Smart Album User Guide
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1. When assigning tags to your photos you can work with a particular album by selecting it from the album list or you can work with all photos by selecting All from the album list To work with only photos which have no tags select No tags from the album list Then you can select particular photos from the display pane as described below To assign tags to or remove them from your photos 1 From the album list tap on the tag icon PA on the top tab bar of the display pane The thumbnails from the currently active selection in the album list are shown in the display pane The control pane shows a list of your keyword tags The tags can be sorted either by name or by last assigned date You can change the order by tapping either on a z or on Date Select the photos that you wish to tag There are two modes of photo selection Photo Selection Modes Range select Tap any two thumbnails on the screen All the thumbnails in between will be highlighted and included in the selection Individual thumbnails can be excluded from the selection by tapping them Single select Select several thumbnails by tapping each one individually The default mode is Range select as indicated by the yellow highlighting in the top tab bar You can change to Single select by tapping on it Choose photos by tapping on the thumbnails The selected photos are highlighted with a yellow border around them The tags currently assigned to these photos are h2. Smart Album looks at the dates on your photos and makes ten example albums with a date filter The example albums are one for each of the years 2004 to 2013 containing all the photos with a creation date in those years If there are no photos for a particular year then that album is not made You can change or delete the example albums as you wish 3 Help Smart Album provides both onscreen help in the form of help balloons and online help by downloading the User Manual over the internet 3 1 Balloon Help To access Balloon Help l tap on the help icon KJ at the top of the screen Help balloons appear containing brief text descriptions 2 To dismiss the balloon help tap on the help icon Ol again 3 2 Online Help Note You must have internet access for online help to work To access the online help l tap on the menu button ES and select Show help The Smart Album User Manual is downloaded and displayed in a browser window on screen 2 To dismiss the User Manual tap on Done in the browser window Smart Album User Guide 4 Tagging Your Photos with Keywords With Smart Album you can tag your photos with keyword tags often known simply as tags Smart Album offers two modes of assigning tags to your photos batch mode and single photo mode 4 1 Batch Mode Tagging Batch mode tagging makes it easy to assign a tag to an entire group of photos in one operation Itis accessed from the albums display
3. after the chosen date Until date all photos before the chosen date In between dates all photos between the chosen dates Select one of the date filters with the picker Set the date for the filter by tapping on a photo The date of the photo appears on the control pane For the In between dates filter you must tap two photos to select two dates You can reset your selection to one photo by a long press on that photo The photos selected by the filter are shown by a yellow border around each photo Note When you tap a photo 1t sometimes happens that the selection also includes a photo next to the tapped one This 1s because they both have identical dates and times which can happen 1f they were taken within one second of each other or were taken by different people For finer control of the date and time a Tap the date box in the control pane A date picker and time picker appear as shown below Cancel November 26 E 12 00 AM a The date and time pickers allow finer control of date and time b Set the date picker and time picker to the date and time you wish The selection of photos in the display pane changes to match the date and time that you have selected Ta ES This returns you to the previous date filter selection panel p y p p Tap ES The Date Filter is applied to the album The display pane now shows the selected photos The control pane shows the properties of the album and the type of Date Fi
4. now shows thumbnails of the currently selected album 11 Copy a Photo to the Clipboard To copy a photo to the clipboard follow these steps Le 5 Go to the album list and tap on an album which contains the photo The display pane shows thumbnails of the photos in the album Tap the thumbnail that you wish to copy The photo appears in the display pane Tap the photo to bring up the slideshow overlay Tap the button A box appears with a choice of possible actions Tap on Copy A progess bar appears and notifies you when copying is completed 12 Email a Photo To email a photo follow these steps 1 5 Go to the album list and tap on an album which contains the photo The display pane shows thumbnails of the photos in the album Tap the thumbnail that you wish to email The photo appears in the display pane Tap the photo to bring up the slideshow overlay Tap the button A box appears with a choice of possible actions Tap on Mail Your email application opens and allows you to send the photo 13 Exporting a Photo To export a photo to Facebook or Twitter follow these steps 1 Go to the album list and tap on an album which contains the photo The display pane shows thumbnails of the photos in the album Tap the thumbnail that you wish to email The photo appears in the display pane Tap the photo to bring up the slideshow overlay Tap the button A standard dialog box appears to allow you to c
