Be More Specific: Specifying Multiple Criteria

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They’re alive. iPhoto is always watching. If you import photos that meet a smart album’s criteria, iPhoto adds those photos to the album. iPhoto may also add to a smart album when you edit photo information. For example, if you change a photo’s title to Beach picnic, iPhoto adds the photo to any smart album set up to search for beach in the title.

From smart to dumb. You can’t turn a smart album into a static one (unlike iTunes, iPhoto doesn’t provide a Live Updating check box). Here’s a workaround. Click the smart album in the Albums list, then select all the photos in the ...

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