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Q: How do I filter only favorited photos from within a specific album or folder?

I was used to using Aperture prior to Apple Photos. There was a great feature of starring the pictures that helped a lot the editing/choosing process. This feature isn't available in Apple Photos, although I like this new software, I find the process of choosing which pictures are going to be used from a specific situation very poor. the closes feature to the stars is the Favories, but the only way to use it is on the favorites tab, I couldn't find a way to choosing the photos I'm actually going to keep in a specific album.

Anyone has any idea on how to improve the pictures selection or how to better use the Favorites feature?

 

thanks a lot

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on May 31, 2015 1:46 PM

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Q: How do I filter only favorited photos from within a specific album or folder?

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  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad May 31, 2015 1:53 PM in response to fboucinhas
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    May 31, 2015 1:53 PM in response to fboucinhas

    The stars rating on the photos that were in the iPhoto/Aperture library when converted to Photo have been changed to keywords, i.e. 1-star, etc.  So you can use keywords to search for rated photos or use them in a smart album.

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  • by léonie,Helpful

    léonie léonie May 31, 2015 1:54 PM in response to fboucinhas
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    May 31, 2015 1:54 PM in response to fboucinhas

    You can filter by Favourites in Smart albums.

    If you have an album and want only to see the Favourites, create a Smart album with the rule:

    • All:  "Photo is favourite" and "Album is ...".

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    If you have not done so, enable the Favourite "♡" to show as a badge overlay from the "View > Metadata" menu.

  • by fboucinhas,

    fboucinhas fboucinhas Jun 1, 2015 6:47 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Jun 1, 2015 6:47 AM in response to Old Toad

    Thanks Old Toad, this works well for the past photos, I'm actually looking for a way to working with the new pictures in an "express" way just like iPhoto/Aperture allowed.

     

    regards

  • by fboucinhas,

    fboucinhas fboucinhas Jun 1, 2015 6:49 AM in response to léonie
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    Jun 1, 2015 6:49 AM in response to léonie

    Leonie,

     

    that's a good way to turn this problem around. I'm interested in finding out a more user friendly way to do it, just like the star system used to do in selecting the best pictures - the ones that are actually going to be shared and used in albums, etc.

     

    regards

     

    Fabio

  • by léonie,Solvedanswer

    léonie léonie Jun 1, 2015 7:04 AM in response to fboucinhas
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    Jun 1, 2015 7:04 AM in response to fboucinhas

    Add a keyword "5 Star" to new photos.  You can do so by typing 5 Star into the "keywords" field of the Info panel. Or open the Keyword Manager with ⌘K.

     

    If you drag the keywords "5 Star", "4 Star", etc to the top Quick Group, you can use the keys 5, 4, ... as keyboard shortcuts to assign the keyword "5 Star", "4 Star", just like in iPhoto.

     

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  • by fboucinhas,

    fboucinhas fboucinhas Jun 1, 2015 7:06 AM in response to léonie
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    Jun 1, 2015 7:06 AM in response to léonie

    Thanks, great tip!

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 1, 2015 7:43 AM in response to fboucinhas
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    Jun 1, 2015 7:43 AM in response to fboucinhas

    I have just renamed the keywords that Photos created automatically from "5 Star", "4 Star", etc to "5*****", "4****", "3***".

     

    This way it is easier to search for photos with at least two star or similar.

     

    When I search with this rule "Text includes **", this search will turn up all photos with a rating equal or higher than 2**.

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  • by R C-R,

    R C-R R C-R Jun 1, 2015 8:00 AM in response to léonie
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    Jun 1, 2015 8:00 AM in response to léonie

    Another way to do this is to add a unique keyword to each item with a star rating higher than some minimum. For instance, I added a "4or5" keyword to all my 4 & 5 star rated photos. I can use that in a smart album set to Keyword is 4or5 or enter "4or5" in the Photos search box to see all my 4 & 5 star rated items in one view.