5. photo tap it on the list The tag name is highlighted with the blue dot and the name also appears at the foot of the slideshow overlay as shown below Smart Album User Guide Edit Tags Done bee assigned to 1 photos f mountains assigned to 13 photos Ys swamp d assigned to 4 photos b f ant s assigned to 1 photos 4 great tit assigned to 2 photos Birds assigned to 3 photos J aa assigned to 4 photos animals A assigned to 95 photos 4 Animals assigned to 4 photos by autum assigned to 1 photos beetle assigned to 5 photos des gt The animals tag has just been assigned to the photo by tapping on animals in the tag list To remove a tag from the current photo tap it on the list The tag name is un highlighted and the tag name 1s removed from the foot of the slideshow overlay To create a new tag see Creating New Tags in Section 4 1 Batch Mode Tagging To move to the next or previous photo tap on the GA or a symbol The list of tags is updated to highlight the tags which are assigned to the new photo 4 3 Deleting Tags This refers to deleting a tag from the list of keyword tags not to removing a tag from a photo Note Smart Album will not allow a tag to be deleted 1f 1t 1s assigned to any photos These photos must be untagged before the tag can be deleted Smart Album will notice if a tag has no photos assigned to it and will display a wastebin icon fi at the top of the tag list a
6. these steps 1 Goto the display of albums 2 If neccessary scroll the list of albums until the desired album appears Tap on the P button beside the album name The slideshow begins 10 1 Manual Control of the Slideshow You can take manual control of the slideshow by tapping the screen while a slideshow is in progress The slideshow halts and an overlay appears which shows information about the currently displayed photo date and time of creation keyword tags and star rating and controls for operating the slideshow Operating the Slideshow Move back to the previous photo Tap on the KH button Move forward to the next photo Tap on the DA button Zoom in or out Pinch or double tap the photo Pan Drag the photo Continue with the slideshow Tap on the 3 button Remove the overlay but keep the Tap the screen slideshow halted at the current photo Stop the slideshow Tap on ES 10 2 Slideshow Settings Y ou can set the duration of each slide in slideshow settings l Tap on the BH button at the top of the control pane and select Settings The settings window opens on the control pane 2 Tap on Slideshow duration A list of times appears in the settings window 20 Smart Album User Guide Select a time by tapping it A tick mark appears next to the selected time You can return to the settings window by tapping on Back From the settings window tap Albums to return to the albums list The display pane
7. using the AND function will be different this will show the photos which are tagged with Ann and also tagged with Bill The result will be photos which show both Ann and Bill together What if you want to see photos of Ann but not of Bill This is done with the exclude button Smart Album User Guide boolean NOT function Select the tags Ann AND Bill then tap the include button next to Bill This will change to exclude to indicate that photos tagged with Bill will be excluded from the selection To browse through your photos 1 Go to the list of albums on the control pane 2 Tap on Tags at the bottom of the control pane The heading at the top of the control pane changes to Browse Tags and the list of keyword tags is displayed Note that tags which are not assigned to any photos are not shown here The display pane shows thumbnails of the currently selected photos 3 Tap ona keyword Each time that you do this the photos tagged with that keyword are shown in the display pane 4 To narrow down the selection tap the AND or OR buttons and use them with the exclude button to browse for combinations of keyword tags as described in the paragraph Combining Tags A simple example is shown below Browse Tags y Star Rating 52 photos O AND aa 1 photos 7 animals x ant 1 photos bee 1 photos beetle 5 photos V birds butterfly 4 photos ELO VR 4 O Ge p caterpillar 2 photo
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9. ars beside the chosen ratings To dismiss the Star Rating window tap the screen outside the window The window closes but the Star Rating button remains yellow to remind you that the Star Rating filter 1s active You can cancel the Star Rating filter as follows l 2 Tap on the now highlighted Star Rating button The Star Rating window opens Tap on the De activate button The Star Rating window closes The Star Rating button is no longer highlighted and the Star Rating filter is no longer active 6 3 Searching by Tag You can search your photos using a tag or part of a tag L 2 7 Go to the list of keyword tags by tapping on Tags at the bottom of the control pane Tap on the search bar The onscreen keyboard appears Enter the search term The search is performed as you type and the list of tags in the control pane is updated to match what you have entered Tap Done on the keyboard The onscreen keyboard disappears and the search results that is tags containing the search term are shown on the control pane To view the photos tap on one of the tags The thumbnails are shown in the display pane To search for another tag tap on the dismiss button located beside the search box The current search results are removed and the onscreen keyboard appears again To exit the search function tap Done on the keyboard while no text is in the search box The search is not case sensitive See rela
