Software to look at photos after shoot?

[MarkRSi]

While I do enjoy taking photos, I hate the process of having to look through them particularly if I get a bit carried away and take loads.

At the moment I use Picasa photo viewer. This seems decent enough for viewing photos, zooming to check they're in focus etc. and I'll star the ones that look ok. I'll then have to got into Picasa and try to move/copy the starred photos into a different location which is a bit awkward. If I try to delete bad photos I get a prompt asking to confirm which is annoying, so prefer to use the starring method.

Just wondering what everyone else uses?

Edited by MarkRSi on Tuesday 27th September 20:09

[singlecoil]

Are these raw files or jpegs? If the former it might be worth your investing in Lightroom.

[MarkRSi]

singlecoil said:

Are these raw files or jpegs? If the former it might be worth your investing in Lightroom.

Jpegs mostly - can't be arsed with RAWs although something that could handle/process RAWs effortlessly (I assume lightroom can?) that would be of interest.

[rich888]

MarkRSi said:

At the moment I use Picasa photo viewer. If I try to delete bad photos I get a prompt asking to confirm which is annoying, so prefer to use the starring method.

Whilst in Picasa if you click on Preferences > General > you could select the setting 'delete from disk without confirmation' and 'remove from album without confirmation'.

[RobDickinson]

^ that


TBH Lightroom for just viewing and culling is serious overkill

Keep using picasa with the changes above or look at something like PhotoMechanic or Perfect Browse

[tog]

RobDickinson said:

^ that


TBH Lightroom for just viewing and culling is serious overkill

Keep using picasa with the changes above or look at something like PhotoMechanic or Perfect Browse

I've been using PhotoMechanic for about 15 years and IMO there is nothing better or quicker for selecting, rating, sorting and captioning images. It's not cheap, but at what it does it is the best.

[Chester draws]

another one to look at could be FastStone, its free too.

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

I agree it sounds like Lightroom is not what the OP is looking for (good as it is at what it does), I use both LR and FS depending on what I want to do. but quickly opening, checking jpegs and deleting duff ones is not a job for lightroom.

Also, slowing down at the taking phase might help you later on?

Out of interest, what's your keep / delete ratio, and if its more delete than keep, can you pinpoint why?