Ratings and Labels

I am finally convinced that I should start using Adobe Bridge for organizing my pictures (it seems a little late in the game since I have around 80,000 pictures in my system). However ... I need something to do this winter, so I want to concentrate on organizing my pictures.
The question .... I'd like to get input on what others have done with both ratings and labels. I would suspect that a rating of 5 would be outstanding and 1 would be poor. A red label could be for B&W.
If I am going to spend a lot of time organizing, I'd like to start with a good base of organizing tools that mean something.
Also ... if anyone has any other tips for organizing in Bridge, PLEASE list them....
Thanks

Maybe the Bridge Forum is a better place for the question:
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Issue with setting ratings and labels

Greetings all. I am having an issue with setting ratings AND labels on image files at the same time. If the script sets the label first then the rating, the label doesn't show in Bridge. If the script sets the rating first then the label, the rating doesn't show in Bridge.
Is there a workaround for this? Here is my script function for doing this. file=filename minus extension. Rating is a number for the desired rating. lab is a number for the level of Label I wish to set. Everything works great except that I can't set both Rating and Label with the script as shown. In this instance, only the Ratings will show up in Bridge after running the script. If I move the x.label=Label line under the x.rating=Rating line, then the ratings only show for those images with no label (lab=0). Any image that gets a label receives no rating.
If you're going to test this, you may want to comment out the Collections part. That's the part within the "switch(Number(Rating))" block.
function setRating(file,Rating,lab) {
    try{
        cr=File(file+"CR2");
        psd=File(file+"psd");
        jpg=File(file+"jpg");
        tif=File(file+"tif");
        switch(lab) {
            case 0: Label = ""; break;
            case 1: Label = "Select"; break;
            case 2: Label = "Second"; break;
            case 3: Label = "Approved"; break;
        if (cr.created) {
            var c=new Thumbnail(cr);
            c.label=Label;
            c.rating=Rating;
            if (psd.created) {
                p=new Thumbnail(psd);
                p.label=Label;
                p.rating=Rating;
                if (jpg.created) {
                    var j=new Thumbnail(jpg);
                    j.label=Label;
                    j.rating=Rating;
                    Rating=0;
                else addFile=psd;
            else addFile=cr;
        switch(Number(Rating)){
            case 0 : break; /* No Rating */
            case 1 : if(!app.isCollectionMember(OneStar,new Thumbnail(addFile))) app.addCollectionMember(OneStar,new Thumbnail(addFile)); break;
            case 2 : if(!app.isCollectionMember(TwoStars,new Thumbnail(addFile))) app.addCollectionMember(TwoStars,new Thumbnail(addFile)); break;
            case 3 : if(!app.isCollectionMember(ThreeStars,new Thumbnail(addFile))) app.addCollectionMember(ThreeStars,new Thumbnail(addFile)); break;
            case 4 : if(!app.isCollectionMember(FourStars,new Thumbnail(addFile))) app.addCollectionMember(FourStars,new Thumbnail(addFile)); break;
            case 5 : if(!app.isCollectionMember(FiveStars,new Thumbnail(addFile))) app.addCollectionMember(FiveStars,new Thumbnail(addFile)); break;
            default : break;
    }catch(e){
          alert(e);
          return -1;

