Sorting Software Suggestion

[Funke910]

I've used Nikon ViewNX for years as my first initial way to look at my photos. Its easy to do a quick sort through the photos and decide which ones I want to move to lightroom. I also keep some photos that I don't want in lightroom and like the tagging/sorting system that the program had.

I was trying to load a batch of about 1k shots to sort through and the program just kept crashing. I got online to see if there was an update and ended up downloading ViewNX-1. That program is shows all my photos for one second and then turns them black. So - not very helpful.

I'm looking for a program, preferably free, that I can quickly sort through photos or assign tags or flags to them before I sent them to light room.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you so much!

 

[KeithOwen]

Exactly - no need for additional software.

I simply use Windows Photo Viewer to do a quick cull of my photos - it can handle RAW.

The ones I want to keep, I simply move/copy to an appropriately named "keep" directory, and it is this directory that I point Lightroom at when I import.

"Exactly" really? But if you use Windows Photo Viewer, isn't that "additional Software".

Lightroom does it all. I have never opened Windows Photo Viewer, and rarely look at directories of images with File Explorer. And why waste time moving files to a 'keep' directory when again Lightroom can Flag images as 'keepers'.

I mean no need for any additional software other that what comes pre-installed with Windows.

Sure Lightroom does it all. I just don't like the way Lightroom does it.

Plenty of other suggestions, thanks to other posts.

"To each his own" and "Love it or leave it"

As I said, I use WIndows Photo Viewer