Easy categorisation and pruning utility?

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silverJON

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As an amateur-but-sought-after photographer, every couple of weeks I find myself arrive home after a shoot where I have a card filled with between 100 and 800 images. They're usually JPEGs, but of course there's the odd RAW (PEF) thrown in here and there.

The shooting is fine, if I can nurse my aching legs afterwards. I then am faced with the task of using the Windows folder interface and image preview to examine then categorise each shot. It takes hours and hours.

Typically, I'll want to categorise them something like this:

Singles and couples at dinner (10%)
Table shots at dinner (5%)
Singles during entertainments (7%)
Couples during entertainments (8%)
Groups (10%)
Dancefloor (5%)
Silly masks (5%)
THE BIN (50%)

and I'm visualising an interface with large thumbnails where I can zoom in on each photo with one click, and then click a button and it goes straight to the appropriate folder. I could go through 400 shots in 10 minutes, rather than hours.

Does such a program exist? I'd be very grateful!

Cheers
Jonathan
 
Have a look at ACDSee http://www.acdsee.com/

I've used it through its versions for years for my photo management. Two versions - home and pro, with prices to match. It has editing functions but I don't really use them. Both versions are broadly similar. The pro version is for editing raws, but the home version can view them. The initial screen on view after installation may not be to your taste but there are loads of options to change the way it looks and what it does. There is no 'one click to send to a folder' but you can drag them to the folder shown in an explorer tree. You can size thumbnails to your liking.
 
If its just a DAM /cataloging app you want and not combined raw/editing then ACDsee takes some beating.
 
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