Autamatically rearrange stacks by rating

I would like to auto arrange all of my stacks to be ordered by star rating. My work flow goes something like this; Import daily shoot to a new project, stack like images, create a "unrated image" smart album, rate all photos from 1-5. 5's being portfolio possibilities, 4's are great shots that I'd like to share frequently, 3's are good shots that client might be interested in seeing, 2's will likely not be shared, 1's are not great shots but would like to hold onto. I'd like to know if there is a way to auto sort all of the stacks so the images contained in the stack are ordered 5 to 1. That way the highest rated items become stack picks. Currently, I manually sort the stacks and this seems like a trivial step that could be automated. Any ideas???

Not that I have been able to find. You can sort Versions in Projects by rating, but the Stack, by definition, moves with the Stack Pick, and the so that sort is done on the Rating of the Stack Pick.
The sort within the Stack is done by moving/promoting/demoting. There is no way I know of to auto-sort images within a Stack.
I think this would be a useful feature. Tell Apple: "+Aperture→Provide Aperture Feedback+".
That I haven't found it does not, of course, means it's not there.

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Sort images within stack by rating?

Hi Gang,
I'm editing a massive job and there's one part of the process that is taking forever. After I've rated every image within a stack, I seem to have to resort them manually to be shown from highest rating to lowest rating, either by dragging or by using the "promote/demote" buttons.
Is there any way to make images in a stack sort themselves by rating? This would literally save me hours of time.

I know of no way to automatically stack by rating. You could create Smart Albums with only certain ratings included. I know that's not exactly what you wanted to do, but it would accomplish a segregation of your photos by rating.
Sorry not to be able to provide an answer, but I don't think there is one.
Joel

Problem rearranging stacks...

I have an album of images that are rated differently and some of which are combined in stacks. I want to rearrange the single images and stacked images without having to turn the 'filter' off. The problem I am having is that the images I want to rearrange have at least 2 stars applied to them - when I filter my library to only display images that have a rating of 2 stars or better and rearrange my stacks it only moves the images within any given stack that have a rating of 2 stars or better and leaves unrated or 1 star images in their original location, thus separating the stack. I want to be able to move the entire stack of images regardless of the rating of each image without having to turn the image filter off. Is this possible?
Thanks!

The folders (Stacks) in the Dock are just aliases to actual folders somewhere on your computers.
When you move something from a Folder in the Finder to a folder (stack) in the Dock, the file gets moved to the folder that is represented by the Stacked folder.
If you right-click (or ctrl-click) on the stack icon in the dock, you can choose "Show in Finder," and it will open the actual folder that is being aliased by the stack.
So, if you've moved a file to a folder in the Dock, and then deleted it from the folder that is represented by the Stack on the Dock, you will have deleted the actual file.
What is shown on the face of the Dock are aliases (shortcuts) to actual items. If you remove one of the aliases, the original is not deleted. If you remove what is in the aliases on the Dock, you will delete the original, as that is what is there.

How to rearrange stacks??

I have an album of images that are rated differently and some of which are combined in stacks. I want to rearrange the single images and stacked images without having to turn the 'filter' off. The problem I am having is that the images I want to rearrange have at least 2 stars applied to them - when I filter my library to only display images that have a rating of 2 stars or better and rearrange my stacks it only moves the images within any given stack that have a rating of 2 stars or better and leaves unrated or 1 star images in their original location, thus separating the stack. I want to be able to move the entire stack of images regardless of the rating of each image without having to turn the image filter off. Is this possible?

This will work if the stacks are closed.
Stacks >> Close All Stacks
or
option ;
DLS

How to... Stacking and Rating

Hi,
Any ideas how to speed up stacking in elements 7 ?, it seems very slow even if its just stacking 2 photos
This also applies to Rating, rate one picture and go make a coffee
Otherwise perfomance seems ok
My catalogue has (just) 5000 photos, size is 50mb, the thumb cache is 355mb
Is there a way to clean and speed these things up ? Or is that perfomance "normal"
Any why is there no shortcut key to stack or set top photo - has that been fixed in 8 as that'd be worth upgrading for
Thanks
Jim

thanks bilbo, i didnt think it was memory (2GB) as (eg) editing is working fine. But, tonight after an editing session (50 raws) I then selected stack and it took about 15 seconds. Arggg. I closed adobe & restarted, all stacks then took 1-2 seconds. I guess ACR & the editor are memory hogs (hardly surprising) but as i disnt have any images in them i though it would release some (not). Solution
regards
Jim

Rearranging Stack Icons?

