I'm trying to create a smart album that has "face is" with each member of my family the date range is a given year. In other words I'm trying to create a "yearly" smart album of just my immediate family members. I have used:
Face is Me
Face is Daughter
Face is Wife
with the ANY option selected.
But then when I add the date range line of 1/1/2013 to 12/31/2013 I get all pictures in 2013 and I just want the ones with faces.
Any ideas? In math I'm looking for (x or yor z) AND (date = this year) and I'm getting x or y or z OR date = this year.
Best Answer
It's not possible with iPhoto smart albums because you can't combine a conjunction with a disjunction in the same smart folder. This would work, in a convoluted way, if iPhoto let you use a smart folder as an input, but unfortunately it doesn't (i.e., Album is MY_SMART_XYZ_ALBUM AND date is 2013). iTunes can do this, but apparently not iPhoto. Theoretically, it's possible to create "dumb" albums with smart contents in Automator, though. It should also be possible to filter a conjunctive set of elements with a subsequent disjunctive criterion. But I'm not sure how fast this would perform.