Rating of photos not applying to exported images

Welcome to the forum. In the Export dialog there is a section labeled "Metadata". Make sure that the "Include:" dropDownListBox is set to "All Metadata"

Thanks Cletus. Yes, I already had that marked: Include All Metadata.

I'm not experiencing your problem. I filter on 5 star images and export these using the "Add to this Catalog" option. On completion, my folder grid view shows the new images with the rating applied. If I had the filter bar active, it reverts to no filter, but if I filter on 5 star images, my original and my exported derivatives are selected.

clee01l said:

I'm not experiencing your problem. I filter on 5 star images and export these using the "Add to this Catalog" option. On completion, my folder grid view shows the new images with the rating applied. If I had the filter bar active, it reverts to no filter, but if I filter on 5 star images, my original and my exported derivatives are selected.

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Well maybe in LR.
Proprietory rating??

But an export as jpg will not show the real IPTC rating.
Peter.

I'm a bit unclear: you're importing the exported images, which should have included the ratings? and then you're not seeing the ratings in Lr when you view the exported/imported images?

Note that ratings in Lr/Abode are not IPTC standard; I believe they live in an Adobe XMP tag whose name I can't recall. Some non-Adobe applications can deal with them (say Photo Mechanic); many can't.

JPS2 said:

Well maybe in LR.
Proprietory rating??

But an export as jpg will not show the real IPTC rating.
Peter.

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LR reads the rating of newly imported file from the embedded IPTC/EXIF header of the file. There is no proprietary field for ratings. Choose the file in Windows Explorer, right click on the file and choose properties, then details. Ratings is one of the items on the listing. This is the same rating files in the EXIF/ITPC that LR writes to on export.
As I originally directed harkinna, when you export to JPEG in LR there is a metadata section on the Export panel. In this section you need to make sure that "All metadata" is specified if you want all metadata included on the file created.

You seem to have the correct settings in the export dialog.

Like Rob, it seems a bit unclear what you're after/doing here..
If the [re-imported] jpg's truly don't have the rating, then another possibility is that you have an import metadata preset that is blanking out those ratings. I've encountered numerous people lately that seem to think that they're for choosing which fields to import. But those are only for applying data TO images. IOW, you may have the ratings field checkmarked, but no stars selected - which will blank your ratings. (I think this would especially apply if you're doing a separate import step, as opposed to 'add to catalog' in the export dialog - which if I'm not mistaken, bypasses metadata presets.)

If what you're after is making the area you're in retaining the '5 star' filter, then I would say to click on the 'padlock' icon in the top-right of the filter bar. Or better yet, since you do it often, make the '5 stars' a smart collection instead.