Once you’ve put in all the time required to flag, caption, rate, and people-tag your pictures, you’re finally ready to enjoy the fruits of your labors. You can round up certain photos with ridiculous amounts of specificity (Figure 17-13).
On the Ribbon, click the Find tab. Build your search like this:
Pinpoint the date of the desired photos using the Dates, Months, and Years pop-up menus. You can click, say, the 2012 icon to see just the ones you took during that year.
Pinpoint who’s in the photos by clicking the thumbnail headshots.
Pinpoint the descriptive tags using the Tags pop-up menu.
Pinpoint the photos you’ve flagged using the Flagged pop-up menu.
Use the Published, Edited, and “Media type” pop-up menus to further characterize the pix you’re looking for.
Using the “Text search” icon, find photos according to the text associated with them: their names, captions, geotags, or folder locations (that is, their folder paths).
As you type, you filter the thumbnails down to just the pictures that match what you’ve typed so far. You don’t have to finish a word, press Enter, or use wildcard characters (*).
You can type two words (or parts of words) to find pictures that match both. To find all photos of Zelda in Brazil, typing zel br will probably do the trick.
Only beginnings of words count. Typing llweg won’t find pictures of Renee Zellweger, but zell will.
Here’s the crazy thing: You can combine all of these search techniques. For example, you can click the Casey tag, and then choose the five-star rating, to find only the very best pictures of Casey. You could then even choose “2014” from the Years icon to further restrict the photos you’re seeing.
But why stop there? Then choose Video from the “Media type” pop-up menu, and now you’re seeing only the five-star videos of Casey in 2014.