev navigation button pressed, the app must change the displayed images very fast as well as keep up with caching newer and newer images on the edges of the caching window of +- 300 files.) This has been optimized again to remove any redundancies.
• App gets more faster on caching previews.

Check release notes of V1.0.0 to know which version of msi to select.

Fly Photos 1.0.0

Installation

Currently only 64 bit versions of Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 are supported. There are two installers. Choose based on your preference. .

1. FlyPhotosInstaller_1.0.0_SelfContained.msi - .Net runtime is also inlcuded with installer and is installed in the application folder. App has no other dependencies and can be directly run after installation.(size around 76 MB)
2. FlyPhotosInstaller_1.0.0_RuntimeDependent.msi - Bare installer without .Net Runtime. If .Net Runtime is already installed on your machine OR if you wish to use the latest installer from Microsoft, please use the bare installer which is small in size (<10 MB). In this case, if the App is started in a PC without .Net runtime, an error box comes like this. The .Net runtime can be installed from the error box itself.