Cannot create a Smart Album

when I select "New Smart Album" nothing happens. No error message, nothing. I can create anything else, the option isn't greyed out. Not sure why this is happening or how to correct. Thanks

reboot your Mac?
LN

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How do I create a smart album that contains all pictures with no keywords?

Hi,
I have many pictures which currently don't have any keywords at all. Now I want to tag these pictures with keywords. How can I create a smart album for those pictures without any keywords? So that I can then work just on these pictures...
Note that I don't want to find pictures that don't have a specific keyword. I want to find all those pictures which have none keyword at all.
Thanks,
Rainer

Well, there's a way but it's not great...
Start with a smart album at whatever level you want to keyword everything under. Set to search where "rating is greater than or equal to unrated".
Select all images, and apply a keyword like "NeedsKeyword". Yes, even the one with keywords already.
Now change the smart folder - use the "+" menu on the upper right corner of the query box to add an "IPTC" search. In that row use the dropdown by IPTC to find "keywords", then set the one next to it to "is", then type "NeedsKeyword" (or whatever you used) into the text box. Now go up to the top of the query box and change the "Match" dropdown to be "all" instead of "Any".
What we've done here is find all images where the only keyword is "NeedsKeyword", all the ones you've done with keywords already will not appear.
Now, copy these images into an Album (not smart album) for tagging - this is because as soon as you tag an image it will vanish and you may wish to apply more than one tags).
After you are done tagging, you want to remove the tag - this is trickier than you might think, as you need to remove it from images tagged before in addition to the images in the Album you just made.
First, change your smart folder to once again find all images by unchecking the IPTC keyword search. Now you'll see all images - but you're not done yet! You cannot batch undo a keyword in a smart folder, even though you can batch add. Select all of the images and drag into the Album you were using to keyword. Inside an Album the keyword metadata inspector shows only common keywords, NeedsKeyword should be one of them - remove it and it will be gone, and all your images tagged. Now you can remove the Album and the Smart Album you created.
Harder than it needs to be, I'd say - I've submitted feedback you need some way to search for untagged images. Heck, it may already be in 1.1! Or Joe might know of an easier way that has eluded me.
Good luck!

IPhoto 8.1.2 can you create a smart album with only one face

I'm using iPhoto 8.1.2 and have about 23k photos in the library. I have identified 32 key faces, and would now like to create some smart albums that contain only the face or faces that I want and to exclude all the others. S for example a smart album that has only my son.
I tried using the doesn't contain this face, but you can only have around 10 filters/critiria in a smart album.
any suggestions are appriciated

You can't really, because you can't exclude enough of the faces.
I would keyword the preferred images as well, so finding the face and the keyword would find the pics of the person alone.
Regards
TD

Photo loss from a project when creating a smart album

Running Aperture 3.4.3 on iMac with OS X 10.7.5. Photos stored on internal drive. After creating two smart albums based on a date range, one with keywords and one with ratings, some, but not all, of the photos that appeared in the smart albums disappeared from the original projects (each project contains photos from a single day). One of the original projects still notes 454 photos under its thumbnail, but when opened only displays 308 photos. The project path of the photos in the smart album still references the correct project. I tried deleting the smart album but the photos did not immediately reappear in the correct project so I undid the delete. I tried closing and reopening Aperture. I tried system restart. No luck. Reading the Aperture help/manual suggests that the photos should remain in the original project.

First: Make sure the Browser Filter is set to "Showing All" (or "Unrated or Better") when the Project is selected.

PSE9/Win 7: Can I create a Smart Album of all images that Don't have a certain tag?

Using PSE9 on Windows 7.
I'd like to create a Smart Album that contains all of the images that don't have a particular tag.
When I click on Create New Smart Album the dialog box allows me to select 'Keyword Tags'.
But the next item is 'Include'. Then I can select that tags I want.
I basically want the Include to be 'Exclude'.
Any way to do something like that?

