Managing Digital Images: Applying Ratings and Keywords Pages: 1,
2, 3, 4, 5  To determine how to apply ratings, we need to
examine some of the concepts behind them. Let's take a look at
the DAM rules from the last chapter and how they relate to
ratings:   Fortunately, our friends at Adobe have given us some
very good tools to rate images in a systematic way: the star
ratings. The Bridge star ratings are easy to understand and use,
and they are likely to become a standard among all DAM software.
The work you do with rating stars in Bridge can serve as the
foundation of a collection-wide quality designation for the life
of your photos.  What's so great about those Bridge stars? In
addition to their front-runner status in becoming the worldwide
standard, they are simple, well designed, and flexible. You can
use the stars to build a set of top-down inclusive groups. What
does that mean? It means that at any given time, you can chop
off the top of the ratings pyramid and confine your search to
that top-level subse