Rating of photos.

Here's a question - I would like to make a book for a friend, but it might contain some nude pics (not hardcore), but will it be printed?

iPhoto doesn't read the rating field nor does it write to it. Send a feature request via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html.
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Problem rating multiple photos

I used to be able to select multiple photos and assign a rating. Yesterday it stopped allowing me to do that. If I select multiple photos only the one highlighted vice all selected gets the rating. Any way to get it to go back to allowing multiple image?

You are welcome.
Funny, for me "Primary only" will be shown in the help menu, when I search for it.
Also, the "primary only" button - the framed "1" should be always available:
For the next, who may stumble on this thread and needs to find the option:
Léonie

App for rating/organizing photos?

I have a fairly customized need in a iPhone app- wondered if anyone has seen anything like this. I need to organize a series of images for an exhibition later in the year. Often what I do is post pictures on a wall that I walk by regularly, like in my studio, and then shift them around= take a few out, add a few in- so that I cull it down to a cohesive and strong group of images. I figured, I could put the images in an album on my iPhone so I could view regularly- but is there a way to work at sorting/ordering them? Or like if I show the grouping to a friend capturing any of their comments. any ideas?
Thanks!

You can't sort/order or resort photos from the iPhone.
I haven't checked the app store lately, but I recall seeing some photo applications that serves various purposes. I'm not sure if there is an app available that provides for adding comments to select photos, but have you checked the app store recently?

Bug in LR 3.4 changing folders show not the 1st photo after setting rating filter

Bug in LR 3.4 ?
In the Library module, I have several folders.
Folder 1 contains 100 photo's
Folder 2 contains 100 photo's
After rating the photo's in folder 1 (let say I rated 10 photo's with one star, then I changed the viewing status to Filters - Rated - > 1star) and I get to see the 10 photo's
Then I switch to folder 2 (which has filters off). In stead of beginning with photo 1 (the beginning), it starts the focus on the image wich is no 17 or anyway much higher (i think the photo no of the 1st rated photo in folder 2).
Has anyone experienced this behaviour?

Yes,
folder 1: Filter - Rating > *
folder 2: Filters OFF
And both are sorted at Capture Time. So when changing from folder 1 (with rating) to folder 2 (without rating) it starts not at the beginning.
I have also a folder 3 without rating (same as folder 2), and if I go from folder 3 to folder 2 it starts at the beginning as it should be.
Also: if have the following setup concerning filters:
Library Filters: - Lock Filter
Library Filters: - Remember each source's filter separately (so I can change the filter settings on each folder)
NOTE, I can reproduce it:
It appears that switching from folder 1 to folder2 (as described above) the focus on folder 2 is the first picture with a rating, and NOT the first picture at all. And that is with Filters OFF. Switching from folder 1 to folder 3 (no photos are rated in this folder),it starts at the first photo (as expected).
Message was edited by: erwin.mvdb, additional info on reproducing the 'bug'

How do I use the rating system for multiple raters?

My wife, her sister, and I are all rating some photos I took a couple of days ago. Each of us, of course, has different favorites.
I would like to record our different ratings in the LR3 rating system but can't see an immediately obvious way to do so. I thought of using the color labels--different color for each of us. But each photo will only take one color label. I could use the star ratings, one star for only one selection, two for two, etc. But that would not record who chose which. I need to know that.
Has anyone had the same problem? If so, is there some rather obvious solution? I would think that it's not all that unusual for several folk to participate in a shoot, using one camera; and then to need some way to record their differing judgments on the photos in LR3.
Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks in advance,
John Kendrick

The rating system in LR3 is not really designed with that type of functionality in mind. The "target Lightroom user" is an individual that uses LR to create a catalog of photographs which can be graded with a star rating based upon their opinion of the photograph. The concept of seperate star ratings for multiple users doesn't really fit into that concept. LR3, in general, is designed with a single photographer in mind... one that essentially uses the program by his/herself... so it has a bare minimum of 'group' functionality.
It may be possible to find a plug-in that will enable star ratings by multiple users, but I've never heard of one before.
If you really, really need this type of functionality (i.e. saving star ratings by multiple people), the only way to do it that I could think of would be to create multiple collections of the same shoot, each of which is filled with virtual copies of the original photos. Each collection could hypothetically be called '08-03-2010 Bill Ratings'...'08-03-2010 Jill Ratings'... etc... etc. Admittedly, such a workaround may very well be more trouble than its worth... that's just the only way I can think of that you might come close to achieving the functionality you're after.
***EDIT: You beat me to it (VC idea) while I was typing this reply, Ian... wasn't trying to post redundant info...

