Star Rating - Easiest Way to Rate Images?

What is the EASIEST way to rate images with stars?
Thanks!

My fastest workflow for this is to do the following:
1. Turn on quick preview mode by pressing "P"
2. Use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move to the next or previous image
3. Use the number keys (1-5) to choose how many stars the image gets - zero removes the ranking, and I think 9 "rejects" the version.

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Query: Star Rating Usage

(Added: I see it's been 18 months since I settled on the now "old" system.)
There are seven ratings in the built-in star rating system: Rejected, Un-rated, and 1- to 5-star. Do you use all of them? What specifically do they signify?
I'm about to change my long-used rating system in my personal Library. I had used 1- and 2-star to indicate "saves" and "best of" in a Stack of similar Images while I culled those stacked Images for the one to develop. I stopped stacking similar Images (to avoid the confusion with Version Stacks, which I use continuously), and so have not used 1- and 2-star ratings for many months. My ratings had been limited to 3-, 4-, and 5-star, which I used to rate Images per project (keep, good, best). For Library-wide ratings, I used Keywords (mostly "Portfolio").
Working to renew my portfolio(s) has caused me to rethink this. I am now likely to bump down my ratings, and make 5-star = "Portfolio". Like so:
★
Keep
There are often Images I keep but won't develop. This let's me know I've decided to keep them, and that I shouldn't delete them. (Example: excellent composition, misplaced focus.)
★★
Good for Project
These have a potential use within the Project. In essence: development potential.
★★★
Superior in Project
Develop these! Will likely be used.
★★★★
Portfolio Nominee
These I want to consider adding to my Portfolio. I actually keep several portfolios, distinct by genre, or sometimes type (Grayscale flowers, for instance). This is a Library-wide rating.
★★★★★
Portfolio Selection
These won't be marked in the Projects, but rather in the Smart Albums that collect developed nominated Images. This, too, is a Library-wide rating.
Imported Images are unrated. Then, on a per-Project basis, they get either rejected, or rated 1-, 2-, or 3-star. Developed Images which are exceptional get bumped to 4-star status. I have Smart Albums that collect all 4-star Images by genre. From here I will upgrade Images to 5-star (= "in Portfolio"). Or from the 5-star Smart Album, I'll downgrade ones to 4-star when needed.
Before I implement this system, I like to hear how you use the built-in star ratings. Thanks in advance .

Kirby,
I like your list and the categories you have chosen for the ratings i.e. the clear distinction of ratings within project and portifolio.
My use of (final) ratings is similar, but I did not put in so precise words as you did. My ratings change over and over again, while I am working with the images.
During the first few month, while I am still working solely on one project, all ratings are relative to the project.
When first browsing the images the ratings are quick and intuitive:
Reject (techically bad,delete immediately),
1 - (techically bad, but keep, wait and see, if it is not the only picture of the bear, the lion, or a very special moment),
2 - o.k., but boring,
3 - o.k., and there is something I like, needs a lot of work
4 - great picture, but there is a still better one, keep it for the screen saver for variety
5 - wow - I like it the first time I see it, show it off in collections
Usually the really good images start off with the rating 5 and are downgraded, when I see more pictures and have looked closely at details. This is the phase, when I use stacks of similar images. Redundant images in the categories 1, 2, or 3 will be deleted, many 5s will be downgraded to 4. Continue, until all stacks of similar images only contain one image.
When I start to use the new images in library wide projects and compare them to other images, I downgrade more 5s to 4s, start to use version stacks, and all other rating is done by using keywords: slideshow, weg gallery, book, screensaver, wallpaper
Regards
Léonie

