Apple Aperture 2 - Manual (Page 296)

296 Part II Photo Editing
An Overview of Searching
Aperture provides a pop-up menu in the search field of the Browser that allows you to
quickly display images by rating and change how Aperture performs searches.
To have Aperture search for images by rating, you can choose a rating level from the
pop-up menu. You can also have Aperture perform full text searches or limited text
searches. When you choose “Full text search” from the pop-up menu, Aperture searches
for any text entered in the search field throughout all the metadata associated with
your images. If you choose “Limited text search”, Aperture searches for any entered text,
but doesn’t search through the EXIF, IPTC, badge, or custom metadata associated with
images. However, a limited text search does include keywords, aspect ratio, filename,
rating, version name, orientation, pixel size, processed pixel size, master location, and
import group. Choosing a limited text search provides faster results. You can set your
preference for a full or limited text search using the Search Scope pop-up menu in the
Appearance pane of the Preferences window.
To set the search scope in the search field:
m Choose the type of search you want to perform from the search field pop-up menu.
To view specific images in the library or a selected project, you can also use the
Query HUD.
Search field
pop-up menu
Click here to show the
Query HUD.