Hi,
You could try this.
1) Show all photos
2) Check the Keyword Tag that you are interested in
3) Under Options Select Hide best match results & Show results that do not match (i.e. reverse the last two conditions).
to read
That should be showing you what you wanted to see
4) Now use the top option Save Search Criteria As Smart Album and give it a name
That seems to remember the reversed conditions as well as the tag.
Good Luck,
Brian

Iphoto-I inadvertantly created a smart album. It has captured all recent photos in it I want to delete it but need to know if this will delete the same photos in their albums?

iphoto- I accidently created a smart album which is capturing all current new photos. I put them in their own album but I can't delete them in the smart album. Can I delete the smart album without losing the photos in the other albums? larrybksfld

Yes you can delete the Smaert Album. It will not delete the photos.
Regards
TD

IPhoto 11: Have no option to Create New Smart Album

I can not find Smart Album under "Create". There are no photos selected. iLife has created a mess with this new update. Thanks for your help

Gee! I'm not stupid! There is no menu> create new smart album!
But he didn’t say there was. He said:
to create a new smart album go to *file menu* ==> new ==> smart album
Regards
TD

How to find out which keywords were used to create a smart album?

Hi,
I actually have 2 questions;
a) Short of scrolling down my very long list of password on the HUD - is there an elegant way to do it - How to find out which passwords were used to create an existing smart album? It's a recurring challenge for me.\ 'cause I like using smart albums, but once in a while need to check or chane the passwords.
b) With annoying regularity when I try to get to this forum and choose Aperture, I get the following message - in pink, no less: It appears you're not allowed to view what you requested. You might contact your administrator if you think this is a mistake.
Any clues?
Thanks guys,
Raphael
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b) With annoying regularity when I try to get to this forum and choose Aperture, I get the following message - in pink, no less: It appears you're not allowed to view what you requested. You might contact your administrator if you think this is a mistake.
Any clues?
Raphael,
that message may occur for four reasons at least:
Most frequently, when you are using an outdated link to a post that no longer exists, for example from an email notofication. Sometimes our community host will remove posts, that are in violation of the terms of use: see:
Apple Support Communities Terms of Use
Or you are using the edit button or a bookmark to an "Edit" window, after the fifteen minutes allowed for editing are up.
Or you want to view a page in a restricted section of the ASC - soem perta are only open for members of level 6 or higher.
Or it is one of the unexplained problems with the forum software right now.
a) Short of scrolling down my very long list of password on the HUD - is there an elegant way to do it - How to find out which passwords were used to create an existing smart album? It's a recurring challenge for me.\ 'cause I like using smart albums, but once in a while need to check or chane the passwords.
I really like Kirby's suggestion with the IPTC rule Keyword is. This is very useful for smart albums global to the library.
Frequently a different approach helps for my smart albums. Many of my smart albums are local to projects or folders. In this case the smart HUD will only show those keywords that have been used for the images in the selection. So if I only have tagged the images with the keywords "birds" and "slideshow", the smart settings HUD will only show these two keywords and the list is very short.
My Keywords HUD, is organized hierarchically; this way I can collapse large sections at once, and it is easier to focus on the keywords needed for a specific task.
I use the search field in HUD a lot, to filter the set of keywords shown.

How to create a smart album with only one particular person in it

I have 3 kids. S, O, and E.
All my photos are tagged with keywords, one for each childs name. I would like to create smart albums for each of my kids that contain only photos of them in it ie. no photos that have other people in it like family photos or photos of all 3 kids.
For example, album 'S' should only have pics of S in it, and exclude any pictures of 'S playing with O', or family photos where S is with mum and dad.
The only way i know how is to use the 'does not contain' or 'is not' and exclude all other names. Is there an easier way to do this?

You could add a keyword to group photos and then add a rule to exclude the group photos.

Creating iPhoto smart album with criteria based on another smart album

When I create Smart Playlists in iTunes, I can set one of the criteria to include/exclude items based on a different smart playlist.
For example,
Smart Playlist 1=all songs by artist a, b, c, d, etc.
Smart Playlist 2=all songs where "genre=Holiday"
Smart Playlist 3=all songs that are in "Smart Playlist 1", but are NOT in "Smart Playlist 2".
This same concept doesn't seem to work in iPhoto. While it does seem to work if I'm basing them on regular albums, the "Album is xxxx" criteria option doesn't seem to even list Smart Albums.
Am I missing something or am I not even allowed to use Smart Albums as a criteria for other smart albums?

