Apple MB673Z/A User Manual - Page 298

The most common reason to perform a search is to display a selection of images within a project. By selecting a project and using the Query HUD, you can quickly display specific images, hiding the rest from view. For example, you might isolate and display only those images of a certain subject, pose, rating, or location. Your search doesn't change the contents of the project; it only temporarily changes the images you view in the Browser. If you cancel the search criteria in the Query HUD, all of your images appear in the Browser again. The Query HUD is preset to show images that are unrated or better, hiding rejected images. You can change the Query HUD criteria to show rejected images if you wish. Select the project you want to search. Specify the search criteria you want. Click here to show the Query HUD. You can also create special albums, called Smart Albums, whose contents are derived solely by search criteria. For example, you might create a Smart Album that searches for and displays all portrait images from the entire library. When you create a Smart Album, you use the Query HUD to define criteria for the images that should appear in it. For more information about creating and using Smart Albums, see Chapter 13, "Grouping Images with Smart Albums," on page 317. Aperture can locate images based on many types of information associated with the images. When you import images into Aperture, certain information is automatically assigned to each image, including EXIF metadata such as image date, photographer, camera technical data, filename, and much more. You can also assign your own metadata to images, including keywords, summaries, captions, and information used by IPTC fields, and then locate your images by searching for the metadata. In addition, you can search for images based on the type of adjustment applied to them as well as the version of the RAW decoding process used to decode the RAW master. 298 Part II Photo Editing