It's Wes, welcome to another video. Today I'm gonna show you how I rate and transfer images on the Canon EOS R when I need to get a select few images off the camera onto my computer, smartphone or to a client, friend or family member, easily and quickly, let's go. You're a beautiful person and you're a good person. And if no one has told you that today, let me be the first one to tell you that. If you're here for the first time, welcome. If you've been here before, welcome back. Please take a minute to support this channel by subscribing. I want to make good, relevant content for you. I'd love it on this video. If you leave a comment, let me know you're watching. All right, today I'm gonna show you three ways, three ways, all fairly easy to rate images and transfer them in a smart, sophisticated way to your device for processing or sharing. Make sure you watch until the end because of the summary of which method is the best and under which circumstances. This video is primarily about the Canon EOS R, so some details may differ from your camera. First things, I set up two custom buttons to help me quickly rate the images while they're in the camera. You didn't see that coming, did you? Make sure you watch all the way to the end because there's more than one surprise in this video. Custom button number one. While in the play mode, I set the multi-function button to be the button that triggers a star rating. If you have the multi-function button set to rate images and playback mode and you've set up one rating, the click of a button while looking at the image toggles the rating on, another click toggles it off. If you set up two ratings, a click toggles on the rating, another click toggles the next highest rating and another click toggles it off. You can do the same for other star ratings from one star to five stars. I sometimes use five star ratings in Lightroom to help me identify images. I want in a specific collection. I'm gonna use a one star rating for this particular rating and transfer option, so I don't get those images mixed up with my other rating system. Here's how you set it up. You go to orange menu, page four, and the first option is customize buttons. If you haven't set this up before, it can be a little confusing. So bear with me. On the customize buttons page, you'll see two columns on the right, along with the top down image. And if you move further down the column, you'll see a rear view image of your camera on the left. The first column represents the options while the camera is in photo mode. The second column represents options while the camera is in video mode. As you scroll down through the options, you'll see the third option down says, M-FN, which stands for multi-function button. Press that and you'll get a ton of options. Go up to and over to and you'll see a star. Press OK and you're set. Just like that, anytime you're reviewing images, you want to give a rating to one, press the multi-function button to rate the image. However, there's a bit more to it. Press info details and you'll see you have a one star to five star rating at your disposal. So I set one star to be triggered when I hit the multi-function button. My best advice is to use one rating only. I'm choosing one star because you can just toggle it on, toggle it off and it's easier just to have one preset rating. That's my two sets. So how about custom button setting number two? That's using the EOS R multi-function bar, which I've not really been using at all lately. However, I found a good use for it. And when I think it's an improvement and that's to scroll through images in playback mode, here's how you set that up. Orange Menu Page Four, third option down, customize multi-function bar. Toggle down for the playback option and press inner. You'll have three options, function shortcut, image browsing or not assigned. Highlight image browsing and push OK. Now you'll be able to use the multi-function bar to scroll through images in playback mode. I find this slightly better than using the ref, left right button on the main dial of the back of the camera. Ideally, this means I'm designating images I want to access quickly later to share with the client. The question is how to do this functionally. So the first option is connecting via Wi-Fi to the Canon app. Once you have the images on the SD card visible on the phone, simply tap the up-down arrow and choose order by rating. This will display your photos in order of rating. Now, if you've only set up one rating, your images on the SD card would be separated in two groups, rated and not rated. Now that you have the image on your phone, you could tweak in your favorite editing platform, share via email text or another messaging platform. I've searched for ways to import only the rated images into Lightroom and I can't find it. You either have to visually recognize the rated in the input on the import screen or recognize it by file name, both are bad options. So at this point, I'd recommend the Canon Connect Out. But remember, the Canon app only transmits a JPEG. You're not getting the full raw image transferred to your phone. Keep that in mind if it matters to you. My thought is if you have a great shot, you wanna share, you probably don't need to do too much editing so you don't need the full raw image. So at this point, I'd recommend using the Canon Connect Out to transfer rated images for immediate sharing. However, I dove into the Capture One options, which is not an option if you're not using Capture One, but there's a 30-inch free trial. So I'd recommend trying it out. On the Capture One import screen, you can see all the images on the SD card. All you have to do is go to the search field and choose one star or higher whatever rating you're using. This is great if you're using Capture One, and if you need to get the full raw images onto your laptop for quick immediate sharing. That's it for today. I love to share images with a client, especially when you have a banger shot in no-oominal final collection, and doesn't need any heavy editing. Check out Setting Up Your Canon EOS R for rating, and the Canon Connect Out to rating, transfer those rated images over to your phone for immediate sharing. That's my recommendation. This is a fast and efficient way to get images to your family's friends or clients. Thank you so much for joining me. Please subscribe if you haven't subscribed. Click a like on this video. Write a comment. I love that you're here. Please come back for more. I'll see you in the next video.