Apple Aperture - Manual (Page 272)

272 Part II Photo Editing
Revising the Contents of a Smart Album
To change the contents of a Smart Album, you change the search criteria for the Smart
Album. You can manually select individual images and delete them, but the deletion
removes both the version and the digital master file wherever it exists in the original
project. Similarly, you cannot simply drag images into a Smart Album to add them.
If you decide that certain images should not be in a Smart Album, you can narrow the
search criteria to exclude images. Aperture performs a new search and revises the
Smart Album’s contents. To remove an image from a Smart Album, you might also
change the image so that it no longer matches the Smart Album’s search criteria. For
example, if a Smart Album gathers images rated five stars, changing an image’s rating
to four stars removes it from the Smart Album.
To change the contents of a Smart Album by changing the search criteria:
1 In the Projects panel, click the Query HUD button to the right of the Smart Album to
show the Query HUD.
2 Revise the search criteria in the Query HUD to eliminate or add the images you want, or
change the keyword or rating for the image itself.
3 Click the Query HUD’s close button.
Transferring Smart Album Images to Another
Project or Album
You can transfer images from a Smart Album to another project or album, including
web gallery albums, web journal albums, and book albums. You transfer images by
selecting the images in the Smart Album and dragging or copying them into another
project or album.
To transfer images from a Smart Album to another project or album:
1 Select a project or album to hold the images, or create a new project or album.
2 Select the Smart Album, then select the images you want.
3 Drag the images into the project or album you want.
You can also select the images in the Smart Album and have Aperture automatically
create a new album to hold them.