I'm wondering if there's a way to change the order in which the icons of a stack appear when it is opened in "Grid" view. So far, it seems as though they can only be arranged by name, kind, or date added/modified/created. I want to order them in a way imposed by me.
The stack I'm referring to is an Applications stack. In the folder /Users/myusername/Applications, I've put aliases to applications that I want to have close at hand, but that I don't want cluttering up my dock itelf (since I don't use them quite often enough to justify that). When the stack opens as a grid, I want the applications to be displayed in a certain order, from most often used to least.
My workaround:
For the time being, I've renamed the aliases in the folder in such a way that sorting them by "name" will give me the order I want. E.g.: Instead of TextEdit, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, I have named the aliases:
1. TextEdit
2. Microsoft Word
3. Microsoft Excel
...et cetera

There is no setting. You can take everything out of the folder, set the stack to "Date Added", and put everything back in the folder in the order you want it to be in.

Sort a Stack, without sorting entire Album

Is there any way to sort a Stack (by rating for example) without affecting the sort order of the test of the Album?
Grant

Have you tried using Compare mode and promoting and demoting for ranking stacked images?
In practice I find Compare mode clumsy (for several reasons). I usually make Stack picks either in Split view, with the Browser set to grid (not filmstrip), or I just constantly click back-and0-forth from Browser in Grid view to Viewer in Show Multiple view.
My general method is to make Stacks in a Project, then make Stack selections, then make Project selections. (This requires some discipline -- I always want to go straight to making Project selections.) My workflow is
- Create and describe Project
- {Apply Keywords}
- Make Stacks
- Make Stack picks. Collapse all.
- Make Project picks
I, too, have stumbled over the lack of a Stack-specific rating system. (In my implementation, star-ratings are used to rank images within a Project. I use keywords for Library-wide rating, e.g.: "Portfolio". And I use stacks only for variants of images, e.g.: different f-stops, rapid-fire wildlife, etc.) There are several work-arounds. Sometimes I select from the Browser the best candidates and drag them to the top of the stack. Sometimes I attach a temporary star-rating which I remove once I've made my Stack pick.
HTH -- gotta run.

Stacks disappear if pick is rejected

I just found out that if you give the current pick in a stack a rating of reject and then click outside of the stack then it vanishes.
The only way I could get the stack back or see any of the images in the stack again was by using undo to remove the rating of reject.
Just a heads up for people to be careful about this.
While I'm here, does anyone know a way or rating the current pick, when you are in stack viewing mode? Even if I use the contextual menu it rates the image in the stack I am comparing it to and not the pick which I had clicked on.

I've noticed this too. You can see the rejects by clicking on the search box and sliding the stars slider to the left. It only disappears, though, after you've clicked off the stack.
The only way that I could mark the pick as reject in stack mode was by promoting a rejected image. If it's already the pick, demote it, reject it, and promote it again. Actually isn't so bad once you get the hang of the key commands.
One other trick for those with two monitors. I wanted to be able to view both the pick and the other stack image two up in the second monitor. I finally found that choosing the "Project Management" layout button at the top will put the viewer fully on the second screen.

Mouse/cursor behaving badly

Seems to have started recently, maybe with OS software update? My mouse is behaving badly as in it can't seem to capture open Mail windows to rearrange them on my screen - often takes 3 or 4 attemtps to "catch" the window. Also, can't rearrange stacked layers in palettes in Adobe CS4 programs, keeps wanting to bring up dialog boxes for layers instead. Have changed batteries in mouse (Logitech optical wireless) and changed mouse preferences, but seems to be getting worse. Any ideas? Could mouse be getting old? Have had it for quite a few years. Am working on a Mac 2x2.4GHzQuad-CoreIntelXeon, Mac OS 10.6.8.

Bluetooth is turned off. The 'wireless' is a direct wireless and not through the Airport. When I turn Airport on, there are three other networks visible but they are all locked.
But, given your suggestion about the mouse, I just tried the mouse on my laptop - AND IT'S THE MOUSE!! Same behaviour repeated on the laptop...
Thanks. Time to go get a new mouse and lay this one to rest.

Unstack/Sort Question

When editing a shoot, I like to temporarily group similar photos into stacks for organizational purposes. Then I like to rearrange the stacks in an order I like. Next is where the problem comes in. I would like to unstack the stacks and have the photos remain in that order. Instead, when I unstack a stack, the images scatter. The sort order says Custom, so I do not understand why they will stay in order. Can anyone help?

