Photoshop File Browser

Just got through processing a bunch of digital photos I took this halloween. I was starting to use iPhoto but, I was quite frustrated with its slowness, especially on my large photo library. So I started opening the images with Photoshop’s file browser. It was much faster, of course. The images were also smaller, but they took about as long to load in photoshop as they did to preview in iPhoto. Photoshop also recognized the automatic rotation that my camera embeds in each file, meaning that all the verticals were vertical in the right orientation. That saved a surprising amount of time. Most importantly I could do a batch action on any group of files I selected, saving lots of time, letting me alter each image, and letting me edit. Very useful when I had a bunch of shots I wanted to e-mail people: I could select the images and the go do something else while photoshop resized them, preformed some basic tonal correction and saved the jpegs in a different spot. I could even automatically create a web gallery based on the images I selected.