You’re not missing anything.
iPhoto menu -> Provide iPhoto Feedback
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TD

How do you create a smart album so that you can look at and edit slide show fashion instead of one at a time?

Is the Apple program always this convoluted every time something new is rolled out to roll over someone?

Sorry but I have no idea what you're asking. What s "look and edit slide show fashion"? Where does a Smart Album fit into that? You know you can move from shot to shot using the arrow keys, right?

Cannot Create Web Photo Album

I have Dreamweaver 8 and Fireworks CS3. I am unable to create
a Web photo album in DreamWeaver because I get an error saying that
Fireworks 4 or greater is required to create a photo album. I have
the full version of Fireworks CS3.

I have upgraded to DW Studio 8 from MX2004 and have a similar
problem...it's inconsistent though. Sometimes I am able to create
the web photo album with no problems. But tonight it balked and
balked and balked! I wound up opening up DW 2004 and FW 2004 and
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Cannot update or repopulate keyword field in smart album query HUD

So I want to make a new smart album based on a new keyword I just entered into my keyword library.
However, when I create the new smart album, and then check the key words box to select keyword criteria, I only get an old list of keywords to choose from. The new key word is not there. And there are old key words there that I've since deleted. I've tried restarting aperture and my computer several times.
I cannot make a smart album with one new keyword I've created because It won't show up in the query HUD.
Any ideas?
Dan

How did you enter it in your keyword library?
You have to keyword something before it will show up in the filter.
This shows how to make any of the keywords visible:
http://homepage.mac.com/bagelturf/aparticles/metadata/keyhigh/keyhigh.html

Can't create smart album?

I recently imported my iPhoto library into Aperature.
I'd now like to create a series of projects for each year of photos, i.e., 2002, 2003, 2004, etc. Inside these main projects, I'd like to create a series of smart albums for each month, i.e., August, and make the rule "date is in the range" and then incorporate each date range as 08/01/2002 to 08/31/2002. When I create the smart albums, however, no photos appear in them, even though I can see the photos in the iPhoto folders.
I created the main project and then created a smart album inside the main project. Can someone let me know what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks!
lsb

Yes, Library and 2002 are two separate sources. I clicked on Library when creating the smart album and this time the smart album created in the 2002 project folder.
However, when I go back to Library, the thumbnail area is still blank and when I click on it there are no images.
If I return to the project and click on the smart album within the project, the images appear.
If I return to the project and click on the project box, no images appear.
When I click on my other projects that were created by direct camera imports-the images appear.
The images I'm trying to work with now are images I imported from iPhoto.
I'd like use projects for years instead of folders if I can, but if you think it's not possible, then I will go back to folders.
Maybe I'm finding the library structure confusing because all events come in as projects and are listed as projects and I'd like my iPhoto library to be mirrored in this structure.
Thanks!

Creating smart album based on multiple albums

Hi,
I would like to create a smart album based on the ratings of the photo and based on more than 1 album. Is this possible? because when i do try to base the condition on more than 1 album, no photos in my smart album show up.
Thank you.

crouton800:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. No, that won't work A smart album can only search one album to display a specific rating photo in that album. That is, the criteria would be Album is A and rating is 5 star with the "all" selected.
That's because the All or Any criteria prevent you from trying to find only the 5 star photos in Album A and B. If you use the "all" criteria you'll get no hits and if you use the "any" criteria you'll get all of the photos in both A and B.
Also you can't have a smart folder, only a smart album.
What you need is for the following criteria to be invoked:
Album is A and rating is 5
and
Album is B and rating is 5
and that can't be done with the present application.
You can get around this limitation by assigning a unique keyword to every photo in Album A, B and future albums in that folder. Then do a a smart album with the criteria:
Keyword is "xxxx"
Rating is 5 star
and have the "All" selected.
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