Iphoto11--no folder or smart album creation?

I just installed iPhoto 11 "over" my iPhoto 8.1.3 with no problems.  My previous folders and smart albums were retained, but I can't see how I can create new smart albums or new folders using the criteria I could use in previous version.  Did these functions disappear in this version?

FYI - the iPhoto help menu offers great help on functions, features and commands
This function is now under the file menu ==> new ==> Folder  --  or smart album
Many functions have been re-organized in iPhoto'11
LN

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  • Mass Smart album creation?

    So basically i have around 5000 photos taken on many different dates. I'd like to create an album for each date that i've taken photos on. Is there a way to mass create smart albums? Or is there some way to create albums by date? I really don't feel like manually entering each date. Maybe an automation could do this for me? Thanks in advance!

    No there’s no way to “mass create smart albums” and frankly, all that having an Album for each day you took a shot is going to do is clutter your Source Pane with a lot of date based Albums.
    In the search box, click on the magnifying glass symbol and select Date. Using that you can find all the pics taken on any day, month or year. You can then save them as Albums if you want.
    Regards
    TD

  • Smart Album & search filter logic

    Has anybody found a way to do more sophisticated Smart Album creation or search filters within Aperture other than the very simplistic methodology we appear to be limited to of for example keyword search with only two choices of "containing one or more", or "contains all"? I have tried hard to find a better way and am concluding it is a limitation in the current release.
    I'm thinking hear of some of the multiple criteria smart folder/album/search options that even an relatively modest product like iPhoto offers, for example keyword "contains xxx", "does not contain yyy", "begins with aaa" etc.
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    Dave
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    Has anybody found a way to do more sophisticated
    Smart Album creation or search filters within
    Aperture other than the very simplistic methodology
    we appear to be limited to of for example keyword
    search with only two choices of "containing one or
    more", or "contains all"? I have tried hard to find
    a better way and am concluding it is a limitation in
    the current release.
    Yes - what you do is add a new "CUstom Metadata" criteria (I forget the exact name but it's something like that). You then change the dropdown for the metadata type to "IPTC"...
    You can then use keywords in searches with much more complex logic around them, like the "contains" and "begins with" you are looking for. It does not fill in keywords for you but it offers a lot more options for criteria.

  • Smart Album not display photos

    I set all my smart albums by using the calendar setting by date. Three (3) of my smart albums do not display the photos. I've checked to ensure the photos are in my library and are dated correctly. I've also done a consistency check and rebuilt my Library. The smart albums still do not display the photos. Smart albums on either side of the non-functioning smart albums display photos as set.
    Any suggestions?
    Thanks.

    Where are the Smart Albums located in your library? Aperture actually scopes Smart Albums based on where they are initially created. So if you, say, create a folder called "Smart Albums" at the highest level of your hierarchy, in a folder where there are no projects, the Smart Albums will always be empty. You need to create them somewhere that there are projects with photos.
    It's a bit confusing until you understand what's going on. Have a read of the document on Smart Albums which explains how they work in particular. This really is one area where you do have to read the manual to understand… I think their functionality could be cleared up a bit in the UI to make it more obvious that they're scoped.

  • Complex smart albums in Aperture

    Hello,
    I thought I saw a complex smart album in either Aperture or iPhoto which combined two sets of "opposing" criteria.
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    Album name is "album1"
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    Hi Frank,
    yes, you can combine several rules in a smart Filter or a Smart Album in Aperture, even with opposing criteria.
    But this only works for rules using regular albums - I never succeeded, when I tried to reference a "Smart Album" in these rules.
    Regards
    Léonie
    For example, this Smart album computes the difference album between two Aperture albums: All images in the Screensaver that are not in the gallery and are not rejected.
    Added: But complex rules combining "Any" and "All" I have only seen in iTunes, not in Aperture; the only exeption I know of are keywords. You can have a toplevel combination of "any" or "all", and at the keywords level again a new combination.

