iPhoto ‘09: Find photos that contain multiple people

With the new Faces functionality in iPhoto ‘09 it is easy to tag and identify “who” is in each of your photos.  With a Smart Album, it’s easy to recall photos that contain 1 or more people in them.

Once you have face tagged a portion of your photos, create a Smart Album.  In the Smart Album choose the Name field. For the condition field choose is.  You can now specify the name of a person from your Faces data.  Next, click on the Plus sign to add another line item, again choosing Name and entering the name of another person.  Make sure before you save that the Match condition is set to all.  This will make sure that this search contains both people you listed.

Here’s a sample of the smart album:

Click OK and you’ll have a smart album that will show you all the photos that contain those 2 people in them.

You can of course add more people if you wish.

TIP: A shortcut to creating the smart album is to just go to your Faces screen, select all the people you want included in the search from the cork board by CMD + clicking them, then simply drag the people to the iPhoto sidebar.  This will create the Smart Album for you.  However, by default this sets the album to the any Match, which means it will find all photos that contain any of the people.  Simply right click on the Smart Album and choose Edit, and change the any to all in the Match field.