Hello,
I want to create some smart albums where I collect photo's with a specific pixel size. For example 7 MP photo's and 9 MP photo's. I see in the EXIF info only pixel height ad pixel width sizes, and what I need is the height x width pixel sizes.
Is this search option available in Aperture?
iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3), AppleTV, iPhone 4S, iPad, MacBook
The search option is available in the Aperture metadata tags, not in the EXIF. In the Aperture tags you can search for "Pixel Size" or "Master Pixel Size". But you need to know the exact width and height to search for the product, like in the above example.
Regards
Léonie
After repairing the library still no luck: With American language&text settings: Searching for "pixel size includes: 3500 x 2287" finds many 8 MP images,
but searching for "pixel size includes: 8.0" returns nothing.
Searching for "pixel size includes: 10.0" finds exactly one image, but I have many ten Megapixel images in the library.
Regards
Léonie
Are you sure you have 8.0 mp images in the search scope? 😉
do you really need to ask? 😁
Yes, I sure had.
It was a joke, a joke I say (hence the 😉 face).
Anyway I was away from the machine and just got back to playing with this. Seems that searching this way is a crap shoot. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. 8.0 finds those images (most times) but say 10.1 doesn't find anything.
It's bizarre, you would think this would just be a text search on the field, so why it works sometimes and for some numbers is anyone's guess.
Hopefully searching will be much improved in some future release. Until then we'll just need to muddle through.
regards
Message was edited by: Frank Caggiano - Actually I know (or pretty much know) it is a text search because you can search for things like '(8' and get images with '(8' in that field. So again why a text search is doing this is bizarre.
Sorry for the late splash. I can make no sense of how the Filter Rule "Aperture" parses the field "Pixel Size" using the input variable. Sometimes "(" will return no images; sometimes one image. Using "24" will return Images that have "24" in the pixel size dimensions, and one, but not more than one, of the many Images I have that have "(24" as the start of the phrase "(24.x MP)" where "x" represents a numeral.
American English localization. My hunch (heh) is that this isn't a localization issue. Seems more like a database issue. I agree with Frank that it is a text search. Again guessing, I think the parentheses and the MP amount listed in the parentheses is generated on the fly and is not searched in most cases (it is not actually in the field being searched). In some cases (crash? cruft from previous versions?) this text is literally in the field.
Easy to guess -- I don't write programs, only use them.
(Added:)
This seems to be a very poor implementation.
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger
It was a joke, a joke I say (hence the 😉 face).
and a great one, see the laughing face in my previous answer to you... and are you trying to pull my leg again? 😁 😕 😀
Seems that searching this way is a crap shoot. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. 8.0 finds those images (most times) but say 10.1 doesn't find anything.
That was what made me suspect a floating-point rounding problem, not only a localization problem.
I noticed that all 10 MP images found by the rule had exactly the same pixel size (as in number of pixels) , whereas the 10 MP ones that had not been found had a slightly different pixel size.
Create a smart album with x MP photo's