OK, just solved my own problem. Here is my editing workflow:
1) Delete bad images
2) Sort images into logical groups and make those groups into Stacks.
3) Rearrange Stacks as desired
4) Open All Stacks (do not Unstack)
5) Select the very first image, then Select All
6) Under the Metadata menu, pull down to Batch Change to create new version names (For me, I use Custom Name With Counter)
7) Once the renaming is complete, Unstack
8) For the sort order choose Version Name. All of the photos should be in your desired order using this method.
9) When exporting a file for a client, I can choose the version name to be the filename. So, at this point I can get by without changing the original file names. However, it would be a nice feature in the future.
To me, the ability to sort using stacks is awesome. Remember in the days of film you would have various piles of slides on your light table?! All we need now is the ability to attach a note to a stack, just like a small yellow post-it!
I am new to Aperture, so please let me know if you see any problems here. Thanks!

Organizer no longer opens image in Editor

The Organizer and the Editor stopped working together in just 1 of my catalogs. It happens to be the catalog in which I have done the most image manipulations such as renaming, stacking, albums, rating, etc. Now, when I select a photo in Organizer and click on Fix, Edit, the Editor window comes up but the photo does not appear in Editor. The only way I can get an image into Editor is to pull it directly into Editor. Then, when I want to save it as a Version Set I have to choose File> Organize Open File in order to save the image as a version set. Other than deleting and re-creating the catalog, how can I get Editor to open the image from Organizer like it used to do?

Can you try this-
1. Launch Editor
2. Launch Organizer
3. Now select one such image and click Ctrl+I to open the selected image in Editor
Does the focus come to Editor app?
Is the workspace blank?
What is the file format (camera raw or jpegs) of images you are working on?
Thanks
Andaleeb

View transitions with NavigationBar

Can any one show me or point me in the direction of some sample code on how to make custom transitions i.e fade in/out etc when using a UINavigationBar i know how to make the custom transition through apple "view transitions" sample code but do not know how to implement this with a navigation bar setup.
Any help would be great.
Thanks

Hi John, and welcome to the Dev Forum!
To use you own animation between navigation views, all you need to do is turn off the nav controller's animation and add your own just as you would do if there were no nav controller.
Here's an example in which I pasted performTransition from the ViewTransitions sample app into the Navigation-based app template:
// * from Navigation-Based app template
#import "RootViewController.h"
#import "AnotherViewController.h"
#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>
@implementation RootViewController
// from viewTransitions sample app
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// * we don't want a random type
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// NSString *subtypes[4] = {kCATransitionFromLeft, kCATransitionFromRight, kCATransitionFromTop, kCATransitionFromBottom};
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// -animationDidStop:finished: message. When it comes in, we will flag that we are no longer transitioning.
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// transition.delegate = self;
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// [containerView.layer addAnimation:transition forKey:nil];
// * the containerView in this case is the navController's view
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// * the nav controller will do the actual view switch
// view1.hidden = YES;
// view2.hidden = NO;
// * from Navigation-Based app template
// Override to support row selection in the table view.
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
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initWithNibName:@"AnotherViewController" bundle:nil];
UITableViewCell *selectedCell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
anotherViewController.title = selectedCell.textLabel.text;
[self performTransition];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:anotherViewController animated:YES];
[anotherViewController release];
The corresponding pop animation is left as an exercise for the student. Hint: It's not so easy to modify what the built-in back button is doing. Consider putting your own back button on the left side of the nav bar.
You can also use UIView animation (including flip and curl) in much the same way. For an example, scroll down to switchTopController in this thread: [http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10524660&#10524660]. The game in that example was to have 3 screens that all popped back to the screen which had transitioned to the first of them. So instead of calling popViewController, we make a new, rearranged stack so the screen switch happens when the current stack is replaced by the new one. That replacement isn't animated, so the UIView animation works as expected.
Hope that helps!
- Ray

Stacks that randomly rearrange themselves!?

