Limit smart album to a number of pictures ? like last 100 pictures...

Hi,
Using Aperture 3, is it possible to limit the amount of pictures that appear in a smart album ?
A bit like what you do with a smart playlist in iTunes.
So is it possible to create a smart album that says something like the last 100 pictures added, etc. ?
Thanks,
Keith.

Hi,
Yes, i know I can do this with a date.
But using something like 'in the last week' could return thousands of pictures if i'd just returned from a vacation for example, and then a week later, have zero pictures.
I'm just looking for a smart album that will be copied to my iPhone whenever I sync, with like the last 2000 pictures I took, and so that it always has 2000 pictures, even if there is nothing new recently.
Hope that makes more sense.
Thanks
Keith.

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I seem to have a reccuring bug in aperture.
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but I just don't trust it enough to do what it will with my photos by having them stored in the iPhoto library.
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For 10.5 users: You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Apple-Click for selecting multiple pics.
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3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
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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...
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