Star rating plugin in apex disappear after refresh

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i bulid report page with star rating vote as this steps
1- download star rating plugin v_1_0 from oracle
2- install plugin in application
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(SUBJECT_ID,
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'<fieldset style="">'||
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and now the report work good and star rating appear but the problem when press next 15 row Or Refresh the star rate Disappear and the radio buttons appear and when i rest page the star rate appear again..i don't know what the problem
if any one have any idea please advance me
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hi vc Accept my apologies for late reply where in my pc.
please check this link ..this my page where the problem
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=54167:1:461102053491701:::::
username:demo
password:demo
the problem the star rating disappear when press next 15 row or make sorting
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type:region
name:Query_Result
action: java script code
code:apex.jQuery(".starrating").rating({half:true}); apex.jQuery('#Query_Result').bind("apexafterrefresh", function(){apex.jQuery(".starrating").rating({half:true});});',
and no result
i change action to pls/sql code and no result , how can create action to appear the star rating,and how detect rate column in report and get its vale and make action on it
sorry i new in apex developer and i can't solve this problem.
full function in page
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Forum member mrhooper posted [something in another thread|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=13357908#13357908] which caught my eye. I didn't have time to respond, and now that thread is marked answered -- and my reply is slightly off-topic -- so I started this new thread in the hopes of learning how better to use the star rankings in Aperture.
Below is +what I do.+ I'm very curious to find out what you do -- or to hear any suggestions for making what I do more sensible.
Here is (part of) mrhooper's comment.
So we are now bringing over everything into Aperture and then rating images on a 1, 2, 4, 5 basis. Come on, if its a 3 make a decision. Everything else is a 9, and then the rejects are deleted. And then the trash is emptied and they are out of the library.
So we bring in the raw and then quickly rate, and I can't image a 400 shoot taking much more than 5 minutes rate.
Go through once for 1, then for 2, by then the 4 is obvious and the 5 we just love anyway. 9 everything else.
Fwiw (always an auspicious start to an Internet posting), I TOTALLY agree re: the wasted gamut of the seven-level rating system (that's rejected-unrated-1-2-3-4-5).
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• If I look at a picture, I rate it. Reject or save-and-decide-later. That's "9" and "1". So "unrated" is meaningful to me. It doesn't mean "less than rated", and, importantly, it doesn't mean "not-rejected"; it means, literally, not-yet-rated. (The problem solved here occurs when I am part way through tossing rejects from a Project and I am interrupted.)
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• 1- and 2-star ratings +have the same value to me as images.+ The only difference is that 2-star images came from Stacks. (Those Stacks may contain 1-star images which for any number of reasons I want to retain even though they are not a Stack pick and will likely never be promoted nor processed nor printed nor published).
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• 3-star means "keep". The general idea is that in a few years time I will likely want to do some major weeding in my Aperture orchard. Any 1- or 2-star images will then be unceremoniously deleted. 3-star images will be kept.
• 4-star means good enough for publication. One of the best of the Project.
After I develop the images in a Project, I will re-assign the star rankings. During development, some images will be promoted.
• 5-star means not only good enough to be published as one of the best of the Project (and I mean that at whatever level one works -- from emailed to friends to printed for sale), but good enough to be included in some other sampling of my work. (I keep an Album for my Portfolio. The images in the Album are selected from my 5-star images.
Note that in my use, +star ratings are Project specific+. There is no value-equivalence between the star ratings -- and I consciously try to avoid comparisons across Projects. (If I've done a shoot, I need to know which are the usable/salable shots in that shoot -- I don't need to know how they rank in my life's work.) All of the 4-star images in one Project may be of less comparative value to me than the only 4-star image in another Project.
So in my system, "Reject", "3-star", and "4-star" are the only ratings which are necessary. They correspond to the all important distinctions mrhooper indicated:
- throw-out
- keep but don't use
- use.
The other star ratings could -- and from a tidy database standard, should -- be replaced by a metadatum that is not part of the rating gamut.
The orchard floor is yours ...
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger

Hi Kirby,
Thanks for opening this up, as I suspect most of us have gone through the "let's see that's a 1 or no... probably a 2, perhaps I can clean up the backgound and then it would be 3. " etc etc.
We settled on a similar process where you suggest it is a project by project rating, not our life's work.
So we skip 3, play with 4 and 5, that should be obvious.
1 and 2, they are going to be deleted at some stage in the future, unless it is some rare thing, and that doesn't happen every shoot.
In Jan this year looked at the 2008 year 1, 2 and deleted most of them. Hey, we hadn't used them, touched them, improved them or even thought about them. Goodbye.
Some memorabilia, sentimental value ones got to stay.
When we look for the best, then 5 is the go. Maybe a review of 4's but only if we are struggling in 5s
Which by the way we tend to be fairly generous with I suppose.
Checked a shot of 60 images early in the week, 15 are in the 4 and 5, 8 are 5.
We also use the wonderful color system. Now this sorts out a lot of things for later smart albums.
Here are a few Green-teaching. Red-for web site pages, Blue - the crown jewels, the ones we both love. Purple- spec shots for photo library etc.
Yep, sometimes a shot might be two or more colors, but it is not stopping us at the moment.
We do shoot burst, but don't stack. If its a 4 I want to be able to see it. We create albums in the project Star 4, Star 5, so there they are in a hurry. Yep, know it is easy to do that in the search box, and can use Ctlr1-5, but the clever is later when we can be really specific in search for albums with Star 5, or what ever.
Just to finish off, the 4 and 5 get keywords, lots of them. From event, to person, to specific lighting, to species, or building type or.....
want a pic of a 1937 Ford- in Blue, at the Last Cafe, in Spring, in the sunshine, front lit, side view?
That is what Aperture does.
and because of the way we use projects for each shoot, bet I could find it in about 10 seconds in quick review of the appropriate year or month as well.
This is not the thread on project names, but we have from the beginning way back in iPhoto(5) put them in as a date and description.
Cool thing now in Projects/Full Screen, is I can Filter by the date number so typing in 9012 gets me all the projects only from 2009, December. (9) 0 (12) Oh, am aware of what is going to happen when we have been round the scale once and the numbers come back. And we have a plan.
I am sure there are other ways to start a good system, to use the ratings and the keywords of Aperture, and agree that you have to think project specific when it comes to what is a 5.
Reserving 5 only for the 'very best image you ever took of a rose", is a bit limiting and what if my "Very best waterfall picture' is even better?
Thanks for starting a good ideas discussion.
Regards
DJ

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Longtime LR user, new to the forums and looking for a bit of insight.
When shooting on deadline, I start my workflow by running my images through Photo Mechanic where I star rate, caption and FTP a few. Afterwards I typically head home and then import my images into LR for further processing and cataloging.
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I should also mention that I have on occasion quit LR, reopened the folder containing my images in Photo Mechanic and all of the star ratings show up as they should. I have then quit Photo Mechanic, restarted LR selected all the images and then prompted it to "Read Metadata from File" but it still does not adapt the star rating that is associated with each image.
The only way for me to fix this issue is by removing the folder containing the errored images, re-import it into LR, give LR 7 - 10 minutes to "process" it's contents, and hope that when I do go to look at only starred images it will have completed it's initial processing to reveal all of those images that have been star rated.
Re-reading this I see that it's a mouthful but do hope that you might be able to answer these questions:
1. Is it this "processing" that I'm waiting for Lightroom to complete upon initial in import?
2. Is there a way for me to tell when that "processing" is complete?
3. Why doesn't forcing LR to "Read Metadata from File" overcome this problem?
Currently running LR 3.4.1 on a Macbook Pro running OS 10.6.8.
Thank you sincerely for your help ( :
Justin Kase Conder
www.JustinKaseConder.com

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The new people icons in PSE11 & PSE12 are not the same as keywords. You could use them as the basis to add keywords (names) in PSE and perhaps write metadata to files. Then start over in Lightroom:
File >>New Catalog
Choose a new catalog name and save.
When the empty Lightroom catalog opens - try the import from PSE again.

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