Smart albums in new Photos?

Does the 'smart album' feature (or something similar) still exist in the new Photos app?
I travel a lot and don't always have access to WiFi, so I am not very exited about the iCloud Photo Library concept.
What I usually do is upload photos to my MacBook Pro. As I don't want all photos on my iPad, I rate the ones I want with a star (this seems to be discontinued) and then create a smart album by 'picking' the starred photos. Using iTunes, I then download the smart album to the iPad. Works fine!
But without the star rating it becomes problematic to do this. And I think somewhere I read that smart albums don't exist anymore.
And 'places' also seems to have disappeared, whilst 'Faces', which I see as a gimmick, is still there.
Looks like the features I used in iPhoto (which I agree was a very clunky app) have all been axed.
Any idea how I can achieve my goal: get subsets of albums onto my iPad without using WiFi or 3 - 4 G?

Thanks!
I'll wait and see if there are any other replies.
If the local iTunes synch is removed, the new app is pretty useless for me.
And it seems that (apart from the extra emoticons), there is not all that much new in 10.10.3.
As I don't want to clutter up my system with two different photo apps, I won't upgrade for now.
After the 'update' of the iWork apps, (and smaller things like persistent bugs in Automator) now this....
Apple is moving more and more away from me.

Similar Messages

I am trying, unsuccessfully, to export an iphoto smart album- 12,000 photos, no movies- (information is saying 31GB) to a brand new 32GB scandisk flash stick. A caution msg keeps saying "there is not enough space to complete this" Help!

I am trying, unsuccessfully, to export an iphoto smart album- 12,000 photos, no movies- (information is showing 31GB total) to a brand new 32GB scandisk flash stick. A caution msg keeps saying "there is not enough space to complete this" Help!

You need a larger drive or an external drive - they OS needs a minimum of 10GB just for normal operation so you are already experiancing degraded preformance - if yo do not get more space you will start losing data
Moving the iPhoto library is safe and simple - quit iPhoto and drag the iPhoto library intact as a single entity to the external drive - depress the option key and launch iPhoto using the "select library" option to point to the new location on the external drive - fully test it and then trash the old library on the internal drive (test one more time prior to emptying the trash)
And be sure that the External drive is formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) (iPhoto does not work with drives with other formats) and that it is always available prior to launching iPhoto
And backup soon and often - having your iPhoto library on an external drive is not a backup and if you are using Time Machine you need to check and be sure that TM is backing up your external drive
LN

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.

Smart Album errors detecting photos w/ missing faces

I created a smart album (Faces is "unnamed") to find photos with missing faces. I went through and identified each of the photos. As I did this, as soon as I put in the name, many (but not all) disappeared from the album.
However, the Smart Album still has a number of photos, even though there are no unidentified images. I checked each one to see if there were small boxes that I missed, but there weren't.
I deleted the album and set up a new smart album (with the same criteria) and the images still appear in the album.
Is there any way to make my smart album smarter? (remove a plist???)
Thanks!

. "Affe". I have a face named "Sculpture".
I was quite impressed that Aperture's Face Recognition recognizeed the baboon's face.
I have some nice tagged sculptures too.
And some of the more cheeky suggestion by Aperture I named "Funny Face", for example - where does Aperture see a Face here in the bottom part of the picture?

Aperture: photos not importing in numerical order with Smart Album recently, Aperture: photos not importing in numerical order with Smart Album recently

Aperture 2.1.4 has imported my digital photos numerically in Smart Albums perfectly till just recently. Can anyone tell me what is happening? Thank you.

The only thing worked was when I created a new Aperture library with only the projects I want. This brough me to think it maybe something to do with the size of my current library, which currently host over 10,000 photos, or there is something else wrong with my library?
Aperture is designed for really big libraries, so the size should not matter. But since you can sync a new library, I suspect, that your Aperture library may need repairing. Did you have an Aperture crash, that may have left your library in an inconsistent state?
Try the Aperture Library First Aid Tools on your main library: You can launch the "Library First Aid" by holding down the ⌥⌘-combination, when launching Aperture, see:
Aperture 3 User Manual: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library
Regards
Léonie

How do I use Smart Albums to show photo's from two different iphone 5 devices so all photos are not together?

Hi,
My wife and I both have the iphone 5.
I backup all our photos onto the one iphoto but she wants to be able to now see the photos she took on her iphone 5 only and not mine.
I've tried using smart albums but there is no option to pick between two of the same devices.. Is there any way I can just her iphone 5 pics to show up and ignore mine?
Thanks

Have a look here...
http://macmost.com/using-iphoto-albums-and-smart-albums-2.html

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??
PowerBook G4 1.67 2GB RAM 128MB ATI Video, External FW Drives for library Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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.
PowerBook G4 1.67 2GB RAM 128MB ATI Video, External FW Drives for library Mac OS X (10.4.7)

How do I make a private album in new Photos for IMac?