  • Trouble with Smart Albums

    I'm trying to create a smart album from within one of my projects.  The criteria I'm trying to use is the "Image Location" found in the IPTC data.  The image city is "Seattle", but when I try to create the smart album, it comes up empty.  No matter what I do, I can't get it to include the images with the city, Seattle.  Everything else works properly, including other cities that I've used for smart album creation.
    Any thoughts on what could be causing this?

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    Oh, if you can't fix the disk, then call 1-800-MY-APPLE and get a replacement install disk. Should be a nominal fee for S&H.

  • Smart Album's Display Wrong Photos (By Date)

    Compiling the family photos from vacation, about 8 different camera's. Different clocks on all the camera's I'm trying to get photos to show up in Date driven smart albums.
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    It's a bit confusing until you understand what's going on. Have a read of the document on Smart Albums which explains how they work in particular. This really is one area where you do have to read the manual to understand… I think their functionality could be cleared up a bit in the UI to make it more obvious that they're scoped.

  • Sharing libraries - smart albums

    I have 2 imacs running, one of which holds my iphoto library as "master", whilst I created an empty iphoto library on the other and browse the master by having library sharing turned on. This works fine to see all photos and to see albums, but smart albums - of which I have quite a few - are not part of the album lists. how can these be added? also, can the folder structure be seen? for now, all I see is the list of all "normal" albums.
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    Sharing of Folder and Smart Album is not supported. Convert the Smart Albums to normal albums.
    Regards
    TD

  • I have uploaded photos from the past and they are grouped by dates.  How do I seperate those photos into their own folder/album so that I can easily identify the contents.  Also, what is the difference between Album, Smart Album and folders?

    I have uploaded photos from the past and they are automatically arranged by date.  As a result, there are many events grouped into one library/event/folder/album (not sure of the proper terminology) I'd like to separate them into folders/albums/smart albums so that I can easily identify the contents.  How do I do that and do I delete the originals?

    It would be good to take the tutorials and learn iPhoto - these are for the previous version but the concepts are the same and much of the command is the same - and it would be a worthwhile investment of time to take the iphoto tutorials - http://www.apple.com/findouthow/photos/ - they are very helpful and will save you a lot of time and frustration. - also the tutorials in iPhoto Help will be helpful - while iPhoto is easy and intuitive it does have a learning curve and it will save you time and pain if you spend a few minutes learning the basics
    as to organization - events are generally time based and are the basic automatic organization - you can merge and split them to make them work better for you but they are not a good way to do detailed organization - best to leave them time based
    albums are logical things that contain photos and are just pointers to the photo in the event so they take no extra space and all changes to a photo anywhere are reflected everywhere
    Smart albums are the same except they are automatically filled based on the criteria you set when you create them
    Folders are containers that you create and a folder can contain albums, smart albums or other folders so they are a big help in organization - like a vacation folder that holds folders for France, USA, China with each of thos folders holding albums of photos from the country
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  • Why do I find a duplicate export of a Smart Album in my Pictures folder every time I create a MobileMe Gallery Album from that Smart Album?

    Using the last version of Aperture 2, I have noticed that every time I publish a Smart Album to my MobileMe Gallery, I find a duplicate of the album in a folder  with the same name as the Smart Album in my Pictures folder.  Why does that happen?  Can I prevent that?  If I can't prevent it, can I just send the folder to the trash without it having an effect on the Smart Album in Aperture or the MobileMe Album in my Gallery?

    Select the album, Select all photos in the album, then click on the info button.   Number of photos and total size are on  top of info pane.

  • Difference between Album, Smart Album & Folder?

    I need some easy description of the difference between the above? I am confused on the functionality difference between them when you would use one over the other.
    Can someone explain?

    Brad:
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  • Automatic creation of smart albums?

