Rating images

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Rating images

I have about 5000 original versions and 5000 adjustments to review and rate, so I can pare down the number of images I'll be working with more intensively. For now both sets [the versions are initial adjusted ones of the originals] I have marked all as 4* for purposes of editting = I'll lower rating to 1-2-3 or 9 if I don't want to work with them further beyond the initial adjustment - but move the best to 5* if I'll be working with them further.

The problem is that both the original and the adjusted versions are 4* but if I review and assess only the adjusted ones and re-rate them [for instance making a few 3*] that affects the adjusted one but not the original which really should be the same rating.

Is there any way to [short of looking at both original and adjusted at the same time] make the rating apply not only to the adjusted one but also its original?

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Apr 21, 2014 11:35 PM

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Johannes Lietz

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Apr 22, 2014 2:18 AM in response to Victoria Herring

In this case I would work with stacks. Let Aperture stack those images automatically. Then you could easily work with those grouped images: open+close stacks, select an image to represent the stack, CMD-E = select all images of the stack, then apply rating.

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Answer 2

Apr 22, 2014 3:17 AM in response to Johannes Lietz

I'm not understanding == each original image is, for the most part, unique and so I do have them stacked, in the sense that the adjusted one is on top of the original one. I couldn't figure out how to assign the 3* rating to adjusted pics and then be able to go back in and apply that 3* to the originals of those I had just re-rated, easily. Let's assume I make 4000 of the adjusted images into 3* after reviewing the adjusted ones...how do I easily get that 3* rating applied to the 4000 original versions? Before I have found that I make an image 3* and the old 4* is still there on the original -- I want ot figure out how to assign the 3* to both adjusted and original at the same time or easily later, but not sure how.

Of course this may mean I don't really understand stacks....if that's the issue, I'll study that further....perhaps that is my problem.

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léonie

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Apr 22, 2014 7:22 AM in response to Victoria Herring

I want ot figure out how to assign the 3* to both adjusted and original at the same time or easily later, but not sure how.

Victoria, Johannes Lietz answer should work perfectly for you.

Your original and edited version are already stacked as a version stack, if I understand you correctly, so simply pressing command-E to select all images in the stack before changing the rating will ensure, that both images -edited version and original - will be rated the same.

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Apr 22, 2014 7:28 AM in response to léonie

That helps = I didn't really understand but now that I do [I probably read Johannes's comment half asleep!] about the keystroke, that will work...Thank you to both of you for the instruction.

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Answer 5

Apr 23, 2014 2:10 PM in response to Victoria Herring

I think this is where limiting a search to "Stack Picks Only" comes into play.

If I understand your workflow -- which is, to me, standard -- you want to filter by rating, but exclude any Images "under" the Stack Pick. Since you have not been able to do that, you have been working around the problem by assigning the rating of the Stack Pick to every Image in the Stack, thus forcing all Images in a Stack to be filtered by rating the same as the Stack Pick. The direct way to do this is to check "Stack picks only" at the top of the Filter HUD:

I use this all the time. I very much _don't want_ all the Images in a Stack to have the same rating, as that makes the rating for all the not-Stack-Pick Images wrong. The last thing I want is to filter for my 5★ Images and have it bring up not only the hard-won 5★ Image, but the 37 sub-5★ variants abondonned along the way.

I hope that's helpful.

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Apr 23, 2014 2:29 PM in response to Kirby Krieger

This has been a very good discussion - so far I don't have stacks of multiple images = mainly I'm adjusting Originals and then have Ver. 2 but yes, sometimes I have Ver.3-4-5- etc....I'll test all this out on my library this weekend and hope to get it right. Many thanks.

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Answer 7

Apr 23, 2014 3:49 PM in response to Victoria Herring

So by multiple images, you mean more than two?

I would still try to not rate any image with a rating that is inappropriate to that image. By image I mean anything that shows as a tile or picture in the Browser and which has its own metadata. The "Stack picks only" setting feels a little daft at first, but once you wrap your mind around it, it is quite useful and is exactly appropriate to the issues you brought up in this thread.

Post back with any questions.

--Kirby

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