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Last updated 9/12/2011

Creating and editing smart albums

About smart albums

Like albums, smart albums contain photos of your choosing. However, instead of selecting individual photos or groups
of photos, with smart albums, you set the criteria for inclusion. After you set the criteria, any photo in a catalog that
matches the criteria of a smart album will appear automatically in that smart album. As you add new photos to the
catalog, those photos matching the smart album criteria will also appear automatically in the smart album. Smart
albums keep themselves up-to-date.

A. Albums panel heading B. Smart album C. Album category

Create a smart album

1 Select the types of photos you want in your smart album by doing any of the following:

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If you want the smart album to include only photos with certain keyword tags, select those keyword tags from the
Keyword Tags panel.

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If you want the smart album to include only photos with certain star ratings, in the star ratings filter menu, click
the desired star, then select And Higher, And Lower, or Only from the menu next to the stars.

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If you want the smart album to include only photos within a certain folder, select

Display > Folder Location.

Then, click the icon

for the desired folder.

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If you want the smart album to include only photos you place into a certain album, select that album.

Note: You can apply more than one criterion to your selection. For example, you can select a folder or album and one or
more keyword tags.

2 In the Albums panel, click the Create A New Album Or Album Category button

. Then, select New Smart

Album.

The New Smart Album dialog box opens.