10. ay of album properties follow the steps below Tap Camera Model Filter The display pane shows thumbnails of all the available photos that is photos selected by any other filters which are active The control pane shows a list of camera models which Smart Album has detected for these photos If Smart Album is unable to read the camera model for any of the photos then the option unkown is added to the list of camera models Tap on the list to select a camera model A tick mark appears next to the camera model and the display pane shows the photos taken by that camera You can choose more than one camera model You may have to scroll the list to see more camera models Tap done The Camera Model Filter is applied to the album The display pane now shows the selected photos The control pane shows the album properties with one of the chosen camera models next to the Camera Model Filter Tap ES to return to the list of albums 9 4 Lens Model Filter The Lens Model Filter allows you to choose only those photos taken with a particular lens To set a value for the Lens Model Filter from the display of album properties follow the steps below 1 Tap Lens Model Filter The display pane shows thumbnails of all the available photos that 1s photos selected by any other filters which are active The control pane shows a list of lens models which Smart Album has detected for these photos If Smart Album is unable to read the lens model fo
11. cel Tap Done The Star Rating Filter is applied to the album The display pane now shows the selected photos The control pane shows the album properties with the chosen Star rating next to the Star Rating Filter Tap ES to return to the list of albums 9 6 Album Filter The album filter allows you to work with an album from the Photo Library For example you can sort the album according to the Exif date and time property rather than by the date and time attached by the operating system To set a value for an album filter from the display of album properties follow the steps below 1 2 Tap on Album Filter Tap ES The control pane now shows the album properties The words no value appear next to the album filter to remind you that you have not set a value for the filter yet Tap on Album Filter The control pane shows a list of albums in the photo library Select an album from the photo library by tapping its name Tap ES The control pane shows the album properties Tap ES again to return to the list of albums 19 Smart Album User Guide 9 7 Deleting a Filter 1 Goto the display of album properties as shown in Changing the Properties of an Album 2 Swipe left on the name of the filter that you want to delete A EM button appears all tap the control pane anywhere outside the filter name Tap ES again to return to the list of albums 10 Slideshow Y ou can run a slideshow of an album by following
12. dy in use are not shown Choose the filter types you want by tapping on them A tick mark appears next to the chosen filter type You may choose more than one Tap Done The control pane lists the album properties along with a reminder that the new filters have no value set yet as shown below 15 Smart Album User Guide Cancel FILTERS Camera Model Filter no value Keywords Filter no value Lens Model Filter no value Star Rating Filter no value Add a filter Four filters have been created for the album but none of them has been given a value yet so they are not active When you start to add values Smart Album will require that you begin with the filter at the top of the list in this case the camera model filter 9 1 Date Filters To set a value for the date filter follow the steps below 1 Tap Date filter The display pane shows thumbnails of all available photos that is photos selected by any other filters which are active along with their dates The year is shown at the top of the thumbnail and the month day and time are shown at the bottom The control pane shows a picker with the different types of date filter as shown below Cancel SELECTION TYPE In between dates ALL PHOTOS IN BETWEEN DATES 2013 11 26 00 00 00 2013 11 26 23 59 59 The picker for choosing a date filter 16 Smart Album User Guide Types of Date filters From date All photos
13. erna O 19 AS 81050018 A o A A Terre 19 IND E AAA feels navlanid i ora teks cs Geeta nanan ee ue oe eee 20 TOS ESO WO ts A AA AA AAA AA A AA 20 101 Manual Controlior the Slideshows sti ais aac 20 102 hideshow SENE Se vt A A AAA 20 11 Copya Photosto the Ch pb0ard aa Eos 21 12 Emal AO A A A A A 21 13 gt Exporting a Pato iia sd iii 21 Te od dc We cd E A A E A O A ON 21 SS APPEAR cda 2 Smart Album User Guide 1 Introduction Smart Album lets you quickly browse through your photos and organize them into albums With a few taps you can find all the photos taken between certain dates the photos taken with a particular camera or lens model the photos tagged with particular keywords or the photos with a particular star rating You can also search for combinations of tags using boolean AND and OR functions These various filters can be easily combined into a powerful tool for searching and organizing your photos With Smart Album you can now add keyword tags and star ratings to your photos In addition to searching and organizing your photos Smart Album also allows you to easily copy them to the clipboard and to export them to Facebook Twitter Mail Message and Print On 10S 6 0 and later versions when account is enabled on your device Films Smart Album also organizes film clips However the results of applying filters will depend on the meta information included with the film clip This manual shows Smart Album as it appears o
