Operation Manual

Searching Within a Smart Album
After creating a Smart Album, you can search for specific images within the contents of
the Smart Album.
Show the Browser’s
Filter HUD and specify
search criteria.
Select the Smart Album
you want to search within.
To search within the contents of a Smart Album
1 Show the Filter HUD by clicking the Filter HUD button in the Browser.
2 When the Filter HUD appears, specify secondary search criteria to show specific images
within the Smart Album.
To see the entire contents of the Smart Album again, delete the search criteria in the
Filter HUD.
Revising the Contents of a Smart Album
To change the contents of a Smart Album, you change the search criteria for the Smart
Album. You can manually select individual images and delete them, but the deletion
removes both the version and the master wherever it exists in the original project. Similarly,
you cannot simply drag images into a Smart Album to add them.
If you decide that certain images should not be in a Smart Album, you can narrow the
search criteria to exclude images. Aperture performs a new search and revises the Smart
Album’s contents. To remove an image from a Smart Album, you can also change the
image so that it no longer matches the Smart Album’s search criteria. For example, if a
Smart Album gathers images rated five stars, changing an image’s rating to four stars
removes it from the Smart Album.
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