Star ratings and color labels help you to sort and rank images according to your own criteria. An image’s star rating and color labels can be displayed over thumbnails in the lighttable view and filmstrip module.
Star ratings
You can give an image a rating from zero to five stars. Whenever you import images, each image receives a default rating which you can define in the import module. You can also mark an image as “rejected”.
There are several ways to change a rating. While hovering the cursor over an image thumbnail, you can press a number key 0 – 5 to define the number of stars, or press R to “reject” an image. This is probably the fastest way to rate your images on first inspection of a film roll.
You can also click directly on the star icons overlaid on the thumbnails (click the ✕ to reject), or use the global menu Image 🡒 Ratings.
As rejecting an image removes the currently-applied star rating, you can undo the rejection by clicking x or pressing R again.
To rate multiple images at once, select those images in the lighttable or filmstrip and then press the appropriate shortcut key.
Color labels
Color labels are another way to classify images, and can be used as an alternative to star ratings or to work alongside them. Each image can carry any combination of one or more color labels (red, yellow, green, blue, or purple).
You can set the color labels for a single image by hovering your cursor over the thumbnail and pressing the function keys F1 – F5, which correspond with the labels in the order given above. F6 clears all labels.
To set the color labels of one or more images, select the desired images in the lighttable and then press the appropriate function key, or use the global menu Image 🡒 Color labels. A color label is added to all selected images if any of them do not currently have it; otherwise the label is removed from all of them. To remove all labels (of any color) from the selected images, press F6 (or Image 🡒 Color labels 🡒 Clear labels).