    Hiya,
    I would like to create default smart albums per project. I have roughly 80 projects, in which I would like to have smart albums to see
    - rejected photos
    - unrated photos
    - 1Star or better photos
    It would take a long time (and drive me nuts), if I had to create those smart albums manually, since we are talking 240 albums.
    Any ideas? Maybe via AppleScript or Automator?
    Thanks in advance for any feedback,
    Stephan

    Hiya,
    I would like to create default smart albums per
    project. I have roughly 80 projects, in which I would
    like to have smart albums to see
    - rejected photos
    - unrated photos
    - 1Star or better photos
    It would take a long time (and drive me nuts), if I
    had to create those smart albums manually, since we
    are talking 240 albums.
    Any ideas? Maybe via AppleScript or Automator?
    Thanks in advance for any feedback,
    Stephan
    You can create the smart albums you want like this:
    Select the Project
    Go to the general query at the top of the inspector window
    IN the query select match all
    Click the rating box and set the sort (boulian factor) to 'is'
    Set the slider to the rating you want; 'x', 1 star, etc.
    The click create smart album. voila!
    if you change image adjustments in future within the project just delete the current smart album and create a new one .Poof!

  • New Album from Smart Album makes NEW VERSIONS of all files? Bug?

    Got what I think is an oddball bug here, but see if any of you have experienced it.
    Making a new album of the contents of a Smart Album with about 600 images resulted in the SBOD, a lot of time and disk activity and the creation of NEW VERSIONS of all the files populating the new album. This, of course, also doubled the number of files in the original Smart Album, since the keywords used are a match. First thinking it might be something I had not read in the manual, I grabbed the book and could not find this behavior listed…..so….my expected result is a new album with the identical contents of the Smart Album selected as the source.
    I am creating a presentation for a client whose work is in multiple projects in a ~150GB library. All images are heavily keyworded, so making Smart Albums of specific elements of the work was easy. My intended workflow to get through this mountain of pix was to make Smart Albums of specific elements, then make New Albums from each, manually edit and reorg these albums individually, then combine my edits into a single book file.
    Now the structure leading to this problem is as follows:
    1) I created a single “main” folder to store all projects and other elements and hierarchy for this client. Clicking on this folder returns some 8500 images spanning multiple projects…all as expected.
    2) At the top level of this “main” folder, I made about 20 Smart Albums to presort the main elements I wanted to include. I made the first Smart Album by clicking the icon in the top bar. The rest of the smart albums I made by duplicating the previous Smart Album, then changing keyword selection. I would select the new keywords I wanted, then de-select the ones that were from the album I had duplicated. The reason I did it that was for speed, there is little delay in displaying the items that were already searched for, and a significant delay in going from new. Anyway, somewhere in this process, I decided to organize my workflow further, so I created a new folder (calling it Smart Album Selects) at the same level as the Smart Albums, and then dragged the Smart Albums into the new Smart Album Selects folder. Still, no problem.
    3) Later in my session, I went to create another new Smart Album, and this time I did so already in the Smart Album Selects folder. When I opened the HUD to select the keywords, the Keyword area and check box were greyed out!!! Weird, I though….so I simply duplicated an existing Smart Album from my Smart Album Selects folder, opened the HUD, and sure enough, all my keywords were there. I changed the keyword selection, and went on with work. During the day I did this same operation 3 more times, making 4 Smart Albums created the same way.
    4) OK…here is the strange behavior. To make my new custom album from the Smart Album selects, I selected one of the Smart Albums, and clicked on the New Album icon. Got the expected dialog, make with 1 image or all images, selected all images, and instead of a new album popping up moments later, I got the SBOD, and the Activity Monitor said Aperture and my hard disk was cranking away. About 4-5 minutes later, Aperture became responsive again, and had created a new album. However, upon inspection, the album contained NEW VERSIONS of all the images that were in the Smart Album, about 600 files.
    5) I went back and clicked on a different Smart Album in the same spot in the hierarchy…but it was one of the first ones I had created (meaning I built this BEFORE reorganizing into the Smart Album Selects folder). Tried making a new album again, with 1 image, worked fine, popped up instantly. Tried selecting 4 images, same thing, worked fine. Selected All, made album, worked fine.
    6) Went back to the Smart Album I had the problem with, this time selected 4 images, make New Album, and sure enough the New Album had NEW VERSIONS of the pix again…OK, I went back to the top of my folder hierarchy, my “main” folder and made a brand new Smart Album by clicking the icon, and selecting keywords. Made a new album from that, no problem, popped up instantly, no new versions.
    7) I then re-made all my Smart Albums at the top of the folder hierarchy, and they all work fine creating new albums. I got back to the task at hand…hopefully there is enough data here to let the Aperture engineers find this problem…Assuming, that is it is not just me misunderstanding some element in the program.
    Sorry for the length, but has anyone else run into this??
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    Nope, all the images at this point in my workflow have been unstacked, with the non-picked members of the original stacks discarded.
    Now that it seems I am not the only one who has witnessed this behavior, what I am really trying to find out, is what is the definitive proper operation of this according to the Aperture group at Apple.
    Assuming I have opened a Smart Album with images displayed, and no images are selected.
    Is the correct behavior:
    1) Selecting New Album makes a new Untitled Album (very quickly) with the identical contents of the Smart Album....OR...
    2) Selecting New Album makes a new Untitled Album (slowly) with NEW VERSIONS of the contents of the Smart Album. (Also, depending upon the number of images, typically brings up SBOD and makes Aperture unresponsive until it is complete.)
    Now what I expected to happen was #1, as it is what happens when I select New Album when a project is selected. Given Apple's human interface creedo for intuitive operation, I think this is the most intuitive choice, because I can't think of a good reason I would want to double the number of versions of all files in an album, unless I expressly told the app to do this.
    Could an Apple guy provide the definitive answer, please...
    Thanks in advance for your help.
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  • Smart Album : Inconsistency in the Date Type format used inside Aperture ?

