Adlan Chaykin has created a Smart Album in Photos for macOS that contains all his screenshots, using criteria to select them.
However, I would also like to have another Smart Album that contains all of my non-screenshot photos. There is no “Album is not <smart album>” option in the criteria field.
Apple has left out a few conditionals for Smart Albums that would make a world of difference in improving how powerful the feature is for selecting images. You can’t create this effect automatically, but you can handle it manually with a little extra jiggery-pokery. You’ll wind up with three Smart Albums:
- Your original with screenshots, which we will call “Screenshots” for reference.
- One that’s keyword tagged that we’ll call “Not Screenshots.”
- One that’s a duplicate of “Screenshots” smart criteria but also isn’t tagged with a keyword, which we’ll call “Screenshots to Tag.”
Follow these steps:
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