Operation Manual

When you need to group certain types of images, either temporarily or permanently, you

can use a Smart Album to gather the images. Aperture comes with a number of preset

Smart Albums. You can also create your own Smart Album and specify search criteria that

identify the images you want to be included; Aperture automatically searches for and

displays the images in the new album. Whenever an image meets the search criteria later,

it’s automatically added to the Smart Album.

This chapter covers the following:

• An Overview of Smart Albums (p. 419)

• Collecting Images in a New Smart Album (p. 421)

• Searching Within a Smart Album (p. 424)

• Revising the Contents of a Smart Album (p. 424)

• Transferring Smart Album Images to Another Project or Album (p. 425)

• Deleting a Smart Album (p. 426)

An Overview of Smart Albums

Unlike a standard album that you drag images into, a Smart Album’s contents are

controlled by the criteria you specify in the Smart Album’s Smart Settings HUD. When

you change a Smart Album’s search criteria, the contents of the Smart Album change.

419

Grouping Images with Smart

Albums