Introduction

External tools such as Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Raw, Capture One, Apple Photos, and others support different ways of organizing your photographs using "labels", "ratings", and "flags". These are stored as data alongside your photograph as "EXIF" and "XMP" data. EXIF and XMP data are standards which are vendor independant, which means that no single vendor like Adobe, Apple, etc control them. Instead their definitions are managed by "neutral" organizations like ISO, JEITA, and CIPA.

Atget now supports this data, so if you set a photo's rating, label, or pick status using another tool such as Lightroom, Atget will also reflect that.

For example, if you're a Lightroom user, you might "rate" your photos 1-5 before adding them to your Studio Wall. Since Atget now supports ratings, you, your instructors, and classmates will also be able to see your ratings (that is, if you've shared your Studio Wall!) to see how you ranked your photos. And, as you will learn below, you can also change the ratings in Atget if you change your mind.

Labels

Item "labels" are show up as a colored square on the lower left corner of the item. As discussed before, the label can be white (for no label), red, yellow, green, blue, or purple.

The item below has green label:

An item can only have one label - it can be labeled white or red or yellow or green or blue or purple.

You can use labels for anything you'd like - for example if you have photographs of dogs, cata, and birds, you could label the dogs red, the cats yellow, and the birds green.

In the section on filters we'll see how you can filter items by label to show only items with a specific label.

Setting Labels

Using the keyboard

The fastest way to set a label by the keyboard: position the mouse over an item on the Studio Wall and type the label's key:

• 6 - Red
• 7 - Yellow
• 8 - Green
• 9 - Blue
• v - Violet
• w - White

When you hit the key, a message will briefly appear confirming your choice.

Using the context menu

You can also set the label using the context menu. Remember when you right click on an item on the wall the context menu appears:

As you can see there's a line of colored squares which represent the label colors, with the "selected" label outlined in black. In this example, the item is labelled red.

To change the item's label, just click on the new label color you want. To set it "no label", click the white box.

Undo

If you make a mistake setting an item's label, just hit Command-Z to undo it. A message will briefly appear confirming that it's been set to it's old label.

Ratings

Item "ratings" are show up as a series of 5 stars on the bottom left of the item, just to the right of the label. The number of solid stars () is the item's rating from 0 () to 5 ().

The item below has a rating of 2.

Setting Ratings

Using the keyboard

The fastest way to set an item's rating is to position the mouse over an item on the Studio Wall and type the rating's key:

• 0 - Zero, or no rating
• 1 - 1 star
• 2 - 2 stars
• 3 - 3 stars
• 4 - 4 stars
• 5 - 5 stars

When you hit the key, a message will briefly appear confirming your choice.

Using the context menu

You can also set the rating using the context menu. Remember when you right click on an item on the wall the context menu appears:

As you can see there's a row of solid () and outlined () stars, with the solid ones representing the rating. This item has a rating of 3 ( )

To change the item's rating, just click on the star for the new rating - the first one for 1, second for 2, etc. To set the rating to zero or "no stars", click the "ban" () icon.

When you click on the star, a message will briefly appear confirming your choice.

Undo

If you make a mistake setting an item's rating, just hit Command-Z to undo it. A message will briefly appear confirming that it's been set to it's old rating.

Flag

The item "flag" has two settings "flagged as picked", which appears as a solid pennant , or "not flagged as picked" which appear as an outlined pennant.

Flags are most often used by photographers to indicate which photos from a a group has been picked for use.

The item below has been flagged as picked:

Setting the Flag

Using the keyboard

The fastest way to set an item's flag is to position the mouse over an item on the Studio Wall and type the flag key:

• p - Flag as picked
• u - Flag as unpicked

When you hit the key, a message will briefly appear confirming your choice.

Using the context menu

You can also set the flag using the context menu. Remember when you right click on an item on the wall the context menu appears:

As you can see there's solid pennant on the right-hand side of the ratings, which is it's flag.

To change the item's flag, just click the pennant. If it's picked, it will become un-picked, and vice-versa.

When you click on the pennant, a message will briefly appear confirming your choice.

Undo

If you make a mistake flagging or unflagging an item, just hit Command-Z to undo it. A message will briefly appear confirming that it's been set to it's old flag status.

Collect(ed)

There is a whole tutorial page on Collections here, but we'd like to introduce the "collection" indicator here, which tells you whether or not the item is in the current collection.

The "collection" indicator is a circle, which is either solid when it's in the current collection, and outlined if it's not.

The item below is in the current collection:

Setting Collected

Using the keyboard

The only way to put an item into the current collection is to position the cursor over it and hit the "b" key. If the item's not it the current collection, it will be added, and if it's in the current collection, it will be removed.

When you hit the key, a message will briefly appear confirming your choice.

Undo

If you make a adding or removing the current item from the collection, just hit command-z to undo your action. A message will briefly appear confirming that it's been set to it's old "collected" status.