Finding everyone's frames
Once the circles are there, one click narrows the pass to a person's frames, and the pass stays that way until you put the person down. This page covers the click, the chip it leaves, how a person combines with the other ways of narrowing the pass, and finding a named person through search.
One click, one person
Click a circle in the People section and the pass narrows to that person's frames, on top of whatever else is already narrowing it: with Takes chosen, a click on Maya's circle gives her takes, not all her frames. It works in whichever view you are in: on Single the arrows step through their frames; on Frames the sheet shows only them. With All chosen and no other chip on the views line, those are every frame the person is in. A chip appears on the views line under the photograph with the person's name, or Unnamed, and an ×. The circle itself does not light up: the chip is the one place the pass is stated. Every frame shown has that person's face in it.
Counting a person's frames
The number under a circle leaves the bin out. The pass does not: under All it keeps the person's rejected frames, drawn faint, as it keeps every rejected frame. So on Frames the sheet's count line — 61 of 127 frames · 3 sessions, with sessions and stacks named when there are any — can read more than the circle. Choose Undecided, Takes or Holds and the rejected frames drop out; choose Rejects and the bin shows only that person's rejected frames.
Putting the person down
Any of three:
- click the same circle again;
- click the × on the chip;
- click All frames at the top of the Groups pane, which puts the person and every other chip down and sets the state back to All.
All frames leaves an open proposal pass as it is; the pass's own chip puts that down. Narrowing the pass has the rest.
Clicking a different circle swaps one person for the other. The circles select one person at a time.
Narrowing further
Everything on the views line works together. Takes with Maya up is Maya's takes; Undecided with Maya up is her frames still to decide. A rating from the ★ menu, a colour label from the ● menu, a place, a search — each one narrows the same pass further. The chips these leave, the person's included, carry no number of their own. The counts are on the pass chips and on the rows of the ★ and ● menus, and each says what clicking it would show with the person still applied. The Organise and filter pane lists the person, place, mark and search chips, each with its own ×, and Clear filters takes them all down at once and leaves the state.
Searching by name
Search reaches a named person too. Press ⌘K and type person: followed by any part of the name — person:maya; capitals do not matter. The results appear as you type, counted under the list. Search looks through the whole library, the bin included, so its count can be larger than the circle's.
Only named people can be found this way. An unnamed person has no name to compare the text against; name the circle first and the term starts answering for their frames. Text that matches no name reads No frames match yet.
The term combines with the others: person:maya status:pick is her takes (search spells a take pick), person:maya rating:>=4 her frames rated four stars and up, and person:maya AND person:leo the frames with both of them in.
Opening a search as a pass
Open as pass, or ↩, closes the search, switches to Frames — from Single too — and puts the results on the views line as a search chip, which reads the search's text rather than the person's name. It is not the pass a click on the circle opens. The chip holds the frames that matched at the moment you opened it, and they are never looked up again: a frame of Maya's that arrives afterwards — a new card copied in, a face pinned to her with This is Maya — does not join it. Like every chip it narrows together with the rest of the views line, so under All any of her rejected frames among the results stay in, faint, and under Takes only her takes show. Its own ×, or All frames, puts it down.
Save this search… in ⌘K keeps the search's text under a name in the Saved searches section of the Groups pane, with a live count. Opening it from there runs the search again, so it finds her frames as they are now, and it too switches to Frames.
Sessions named after people
Once people have names, those names reach the sessions. A session's name on Frames grouped by session, and on its session card, carries up to three named people with the most frames in it, with the time of day and the place where those are known: Maya and Noah · afternoon · Rome, Italy. Sessions has the rule. Unnamed people never appear in a session's name.