HELP with workflow

[SNAPaPHOTO]

There has got to be an easier way I don't know about. I had an event that I took pictures at recently, now I have the daunting taks of going trhough hundreds and hundreds of pictures and determing which ones are worth editing (keepers) and others are junk.

How can you go through the pictures, both raw and jpg flag them as either keeper or junk. I will want to view them full screen so I can see the details of the picture.

Any program out there doing that?

[SNAPaPHOTO]

After looking for what I want, and I can't find it I think I will just write it. Does anyone think there would be a market for such a tool? If I offered it for lets say $25 for FocusFaction users.
The ability to view pictures in a folder and but a couple of buttons on the UI (user interface) on for next and previous, and then a keep or discard button. All would also have keyboard shortcut keys so you could press k for keep or d for discard, and use the arrows to advance. Then when you advance to the next picture it moves your picture to one of the two folders you specified. if you selected nothing the picture file would not move.

This is just my thought at trying to go through pictures easier, before editing them, discarding the out of focus or eyes closed type shots, without opening each one up in PS or PSP

What is your thoughts?

[Toe Knee"F"]

I'd definatley use something like that...it would save ALOT of time, I feel ya brother. My eyes are bad enough anyway...write it up and let me know. VERY COOL!

[Richard A Busch]

Not that I know of I will check with my camera club.

Richard

[Richard A Busch]

yeah so far nothing for both at the same time but Lightroom will do both at differant times.

Richard

[Richard A Busch]

Nothing to do both, it will be nice when Raw will work with everything including printing photos then I will switch to straight RAW. Till then there is to much going back and forth for me.

Richard

[SNAPaPHOTO]

I don't have lightroom, but will lightroom open a directory on my computer allow me to view each picture individually scalled to fit my screen and then if I click on a button on the screen or press a keyboard shortcut, will it move that picture to a folder I previously specified? and go to the next picture? And do this for jpg, tiff, and raw images?
Maybe lightroom will do what I want so I don't have to re-invent the wheel, please let me know so I don't invest programming time into something someone else has done, I would rather buy it if it already done.

[Richard A Busch]

Wondering How it worked out for you?

Richard

[TX_Gulf_Coast]

I think what you are looking for is Lightroom. We use Lightroom for proofing/editing weddings almost exclusively. I normally have a minimum of three photographers at a wedding (large events) and it makes for a daunting task editing 3-4K images down to about 900-1100 images! Lightroom doesn't do exactly what you described (moving them to a folder etc.) but it does allow quick, easy and intuitive proofing and categorizing of your images (and all we shoot is RAW) and subsequent later processing of those files.

I mormally run through the entire wedding's images and delete those obvious OOF, goof shots that are completely worthless. From there, it usually takes a second and third pass to edit the selection down to just those we intend to show the client. We don't delete these marginal images, many of which will end up in the final album(s) when done. Lightroom allows me to do that and then easily export, in web ready and other formats very easily and quickly.

Since you say you don't have Lightroom, I would suggest that you download it and play with it for the 30 days free and I think you will see that it works quite well. Another great program for proofing/categorizing images quickly is PhotoMechanic. Most of the Sportshooter that I know and have worked with in the past use this program almost religiously. It is quick and handles RAW images as well. Remember, sports shooters work on a deadline most of the time, so effective yet quick is key for them. I think they have a trial version as well. (I don't use PhotoMechanic anylonger...just lightroom.)