"All Image Folder" in Finder

Hi, I'm a newbie to Mac. I would like to know how to filter or designate the "All Image Folder" in Finder to just show "images" in my Picture folder only. When I click on the All Image Folder now, it shows EVERY SINGLE IMAGE that I ever opened, including pictures that I may have received through junk mails and any image within Mac itself. I seem to remember once that it only showed images in my Picture Folder and I'm not sure what I did to make it show the way it is now. When I open that folder, it showls over 10000+ imgages. Real annoying, can someone help me? Thanks.

You just need to create a new smart search folder. Open your folder with images, enter command+F, choose your folder in the search bar at the top (it searches the whole computer by default) and choose the search by kind for all images. then click on the save button on the right and save your search. it will show up in the sidebar at the bottom.
BTW, that default "All Images" smart search folder in the sidebar is really quite useless as you have found out yourself so I would recommend you remove it from the sidebar completely. That's done from the finder preferences.
As Kappy suggests, if your folder has images only you don't need to do this and can simply drag the folder to the sidebar.
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