![]() I installed in under Linux to test drive it earlier today. It's apparently a complete rewrite of the older XnView software. The newer version is supposed to be much faster (and makes good use of multi-core CPUs). XnView MP is a newer product that's Multi-Platform (Windows, OS X, Linux), versus Windows only like the original XnView software. ![]() If you see too many bugs with it, just install the older XnView instead. So don't be disappointed if you save a rating of number "1" with XnView and then watch this file with another software as iView or Photoshop, were 1 star will be shown as the (second)-lowest rating.You may want to test drive XnView MP (multi-platform). See Amazon, Vista, YouTube.and most image databases. I don't think they are standardized.īut I am sure that most people prefer five levels over the binary choice of only "OK" or "not OK".Ī) It allows to distinguish better, like school grades.ī) In IT / software / internet, a rating is usually shown in "stars" or "points", rising from low (1) to high (5). Texts like "1 = bad" to "5 = very good" are what iView, that other program, might show. ![]() And this number will be somehow interpreted and visualized by the software. The principle of rating as we find it in software, is a bare numerical scale, so the standard-based metadata in IPTC or XMP-format will only contain a number. Perhaps, you can convince the developer that the program can show (editable) individual names for a rating.īut this text won't be saved in every single file, anyway. Of course, you can interpret a rating of "1" as you like. Of course as you use different programs you should have a consistent system of Ratings and Labels where the meaning of each rating and label are the same across the programs and the use you give them. Because he uses LR and LR 1.x doesn't have a file format filter. A coleague of mine uses the Color Labels for different file formats, Red for Raw, Yellow for DNG, Green for PSD.etc. A pratical and real example: Peter Krogh, the author of The DAM Book: uses the Red label for unrated files, but files that will be evaluated eventualy, Green is for files to be send to trash. Although for somebody Red means Trash, for others Yellow means Trash. A Red or Yellow Label should be Red or Yellow in XnView, LR, IView, etc. It doesn't matter as long as if LR assigns 1 XnView sees 1. For some people 1 means Bad, for others 1 means Good. The name you give is not important, and that name should be customizable. So if you rate a picture with 2 or 3 Stars in Lightroom(LR), for example, XnView will see 2 or 3 Stars. I think XnView's Ratings and Color Labels should be compatible with Adobe's. ![]() They just don't fit my system, so I would like to be able to redefine them. I'm not saying the actual labels: bad, average, etc, are wrong. Really, this article, an extract from The DAM Book, worth reading.Īnyway I'm not trying to sell my personal workflow as the best, I'm just pointing that, different people can have different, and adequate, systems, with diferent labels, and classifications. I'm trying to follow Peter Krough's advice on this, as he explains here: A 2 is my (photographer) choice/suggestion for that job, etc. ![]() If a picture is bad, it doesn't deserve nothing but 0 (zero), so it's a waste to give it 1(one).Ī 1 Star/Rating picture, to me, is a picture I can show to a client for choice. Ratings are for to rate images by quality ok, but I don't divide them in: bad, below average, average, good, excelent, for instance. I would like to be able to customise the Color Labels DEFINITIONS, as well as the Ratings labels. However I would like to point to another thing, maybe easyer to implement. ![]()
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