How do I make a private album in the new Photos for IMac? I had one in iPhoto, and now that all the photos migrated to Photos my private album is not hidden anymore. Thanks for help!

Photos does not hide photos in albums at all. Photos can only be hidden from Moments, Collections, Years.
If you want private albums, move the photos in questions to a different Photos Library, that you keep hidden.

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.

Update album with new photos does not work

Hi,
maybe newbie post so please dont hurt me.
I add a new photo site- template site to my photo album folder, it applies on the album overview offline but not on the web. when i check the site on the web http://dasfelix.de/index/MeineAlben/MeineAlben.html
i can see the the additional album offline _but not online after sync the complete site_.
i did start with two foto pages + album index page and they are correctly applies to the root of my album at the beginning. it seems that any changes to that site not worked ( be shure that i clear cache multiple times)
it seems that safari will do it, the rest of browsers don't,,,, ??
any suggestions are welcome !
regards felix
Message was edited by: dasfelix
Message was edited by: dasfelix
Message was edited by: dasfelix

its better to change the name on the left of the top folder (pic folder to pictures, or Blog to blogs) then the whole underlying pages will be actual. once done and upload, just rename it back to the original. ( Pictures back to Pic or similar)

How to make smart album from path photos

Hi everyone!
This maybe noob question.
So I'm trying to make smart album for all of my Path's photos stored in my iPhoto library, but I find it difficult to determine proper filter.
I have tried to make smart album from instagram's, with this: Any Text - contains - instagram
But it doesn't work for path photos.
Can anyone here give me any clue? Thank in advance
Ismail

Thank you for the response
Yeah, I understand. I have to put the keyword first, the problem is sometimes I transfer almost around 800 photos at once. I haven't had much time to sort every photos and put the keyword on every Path photo. Beside so many photos in my library, and not well-organized. Also I have tried any possibilities of relevant criteria in smart album. But still zero result.
So, before I actually take the time to organize my thousands of photos manually, I was thinking maybe there's another way, simple and smart one, with this smart album feature. Anyone?
Ismail

Smart album duplicates flickr photos

I have a smart album set up with a condition "keyword contains ... ". The trouble is it also includes any photos uploaded to Flickr with the same tag. Is there any way to avoid this duplication?
Thanks

When you e-mail a photo you could assign a keyword of e-mailed to it - as far as I know iPhoto does not do anything like this - suggest to APPLE - iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback
LN

When I make a Smart Album, will the photos that match the Smart Album criteria still be present in their original location(s) in the Library after they go into the Smart Album?

When I make a Smart Album in iPhoto, will the photos that meet the criteria of my Smart Album still be present in their original location in my Library after they are "brought into" the Smart Album?

Yes.
Iphoto works as a Library. Everything is in the Library, and albums (Smart or otherwise) reference the photos from the Library.
Nother way to think about it: An Event is a place. An Album is a list...
Regards
TD

Why have all my previous "My Ratings" (stars) have been removed and Smart Albums(i.e. 5 star rating in past year) virtually destroyed in the update to the new Photos program? Where are the "My Ratings" capabilities ?

Upon updating to the new Photos program, all the previous "My Ratings" (1-5 stars) for photos have been removed. Why? My "Smart Albums" using the "My Ratings", i.e. photos with a 5 star rating within the past year, have been virtually destroyed in the update. The updates "modified" Smart
Album deleted the "My Ratings" parameter, retained the Date parameter so now Smart Album includes every photo within the date range parameter. Where are the "My Ratings" capabilities ? It appears they have been removed. If so, why ?

Photos doesn't have true star ratings.
However, when photos are migrated from iPhoto or Aperture to Photos, they will have keywords assigned, like "1 star" or "5 stars". You can create smart albums based on these keywords.
You can also assign keyboard shortcuts so if you're in the keyword pane and type 1, it will assign the "1 star" keyword.

Smart album for non-album photos in library

I haven't found this posted but I'll bet it's a common question.
How do I make a smart album for 'library photos not yet in any album' ?
I have a couple thousand images and it's year-end clean up time!
I haven't mastered the search criteria and am poor at logic anyway.

Earl
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
New Smart Album
Album -> Is Not -> Any
Regards
TD

Smart albums in new Photos?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for