Any way to quickly review and flag photos?

Is there any way to flag a photo when you are looking at the full-size photo rather than a thumbnail?

Here's what I want to do:

1. Load a new set of photos into iPhoto.
2. Browse through the photos one at a time, viewing large versions of the photos rather than small thumbnails.
3. Flag the photos that I like.

I can't figure out any way to do this.

When I view thumbnails I can flag a photo by clicking in the upper-left corner. But I can't find any way to flag a photo when I look at the full-size view of it. The closest functionality I can find is to open up the info panel so I can give each photo a star rating. The problem with this approach, though, is that I lose about 30% of my screen to the info panel, and most of the info in the info panel is useless to me. I just want to flag the photos I like!

This seems like it would be pretty much the basic thing someone would want to do with photo organizing software: review a set of photo and flag the ones you like. Is there any way to do this in iPhoto?

MacBook Air 11-inch 1.6 GHz, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Feb 20, 2011 7:11 PM

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Feb 23, 2011 5:57 PM in response to Andrew Shalit

It turns out that flagging isn't exactly what I want, but your answer pointed me in the right direction. Now I see that I can use command-1 through command-5 to set the star rating of a photo from the keyboard. This is bad UI design --- the functionality is hidden when it could easily be placed on the screen --- but at least now I can do what I want.

Thank you!

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