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Maximize Ratings in Bridge Rank and File can write the Star Ratings into the IPTC keywords of an image file, so that other programs can see and use this valuable information. • Back to the Rank and File Page One of the most valuable things you can do to your image files is to systematically Rate them for quality. This enables you to more efficiently handle the images in every stage of production. Better images should get more adjustment attention in Camera Raw. Better images should also get the most comprehensive metadata treatment. It's also helpful to be able to find your best images quickly to make portfolios and stock submissions. Adobe CS2 Bridge includes a powerful new tool for rating images for quality: the Star ratings. Star ratings should be applied as early as possible, and will be very useful throughout the life of the images. There's one problem, however. No application other than Adobe Creative Suite 2 can read these Star ratings. Stars are written to XMP data, which is openly documented, but not well-supported at the moment. IPTC metadata, however, is nearly universally supported. By writing the Ratings to the IPTC keywords field, this ratings information can be seen and used by many other applications, such as iView MediaPro, Extensis Portfolio, even by Apple's new operating system Tiger. Rank and File provides a one-button solution to write this valuable Rating data to the IPTC keywords field. What's more, by writing the Ratings in the way it does, Rank and File enables other applications to mimic Bridge's "top down" filtering. When filtering for quality in Bridge, you can choose to see, for example, all images 3 Stars and better. This is much more useful than simply seeing all 3 Star images. Typically, you will want to search the best images first, and then broaden you search downward if you don't find what you are looking for.
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