Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Using the filter HUD is fairly straightforward. Pick whether you want to match all or any of the
selected rules, add rules as needed by using the pop-up menu, select the rules that you want to be
active, and specify the criteria for each rule, such as images with a yellow label and a four-star or
higher rating. However, there are a few key rules that we want to point out to you.
Aperture Metadata.
Use this rule to search for custom metadata. Your custom meta-
data field appears in its field pop-up menu.
Attachment.
If your camera is capable of recording audio files, Aperture imports it as an
attachment to an image (there's more on this in Chapter 9). The Attachment rule explic-
itly filters images that either have or don't have an attachment.
File Status.
This rule lets you search for managed, referenced, offline, online, or missing
master images.
File Type.
The File Type rule allows you to find files that are video files, specific types of
files (including RAW as a generic reference for all RAW files), and externally edited files.
Text.
While the Text rule should be fairly obvious, as it's a search for whether an image
has a specific piece of text in its metadata, there's an option in the text field that we want
to point out. If you click the pop-up menu in this rule's text field, you see the following
useful options:
Full text search.
This is the default; it searches all of an image's metadata.
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Limited text search
. This is faster, especially when searching a large collection of
images, but it only searches caption, creation date, filename, keywords, project name,
and version name.
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If you want to save your search results as a regular album, meaning the contents won't be dynami-
cally updated as you change your image's metadata, open the filter HUD and click New Album
With Current Images. If you want to save this search as a new Smart Album, whose contents will be
dynamically updated as you change your images' metadata, open the filter HUD and click the New
Smart Album button. When you finish searching in Browser, click the Clear (X) button in Browser's
search field to clear the current search query.
Creating Smart Albums
To create a new Smart Album, start by selecting its scope in the Library Inspector. Specifically, if you
want that Smart Album to only search within a project, select the project. If you want it to search
within your whole library, either clear your selection in the Library Inspector by clicking in an empty
area or select a preexisting library-level album. Next, choose File
Smart Album, and Aperture
opens Smart Settings HUD, as shown in Figure 4.24, which looks very similar to the Filter HUD.
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