Preview Unintuitive

I'm a new Mac user and am confused about the application "Preview". On a PC if you want to look at images in a folder, you double-click on a photo, it brings up the image viewing program, and then you can simply click left or right to view any of the other images in the folder.
As far as I can tell, to do this on a Mac you have to actually select all the photos you'd like to view, open them in preview, and scroll through them that way.
This seems really obtuse as I don't neccesarily know what photos I want to look at; that's why I'm looking through them. Just looking at the thumbnails isn't a solution as I'd like to browse through the photos at full size.
iPhoto isn't an option either, as I'm just trying to look at some photos; it shouldn't be neccesary for me to start an application just to browse.

You do know what photos you want to look at; you want to look at all of them in the folder.
I would just hit command A, to select all, then cntrol click to select slideshow. It doesn't matter if a file isn't an image; it still works. The non image file just doesn't appear. In the slideshow you can use your arrows, the pictures are nice and big, and you don't have to open any app at all. The index sheet is very handy as well.
With the pc you only have to double click. With the mac you have to command A then control click, then select slideshow. It's very slightly longer, but oh man, so worth it for that beautiful slideshow and index sheet!
Anneliese

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