Apple Aperture 3.5 - Manual (Page 159)

Chapter 4 Organize and sort photos 159
Search within a Smart Album
After creating a Smart Album, you can search for specific photos within the contents of the
Smart Album.
Search within the contents of a Smart Album
1 In the Library inspector, select the Smart Album whose contents you want to search, then click
the Filter HUD button in the Browser.
Select the Smart Album
you want to search within.
Show the Browser’s Filter HUD
and specify search criteria.
2 When the Filter HUD appears, specify secondary search criteria to show specific photos within
the Smart Album.
To see the entire contents of the Smart Album again, delete the search criteria in the Filter HUD.
Revise the contents of a Smart Album
To change the contents of a Smart Album, you change the search criteria for the Smart Album.
You can manually select individual photos and delete them, but the deletion removes both the
version and the original wherever it exists in the original project. Similarly, you cannot simply
drag photos into a Smart Album to add them.
If you decide that certain photos should not be in a Smart Album, you can narrow the search
criteria to exclude photos. Aperture performs a new search and revises the Smart Album’s
contents. To remove a photo from a Smart Album, you can also change the photo so that it no
longer matches the Smart Album’s search criteria. For example, if a Smart Album gathers photos
rated five stars, changing a photo’s rating to four stars removes it from the Smart Album.
Change the contents of a Smart Album by changing the search criteria
1 In the Library inspector, click the Smart Settings HUD button to the right of the Smart Album
to show the Smart Settings HUD.
2 Revise the search criteria in the Smart Settings HUD to eliminate or add the photos you want.
3 Click the Smart Settings HUD’s close button.
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