Culling/Rating Images Workflow

Hello all!

I was wondering if people wouldn't mind sharing how they assess a collection of new photos for which to work on further? (commonly called culling, but I will omit this term to avoid confusion with the removed "Culling" mode)

Personally, the most intuitive approach would be able to view each photo in a full screen, and then with keyboard shortcuts rate/reject photos, and move onto the next.

This almost works out-of-the-box in Ansel, but there's a quirk with photo selection.

The rating/reject shortcuts work on the "Selected" image (shown with a light grey highlight), however arrow keys do not change this "Selected" image they merely move the "cursor" to other images, at which point they can be selected with "Space".

This leads me to use this workflow currently:

1. Adjust Lighttable to view 1 photo per row, press tab to remove panels.

2. Rate/reject/color the photo

3. Press Space to unselect it

4. Move to the next photo with Right

5. Press Space to select it

6. Repeat from step 2

This is fairly cumbersome, and I do not like that if I've made a mistake with my Space select/unselect dance, I can end up with some other photo silently selected in the background and then I am performing invisible rating/rejection edits to it without realising.

Please let me know if I'm missing something here, or any alternative approaches people have.

Thanks,

Joshua