App or workflow suggestion for viewing and selecting photos on PC

bolundxis
Fri, 25 Aug 2023 12:13:38 +0000

As an amateur photographer, I'm looking for recommendations to improve my process for reviewing and selecting the best photos from my albums.

Currently, it goes something like this:

(after I copy the photos to my PC) I open the folder containing the album

I open the first photo and start looking at the pictures using the default photo viewing app

I note mentally, on paper, or in a digital notepad the names of the files that I like the most

manually select the files that I noted down

My ideal workflow would be something like:

open the folder, open first photo, look through them all

each time I see a picture that I like, hit space or some other simple shortcut, which adds the picture to the current selection

after I am done viewing, I have all the files that I want already selected to do with as I please

I have tried multiple apps over the years but I haven't come across anything that had something similar, or I was too stupid to figure out how to do it. The workflow I described is using windows/linux, on macOS it's even more cumbersome (since one needs to select all photos in a folder before previewing them).

Do you have any recommendations for an app that has functionality like this, or if not, on how I can make my workflow better?

Thanks

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