I've been getting jiggy with smart folders, creating all kinds of wonderous filtrations, however, I'm beginning to notice some of my stacks of images randomly reversing, or 'auto-rearranging' themselves. It becomes apparent when you go to back to admire/congratulate yourself upon a new smart folder, then realise that the image count isn't the same as it was a minute ago before you went tweaking other folders/metadata, whatever. Only by toggling the Ignore Stack option does it reveal the culprit stacks.
My only fix for this at the moment, is to revisit the appropriate project, open all stacks, the painfully trawl through each to see which one has been swapped, then re-promoting the pick (apple-\). This is driving me nuts!
This doesn't happen to all stacks, and appears to completely turn their original ordering on its head. My stacks invariably contain mixtures of master CR2s (mainly referenced), auto-exported/reimported .PSDs, plus any version spin-offs that occurred. Only the pick is generally star-rated. (which is the main method I'm using to filter the importance of the picks in my new smart folders).
Am I going loopy, or has anyone else noticed this? I perhaps am not using stacks as purely as I ought, but I've been using Aperture long enough to know what I'm doing. Could be gigo, but I can't see it.
...or maybe it's just been a long day :-|
Anyone?
- Kevin

No, I'm not using a pen tool, just the mouse. I too notice that Aperture cannot handle fast selections, but I expect this is more a problem with my underpowered/outdated (Ap 1.5 +G5 dual 1.8ghz, 3gb, XT800XT GA ...not!) system spec. It's not as if I have a whole load of memory-intensive apps. running in the background either.
Perhaps as you say, my problem occurs when I am being too fast for my machine to keep up (there's a first!), although there is consistency in as much as each of my erroneous stacks end up with my pick being placed at the bottom i.e. last.
I've been noticing some other strange selection behaviors of late too, such as unreliable multi-selects in Light Tables. I select, say 2 or 3 images that I wish to move as a group, only to find that when I begin to drag then, a whole load more (though not all) move with them, thus completely wrecking my layout (designing slideshow running orders). I'd throw my machine out of the window at this point if only I could afford to buy a new one I often find I need to be really slow and deliberate when selecting/opening and closing stacks etc. in order to be happy that the Aperture has understood my intention.
Is this lack of sys. memory, too slow a processor? Anyone??
Anyway, back to the main subject. I wish I knew what goes on inside my computer when I present it with too much to think about, how can it decide to reverse hierarchies in its panic? This one defies my logic, but I'm still hoping someone out there has suggestions?
Please will some one reassure me that if I upgrade to V2, that these problems won't be exacerbated!!?
Kevin

Filtering by Rating and stacks

The behavior changed in 1.5. Previously filtering was triggered by the pick of the stack.
Example if I rated the top photo/pick of the stack as 5 stars and I was viewing unrated photos, it would dissappear from that view. (which is what I expect)
In 1.5 the photo doesn't dissappear because the other images in the stack are techincally unrated.
This new behavior makes sorting photos a lot harder. In my work flow I group similar photos together, and then rate them on another pass.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Powermac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

I don't like leaving unrated photos so for me this behavior is better.
You can create a Smart Album, search by unrated images, make sure you have 'Ignore Stack Grouping' NO selected. This way photos will be shown in closed stacks, if you rate an image 1* or over and move to the following image the rated image will dissapear together with its stack.

Filtering by Rating Inside Stacks

Hi
I like to use the rating system to sort my images but if I also use stacks, it seems to render the filter function inoperative so if I perform the filter, I get shown the correct results, but also a load of incorrect ones too. They have a symbol on them and say 'no match' but this prevents me from then exporting my search results to another folder - because they're mixed in with a load of unwanted shots.
Does anyone have a solution to this please? It seems that the stacks function returns everything in the stack, even if only one or 2 images actually matches the criteria and its stopping me using stacks right now.
Very grateful for any solutions out there!
Many thanks
Ian

I understand your point.
My own position is that by the time John R Ellis wrote his severe (but totally justified) paper about the Organizer, Adobe had both a marketing and a technical dilemma : with modest development teams, choosing what was most urgent, fixing bugs or adding new features. By that time I had chosen. The organizer has already too many features and bug fixing was the priority. The many troubles with the Autoanalyzer proved my point.
In the meantime, Adobe added Bridge as a substitute for Macs; lately, the price of Lightroom has dropped to a sensible level and Bridge has been removed with a feeble Mac version of the Organizer. A number of bugs have been fixed in PSE10, but the main problem for most people was that the bugs of the Folder view were not solved by its being crippled by ignoring subfolders. Since too many users want to use the Organizer as a browser, the Organizer acceptance by its amateur public was severely endangered.
I am convinced there will be a PSE11 version, if only to get the Mac version nearer to the Windows one. We'll see what the new version has to offer. Fixing old bugs is necessary, but adapting to the new 64 bits OS and the now general use of external drives or NAS should not be ovelooked.
dj_paige wrote:
Not sure why we're talking about Lightroom, so back to PSE
Simple : I have been examining the database structure of PSE6, PSE10 and LR catalogs, and I think that solving the stacks problem discussed here would require too much a reorganization effort, which was prudently avoided in LR.

Autamatically rearrange stacks by rating

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