    Hello,
    After using Aperture 2.0 for some days, I tried to create a Smart Album using as creation option for the Album the Date + "is in the Range" option which is leaving two blank fields for filling the two dates which are supposed to be the date limits of the pictures that the user wants to select.
    My OS X is set to the italian language so our date format is the dd/mm/yy type.
    When I tried to insert some dates in our format (dd/mm/yy) the SmartAlbum seemed to not work at all (not selecting any picture, or was coming out with weird results).
    After checking carefully that there was no filter set which could prevent the correct visualization of the pictures I had no explanation for the problem.
    At first I thought that this specific option was buggy as the other Smartalbum creation options (Keywords etc.) seemed to work properly.
    Then I had the idea and I tried to use the english format (mm/dd/yy) for the two dates inside the date range fields and to my surprise everything worked properly.
    So basically it seems that Aperture recognises the dates correctly only giving in input the american date format mm/dd/yy.
    What is not so noice is that there is no check on the date limit correctness so basically it is possible to really mess up with the dates.
    I'm also actually surprised the Aperture doesn't complies with the OS X date type which could seem the logical thing to do or at least is not consistent with the date type management inside the program because for example the pictures Dates are instead correctly listed in the List View of the browser according to the OS X date type (dd/mm/yy).
    I was wondering what is happening in countries where the date separator is not the "/" but the "." like typically used in Germany which would add another variable to the software routine which is interpreting the date input fields.....
    Maybe this could help other non english users who could have been confused like me on the same issue....
    Did you notice the same behaviour ? Am I missing something ?
    Uby

