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I can't seem to get this to work. They just don't show up in the list of Albums. Something similar works in iTunes, so it seems odd that you can't do it in iPhoto. Basically, I want to include all the pictures that have my daughter in them. Some are tagged with Faces and some are tagged with keywords (when her face isn't in it). I am trying to create a smart album that combines these two and then use a second smart album to only include the five star pictures in this set.
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You know smart albums can have more than one criteria, right? Create a smart album that includes Faces who are your daughter, click the plus button, and add the keyword criteria as well:
Face is <your daughter>
Keyword is <keyword>
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Originally Posted by ibook_steve 
You know smart albums can have more than one criteria, right? Create a smart album that includes Faces who are your daughter, click the plus button, and add the keyword criteria as well:
Face is <your daughter>
Keyword is <keyword>
Steve
That's what I'm doing for the first smart album. The problem is that what I need to do is:
Face is my daughter
OR
Keyword is my daughter
AND
Rating is greater than four stars
You can't combine AND and OR statements in a single Smart Album so I am trying to do it with two, which is what I commonly do in iTunes. It doesn't appear this is possible in iPhoto, unless I am missing something.
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Unless I'm missing something, OR is the same as AND in this context. If a picture has the face of your daughter (and not the keyword), you want it. If a picture has a keyword of your daughter (and is not a face), you want it. That's an AND, not an OR.
Unless what you are really saying is this:
(face AND > 4 stars) OR (keyword AND > 4 stars)
which seems to be the case from your original post. My bad. If that's the case, I'm not sure you can do that.
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Originally Posted by ibook_steve
If a picture has the face of your daughter (and not the keyword), you want it. If a picture has a keyword of your daughter (and is not a face), you want it. That's an AND, not an OR.
I'm pretty sure that's an OR, as I want the photo if either condition is met. It would be an AND if both conditions had to be met.
Originally Posted by ibook_steve
(face AND > 4 stars) OR (keyword AND > 4 stars)
That is precisely what I want. Perhaps our miscommunication is due to iPhoto/iTunes not actually using AND/OR statements. Rather they use ANY and ALL. Unfortunately, for a Smart Album you can only use ANY or ALL for every condition in the album, which is why I need to use two albums.
The first will select for ANY condition: Face is my daughter or Keyword is my daughter
The second will select from the above returned set the condition: Rating is greater than 4 stars.
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