Afew errors to start with, you were not creating a proper file as there wasn't a fullstop in the filename.
If a CR2 file didn't exist no other file was looked for, you were using "created" and should have been "exists"
This now labels and rates....
setRating("/C/Test Area/NEF/z",2,1);
function setRating(file,Rating,lab) {
    try{
        cr=File(file+".CR2");
        psd=File(file+".psd");
        jpg=File(file+".jpg");
        tif=File(file+".tif");
        switch(Number(lab)) {
            case 0: Label = ""; break;
            case 1: Label = "Select"; break;
            case 2: Label = "Second"; break;
            case 3: Label = "Approved"; break;
        if (cr.exists) {
            var c=new Thumbnail(cr);
            c.label=Label;
            c.rating=Rating;
            if (psd.exists) {
                p=new Thumbnail(psd);
                p.label=Label;
                p.rating=Rating;
                if (jpg.exists) {
                    var j=new Thumbnail(jpg);
                    j.label=Label;
                    j.rating=Rating;
                    Rating=0;
        switch(Number(Rating)){
            case 0 : break;
            case 1 : if(!app.isCollectionMember(OneStar,new Thumbnail(addFile))) app.addCollectionMember(OneStar,new Thumbnail(addFile)); break;
            case 2 : if(!app.isCollectionMember(TwoStars,new Thumbnail(addFile))) app.addCollectionMember(TwoStars,new Thumbnail(addFile)); break;
            case 3 : if(!app.isCollectionMember(ThreeStars,new Thumbnail(addFile))) app.addCollectionMember(ThreeStars,new Thumbnail(addFile)); break;
            case 4 : if(!app.isCollectionMember(FourStars,new Thumbnail(addFile))) app.addCollectionMember(FourStars,new Thumbnail(addFile)); break;
            case 5 : if(!app.isCollectionMember(FiveStars,new Thumbnail(addFile))) app.addCollectionMember(FiveStars,new Thumbnail(addFile)); break;
            default : break;
    }catch(e){
          alert(e);
          return -1;

Feature Request: Linked flags, ratings, and labels in a stack

I use stacks to group the original image with derivatives of that image, but the way Flags, Ratings, and Labels work on stacked images isn't well implemented for that.
Often, I will create derivatives of the original by flagging a bunch of images as Picks, then using export to create the new files. When I do this, the rating and status of the original are automatically added to the new files. Unfortunately, the Flag status is not, so I cannot, for example, just set a filter for Flag = Pick and continue working with the same set of images. Likewise, since stacks aren't fully implemented in collections, I can't just create a collection first and then continue working there the way I'd like to.
What I'd like is to have a checkbox in the export dialogue, when I am stacking with the original, that will allow me to copy the Flag status to the new files. That way, my Flag=Pick filter will allow me to keep on working with the same set of photos.
Even once the photos are stacked, I can't really work with them as a set because, now, a Flag, Rating, or Label change to one image in the stack doesn't affect the others. For me, since these are all derivative of the master image, I generally want such changes to apply to the entire stack. I know this probably isn't true for others, so what I envision is an intuitive icon on a stack to quickly link or unlink, or select or unselect, all images in the stack. When all are linked or selected, any changes would affect all the images in the stack, otherwise, changes would only apply to the currently selected or visible image in the stack.
Paul Wasserman

Thanks Carolyn.
I'll follow your link.
I'd also like to know others input. Sometimes I think I'm the only ones who is used to shortcuts, or I have to wait until forum residents quit writing (others might think I'm taken care of and not replying) so people who actually uses the Mac to work can opine.
Anyway, here's how I use the browser when working. I think it's very common, or at least enough for an "option".
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18776345?ac_cid=op123456#18776345
(I didn't want to post it here too)

Memo Pad for ratings and labels

Would be nice to have a catalog specific memo pad available to notate what
the ratings and labels one has applied mean in that particular catalog. For
example, I recently opened a catalog I hadn't used in a few weeks and was
puzzled what I had meant by the green labels that were applied to some
images. Because of differing needs for differing sets of images, I can't
have one standardized meaning for all stars and colors and pick flags. So
then we could note Green means "email image", Purple means "Print select"
or something like that...
David Madison

Along these lines, it'd be nice to tag images with personal text notes like "this is the image that Fred liked", or "needs masking in photoshop"... Then, when you moused-over the image, the note would pop-up in a little balloon.
I suppose you could use the metadata to add notes, but it doesn't work quite this smoothly.

