Operation Manual

• Saving Your Search Results (p. 417)
An Overview of Searching
In Aperture, you can search for images in multiple ways. You can use the search field and
pop-up menu in the Browser to quickly locate images by name or display images by
rating, flag status, and color label. You can also use the Filter HUD to perform complex
searches for images using a wide variety of criteria, including image name, subject,
keyword, photographer, caption or text, date, location, EXIF and IPTC information, applied
adjustments, color labels, flagged images, image usage statistics, and more.
In addition to searching for images in the Browser, you can search for images within items
in the Library inspector. You can quickly locate faces using the search field in Faces view.
You can also quickly find locations assigned to images using the search field in Places
view.
For more information about searching for items in the Library inspector, see Working
with the Library.
For more information about searching for items in Faces view, see Searching for Images
by Face.
For more information about searching for items in Places view, see Searching for Locations.
About the Search Field Pop-Up Menu
The search field pop-up menu in the Browser provides a set of options that lets you
quickly remove images from view in the Browser so that you can focus on the images
you want to work with. You can either enter the name of an image in the search field, or
choose a rating, image flag status, or color label from the search field pop-up menu to
filter images in the Browser. Although images that don’t match your search string or
search field pop-up menu choice are removed from view, they are not deleted. To view
all images in the Browser again, you simply click the Reset button in the search field.
Search field
pop-up menu
388 Chapter 14 Searching for and Displaying Images