I have major difficult ties applying basic star ratings to my images, but I think the Michelin Guide might be able to help.
“The most basic component of higher metadata is the rating,” Peter Krogh told me on page 36 the first edition of his “The DAM Book.” And then, using logical, lucid language and excellent graphics, he illuminated how, instead of emotionally throwing various zero- and five-star ratings on images, I should focus on applying stars extremely selectively (if quickly), almost never using the four-star rating, and holding off on five stars until the future.
If you haven’t read Krogh’s text on rating, it honestly is worth the price of his book, now in the second edition. If 32 bucks seems like a lot for rating advice, consider that most of us — certainly I — have very haphazard, emotional rating systems, and that they do not help us, as Krogh wants us to, to “build for the future.”
Krogh’s thinking is that a two-star image should be a two-star image, no matter what the subject matter is, what job its for or how Continue reading “The Michelin Guide to Rating Images”
