Operation Manual

The most common reason to perform a search is to display a selection of images within
a project. By selecting a project and using the Filter HUD, you can quickly display specific
images, hiding the rest from view. For example, you might isolate and display only those
images of a certain subject, pose, rating, or location. Your search doesn’t change the
contents of the project; it only temporarily changes the images you view in the Browser.
If you cancel the search criteria in the Filter HUD, all of your images appear in the Browser
again. The Filter HUD is preset to show images that are unrated or better, hiding rejected
images, but you can change the Filter HUD criteria to show rejected images if you wish.
You can also create special albums, called Smart Albums, whose contents are gathered
automatically, solely by search criteria. For example, you might create a Smart Album
that searches for and displays all portrait images from the entire library. When you create
a Smart Album, you use the Smart Settings HUD—whose controls are similar to the
controls in the Filter HUD—to define criteria for the images that should appear in it. In
this case, you can set the Smart Album to locate and capture images with the keyword
Portrait assigned to them. As you add portrait images to your library over time, they
automatically appear in the Smart Album you created to track them. For more information
about creating and using Smart Albums, see Grouping Images with Smart Albums.
Aperture can locate images based on many types of information associated with the
images. When you import images into Aperture, certain information is automatically
assigned to each image, including EXIF metadata such as image date, photographer,
camera technical data, filename, and much more. You can also assign your own metadata
to images, including keywords, summaries, captions, and information used by IPTC fields,
and then locate your images by searching for the metadata. In addition, you can search
for images based on the type of adjustment applied to them as well as the version of the
RAW decoding process used to decode the RAW master.
393Chapter 14 Searching for and Displaying Images