Searching for Adjusted Photos

Want to quickly and easily locate all the photos in a project that you’ve spent some time adjusting? Aperture makes it easy, by allowing you to search for photos based on the adjustments that have been applied.

  1. Open the project or album you want to search, so that its thumbnails appear in the Browser.
  2. Click the Query HUD button (the icon with the magnifying glass) next to the search field on the top right side of the Browser. This opens the Query HUD.
  3. Click the Add Filter (+) pop-up menu in the upper right corner of the Query HUD and choose Adjustments. This adds Adjustments as a search parameter in the HUD.
  4. Set the Adjustments search parameter pop-up menu to “are applied.”
  5. Close the Query HUD by clicking the close button in the upper left corner of the HUD.
Smart Settings HUD

Your photos are automatically filtered so that only the images you’ve adjusted appear in the project or album. To see all images again, click the small x in the Browser search field to clear the query.

You can use this same technique on your entire Aperture library to see all the photos you’ve adjusted in all projects at once. Just click All Photos near the top of the Projects pane, and then filter the images in the Browser using the Query HUD, following the steps shown here.