Quickly shuffling through photos and deleting

hi,

My shooting style ends up with lots of duds.

I'm using Olympus master right now. It seems that I can quickly remove a photo from the album but it won't actually delete it from disk.

Basically, what I need in software is this:

1. quick flip-through. Delete and confirm.

2. be able to go through deleted photos before deciding to delete them forever.

No software suite seems to offer this.

I do this through Lightroom. I can delete from the catalog, and from the drive, if so desired. I suspect there are other equally capable programs that have this feature.

Lightroom does this.

You can set it either remove only from the catalogue or to delete from the disk altogether.

Maybe AfterShot Pro.

Simple to do - master and viewer 2 offer three color coded sorting markers, red, yellow and blue.

What I do is a quick scan through new imported images, set colour codes, red=keep, yellow=maybe, blue=delete.

After scanning filter by blue for delete, select all these, double check and delete all at once.

Most software has this ability to sort and filter which makes it easy to do what you want.

Gary

If you use a mac, can import directly to iphoto, delete what you think you don't like; flag the ones you do like. Can check the 'trash' before deleting from HD.

Adobe Bridge offers exactly this feature.
The only problem with this feature in Bridge is that you have to buy Photoshop to get Bridge ...
IMNSHO, Bridge and PS including "naked" Adobe Camera Raw provide the best editing/cataloguing solution on the market. I have used Photoshop and the CS suites since PS v.7.x. Currently use Adobe Web and Design Premium CS6 on my main workstation, and CS5 on several other computers.

Select image/s in Bridge;

Press Alt+Del;

Photo/s is/are marked as "Reject".

Using the one click filtering tools or the VIEW menu in Bridge, these can be selected as a group, hidden as a group, dealt with as a group; or simply reviewed and reassessed individually.

Another extremely useful (and free) product that allows you to do this is FastStone Viewer, available here:
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

This wonderful little program does one thing that every Adobe product struggles with - it allows you to print out high resolution thumbnails, along with their basic EXIF data and filename. It saves the output of this feature as a standard high resolution PDF file. This feature is highly customisable to suit your specific requirements.
I have used it for many years, and it has no vices, but some things are counter-intuitive ... .
I like it so much that I made a voluntary contribution to their development fund.

[EDIT] BTW, I do not think that FastStone Viewer is available for the Mac platform. I use PCs. However, as Jan mentioned, there are similar alternatives with the Mac. [end edit]

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John King said:

[EDIT] BTW, I do not think that FastStone Viewer is available for the Mac platform. I use PCs. However, as Jan mentioned, there are similar alternatives with the Mac. [end edit]

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I also like Faststone. It also runs in Linux using Wine.

Jim

what you may think of as a dud today, might have an element that you need tomorrow....such as open eyes in a shot that sucks otherwise, but the great shot the eyes are closed and wrong. So you search for a set that is at the same angle and you can't find it in your kept images.

Workflow for digital is similar to film. Never destroy your negatives.

Shoot>download cards to computer>burn 2 copies to long term storage media (dvd, cd etc) before reformatting cards>edit out the bad shots>work on the good ones>before deleting image folder from hard drive when out of space, reburn everything to long term storage media.

I usually leave ALL images in the original download folder and depending on what I'm working with, I make a second copy in a subfolder then just use the windows image viewer to scroll through the images full screen. When you come across one you don't want, just hit the delete key and then enter to confirm you want to delete it. Works fairly quickly for editing a folder of 1000+ wedding images from 2 shooters. Plus, all deletes go to recycle bin.

I use lightroom.

On the first go-through, I flag images for deletion.

When in doubt, I go through them again, but most often I delete immediately afterwards.