14. hoose your export destination 14 Preferences In the preferences view you can 21 Smart Album User Guide e Set the slide duration of a slideshow e Set the number of favourite tags e Select which sources to use when re indexing the photos e Re index the photos in the Photo Library To reach the preferences view tap on the EH button at the top of the control pane and select Settings For related information see e Slideshow Settings e Re indexing the Photos To close the preferences view tap on Albums 15 Appendix Revision History Revision 2 3 0 20 November 2013 Loads of new stuff Revision 1 4 0 14 April 2013 New slideshow and additional filters Revision 1 0 6 February 2013 Initial version 22
15. humbnail image that is shown beside the album name in the list of albums Order The date order in which the photos are sorted The date refers to the date added by the operating system and not the creation date assigned by the camera which took the picture Filters You use filters to select photos by keyword tag by date by Star rating by camera model or by lens model For more information see the section on Filters The only property that an album must have is a name With no filters set the album will include all the photos in the Photo Library 8 1 Making an Album 1 Go to the list of albums on the control pane 2 Tap the Eq symbol on the top tab bar and select New album The control pane now shows the controls for setting the properties of the new album Cancel a FILTERS Add a filter 12 Smart Album User Guide The controls for setting the properties of an album Name the album a Tap on the Name text box The onscreen keyboard appears b Type in the name of the album c Tap Done on the keyboard The onscreen keyboard disappears and the album name is shown in the Name text box Choose a cover photo By default Smart Album selects the first photo in the album and displays it under Cover photo To accept this photo you need do nothing further To choose a different photo tap it on the display pane Set the date order of the photos a Tap on Order The screen shows the possible choices No sor
16. ighlighted with a blue dot in the control pane If all the highlighted photos are tagged with a particular keyword then a letter V is shown in the blue dot next to the tag An example is shown below e select Single select Clear select assigned to 1 photos great tit assigned to 2 photos Birds assigned to 3 photos aa assigned to 4 photos animals assigned to 95 photos Animals assigned to 4 photos autum assigned to 1 photos beetle assigned to 5 photos birds assigned to 43 photos birds of pre assigned to 9 photos Smart Album User Guide The blue dots show that the tag animals is assigned to all three photos in the selection while beetle birds and birds of prey are assigned to at least one but not to all of the photos 4 To assign a tag to the selected photos tap the tag name in the list The tag name appears briefly on the thumbnails moving downwards from the top edge to the bottom and the number of tags on each thumbnail increases by one You can add more tags just by tapping them The tags you have tapped move automatically to the top of the list for easier access should you wish to use them again 5 To remove a tag from the selected photos tap the tag name in the list The tag name appears briefly on the thumbnails moving upwards from the bottom edge to the top and the number of tags on each thumbnail decreases by one 6 To create a new tag tap in the search box at the top of the
17. lbum e Set the date order of the photos e Filters 8 5 Deleting an Album In order to remove an album completely you must delete it from both the Recent and the All lists on the control pane 1 2 Go the screen that shows the list of albums Swipe right on the name of the album that you wish to delete A EM button appears beside that album Tap the button The album is deleted and the control pane now shows the list of remaining albums However if the All tab was active then the album is still in the Recent list and vice versa Bring up the other list by tapping on either Recent or All Repeat the steps above to delete the album from the second list The album is now completely deleted from Smart Album Note This does not delete albums from the Photo Library Smart Album cannot delete albums or photos from the Photo Library 9 Filters Smart Album allows you to apply several types of filter to an album These are Album Filter Camera Model Filter Date filter Keywords filter Lens Model Filter and Star Rating Filter If you have not already done so follow these steps to add one or more filters to an album l Tap on Edit on the top tab bar An button appears beside each album name but you should ignore this Tap the album that you wish to work with The control pane shows the properties of the album Tap Add a filter A list of available filter types appears Filter types which are alrea