Cannot change star rating

I cannot change the star rating of photos.When I try, I get "error changing rating".
The rating came from my organizer that was previously in Elements 9, but is now in Elements 12.
Thank you.

This thread claims to have solved it:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3789950#3789950

Star rating without Shift

Hello, is it possible to assign star rating to photos without being obliged to hit the shift key (on a laptop) when selecting 1,2,3...?
For the moment, each time I want to rate a photo I need to hit the Shift key in addition which is not very comfortable when rating a large number of photos.
Any info helps...

You are spot on. I am in France, using a French keyboard (where the numbers indeed are done with Shift...).
Adobe Bridge realizes that and allows me (in full screen) not to hit Shift (nor Cmd)... Lightroom not... yet (I suppose :-)
Having investigated a bit on different topics I realize that I could do the star rating right on with Lightroom Mobile on my iPhone (and then sync back), that's even easier.
Just tried it out... it works perfectly (for one photo). Now, trying to have that applied to several.
I saw your blog on that topic and will try out the sync software...
Thanks for the great insight

Iphoto 11 spinning balls when viewing photos

Hi - We're pretty frustrated so seeking help here as iPhoto support via Apple Care has not offered a solution to our issue. We have late 2012 iMac 8mb RAM with 3.2 (or 3.4) processor.
We have 3 Nikon cameras; D80, D300S, D800.
The D800 is the newest.
Uploading from cameras into iPhoto works perfectly.
However, when viewing a particular Album that contains photos from all 3 cameras, we get spinning ball and have to wait for up to 30 seconds to go from one photo to another
The spinning ball is random BUT doesn't happen on D80 or D300S photos. Only happens on D800 photos, which makes us wonder if there is a bug in iPhoto. The D800 is supported in iPhoto.
More info: The size of the photo doesn't seem to matter, as this can happen when one is going from a large MB photo to a small one, and visa versa. It doesn't hang on particular photos, but seems to be random.
The D800 is a 35 megapixel camera if that info helps at all. The other cameras are much lower megapixels.
I don't know enough about computers to solve this myself, but iphoto support has not found the problem. I think it's a lot simplier than we think but don't know what to do next.
Apple Care iPhone support had us repair the library and even make a new iPhoto library but we got the same issue.
The album with the issue contains 173 photos, so of which are HDR. It is not getting stuck on HDR photos, but sometimes it can. Like I said, it's random.
When we put that same album into Elements12, there was no issue of spinning balls, so I also wonder if it's the size of the entire library that has something to do with this issue. (the iPhono Library contains 5,000 photos. Support confirmed that there is plenty of free memory so that is not the issue either, but we are going to have the 8mb upgraded to 16MB anyway but we don't believe this will solve anything at this point.
We really wanted to buy Aperture but wonder if we need to resolve this issue in iPhoto first....Thank you & I hope I provided enough info. I tried...-Lynn

Yes, occurs in both RAW & JPEG
Here's what we learned today: when we call up the Album in question (but does happen in other albums but trying to stick with just one for now) it is now confirmed that it's only happening with D800 photos,but doesn't matter the size of photo or whether Jpeg or Raw. Can be either/or.
BUT, once we go thru the entire album of 174 photos, the time lag is gone the second time we view the photos. (no spinning balls & can scroll rapidly thru entire album) Wouldn't this suggest not a camera issue?
If we close out of iPhoto and go back into iPhoto and to that same album, we get the spinning ball delay between some of the D800 photos as before, but also confirm that it doesn't hang up on same photos each time but hangs only on D800 photos.
One more thing that may mean nothing - The abum has 174 photos. The first 100 or so photos were shot with the D80, the next group are D300s, and the last bunch (from photo #145 to 174) are D800, so the hanging doesn't begin until #145, but might not hang until photo 150. It's random, and different each time the album is opened AFTER iPhoto is closed & re-opened. As long as the album remains opened we can even go to other albums & go back to that album & all is still fine. It's just the intial opening of iPhoto each time.
This particular album IS a "rated" album so it has that cog wheel on the album file. Because it contains all photos that my husband rated as "3-star photos", I thought maybe the "smartness" could be the issue, but he has other albums with D800 photos that aren't rated & those photos can also hang...
Hubby has gone out to shoot post-blizzard photos & we'll do as you suggested upon his return & make new iPhoto library! Thanks! Will report back!
Lynn

