Smart album based on landscape/portrait orientation?

Is there any way to add a smart album condition that limits included photos to those that are oriented as a landscape (or alternatively as a portrait)?
Thanks!

No. You would need to keyword them appropriately.
Regards
TD

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Smart albums based on photo orientation (portrait or landscape)

Is it possible to use orientation of the photo (portrait or landscape) as a criteria for a smart album? I couldn't find a way to do this. I'd like to create a smart album of all landscape photos and use that album as a source for desktop background and screensaver.
Thanks,
Zoran

Actually this IS possible in iPhoto '11, just not immediately obvious as to how. Assuming all your photos are digital and contain metadata relating to the orientation:
Create a new Smart Album with the following setting:
Field: Select the "Any Text" option (second in list)
Matching: Select "Contains" option
Value: Type "Portrait" into the keyword box
Click OK and your done.
Substitute Portrait for Landscape if you want a landscape Smart Album.

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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Smart albums based on date images were last edited

Here's a quick question to throw out to the masses...
Is it possible to create smart albums based on the date images were last edited within Aperture?
If yes, then I can't seem to locate it! - Probably right in front of my nose!
If no, then I think it would be a really handy feature so you can easily keep track of any changes made to individual images throughout your whole library by the date they were last tampered with.
Any views, or pointers in the right direction?
thanks
Jason.

Hi,
this is exactly what I am looking for too! I would like to extend the question to: Is there any way to find the date when a version was created or modified?
Thanks for your help,
Uwe

Smart Album based on metadata

How do I create a smart album based on metadata content. I want to have one that has all my geo-tagged (latitude/longitude not blank) photos in it.
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You can't. Smart albums can only search by album, any text, comments, date, filename, keyword, rating, roll, title, aperture, camera model, flash, focal length ,iso and shutter speed. You'll need to use another way to group them together.
However, you can use the demo version of iView MediaPro to catalog your library, find all photos with or without a GPS location, add a keyword to it and then write that keyword to the original file. Then you can copy those files, from the iView catalog window to a folder on the desktop for imorting into iPhoto as new fileswhich will then recognize the new keyword. (While you're at it, you should sync all the metadata to the original files with iVMP as described in Tutorial #1. This will preserve the keywords in case the library gets damaged and you have to create a new one and import the original files from the old library. Then you can delete the un-keyworded files from the library with a smart album: keyword is not xxxx.
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Can not filter by Aperture Metadata (e.g., Landscape / Portrait Orientation)

On Aperture 3.1.3 (OS X 10.6.8) I've lost the ability to filter images in the browser using Aperture metadata. Specifically, I used to be able to filter images by Aperture Orientation metadata that includes "Portrait" or "Landscape". The filters do not find any images. I've deleted the com.apple.Aperture.plist file with no change in behavior.
Short of rebulding my library or reinstalling Aperture, what else can I try?

First -- if you haven't -- close Aperture, reboot your computer, and re-open Aperture with you Library loaded. Then, triple-check that every setting/option in the Filter HUD is set correctly for the search you are trying.
Then:
What happens if you change the setting at the top of the Filter HUD from {{" ... of the following that" "match"}} to {{" ... of the following that" "do not match"}}?
Do you get the same null result when you run the same Filter on different containers (e.g.: Photos, a couple of different Projects, maybe even a Smart Album such as "Shot in the last month").
What happens if you change the Aperture Rule to {{"Orientation" "is empty"}}, and then to {{"Orientation" "is not empty"}}.
Note that you can also simply change the Browser to List view and examine the contents of the "Orientation" column.
Before rebuilding your Library, you should always run "Repair".
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Printer dialog page doesn't give me landscape/portrait Orientation option

When I try to print something, and bring up the printer dialog window, I no longer have the option of swapping between landscape and portrait.
I used to be able to hit command-P, then select Layout, where I was given a choice between Orientation: a graphic up for Portrait and sideways for Layout. I would also get a small print preview window where I could see each page formatted.
Now all I get it is a small icon with the digit 1 where the preview used to be, and no Orientation option. Layout Direction is there, as are other options, but not that one. And now things only print in Landscape; I can't change print jobs to Portrait.
I deleted (really renamed) my ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.PrintingPrefs.plist file, and then restarted my application, as I saw that as a suggestion in a different thread, alas no joy.
Background: I'm running Mavericks OS 10.9.1. I have an old Macbook on the same OS level; it works on that machine. The screen is failing on the old one so I'm trying to get the new one up & running. When I bought this new one I tried to clone it using Time Machine but that failed (very long story) so I had to manually copy over User and Library directories to get this one going. I'm guessing something didn't get copied over right, but regardless I should be able to select this as an option on any print.
To make matters more confusing, it didn't work on ANY app at first, but as I've poked around on it tonight (3-4 hours) it started working on some apps but not others. I have no idea why. Weird.
I really need help; I'm desparate!
Thanks.