18. lter that you have selected Tap ES to return to the list of albums 17 Smart Album User Guide 9 2 Keyword Tag Filters To set a value for a keyword filter from the display of album properties follow the steps below l Tap Keyword filter The display pane shows thumbnails of all photos selected by any other filters which are active The control pane shows an alphabetical list of keywords Select a keyword by tapping it A tick mark appears to the left of the keyword and an Include button appears to the right The display pane now shows only photos tagged with that keyword To reverse the selection tap on the Include button It changes to Exclude and the display pane now shows only photos NOT tagged with that keyword To narrow down the selection tap on more keywords and combine them using the AND OR and Exclude buttons as described in the paragraph Combining Tags To remove a keyword from the filter tap on its tick mark To remove all keywords and start over tap on Reset at the bottom of the keyword list Tap Done The Keyword Filter is applied to the album The display pane shows thumbnails of the selected photos The control pane shows the album properties and the keywords selected for the filter 9 3 Camera Model Filter The Camera Model Fiter allows you to choose only those photos which were taken using a particular model of camera To set a value for the Camera Model Filter from the displ
19. n the Pad under 1057 When using Smart Album you will usually see the screen divided into two panes as shown below O oredator Photes 2005 PS Photos 2004 y No tags Control pane ad pane The left hand pane called the control pane shows information about your albums and also the controls for making changes to the albums The right hand pane called the display pane shows thumbnails of your photos Smart Album User Guide 2 First Run 2 1 Permission to Access Photos Smart Album works with the photos in the Photo Library but it cannot access them until you grant permission When you first run Smart Album it will ask for permission to access your photos On iOS 5 a message appears Please turn Location Services ON for this application To do so go to Settings gt Location Services and activate the option for the Smart Photo Album application On iOS 6 and later versions a message appears Smart Album would like to access your photos Tap OK Smart Album starts up If you decide not to allow access then tap on Don t allow A message says No access to photos and asks you to go to Settings gt Privacy gt Photos and enable image data Smart Album will not start up until you grant access to the photos 2 2 Example Albums When Smart Album starts up 1t looks for any existing albums made with a previous version of Smart Album and displays them in the control pane If there are no albums present then
20. ot A letter V is shown in the blue dot if this rating is assigned to all the highlighted photos To assign a rating to the selected photos tap the rating on the rating list The new Star rating appears on all the selected thumbnails as shown below Star Rating Range select Single select Clear select The three photos in the selection have just been given a Star rating of two stars by tapping on the two orange stars in the list When you have finished assigning Star ratings you can either switch to assigning keyword tags by tapping on Edit tags at the bottom of the display pane or you can return to the album list by tapping on Done at the top of the display pane 5 2 Rating Single Photos Single photos can of course be assigned a Star rating using the batch mode process described above but 1t can be more convenient to use the method describe here l pl Tap on a thumbnail The photo 1s shown in the display pane Tap on the photo The slideshow overlay appears showing among other things the star rating of the photo The number of orange stars gives the star rating as shown below Smart Album User Guide 10 of 13 Edit Tags Done LA NS AO animals 3 4 gt The photo shown here has a rating of three stars 3 To change the star rating tap on the row of stars Tap on the grey stars to increase the rating or tap on the orange stars to reduce the rating 4 To reduce the rating to nil fi
21. r any of the photos then the option unkown is added to the list of lens models 18 Smart Album User Guide Tap on the list to select a lens model A tick mark appears next to the lens model and the display pane shows the photos taken with that lens You can choose more than one lens model You may have to scroll the list to see more lens models Tap Done The Lens Model Filter is applied to the album The display pane now shows the selected photos The control pane shows the album properties with one of the chosen lens models next to the Lens Model Filter Tap ES to return to the list of albums 9 5 Star Rating Filter The Star Rating Filter allows you to select photos according to their IPTC Star Rating To set a value for the Star Rating Filter from the display of album properties follow the steps below i Tap Star Rating Filter The display pane shows thumbnails of all the available photos that is photos selected by any other filters which are active The thumbnails also show the Star ratings of the photos The control pane shows a list of Star ratings from zero 5 grey stars to 5 5 orange stars Tap on a Star rating to select it A tick mark appears next to the chosen rating and the selected photos are shown in the display pane You may select more than one Star rating Note The Star rating selection box does not allow a Null selection To cancel your selection either choose another rating value or tap on Can
