How to Rate Your Images with Stars in Zoner Photo Studio Pro

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Try to come up with a system that you will stick with.

   While you can change the way you do it, it's easier not having to do it over again.
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   Step 2: Understand that you only have five stars to work with.

   You could try the following method, suggested by the creators of Zoner Photo Studio.
   
   No stars
   - An unrated photo, ready for rating One star
   - A bad photo with technical problems, Queued for deletion   Two stars
   - No technical problems, but photo is bland... yet it might be useful someday Three stars
   - Not a captivating photo, but still worth basic editing   Four stars
   - One of the best photos in the album   Five stars
   - One of the best photos in your archive, worth presenting officially.,,,,,,,,,,, The example here, uses 2 stars. , Delete, name, move, etc.
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   Step 3: Navigate to the photographs that you will be rating.

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   Step 4: Switch to Preview

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   Step 5: if you are in browser mode.

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   Step 6: Hold your left hand (on a Qwerty keyboard) on the number row numbers

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   Step 7: and 4.

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   Step 8: Move your right hand to the cursor (directional) keys.

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   Step 9: Move through your images using the directional keys and rating them with your other hand.

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    Step 10: In the Manager tab

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    Step 11: in the Browser view

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    Step 12: click in the search box.

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    Step 13: Check the tick box for "Include subfolders".

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    Step 14: Select OK. Now you will see all of the images in the primary folder (My Pictures in this instance).

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    Step 15: Change to Preview and then rate the images as instructed before.

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    Step 16: Still leaving the 'Include subfolders' selected

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    Step 17: bring up the advanced search options.

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    Step 18: Select the "equals" sign and then the number of stars that you want to look at for processing.

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    Step 19: Process them the way you want.

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