Iphoto - get spinning ball when importing photos

I just bought a brand new mac book pro. I had all of my info from my old mac book pro in time machine. The first time I turned on the new one it asked if I had a time machine backup - short story I restored all of my personal files (no applications).
I was able to import photos once since then. I have 3 sd cards - not one of them can be imported. It recognises the card and asks me if I want to import. I have even tried to only import 1 photo - no matter what I do, I still get the spinning ball and nothing gets imported (I finally have to force quit).
I attempted to repair the library, but it never finishes. After hours of waiting I end up force quitting it.
One forum mentioned re-installing, but the mac book pro did not come with any disks (yes you read that correctly).

Yes, occurs in both RAW & JPEG
Here's what we learned today: when we call up the Album in question (but does happen in other albums but trying to stick with just one for now) it is now confirmed that it's only happening with D800 photos,but doesn't matter the size of photo or whether Jpeg or Raw. Can be either/or.
BUT, once we go thru the entire album of 174 photos, the time lag is gone the second time we view the photos. (no spinning balls & can scroll rapidly thru entire album) Wouldn't this suggest not a camera issue?
If we close out of iPhoto and go back into iPhoto and to that same album, we get the spinning ball delay between some of the D800 photos as before, but also confirm that it doesn't hang up on same photos each time but hangs only on D800 photos.
One more thing that may mean nothing - The abum has 174 photos. The first 100 or so photos were shot with the D80, the next group are D300s, and the last bunch (from photo #145 to 174) are D800, so the hanging doesn't begin until #145, but might not hang until photo 150. It's random, and different each time the album is opened AFTER iPhoto is closed & re-opened. As long as the album remains opened we can even go to other albums & go back to that album & all is still fine. It's just the intial opening of iPhoto each time.
This particular album IS a "rated" album so it has that cog wheel on the album file. Because it contains all photos that my husband rated as "3-star photos", I thought maybe the "smartness" could be the issue, but he has other albums with D800 photos that aren't rated & those photos can also hang...
Hubby has gone out to shoot post-blizzard photos & we'll do as you suggested upon his return & make new iPhoto library! Thanks! Will report back!
Lynn

IPhoto 08 & AppleScript - support for set rating?

I am considering upgrading iPhot from 06 to 08..
So I don't have 08.
Can anyone confirm whether or not the AppleScript support has been improved to allow for setting the Rating of photos via AppleScript?
Thanks!
Steve

Steve:
Still no rating support via AS. I cannot find anything new in the AS dictionary since the latest edition. Perhaps with Leopard???

Undo rating change?

On Lightroom 4.1, I spent much time rating all photos (DNG) of a large catalog (one star for the better ones, no star for the others). Then I selected all photos with one star to export them. Then I wanted to change the rating of one picture (to no star) and didn't remember that all one-star pictures were still selected. All ratings changed - I wasn't asked to confirm the action - and undo doesn't seem to work; all my pictures have no star again, and it seems that I've lost my time. That's pretty stupid. Anyone knowing a solution?

It may not be possible to narrow things down to only those photos that were rated 1 star, but it is possible to filter down to those that have been worked on in some way within a user defined period. You can do this using a Smart Collection similar to that shown in first screen shot. The catch is that it will include all photos that you've worked on after the ratings were changed. Forunately, this too can be got round to some extent using a conditional smart collection similar to that shown in second screen shot. They key to the second is setting up the correct conditions and you choose ALL as the match.

