Apple Aperture Getting Started - Manual (Page 152)

152 Chapter 13 Grouping Images with Smart Albums
You can also create your own Smart Albums. For example, suppose you want to create
a Smart Album that includes the best images you took of a particular sports event. You
select the project containing shots of the sports event, create a Smart Album, open the
Query HUD, and search for images rated Select (five stars). All images with that rating
immediately appear in the Smart Album. You can also choose where to search for
images—across the entire Library or within a specific project. If you later open the
Query HUD and change the criteria to include more images, the Smart Album is
updated accordingly.
Collecting Images in a New Smart Album
You can collect images based on any of the information you can search for using the
Query HUD. For example, you can create a Smart Album that gathers images based on
a specific keyword or a combination of keywords, ratings, dates, or other metadata. You
can narrow or broaden the Smart Album search criteria in the Query HUD at any time.
To create a Smart Album that searches across your entire Library:
1 Select Library in the Projects panel.
2 Do one of the following:
 Choose File > New Smart > Album (or press Command-Shift-L).
 Choose New Smart Album from the Add to Library pop-up menu in the Projects panel.
 Click the New Smart Album button in the toolbar.
A new, untitled Smart Album appears in the Projects panel.
3 Rename the Smart Album by entering the name you want.
Query HUD button
Enter a new name for the
Smart Album.