22. r indexing by tapping on them A tick mark appears against them 4 Tap Back to return to the settings window 5 Tap on Albums to return to the list of albums You can choose to re index at once or leave it until later To re index the photos l Tap the Ej symbol and select settings 2 Tap on Start indexing A progress bar appears while Smart Album makes a new list of photos When this is completed Smart Album shows the settings screen again 3 Tap on Albums to return to the list of albums 11 Smart Album User Guide 8 Albums An album is a collection of photos You might make an album in order to make a slideshow photobook or calendar or simply as a way of organizing your photos Smart Album shows a list of your albums in the control pane You can choose to display the albums in alphabetical order by tapping on All in the bottom tab bar or you can display them in time order by tapping on Recent You can make changes to the order of the albums under Recent as follows 1 Tap on Edit in the top tab bar The Edit albums screen appears in the control pane 2 Drag the icon next to an album name to drag the album to a new position in the list 3 Tap on Done in the top tab bar to return to the album list Note that the order of albums under All in not altered by changes made under Recent An album has the following properties Album Properties Name The name that you give the album Cover Photo A t
23. rst reduce it to one star then tap on the single remaining star 5 To work with another photo either scroll the photos by dragging them or tap on the backwards or forwards DA buttons on the overlay 6 Browsing and Searching Your Photos Smart Album offers several ways to quickly and conveniently look through your photos Note that while browsing or searching you can save the current selection of photos as an album at any time by tapping the menu button ES on the tab bar and selecting Save as album You can also edit the tags or the Star ratings of the current selection at any time by tapping on the J icon on the top tab bar of the display pane 6 1 Browsing by Tag You can quickly browse through your photos by using tags also known as keywords Favourite Tags As you work with tags Smart Album notes which tags you use and displays the most used tags at the top of the tag list By default Smart Album displays the ten most used tags but you can change this See Section 14 Preferences Combining Tags You can combine tags using the boolean AND and OR functions To see what this means suppose you have photos of two people Ann and Bill Some photos are of Ann some are of Bill and some are of them both together To see ALL the photos of Ann and Bill you use the combination Ann OR Bill This may seem odd at first but remember you are asking Smart Album to show the photos tagged with either Ann or Bill The effect of
24. s clownfish COW 2 photos crab photos The combination shown here selects photos which are tagged both with animals and with birds but the red Exclude button next to birds means that photos tagged with birds are excluded The selection will then shows all photos of animals which are not birds So why are some photos of birds still visible Because they have not yet been assigned the birds tag 5 To cancel the current selection tap on Reset at the bottom of the display pane 6 2 Browsing by Star Rating You can browse your photos by star rating You can apply this filter to all your photos or to the currently selected album l Go to the Album list or the Browse Tags list on the control panel 2 Tap Star Rating on the tab bar of the display pane A window opens and shows an Activate button 3 Tap on Activate The window shows a list of star ratings from zero to five as shown below 9 Smart Album User Guide Photos 2004 Ak Photos 2005 o w Mm Photos 2013 Xx x predator P 4 j 2 on 8 el 172 PS y a The Star Rating window The gobal Star Rating filter 1s applied using the current values of star rating shown in the window The display pane shows thumbnails of the selected photos The Star Rating button changes colour to yellow to indicate that the Star Rating filter 1s active Select the star ratings that you wish to use by tapping on them A tick mark appe
25. s an indication that unused tags are available to be deleted To delete a tag 1 3 4 Tap on the fi icon A list of unused tags is shown in the control pane with a button to the right of each tag Delete the unwanted tag by tapping the button A confirmation button appears to the left of the tag Tap the EJ button The tag is deleted If you decide not to delete the tag tap on Done at the top of the control pane 5 Rating Your Photos with Star Ratings Smart Album offers two modes of assigning start ratings to your photos batch mode and single photo mode Smart Album User Guide 5 1 Batch Mode Rating Batch mode Star rating makes it easy to assign a star rating to an entire group of photos in one operation It is accessed from the albums display You first select the album that you want to work with then 1 5 Tap on the tag icon PA on the top tab bar of the display pane The control pane shows a list of your keyword tags Tap on Star rating at the bottom of the display pane The list of keyword tags 1s replaced by a list of star ratings Use the Range select and Single select buttons as described in Photo Selection Modes to select the photos you wish to assign a rating to The thumbnails are highlighted with a yellow border and their current star ratings are shown on the thumbnails The ratings currently assigned to these photos are also indicated on the list of star ratings by a blue d
