In Photos how do I create a smart album of 4* and 5* star photos from my holiday?

I am trying to create smart albums of the best photos (4* and 5* rated) from events such as holidays. From memory I think I did this in iPhoto by specifying "Event is France" AND "Star is greater than 3*". Something like that.


I have made extensive use of these types of albums and find them great as you can show different numbers of photos to people depending upon their level of interest. I may want to look at all photos of 2* and above, whereas my friend may just want to see the 4* and 5* highlights.


Now I have migrated to Photos I can't seem to work out how to do this as star ratings are now individual keywords and you can't seem to mix AND and OR statements. I would like to be able to create a smart album where: "Keyword is France" AND ("Keyword is 5 Star" OR "Keyword is 4 Star").


I thought I could get around this by creating a smart album of "Keyword is 4 star" AND "Keyword is 5 star" and call it "4* & 5* photos". I could then say: "Keyword is France" AND "Album is 4* & 5* photos". However I can't seem to reference another smart album in this way.


The only way I can think to do it is when I want to tag a photo as a 5* photo ... I need to give it Keywords for "1 Star", "2 Star", "3 Star", "4 Star", and "5 Star". But that seems REALLY clunky.


Can anyone help?

Oldish macbook-OTHER, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Feb 4, 2016 2:23 AM

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Feb 11, 2017 9:03 AM in response to LarryHN

But we need PowerPhotos to be able to compare keywords. Photos does not show the keywords below the thumbnails, so we cannot see at a glance the rating of a photo. In Photos we need to open the Info panel to see the keywords. In PowerPhotos I can see the rating keywords below the thumbnails or in list view and can pick easily the lower rated photos for deletion. Having my Photos Library open in PowerPhotos as a second browser makes working with Photos a lot easier.


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Feb 11, 2017 5:09 AM in response to mjaminian

I can't believe Apple is not providing this option. It's a pretty basic search need. Very dissapointing.

It is consistent. Since there is only the favorite heart ♡ as a rating in Photos and no different grades of star ratings, it does not make much sense to provide a tool to search for star ratings, that cannot be assigned. 😠

Sep 16, 2016 7:06 AM in response to revanslacey

Have you found anything on this? Your issue sounds like you use the ratings exactly as I do! In iPhoto I had Smart Albums that were "keyword is France" and "rating is greater than 3". Now that I can only use "is" and "is not" I cannot easily pull photos together based on my graduated rating scheme.


(And, yes, I have sent this issue in to Apple.)

Sep 16, 2016 7:57 AM in response to keriah

The migration from iPhoto to Photos replaced the ratings by keywords, but these keywords have been ill chosen.

The link Larry provided (How to Simulate Star Ratings in Photos) shows how to use a different set of keywords for the ratings, keyword containing as many stars in the name as you want to assign.

This will enable you to search for "at least ***", but use a text rule in the smart album and not the keyword search.


Search for "text includes ****" and "keyword is France".

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