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Create 'per film roll' Smart Albums in iPhoto Apps
This hint will allow you to have any number of the most recent film rolls, each in their own smart album. Instead of having the last X rolls all in the same Smart Album, as allowed by iPhoto (Preferences, General tab, Show last X rolls album), this hint will allow you to have, for example, five different Smart Albums, each representing one of the five most recent rolls. The end result is that there will be a Smart Album called, for example, "Second To Last Roll" which contains all of the items in the second to last film roll. I've only tried this in iPhoto '06, but it should work in '05 as well.

First, hit File: New Smart Album (or Option-Command-N). Enter "Last Roll" as the smart album name, and enter the following condition:
Roll -- is in the last -- 1 -- rolls
Make sure that is the only condition, and click "OK". This should have created a new smart album that includes only the most recent roll added to iPhoto. Next, create another smart album called "Second to Last Roll", this time entering the following conditions:
Roll -- is not in the last -- 1 -- rolls
Roll -- is in the last -- 2 -- rolls
Make sure that these are the only conditions, and then click "OK". Now you should have another smart album that includes the second to last roll added to iPhoto. If that's all you want, fine, if not, just keep on adding smart albums until you have enough. I use five recent roll smart albums. Here's another example for the third to last roll added to iPhoto:
Roll -- is not in the last -- 2 -- rolls
Roll -- is in the last -- 3 -- rolls 
Notice the pattern? If x is the number of the roll you want to use (2 for the second to last roll, 3 for the third to last, etc.), the pattern is as follows:
Roll -- is not in the last -- x-1 -- rolls
Roll -- is in the last -- x -- rolls
Enjoy!
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Create 'per film roll' Smart Albums in iPhoto
Authored by: Anonymous on Jan 19, '06 08:40:49AM

excellent hint have been wanting this for ages. Had not proded around that much with the Roll function in Smart Albums



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Auto-updating Smart Albums by date
Authored by: SeattleSeth on Jan 19, '06 09:17:40AM

This hint got me thinking about auto-udating smart albums that automatically display the previous month, six months, and year worth of pictures. The only way I can figure out how to do this is by selecting specific dates, not 'previous month'. Anyone ever do this?



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Auto-updating Smart Albums by date
Authored by: avnit on Jan 23, '06 10:27:54PM

Date -- is in the last -- BLANK -- days/weeks/months
Date -- is not in the last -- BLANK -- days/weeks/months
Got it?

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