     

    The only advantage to this is it doesn't require changing any existing keywords, which might be desirable in some situations, & that it can be used with any group of keywords.

     

    Your way is pretty clever, though.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jun 1, 2015 11:28 AM in response to R C-R
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    Jun 1, 2015 11:28 AM in response to R C-R

    Thanks, R C-R

  • by AxeBox360,

    AxeBox360 AxeBox360 Jul 23, 2015 5:22 AM in response to fboucinhas
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    Jul 23, 2015 5:22 AM in response to fboucinhas

    none of these solution solve the problem of filtering photos within an existing static folder. If you read them, every solution involves creating a new folder. if you already have hundreds of folders which you need to be able to filter on the fly, none of these ideas will work.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Jul 23, 2015 7:27 AM in response to AxeBox360
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    Jul 23, 2015 7:27 AM in response to AxeBox360
    none of these solution solve the problem of filtering photos within an existing static folder.

    That is the difference between expensive professional applications like Aperture, where you can filter existing library items, and the basic applications like Photos and iPhoto, that come for free with a Mac.  In iPhoto you also needed to modify the smart albums to refine a search.

  • by AxeBox360,

    AxeBox360 AxeBox360 Jul 23, 2015 9:01 AM in response to léonie
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    Jul 23, 2015 9:01 AM in response to léonie

    I lucked out and got Apetrture for free, so I would not call it expensive. However, with Aperture abandoned , I'm switching to Photos for most of my photo management , and I bough pixeMator for advanced editing . However, Pixelmator doesn'r do library management, so I have to look to Photos for that.

     

    It stinks to have to abandon my photo processing workflows including tracking what I'm keeping , what I'm publishing, and also mark photos as 'published' so that i do not upload them to face book more than once by mistake.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Jul 23, 2015 9:16 AM in response to AxeBox360
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    Jul 23, 2015 9:16 AM in response to AxeBox360

    It stinks to have to abandon my photo processing workflows including tracking what I'm keeping , what I'm publishing, and also mark photos as 'published' so that i do not upload them to face book more than once by mistake.

    You can still track what's been published by assigning a keyword "Published" to those you publish.  Then create a smart album with the criteria Keyword is Published to have an automatic grouping of the published files.  You can also create another smart album of unpublished photos with the criteria Keyword is not Published.

     

    Although the following was intended for iPhoto users it can still apply Aperture in some part:

     

    Moments in Photos are the new Events, i.e. groupings of photos sorted by date taken.

     

    When the iPhoto Library was first migrated to Photos there is a folder created in the sidebar titled iPhoto Events and all migrated iPhoto Events (which are now Moments) are represented by an album in that folder. To open the sidebar if it's not already open use the Option+Command+S key combination.

     

    NOTE: It's been reported by several users that if the Event albums are moved out of the iPhoto Library folder in the sidebar they may disappear.  It's not widespread but several users have reported that issue.  Therefore, if you want to assure that you keep those Event albums don't move them outside the iPhoto Events folder.

     

    There's a way to simulate events in Photos.

    When new photos are imported into the Photos library go to the Last Import smart album, select all the photos and use the File New Album menu option or use the key combination Command+N.  Name it as desired.  It will appear just above the iPhoto Events folder where you can drag it into the iPhoto Events folder

     

    When you click on the iPhoto Events folder you'll get a simulated iPhoto Events window.

    The downside to the simulation is that the Albums/Events can only be sorted automatically by Title. But they can also be sorted manually, either in the sidebar or in the folder's window at the right.

     

    Tell Apple what missing features you'd like restored or new features added in Photos via Apple-Photos Feedback.

  • by rugbyhubby,

    rugbyhubby rugbyhubby Jun 5, 2016 4:10 PM in response to léonie
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    Jun 5, 2016 4:10 PM in response to léonie

    iPhoto has a similar tool to Aperture.  In the magnifying glass there is a list of options, one of which is filter by rating.  It really is bad that a simple feature like that is removed for this new app.  It was a great workflow tool.

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