I find it really irritating that Aperture photos sent to Flickr now turn up as duplicates in smart albums. Is there any way of excluding them?
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I find it really irritating that Aperture photos sent to Flickr now turn up as duplicates in smart albums. Is there any way of excluding them?
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David, can you answer a couple of questions that might help to understand the issue?
1. What are the criteria used in the Smart Album?
2. How were the photos uploaded to Flickr? Via Aperture’s Flickr uploader or another way?
Thomas
Thomas
One example is the ‘portfolio’ type albums that select ***** plus a keyword; eg ***** Street Images. The select is on the whole library. The duplicates do not show up back in their original albums and hence selects from projects are immune.
David
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Thomas
Sorry, yes, and using the Aperture Flickr uploader.
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David,
Most likely the files you are uploading to flickr are smaller in size, so you can filter your Smart Album to exclude images not above a certain dimension (i.e. 1000 pixels wide)
Unfortunately “published to flickr” isn’t a search criteria :(
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
@PhotoJoseph
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I accidentally found something that might help exclude photos synced back from Flickr, MobileMe, and Facebook. Those words appear in the Project Path since technically they are not in a real project (or something - I’m taking a guess here).
In your search criteria, open the Add Rule menu and select Aperture Metadata if Aperture is not already a rule in your search. Use these settings:
Project Path -> is not empty and does not include -> flickr
The first two items are selected from a popup menu and the search term is typed. You can replace “flickr” with “MobileMe” or “Facebook” to exclude those.
Another use of this is to actually find those images synced from flickr. Change the second popup menu to “includes”.
Thomas
Very cool Thomas!
Would you like to post a tip to this effect? We have a place for that… apertureexpert.com/user-tips/.
Great!
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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Thanks chaps!
Joseph’s idea was an inspired workaround, but Thomas’s cunning plan is rather neat.
It only leaves the residual question of how to filter them out of albums using ‘Any’ rather than ‘All’ criteria, but surely Apple will be dealing with more complex selections in smart albums soon.
cheers
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