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
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Sorting of images within a stack
When working with stacks some strange things happen:
- When trying to duplicate one image out of the stack into an album the whole stack is moved to the album. When I than delete this stack in the album the order of the images of the same stack in my projects is changed.
- When rejecting images within a stack my rejected images are not automatically moved to the rejected images folder. Instead these images stay in the stack even so they are marked as rejected.
- When sorting images within a stack by using different ratings and than trying to limit the image view by showing for instance only images with 3 stars or more nothing happens. Also showing rejected images only does not work within a stack. Instead showing images by rating is applied to the whole project and not only the stack
Do I do something wrong or is this a known apperture bug?
MBP Mac OS X (10.4.9)David, your understanding (use) of stacks is causing a conflict. The whole idea is basically to group a series of similar images and choose the best one of that series, called the Pick. Then, within that series you can rank those images in an order of Pick to next best, and so on. You can view stacks open or closed - when closed, the Pick is the one on top.
Here's some info from the Help Menu that will help answer your questions:
Note: When you place a stack in a book album or web gallery or web journal album, Aperture displays the stack pick. If you drag a stacked image that is not the stack pick into the book or web gallery or web journal album, Aperture reminds you to select the stack pick. If you don’t want to place the pick in the album, but want to use a different version from within the stack, select the version you want and then make it the album pick by choosing Stacks > Set Album Pick.
Dragging Stacks
You can drag an entire stack to a new location, and you can drag specific images within a stack to a new location. When a stack is closed, dragging the stack moves the entire stack. When a stack is open, you can drag individual versions to new locations in the Browser. You can also drag images into a stack. If you drag a stacked image into a different project, however, the entire stack moves to the new location.
If you still want to be able to use a stacked image as you have stated, then take that image out of the stack, split the stack, or create a version of the image and remove it from the stack.
Take a quick refresher through the help menu - it will give you some further details and ideas so you can accomplish exactly what you need to do.
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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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Why does Bridge always sort images by rating instead of by date modified?
This drives me bonkers. Everytime I look for an image I've been working on, I go to Bridge and I'm always presented with the images sorted by rating instead of by date.
Then I click on the microscopic sized, extremely tiny arrow that allows one to choose 'sort by date modified' and I resort them to find the file I need. So that's always 3 extra clicks to find the image.
WHY can't Bridge sort images by date modified and STAY that way every time I come back?
Thanks for any help.
I know I could just keep the recent files rated the highest, but still, I'm wondering if there's a way to make it work the way I'd like it to work?
jn
p.s. Note to Adobe: Please make the selection button for sorting images arrow larger than a fraction of the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Thanks.WHY can't Bridge sort images by date modified and STAY that way every time I come back?
By default it does stay at the latest selected sort order so this could mean it is due to your install.
First of all try to reset the preferences for Bridge, hold down option key while restarting Bridge and choose reset preferences. This sets it all to default. First try if the problem is solved then set prefs again to your own custom wishes.
Also check and repair permissions for the OSX itself (Apple has disk utility in the utility folder for this job, and there are other 3th party applications)
And be sure to have the latest update for Bridge. (Bridge CS5 should be 4.0.5.11)
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I now have a list of print requirements from the client (image name, size, and quantity).
I'm curious to know what the quickest way to sort and tag the images selected for print, particularly in view of there being a number of different size requests for the images which are to be printed.
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Try it and hit me back with issues. I do this all the time and it is about 3000x quicker than my old workflow 5 years ago. For that matter the power of albums, stacks, and stack picks for this kind of thing is fabulous, there are a million ways to use it to speed things up. Bonus is that you are not copying anything so it is virtually free from a resource perspective.
Last but not least I would think twice before using a smart album to do this, youi really do not want the content changing in this type of album, it will not save you any time, I would use static albums in the manner that I suggested.
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-- SCRIPT
set d to (choose folder with prompt "Choose start folder")
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# get average brightness and hue of image files (jpg|jpeg|png)
# * output record = B=brightness [TAB] H=hue [TAB] file [LF]
# * sorted by brightness and then hue
require 'osx/cocoa'
include OSX
EXTS = %w[ jpg jpeg png ] # target extensions
module OSX
class << CIContext
def contextWithSize(w, h)
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:bytesPerRow, 0,
:bitsPerPixel, 0)
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end
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def setParameters(dict)
self.setValuesForKeysWithDictionary(dict)
end
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self.valueForKey('outputImage')
end
end
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end
end
end
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cif.setDefaults
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hh = {}
ff.each do |f|
u = NSURL.fileURLWithPath(f)
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end
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brightness = lambda { |k| hh[k][:b] }
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brightness_and_hue = lambda { |k| b, h = hh[k].values_at(:b, :h); b * 1e6 + h }
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EOF"
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import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.util.*;
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blue.setBounds(5,202,30,30);
red.setBounds(37,202,30,30);
green.setBounds(69,202,30,30);
orange.setBounds(5,234,30,30);
pink.setBounds(37,234,30,30);
magenta.setBounds(69,234,30,30);
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yellow.addActionListener(this);
blue.addActionListener(this);
red.addActionListener(this);
green.addActionListener(this);
orange.addActionListener(this);
pink.addActionListener(this);
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selectedColor.setBackground(Color.PINK);
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