Big Picture Questions on Aperture usage

Hi!
My company manufactures a product that our customers are nutso about. We encourage them to take photos of themselves, and send the photos to us. We then publish them on our web site.
As a result, I receive sometimes a couple of hundred photos a month, usually via email, and of widely varying sizes/resolutions.
I then categorize these with keywords, so when I need to find an image (for an ad, brochure, whatever), I can quickly trim these 8,000 images down to a reasonable number to choose from.
My questions are thus:
1. What is the best way to get these images into Aperture? I need to import them into a project so I can sort and keyword them, but they are not all a part of a single project...
2. Is there any way to create smart albums for images that do NOT contain a specific keyword?
3. I want to create an album of images that are of print resolution (150 dpi, or more). So I create a new SmartAlbum, but what EXIF data can I use as my limit? I don't see resolution, dpi, or anything similar listed anywhere... what am I missing, here?!?
I appreciate any and all help that people can provide!
Thank you,
- CJ
Utilikilts Company
iMac G5 20" Mac OS X (10.4.5)
iMac G5 20" Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Hi CJ,
My .02¢...
Assuming you're having Aperture manage your photos (as opposed to referencing them), here is a possible workflow.
1. Create the projects you want to place the photos into, then save the photos into folders on your desktop with names that correspond to the project names.
2. Normally you'd create a smart album based on some kind of data, as opposed to non-data. Perhaps simply rating the photos you want in this album with one star, then setting up the album to look for photos with only one star.
3. DPI is done on export, as DPI is for printing not screen resolution. Screen res and dpi are different beasts. At any rate, you may want simply drag the photos your going to print into a normal album entitled PRINT, etc.
HTH

Using Bridge and LR with same folders/files

Having organized, edited and rated my photos using Bridge CS4 but recently started getting seriously into LR3 I still want to keep that file structure, either in a transitional period or indefinitely.
I normally use Bridge to import the photos, then spend some time creating sub-folders (one folder per event), organizing them. I'm hoping that I can add those (already organized) folders into LR, but can't figure out how. I see how I can import the photos, but I don't want that as I want to keep them all in the same location (they're all organized on the hard drive as I want them), just have LR "see" them so I can further edit and rate them. How do I do that?
I also want LR to understand and see the edits I've made to my RAW files as well as my ratings, keywords etc.
Are there other things I should keep in mind when having my photos work with both Bridge and LR?

It's possible to work the way you do, but with Lr it's a bit awkward, particularly if you start editing (developing) your images in Bridge.
You ask: " I'm hoping that I can add those (already organized) folders into Lr, but can't figure out how."
You have to import the images. Without importing nothing can happen in Lr.
So, open the Import Dialog. If it shows only the small window of the Import Dialog, click on the triangle in the bottom left corner, to expand the window.
On the left side you'll see the <Source> panel. navigate to the folder in question and click on it to select it. You will see all images in this folder in the main window of the Import Dialog.
Then in the top center of the Import Dialog select <Add>.
<Add> is for importing images that are already on the hard drive and you do not want to change their location.
<Move> is for importing images that are already on the hard drive and you do want to change their location.
<Copy> is for importing images from camera / memory card.
By selecting <Add> Lr will import the images in their present folder and will display the folder.
Your Bridge edits will also be imported because on import Lr reads the image file and the xmp-file where Bridge has stored the metadata of your edits.
But this is true only for import. Should you then decide for an image that has been imported in Lr to edit it in Bridge again, these edits would not automatically be visible in Lr. This is so because with imported images Lr stores all edits in its catalog, and does not display the metadata from the xmp-file where Bridge saves edits.
But you can make Lr read and display these additional Bridge-edits by doing a <read metadata from file>. But this is problematic because <reading metadata from file> will overwrite any Lr edits.
So you see that because of the fact that Lr works with its catalog while Bridge does not, editing images in Bridge and in Lr is a recipe for frustration. It can be done, but it's awkward and prone to mistakes.
Therefore I would suggest to bite the bullet and henceforth use Lr as your only editor. Import images from camera in Lr, do all your editing in Lr.
Since you are used to do edits in in Bridge Camera Raw, Lr will pose no big problems for you.
But if you don't want to let go of Bridge right away, I'd suggest you do at least one thing: After importing the images in Lr refrain from further editing these images in Bridge.

Smart Collection by Collection Sets?

