Graphics Programs Reference
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Step Three:
Another way to search is by attribute, so
click on the word Attribute in the Library
Filter and those options appear. Earlier in
this chapter, we used the Attribute options
to narrow things down to where just our
Picks were showing (you clicked on the
white Picks flag), so you're already kind of
familiar with this, but I do want to mention
a few things: As for the star ratings, if you
click on the fourth star, it filters things
so you just see any photos that are rated
four stars or higher (so you'd see both
your 4-star and 5-star images). If you want
to see your 4-star rated images only, then
click-and-hold on the
*
(greater than or
equal to) sign that appears to the immedi-
ate right of the word Rating, and from the
pop-up menu that appears, choose
Rating
is Equal to
, as shown here.
Step Four:
Besides searching by text and attributes,
you can also find the photos you're looking
for by their embedded metadata (so you
could search for shots based on which kind
of lens you used, or what your ISO was
set to, or what your f-stop was, or a dozen-
sother settings). Just click on Metadata in
the Library Filter, and a series of columns
will pop down where you can search by
date, camera make and model, lenses, or
labels (as shown here). However, I have to
tell you, if the only hope you have of find-
ing a photo is trying to remember which
lens you used the day you took the shot,
you've done a really lame job of naming
and/or keywording your shots (that's
all I'm sayin'). This should truly be your
“search of last resort.”
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