Smart Albums

Benjamin311

• March 03, 2015 12:09

I've been trying to set up a smart album using one of the presets, colour tag = red. It all works fine, so long as the folder that I'm shooting into is selected as the Capture Folder. If I then create a new folder within the session folder, and set this as the capture folder, the previous red tags from the previous folder disappear from the smart album and only the tags from the current capture folder appear.

Is there a way of setting up a Smart Album so that all of the red tags get put into the album even if the various folders within the session are NOT selected as the Capture Folder?

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  SFA

  • March 03, 2015 12:47

  Benjamin,
  
  A Smart Album is a virtual album - basically a preset search filter. It works with which ever images are available to it according to your folder selection(s).
  
  Try the All Images default selection, for example. Of course this may also pick images from other folders in the session that you do not require but that's a different problem and a Workflow question.
  
  
  HTH.
  
  
  Grant

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  Benjamin311

  • March 03, 2015 13:23

  Hi Grant,
  
  Thanks for your reply.
  
  I tried out what you said, and found that if you add each folder as a Session Favorite, then the Smart Album filtering seem to work and pick out each reg tag from each separate folders irregardless of whether it's set to a capture folder or not.
  
  Ben

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  SFA

  • March 03, 2015 13:47

  Hi Ben,
  
  You're right, I should have mentioned favourite folders as being part of the functionality. At the time I had a session with no favourite folder open so was reluctant to rely on my memory alone.
  
  In fact it looks a bit more nuanced than that in that if any of the folders in the Favourites list have filters applied it's the filtered result that becomes the basis of the Smart Album results - or at least that's how it seems. I have to admit that my use of smart filters is not extensive. The same goes for Capture folder activity - not something I regularly use at this time.
  
  
  Grant

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  Matt Coats

  • March 03, 2015 14:30

  I have also found that if you have empty folders before populated folders the results will be thrown off.
  Example:
  In Favorites:
  Capture (Empty, created default capture folder when creating session)
  00PRELIGHT
  00010_RAW
  00020_RAW
  00030_RAW
  
  In Smart Album:
  Images from 00PRELIGHT, 00020_RAW, and 00030_RAW .... but 00010_RAW images are omitted.
  
  Delete 'Capture' from favorites, and 00010_RAW images iare now in Smart Album.

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