Asset Ratings offer a straightforward visual reference for internal teams to organize and collaborate around their production assets. Ratings can be assigned or adjusted at multiple points in the workflow, and used as filters to focus your view. This article covers how to enable star ratings & color labels, where to use them, and how ratings behave across asset types.

Ratings can be viewed and changed wherever assets are shown in the web application (including the Asset Hub) as well as in many apps (such as Kelvin).

By clicking either the color swatch icon or a star rating, you can apply the rating directly in one view to better organize your assets. You can also filter by Color Labels or Star Ratings using the Filter options.

Asset Ratings are divided into two categories (Star Ratings & Color Labels), but function similarly throughout Creative Force. Between the two ratings systems, you can mark which assets need approval, note where you paused reviewing before a coffee break, or highlight the best of the best.

Star Ratings & Color Labels require a two-level setup: it must be enabled at the studio level, then configured per user role.

Navigate to Studio Settings → Assets. All areas of Creative Force where assets can have ratings applied will be shown with a check box next to each.

Toggling or untoggling the check box will allow or restrict the modification of ratings in its respective area. After changing an area's permission, be sure to 'Save' in the top right.

You can decide which roles in your studio have the ability to modify ratings on images. By default, these settings are set to Edit for all User Roles.

To edit the permissions for a specific User Role, head to Studio Settings → User Roles → 'Edit' → Then scroll to the Assets section of their permissions.

To assign a rating to an asset, head into one of the views where they are enabled. The rating can be applied below the thumbnail or within the full-screen view.

In addition to manually applying star ratings with your mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts can be utilized in supported screens with an image selected.

In a number of asset-focused views in Creative Force, you can filter for assets by a level of assigned ratings. Multiple selections can be made to combine the ratings shown, such as enabling both the 4 & 5 star ratings to filter for those rated highest.

In the next sections, we will cover some specific areas and internal processes where ratings may be especially useful.

With Creative Force and the Capture One integration, ratings can be exported from one system to the other. This is useful for Photographers or on set Art Directors who want to earmark specific assets coming through Capture One before they are exported to Creative Force via Kelvin, streamlining the selection process.

Within Kelvin's Grid view, photographers or photo leads can assign or edit ratings using keyboard shortcuts directly during the capture session.
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This enables a live, on-set first-pass curation before images ever reach Gamma.
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In the Photo Review or Final Selection step, Art Directors and external reviewers (e.g., clients or brand stakeholders) can view and edit star ratings before images proceed to post-production.

This is particularly useful when a secondary approval layer is needed, and the reviewer wants to flag preferred alternatives.

On the Assets page, users can assign star ratings directly on thumbnails and filter by rating (ALT + numeric key). Then, they can generate a Contact Sheet from the filtered selection, where the star ratings can also be shown or hidden next to the assets.

This makes it easy to prepare curated image sets to share with clients externally.

When an asset is rated, that rating is written directly into the image file as embedded XMP metadata. The rating uses the industry-standard XMP "Rating" field written as xmp:rating

The xmp:rating value is portable to any third-party app, meaning images transferred from Creative Force with star rating data may reflect in apps that also visualize this.
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Asset Rating data from tools like Capture One, Globaledit, and Lightroom will appear in Creative Force as long as they were included in the asset metadata when exported or downloaded from these tools.

When images are processed into derivative assets, ratings are copied from the source asset to the destination asset.