I need a little workflow help.

When I shoot in RAW this is what I was doing with my 350D:

I would use the USB and take the cards off the camera by plugging in the USB and just using windows to copy and paste all the photos to a folder I created. This was fine because I used Microsoft fax and picture viewer with a RAW plug in so it would work with the CR2 files just as it would jpegs.

I would just give a quick once over each pic using the NEXT button on fax and picture viewer and delete any pictures that I knew for sure weren't good.

Then I would open in photoshop to make any adjustments to WB or whatever. Then save and make my photopshop adjustments to the jpeg.

I can't seem to find a plugin for the fax viewer that will allow me use the files from teh 400D to do this the same way. I'm not good with workflow stuff here.. but what should I be using then to view the pictures one at a time using a "next" type button so I can eliminate quickly the ones that I don't want.

MS's photo and fax viewer doesn't recognize RAW files and doesn't offer a plug-in to allow you to work with RAW files. You're going to have to abandon your MS product and use Canon's RAW viewer to review and delete the files you don't want. Or you could convert all RAW files to JPEG and then delete the JPEGs you don't want. Once doing that, you'd have to go back and copy the RAW files that correspond to the JPEG file names.

RVsForFun wrote in post #3508158
MS's photo and fax viewer doesn't recognize RAW files and doesn't offer a plug-in to allow you to work with RAW files. You're going to have to abandon your MS product and use Canon's RAW viewer to review and delete the files you don't want. Or you could convert all RAW files to JPEG and then delete the JPEGs you don't want. Once doing that, you'd have to go back and copy the RAW files that correspond to the JPEG file names.

Thanks. looks like I will use Canon's software. I wonder why Microsoft hasn't stayed on top of the updates for the raw plugin they do offer. Oh well I guess.

if you have PS you could use bridge to do the next thing, just view as slide show then the trash can bound one's just push the 1 key as you go thru them then delete all the 1's.

Bob