26. tag list The onscreen keyboard appears a Creating New Tags Type in the name of the new tag As you type Smart Album searches the list of tags and displays only those which match the text in the search box At the same time a button Create tag appears at the top of the tag list b When you have finished typing in the name tap on the Create tag button If you are working in slideshow mode the new tag is immediately assigned to the photo on display c If you decide not to create the tag you can erase the tag name either by pressing the backspace key on the keyboard or by tapping the button on the search box 7 When you have finished working with tags you can either switch to allocating star ratings by tapping on Star rating at the bottom of the display pane or you can return to the album list by tapping on Done at the top of the display pane 4 2 Tagging Single Photos Single photos can of course be tagged using the batch mode process described above but it can be more convenient to use the method describe here 1 Tap on a thumbnail The photo is shown in the display pane 2 Tap on the photo The slideshow overlay appears showing among other things the tags assigned to the photo 3 Tap on Edit tags in the top tab bar The list of tags appears Any tags currently assigned to the current photo are highlighted with the blue dot You may have to scroll to see them all 4 To assign a tag to the current
27. ted information in 10 Smart Album User Guide e Making an Album e Keyword Tag Filters 7 Re indexing the Photos Smart Album is informed by iOS whenever there are any changes to the contents of the Photo Library This can happen for example when you synchronise photos with iTunes transfer photos with the camera connection kit take a photo take a screen shot or when you export an album to the Photo Library When this happens Smart Album will automatically make a new list of photos by re indexing the Photo Library However if you make changes to the metadata of the photos for example by tagging the photos on your pc Smart Album will inform you that it wants to re index the Photo Library by showing a symbol at the top of the control pane If Smart Album notices that a photo is missing from its list then as well as asking you to re index the photos it will display a missing photo thumbnail in place of the missing photo as shown below Albums gt Recent albums Photos 2013 gt Photos 2012 Photos 2011 gt Photos 2010 b Photos 2009 gt ms i nann oN The missing photo thumbnails indicate that Smart Album cannot find some photos When re indexing the photos you can select which sources to include in the new index by following these steps l Tap the Y symbol in the top tab bar and select settings 2 Tap on Sources to index A list of sources appears in the control pane 3 Select the sources fo
28. ting Sort old to new and Sort new to old No sorting The photos are in fact sorted but by the date given them by the operating system This could be the date when they were last edited It is not the creation date from the EXIF properties Sort old to new This sorts the photos by the time they were taken using the ExifDateTimeOriginal property Sort old to new Sorts the photos by the time they were taken using the ExifDateTimeOriginal property The default is No sorting b Choose the order you want by tapping on it Tap ES The control pane shows the album properties again Add one or more filters to the album a Tap Adda filter A list of available filter types appears They are Album Filter Camera Model Filter Date filter Keywords Filter Lens Model Filter and Star Rating Filter b Choose the filter types you want by tapping on them A tick mark appears next to the chosen filter type You may choose more than one Tap Done The control pane now lists the filter types you have chosen and a reminder that you have not set a value for the filters as shown below 13 Smart Album User Guide Cancel Camera Model Filter no value Keywords Filter no value Lens Model Filter no value Star Rating Filter no value Add a filter Four filters have been created for the album but none of them has been given a value yet so they are not active When you start to add values Smart Alb
29. um will require that you begin with the filter at the top of the list in this case the camera model filter 7 Set values for the filters For details on how to do this see the section on Filters 8 2 Saving an Album Smart Album automatically saves any albums that you make They remain on the device until you delete them 8 3 Exporting to the Photo Library You can export an album to the Photo Library by following these steps 1 Goto the list of albums 2 Select the album from the list by tapping its name The album name is highlighted 3 Tap the button on the top right corner of the diplay pane A dialog box appears and asks if you want to export the album to the Photo Library 4 Tap onthe album name in the dialog box The album is exported A progress bar appears in the display pane while the album is being exported 8 4 Changing the Properties of an Album You can change any of the properties of an album For example you can give it a new name or change the selected photos by changing the values of the filters 1 Go to the list of albums on the control pane 2 Tap Edit 3 Select the album that you want to change by tapping its name The album properties appear in the control pane 14 Smart Album User Guide Tap on the property that you wish to change The details of that property are shown in the control pane and you can set them as explained in the relevant sections For further details see e Name the a
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