Apple Aperture 3.5 User Manual
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Chapter 4
Organize and sort photos
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Configure a Smart Album to collect photos of particular people
You can create a Smart Album and specify a person or a group of people as search criteria. For
example, you can create a Smart Album that is set to collect photos of your family members. First
you create the Smart Album, and then you use the Smart Album’s Smart Settings HUD to specify
that it collect photos of each individual in your family.
1
In the Library inspector, select Projects.
2
Choose File > New > Smart Album (or press Shift-Command-L).
A new, untitled Smart Album appears in the Albums section of the Library inspector.
3
Give the Smart Album a name.
4
In the Smart Album’s Smart Settings HUD, choose Face from the Add Rule pop-up menu.
5
Select the Face checkbox, choose “includes” from the Face pop-up menu, then enter the name
of the person you want to include in the Smart Album in the text field to the right of the
pop-up menu.
Add Rule pop-up menu
Face checkbox
Face text field
6
Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each additional person you want added to the Smart Album.
7
When you have finished, close the Smart Settings HUD.
Tip: In Faces view, you can quickly create a Smart Album that gathers photos of a particular
person by dragging the person’s snapshot to the Library inspector. For more information about
Faces, see
on page 123.
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