Operation Manual

• To increase or decrease the image rating: Click the Increase Rating or Decrease Rating
button.
Note: As long as the image is selected, you can change its rating.
4 To select the next image, press the Right Arrow or Left Arrow key, or click the Move
Selection Left or Move Selection Right button in the control bar.
Rating Multiple Images
For quick and efficient rating, you use the arrow keys to select images and then use the
appropriate keyboard shortcuts to apply ratings. For more information about keyboard
shortcuts used to apply ratings to images, see the Aperture 3 Keyboard Shortcuts card that
came with Aperture.
You can apply a rating to several images at once. If the images are already assigned
various ratings, you can increase and decrease their ratings by equivalent amounts, such
as one star.
To apply the same rating to multiple images at once
1 Select the images you want to rate.
For more information, see Navigating Through and Selecting Images.
2 Click a rating button in the Metadata inspector or control bar, or press the keyboard
shortcut for a rating.
The rating you assign is
displayed on all the
selected images.
Sorting Images by Rating
After you’ve rated your images, you can sort images according to a specific rating. For
example, after an initial rating pass, you can choose to show only those images rated
Select, with five stars. You can then closely inspect and further refine your selection or
begin making adjustments to images. You can sort images by rating using either the
pop-up menu in the Browser’s search field or the Rating controls in the Filter HUD.
277Chapter 9 Rating Images