    Smart Albums will search in the Folder/Project that is shown at the top of the search HUD as well as all Folders and Projects "below" in your structure. However, it will not search through any Albums in that structure. Here is an example:
    You images are always stored in Projects (yellow icons) and lets say this is how it looks:
    FolderA/ProjectA (this Project stores: ImageA1, ImageA2)
    FolderA/ProjectB (this Project stores: ImageB1, ImageB2)
    Let us say that you have two Albums like below but there is an image from ProjectB in AlbumA, which looks like this:
    FolderA/ProjectA/AlbumA (this Album has pointers to: ImageA1, ImageA2, ImageB1)
    FolderA/ProjectB/AlbumB (this Album has pointers to: ImageB1, ImageB2)
    If you create a Smart Album below ProjectA it will only show ImageA1 and ImageA2 since it only search ProjectA and not AlbumA.
    This may be the issue you have.
    Are you 100% sure that the Project your Smart Album is pointing at does include the images you are trying to search through. As you see above then it won't find them if they are only in the albums below that project.
    Here are a few rules that I follow in order to avoid getting confused over where my images are located: A) Only include images in albums below a project that are stored in that project. B) Create all my smart albums at top library level and if necessary add extra filters like project name.
    Hope you understand.
    Karsten

  • Smart Album Scope

    I have been using Aperture 1.5.1 and have noticed what I consider to be strange or, at least, non-intuitive behavior for smart albums. I'm wondering if others have had the same experience and if Apple considers this normal behavior.
    First, some background. I have 6 projects in three different folders that are stored at the root level of the Aperture library. Outside of these folders I have other folders containing smart albums that are intended to search all the projects for the appropriate images. These folders are, again, at the root level of the Aperture library. The smart albums were originally created in Aperture 1.1 inside the folders in which they currently live.
    Prior to my update to 1.5, this worked spectacularly. However, after my update to 1.5, I found that all my smart albums were empty. The Apple documentation for Aperture claims that the scope of smart album search is influenced by where the smart album resides. Smart albums, according to the documentation, only search projects that are 'downstream' from the smart album. My smart albums were, therefore, not searching any projects because they were created in a folder with no projects. This information can be found here.
    http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n302626
    With this information, it made sense that my smart albums were empty. I'm not sure it was wise of Apple to change smart album behavior in this way between 1.1 and 1.5, but there you have it.
    This was really disturbing because I like to keep my smart albums outside my folders with projects. Worse yet, it appeared as though I would have store all my smart albums at the root of my Aperture library to get them to search all my projects in the three different folders. That just felt ugly and very unaesthetically pleasing.
    I found, however, that if I created a smart album at the root of the Aperture library and then moved that smart album to any other folder at any level relative to the projects, it retained its scope for searching realtive to where it was created.
    In other words, it appears that the Apple documentation at http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n302626 needs to be changed to replaced every reference to where a smart album is placed to where a smart album is created. The scope of smart album searches appears to be dictated by where that album is created, not where it is stored.
    So, my question to all of you is whether this is something the rest of you are observing? It seems strange to me, and I'm worried this is not what Apple intends and therefore represents a bug to them that they'll "fix" in the next release and thus destroy my smart albums again.
    It seems to me it would make much more sense for Apple to remove this silly "scope of search based on location of album creation" behavior and just insert a line in the smart album setup that allows one to search particular projects or all projects. It seems that Apple has made an elegant search interface way to complex with the scoping issue.
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    Dale
    what you experience is exactly how it works. there are other threads about the smart album "problem", with the same outcome.
    the problem is not really, how smart albums are working. if a smart album is CREATED based on the entire library, it will therefore search the entire library, regardless where you move it afterwards. if you create a smartfolder within a project, it should be project-bound, regardless where you finally store it. that makes sense.
    however, the problem is the changed behaviour between previous versions and 1.5.1. smart albums that were created "unlinked" (somewhere in your structure but not within a project or while the library was selected) worked fine before but show no results since 1.5.1.
    if someone only has a few smart albums, then this is quickly solved, just re-create them in the right location and move them to wherever you want afterwards. if you have created over a hundred smart albums for subjects, ratings, clients, models, agencies etc etc already, you're in trouble. and this would be me as example.

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