Apple Aperture 2 - Manual (Page 234)

234 Part II Photo Editing
An Overview of the Aperture Rating System
After finishing a shoot, photographers typically review their images and determine
which ones are worth working with. While a “yes or no” judgment of an image can
work for a small selection of photos, with a larger collection of similar images that show
small variations, photographers need an organized method of noting which images are
superior shots, which deserve further review, and which are poor quality or rejects. A
simple and effective rating system can help photographers quickly narrow the focus of
the selection process.
Rating is a simple process with powerful results. If you can easily identify 100 out of 500
images that aren’t going to work, removing these images reduces your workload by 20
percent. Rating and thereby reducing your workload can save you a considerable
amount of time.
Aperture provides a system for rating images from Select to Reject. The easily
decipherable image ratings appear on the images themselves as overlays. Positive
ratings appear as stars; you can rate images from one to five stars, with five being the
highest, or Select, rating. A negative, or Reject, rating appears as an X.
Stars indicate a positive
rating.
Five stars indicate the
highest rating (Select).
An X indicates a negative
rating (Reject).