Create Smart Album on Apple Photos with image dimensions

I would like to create a smart album to fetch snapchats saved images on apple photos. But a snapchat image doesn't fill any of the criteria available on the smart album setup. The only criteria that fits is the image dimensions. But you can't use that criteria in smart album. Any tips?

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 14.2

Posted on Feb 15, 2024 3:17 AM

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Posted on Feb 15, 2024 7:03 AM

I would also suggest that, after you've found the pictures you want with léonie's script or with PowerPhotos [a very good app that most of us use in it's paid version,  PowerPhotos ($30) ], you should add a keyword like SnapChat to those images, and then you can more easily find them later. For many pictures that I crop to 16x9, for instance, I add a keyword Wide so that I know that it's modified in that way.

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Feb 15, 2024 7:03 AM in response to FrodeTV

I would also suggest that, after you've found the pictures you want with léonie's script or with PowerPhotos [a very good app that most of us use in it's paid version,  PowerPhotos ($30) ], you should add a keyword like SnapChat to those images, and then you can more easily find them later. For many pictures that I crop to 16x9, for instance, I add a keyword Wide so that I know that it's modified in that way.

Feb 15, 2024 3:28 AM in response to FrodeTV

You would to have to search with a script, for example with an Apple script.

I have not yet tested my old scripts on macOS 14, but you could try to adapt the scripts I wrote for Catalina, for example: Script: Search for Photos by the Dimensio… - Apple Community



Or, you may want to get yourself the free trial version of PowerPhotos. Even the free trial can show you your Photos Library in a table view, with the metadata displayed in columns. We can add a column with the dimensions and sort the photos to be displayed by the dimensions.Use the command "View > Show Columns".

When we click the header of a column, the photos will be sorted by this column.

For example:

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