GL Image Browser

We have posted about several great freeware products available for Mac Photographers, and GL Image Browser belongs very high on the list.

GL Image Browser is a very fast way to look through a folder of images…even thousands of images. If you left-click on a picture, you enter the full-view mode where your whole display is used to display the pictures. You can then use the arrow keys on your keyboard to go a picture forward or backward. Click again and you are back in the thumbnail viewer. Right-click a thumbnail to see the file on your harddisk.

This is not to be an iPhoto competitor. I use it as one of the first steps in my workflow. You see, I’m not a great photographer. Oftentimes, I’ll take several hundred photos and end up keeping about half of them. I like to take all the photos off the camera to a folder and then go through them with GL Image Browser. I delete the ones I know I don’t like, and import the remaining ones into iPhoto. This way, the bad photos don’t ever make it into iPhoto. This helps me keep iPhoto clean.

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