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- What's New in Organize Mode
- Organize Tools Overview
- Changing the Display Pane's Layout
- Other Display Preferences
- Contextual Menu Shortcuts
- Moving Around in iPhoto
- Editing Film Rolls
- Creating and Modifying New Film Rolls
- Creating and Working with Folders
- Creating Albums
- Creating and Editing Smart Albums
- Smart Album Ideas
- Duplicating Sources
- Renaming and Rearranging Sources
- Deleting Sources
- Selecting Photos
- Adding Photos to Sources
- Removing Photos from Sources
- Sorting Photos
- Assigning Titles to Photos
- Assigning Comments to Photos
- Editing Photo Dates
- Assigning Ratings
- Managing Keywords
- Assigning and Removing Keywords
- Searching with the Keyword Pane
- Searching with the Search Field
- Searching with the Calendar Pane
- Viewing Photo Information
This chapter is from the book
Smart Album Ideas
It may be hard to think about the types of smart albums you can create, so use these ideas to get started.
Smart album ideas:
- By matching on ratings, you can easily create a Favorites smart album that contains just your top-rated photos.
- By looking for the filename extensions .avi, .mov, and .mpg at the end of an Any Text or Filename criterion (there's a bug with Filename such that it doesn't always find as many items as Any Text), you can create a smart album of movies.
- Since iPhoto 6 adds Camera Model to the list of criteria for smart albums, it's easy to create a smart album that contains photos taken by cameras other than yours—in other words, photos that were taken by other people and sent to you. Of course, this doesn't work if one of your friends or family uses the same camera as you do.
- To create an album that contains all the photos of a certain person, use the Any Text criterion matching that person's name. It won't be perfect, but if you give your photos descriptive titles or comments, it's a good start.