So your observations and especially your last question was a very good one.
I checked the old laptop (where it was working) and the print dialog boxes appear to be consistent across machines, but different across applications. In Safari I do get something closer to what you have, in Firefox (and other apps) it's what I showed. I could have sworn they all acted the same, I thought that pop-up window was OS-generated, but maybe not.
You're on to something here. I'm checking how it works with File -> Page Setup now. It looks like they moved the Orientation option over there rather than in the print dialog box ... depending on exactly what application it is. That seems to be the case in Firefox at least.
I've got a number of apps to run through and check, and it's real late so I'll have to finish my checking tomorrow. But this is hopeful. My tax software is where I first noticed it (IRS forms get truncated when you print them landscape, sigh) but you may have pointed me in the right direction.
Confirmation later, but even so thanks for now!

Smart Albums not Refreshsing

Hi,
I've set up Smart Albums based on whether photos in a project have particular keywords i.e. the album shows only photos that do not contain either the keyword "Artwork 1" or the keyword "Artwork 2". When I choose an image and apply the keyword "Artwork 1" with one of the keyword buttons, the photo disappears from the Smart Album, exactly as expected
However if I select several photos, and do the same thing, all the selected photos get the keyword (you can see this from the metadata badge which appears after applying the keyword, and also in the metadata inspector). However only the "primary" disappears. I put primary in quotes because I don't have primary only switched on, but the one with the slightly thicker border is the only way that disappears. The others stay in the Smart Album even though they no longer satisfy the criteria for selection in that album.
The only way I've found to make Aperture refresh the contents of the album is to quit out, and then relaunch. When I come back in the other photos with the keyword in them disappear.
Does anyone else have this issue where Smart Albums do not always refresh automatically? Is there a better way to force a refresh than quitting out?
Thanks in advance
David

Hi Allan,
I don't think so. There are 309 images in the project. I shot maybe 15 new ones last night which appeared instantly in the Smart Album because they didn't have "Artwork 1" or "Artwork 2" keywords applied. Then I selected 3 images, applied the keyword, so it only had to cope with 3 changes.
I don't think of that as excessive numbers, especially since out of the 15 images, 14 disappeared instantly when the keyword was applied, but 1 didn't
David

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.

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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.

Smart Albums

I'm having a problem with smart albums...When i try to create a smart album the Keyword option is grayed out, meaning i can't create a new smart album based on the keywords! Anyone know what's the problem?

This usually means that there are no images with keywords in the Project or Folder containing the Smart Album.
Ian

Is it possible to auto create albums based off of the saved keywords

I would like to import my photos but have them organized in albums by the keywords saved in the image tags. Is this possible? I have a large collection that I currently manage on a PC with Abobe Elements 5 and I don't want to have to recreate each album.
Thanks!
Larry

I believe Aperture should import keywords you have attached to images.
From there, it's really easy to make a smart album based on one or more keywords - you would want to make these folders after import though, then the simple keyword search field will be populated with all possible keywords.

Smart album - black and white only?

hey,
I convert images to b&w using ctrl-m
is there a way to make a smart album that automatically has these images in them, as i like to go back over them and adjust contrast later
cheers

You could add a B&W keyword to each image and then build a smart album based on it.
Sam

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.
Day 1 June 25
Day 2 June 26
I have adjusted the timezones successfully for most of the photos, now I need to perform some batch changes to clean up problems.
After I do this, my Smart Albums are not showing the right photos -- they keep showing photos from the previous day no mater what I do.
The Image Date is showing up as correct for the problem photos...
Any suggestions?

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.

Aperture 2: Smart Album not updating automatically?

I have a smart album based on non-existence of keywords in photos. In other words, I have an album full of images that do not have any of a set of 4 keywords specified. Works great, BUT, when I add keywords to photos from that set, the photos do not disappear from the smart album like they used to.
In fact, to get them to disappear I have to go to the magnifying glass of the smart album uncheck the Keywords checkbox and then recheck it, and only then will it update.
Am I missing something? Is it just a bug or is it a performance issue updating the smart ablum after every change? (I know that was impossibly slow in 1.x, but they seem to have fixed the meta data performance issues in 2.0.)

I figured it out. The Aperture Smart Folder was actually being updated in iPhoto!
The story...
I recently upgraded to the new commonly shared Aperture \ iPhoto file format and imported all my iPhoto photos into my Aperture library.
Unknown to me, Aperture was saving changes made in Aperture to the old iPhoto file (package) -- with no notice, advisory, or infornation to this effect!
Mind-numbingly confusing, but once I deduced that my Aperture Library was now kinda fronting for some data stored in iPhoto, I could link to the Smart Folder stored there.
I intend to export the whole mess to an entirely new Aperture Library to be entirely (I hope!) in an Aperture environment.
If you lose information in Aperture, try looking in iPhoto!

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