Operation Manual

Aperture comes with a selection of Smart Albums set up in the library for you. For example,
there are Smart Albums that gather all your select images, all images taken in the last
week, and all images taken in the last month. When you click the Library Albums disclosure
triangle, you see the list of Smart Albums created for you. Select a Smart Album to see
its contents in the Browser.
Disclosure triangle
A library Smart Album
has this icon.
You can also create your own Smart Albums. For example, suppose you want to create
a Smart Album that includes the best images you took of a particular sports event. You
select the project containing shots of the sports event, create a Smart Album, show the
Smart Settings HUD, and search for images rated Select (five stars). All images with that
rating immediately appear in the Smart Album.
You can also choose where to search for images—across the entire library or within a
specific project or folder. For example, when you select the Library Albums icon and
create a Smart Album, the Smart Album searches across the entire library. When you
select a project and create a Smart Album, the Smart Album searches within that project.
When you select a folder and create a Smart Album, the Smart Album searches the projects
within that folder.
By instituting specific keyword schemes, you can create Smart Albums that are
automatically updated with specific kinds of images.
For example, you might create Smart Albums that:
• Collect images of certain poses or subjects, such as head shots, images of particular
models, or sports scenes
• Collect images suitable for a specific purpose, such as distribution on the web or
submission to stock photography houses
420 Chapter 15 Grouping Images with Smart Albums