Hey all,
Quick question on creating a Smart Collection within a Collection Set:
Here's the deal:
I have a collection set. In it, I have a collection of about 358 photos. From there, I rated the photos. I then tried to create a Smart Collection from within that Collection Set, searching for photos that are 3 stars or above as my only criteria. I targeted the Collection Set as the place where the Smart Album should be created. (So it's Collection Set > Collection and Smart Collection)
The issue is, with 3 stars and above being the only criteria selected, it is picking 3 stars and above from across my entire library, (returning about 17,000 photos that meet this criteria).
I only want "3 stars and above" from this particular collection set, but without having to add additional criteria (I am coming from Aperture, and this was easy to do by "Project." )
Is there a way to do this in Lightroom per collection set? I added a keyword as an additional criteria, and with 2 rules, it works the way I would like, but I really was hoping that Smart Albums could search by Collection Set and not across the entire library.
Any tips?
Thanks!
GG

GG,
Smart Collections always work on the entire catalog. You'd have to include the collection name as a additional criteria to achieve what you want.
Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland

URGENT: labels and ratings lost from CS3 to CS5

Hi, I have been using Bridge CS3 for categorize my photos and i have instaled CS5 recently (i have the two now).
All the ratings and labels were lost. In jpeg files, in CS3 i can see the rating in the xmp metadata "rating" (in file info, advanced) but not in CS5 (the xmp metadata is there but without "rating"). In CS5 i can rating the photos with problems.
If i export (save) xmp from jpeg in CS3:
      <rdf:Description rdf:about=""
            xmlns:xap="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/">
         <xap:ModifyDate>2010-07-24T07:01:24+02:00</xap:ModifyDate>
         <xap:CreateDate>2010-07-17T08:38:23+02:00</xap:CreateDate>
         <xap:CreatorTool>Nikon Transfer 1.1 W</xap:CreatorTool>
         <xap:Rating>4</xap:Rating>
         <xap:MetadataDate>2010-12-11T10:30:49+01:00</xap:MetadataDate>
         <xap:Label>Seleccionar</xap:Label>
      </rdf:Description>
If i export xmp from jpeg in CS5:
      <rdf:Description rdf:about=""
            xmlns:xmp="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/">
         <xmp:ModifyDate>2010-07-24T07:01:24+02:00</xmp:ModifyDate>
         <xmp:CreateDate>2010-07-17T08:38:23+02:00</xmp:CreateDate>
         <xmp:CreatorTool>Nikon Transfer 1.1 W</xmp:CreatorTool>
      </rdf:Description>
once is xmp and the other is xap??

I have had another look and there is a change between CS3 and CS5 but I still retain Label and Rating veiwing a CS3 Labeled/Rated file in CS5
CS3...............
            xmlns:xap="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/">
         <xap:Rating>2</xap:Rating>
         <xap:CreateDate>2010-11-30T23:35:36Z</xap:CreateDate>
         <xap:ModifyDate>2010-12-12T16:49:56Z</xap:ModifyDate>
         <xap:MetadataDate>2010-12-12T16:50:32Z</xap:MetadataDate>
         <xap:Label>Second</xap:Label>
      </rdf:Description>
CS4.................
              xmlns:xmp="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/">
         <xmp:Label>Second</xmp:Label>
         <xmp:MetadataDate>2010-12-12T16:50:32Z</xmp:MetadataDate>
         <xmp:ModifyDate>2010-12-12T16:49:56Z</xmp:ModifyDate>
         <xmp:CreateDate>2010-11-30T23:35:36Z</xmp:CreateDate>
         <xmp:Rating>2</xmp:Rating>
      </rdf:Description>
CS5.................
            xmlns:xmp="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/">
         <xmp:Rating>2</xmp:Rating>
         <xmp:CreateDate>2010-11-30T23:35:36Z</xmp:CreateDate>
         <xmp:ModifyDate>2010-12-12T16:49:56Z</xmp:ModifyDate>
         <xmp:MetadataDate>2010-12-12T16:50:32Z</xmp:MetadataDate>
         <xmp:Label>Second</xmp:Label>
      </rdf:Description>
The only difference being xmp is being used instead of xap. I have also looked at CS4 and it is the same as CS5, except they are in reversed order but still show correctly.
I wonder what version of Bridge you have for CS5 mine is .. 4.0.4.2
Sorry I can't help.

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