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Timothy.Spear
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October 1, 2025
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P: Smart Album: have the field, operator and value separated and delimited

  • October 1, 2025
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I would like to have the smart album ans search criteria enhanced. I have currently run into an issue where Adobe is trying to be too smart and it has back fired on me.

 

I assign a title to all images; the title includes the year the photo was taken.

I cannot depend on capture date due to the fact many older photos do not have capture date (I started switching to digital in 2001); and I will have a project soon to scan and load old analog photos; in which case the capture will truly be useless.

 

Therefore, with smart albums or even the general filter; when I search for "2003" I get photos with a title including 2003, photos with 2003 in the file name, photos with 2003 somewhere in the meta-data.... 

 

Basically the text search is way to inclusive. Due to the limited screen real estate, I would like an advanced feature such that I can add a criteria like "title:like:2003". The idea is to have the field, operator and value separated and delimited. As more operators are added over time (such as not equal, is empty,not empty...), along with fields, this can become a very powerful tool; which would help with advanced users while not cluttering the UI.