Share ratings and labels

Is there a way to share my ratings and labels that I made in Bridge with other people?
I usually work with my editor, we both have all the clips on our computers (we work in different places).
What I'd like to do is to give him all the ratings and labels I've done in Bridge without sending him all the files again.
Can I do something like this?
Thank you!
Stefano

Thanks, but I work with video and I do all the shooting. Once at home I review all the footage within Bridge and I sort all the clips by rating them with 1 to 3 stars.
Sometimes my editor doesn't have any file when I've done all the rating so I just send him all the files and they actually have rating and label inside the metadata (because Bridge writes them inside the file's metadata while rating).
The problem is when my editor takes with him all the footage right after the shooting (and it happens quite all the time). When I've done all my sorting I need to send him stars and labels but it's not confortable to send him all the files again so I was wondering if there is a way to export all my ratings to send him.
Working with Premiere and After Effects is easy, we both have all the footage in the same directory and we just have to send the projects to each other (and the software automatically link all the media) but recently I've discoverd how usefull is Bridge to orginize and manage all the clips and I'd like to share with him all my work. It'd be a lot easier and faster!
Thank you again,
Stefano

Can I share "Ratings" and "Labels" with another person? When I send the photos to another person they cannot "see" any stars or colored label ?

Can I share "Ratings" and "Labels" with another person? When I send the photos to another person they cannot "see" any stars or colored label that I set?

You can convert your file to a .dng file and that will encapsulate the meta data into the file instead of it being in a separate side car file!

Rating and Labels

My ratings and labels made in camera raw are not showing in Bridge. I am using Adobe Bridge CS5. What could be the problem?

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How do I rate and label files in Bridge CS6?

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No clue why I didn't think about this.
Isn't that why we are here?...
But serious, I understand your wish for a big preview but not your wish for clicking, never been a fan of RSI myself
It is a long standing issue rating and labeling are not the same in all circumstances but clicking in the preview window might be a difficult wish to fulfill. There are many ways to use Bridge but if you like big previews consider this:
In the Bridge prefs advance tab select 'generate monitor sized previews' (this should create good full screen previews)
Then either select a bunch of files in the content window you want to judge or just start at the first file.
Hit space bar and full screen preview starts showing (when all files have been cached it should take very less time or real time to show good previews.
With arrow keys cycle through the files and with cmd + . or cmd + , (comma, I now realize I had it wrong in the other post) to increase or decrease ratings. All the keys are adjustable with only one hand and very close to each other. And clicking on a spot does show a 100 % preview of that part.
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Rate and label both nef and jpg files

Hello everyone, this probably sounds like a silly newbie question, but is there a simple way to rate and label both the nef and jpg files in bridge.
I work on a pc and right now I have to click on the nef file then ctrl click the jpg file then ctrl #(1-9) to rate both. It seems like a lot of work. When I use batch processing to rename my files it processes them both so i get a raw and jpg with the same name, so why not with labels?
I'm trying to create an easy working flow to my folders and pictures. My camera settings are set to raw (nef) and jpg. I like to have access to both incase i need to send out a jpg etc etc.
Can someone point me in the general direction on how to keep my workflow clean and simple and how to affect both files, because this is becoming really tedious!
Thanks

Well, first of all, it seems to me that you are creating a lot of extra work for yourself by creating your NEF and a JPEG. If any adjustments have to be done then you have to apply to those adjustments to two different images rather than just one. I think it's going a little far, personally, to have a JPEG copy of every image "just in case" you need to send out a JPEG. Why not just create a JPEG from the NEF file when you need one? But it's your workflow and you can do what ever you want.
Yes, I realize my second suggestion didn't solve the problem. But the problem cannot be solved with Bridge, at least the way it is right now. You have to select the images that you want rated. It just seems to me that your are compounding your work by creating both images all the time. If you have a certain need where you need to produce JPEG images in a hurry for someone, I can understand using the feature. But when it is so easy to create JPEG images that have all of the adjustments, I don't understand the need to have a duplicate JPEG of every image. Again, it's your workflow.
You might speed things up a little bit by going into your Bridge preferences and fix it so that you don't have to hold the control key when applying star ratings. Then you can just hit the number and then the arrow keys to move to the next one.
Another very simple method of creating JPEG copies is to use either the Image Processor or Dr. Brown's 1-2-3 processor, which is a free download from his website. Again, I just think you are creating a lot of work for yourself by having JPEG copies of every image. Unless you are an absolute masterful photographer who never has to make any adjustments to your images, you are doubling the amount of postprocessing required. I promise, I won't interfere in this one anymore.

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