Smart Album by lens used?

Is it possible to select photos by the lens used on a camera? I can see this information in the info box (second line down after the model of the camera)
I can't seem to select this line when creating a Smart Folder...
This would be a big help to me.
Many thanks
PMR1011

Hi LarryHN
I have updated my profile!
I think I have found a way of doing what I want...
Creat a Smart Album with Any Text contains (Name of lens), this seems to work, but would be nicer to select from list as I have many lenses!
Cheers

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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.
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I figured it out. The Aperture Smart Folder was actually being updated in iPhoto!
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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.
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Is there anyway (at the library scope) to create a smart album that includes and excludes other smart albums from within the library (including or excluding photos that are members of those other smart albums based on their rules)?
As an example, looking for functionality much like how iTunes can use nested smart playlists.
I'm attempting to do this by defining the smart album's criteria as:
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Yea, it doesn't appear to recognize other smart albums to be used in a process of refining "higher-level" smart albums (shaving off photos that are members of other smart albums), like iTunes.
Thanks for your answer. I was really hoping that it was the case, though one can still accomplish the queries and derive the results, but it is much more complex and everything has to change when certain "global", low-level query criteria change.
And you're right, it would be so powerful. I was always impressed by iTunes on that one aspect.

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I am having some trouble with duplicate files (no idea how it happened), but even all duplifinder or duplikiller are finding the wrong duplicates. Basically a bunch of images have a duplicated JPEG, and I can always tell which is the duplicate, because it contains no lens information, while the real JPEG and the RAW image have the lens info. I was hoping to filter out the ones without lens info (make 2 smart albums, one with both lens) and then delete the ones that are ot in that smart album, but while iPhoto seems to see that lens info, it seems you can't use it in Smart Albums. All I see is Aperature, Camera Model, Flash, Focal Length, ISO and Shutter Speed. All the images have all that info, but only 2 out of 3 have the actual lens info (EF50mm F/1.8 II) for example.
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Correct.
Regards
TD

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

Hi,
I actually have 2 questions;
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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?
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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,
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Apple Support Communities Terms of Use
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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.
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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.

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
You can search for that particular group of pictures, but as TD said you can't do it using a Smart Album.
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Regards.

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I'm trying to set my desktop picture to rotate through an Aperture Smart Album. Not that it should matter, but the Smart Album is basic -- one star or better, Stack Picks Only. That Smart Album is easy to set up in Aperture and there it works as expected. But in the Screen Saver & Desktop module in System Preferences, upon choosing that same album, the browser shows all of the versions in each stack, whether they're the pick or not. In Aperture, of course, I only get the Pick because I have that option enabled.
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
You can search for that particular group of pictures, but as TD said you can't do it using a Smart Album.
To find the photos in your example, go to Preferences > Keywords and set it to +Match ANY keywords when filtering.+ Open the keywords pane in the lower left corner of the window and click the Family, Parker, Hailey keywords. You will get all photos that contain any of those keywords (ie: an OR function). Then go to the View menu, select to Sort by Date. Scroll to your desired date, select your photos (click on the first, Shift-click on the last to select a range), and move them into a regular Album. Finding the date range is the most clumsy part. It may help to +Show Scrolling information+ (Preferences > Appearance). Or switch from the keywords pane to the info pane so that when you select a photo its date is displayed.
Regards.

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You can't sort photos manually in a Smart Album. How Facebook will display the pics is one for Facebook support.
Regards
TD

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.
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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

Whats the difference between and Album and a Smart Album

OK, just upgraded.... So, whats the difference between an Album and a Smart Album?
Also, I like to organise my stuff, so if I create a folder for each year, and then a project within that year, why is it that the photos are always in both - and then again if I chose to create an album specific to a project, they are there again.
So it might look:
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               Project - Specific Events
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Does this mean the individual photo is stored 3 times and using 3 times the space?
Thanks guys!

Mrsthebraggster wrote:
So it might look:
          Folder (2012 Equine Photography)
               Project - Specific Events
                    Album - Big Barn Dressage May
Does this mean the individual photo is stored 3 times and using 3 times the space?
No. Conceptually the Master only lives lives in the single (time based) Project you import it into. Albums are just collections of pointers that point to images in various Projects.
"Big Barn Dressage May" could be a Project, but only if it is only one day and a limited number of image files; otherwise an Album. "2012 Equine Photography" should be an album or a Folder of Albums. "Specific Events" could be an Album or a Folder of Albums.
A Project should not be used as a Folder.
From an earlier post of mine:
Folders are indeed flexible organizational tools but IMO often overused. Folders can effectively hide contents from view and therefore require users to remember how folders are nested and what is inside them. Folders were the only way to deal with single-original film, but are IMO limiting to image database thinking.
The way I look at it conceptually:
Aperture is a database (DB), and each image file lives in one Project.
Albums are just collections of Pointers that point to individual image files living in one or more Projects. Since they just contain pointers, albums can be created or deleted at will without affecting image files. Very powerful. And Albums of pointers take up almost zero space, so they are fast and do not make the Library size grow.
Keywords can be applied to every image separately or in batches. Keywords are hugely powerful and largely obviate the need for folders. Not that we should never use folders, just that we should use folders only when useful organizationally - - after first determining that using keywords and albums is not a better approach.
As one example imagine the keyword "flowers." Every image of a 100,000 images Library that has some flowers in it has the keyword flowers. Then say we want to put flowers in an ad, or as background for a show of some kind, or to print pix for a party, or even just to look for an image for some other reason. We can find every flower image in a 100k-image database in 2 seconds, and in another few seconds create an Album called "Flowers" that points to all of those individual images.
Similarly all family pix can have a keyword "family" and all work pix can have a key word "work." Each individual pic may have any number of keywords. Such pic characteristics (work, family, flowers, etc.) should not be organized via folders.
So by using keywords and albums we can have instant access to every image everywhere, very cool. And keywords and albums essentially take up no space in the database.
Another approach is to use a folder "Family" for family pix, a folder "Flowers" for flowers pix and another folder "Work" for work pix. IMO such folders usage is a very poor approach to using an images database (probably stemming from old paper or film work practices). Note that one cannot put an image with family in a field of flowers at a work picnic in all three folders; but it is instant with keywords.
HTH
-Allen

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