Operation Manual

• Gather the best images of your collection into a portfolio of poster images that you
use to present or introduce your work
• Automatically gather a project’s select images
As you complete projects throughout the year, Smart Albums are automatically updated
with images that match their search criteria.
You might also use Smart Albums to explore different aspects of your photography
portfolio. For example, you can create temporary collections of images based on technical
data such as camera model, exposure, or lens type as you investigate technical influences
on your images.
You can use Smart Albums to track images that you’ve performed specific types of
adjustments on. For example, you can use the Smart Album’s Smart Settings HUD to
specify that a Smart Album collect any image that has had a vignette applied to it.
You can quickly create a Smart Album to review images and then delete it. Or, you can
create Smart Albums that hold permanent and expanding collections of images. Using
Smart Albums can become an efficient way to relieve yourself of slow reviews of images
that you are required to track periodically.
Collecting Images in a New Smart Album
You can collect images based on any of the information you can search for using the
Smart Settings HUD. For example, you can create a Smart Album that gathers images
based on a specific keyword or a combination of keywords, ratings, dates, or other
metadata. You can narrow or broaden the Smart Album search criteria in the Smart
Settings HUD at any time.
To create a Smart Album that searches only within one project
1 Select a project in the Library inspector.
2 Do one of the following:
• Choose File > New Smart > Album (or press Command-Shift-L).
• In the Library inspector, Control-click the project, then choose New > Smart Album
from the shortcut menu.
• Choose Smart Album from the New pop-up menu in the toolbar.
A new, untitled Smart Album appears within the project, and the Smart Settings HUD
appears to its right.
421Chapter 15 Grouping Images with Smart Albums