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Stacking images (which had been a feature in folders) has finally made its way to
collections. With stacking, now we can group similar-looking images together within
our collections, so we have less scrolling through the grid with big shoots. It works like
this: Say you had 22 shots of the bride in pretty much the same pose. Do you really
need to see those 22 shots all the time? Probably not. With Stacks, you can tuck those
22 thumbnails behind just one thumbnail, which represents the rest. That way, you
don't have to scroll through 22 nearly identical thumbnails to get to your other images.
Using Stacks
Step One:
Here, we've imported images from a studio
shoot, and you can see what I was talking
about above, where there are several shots
that include the same pose. Seeing all these
photos at once just adds clutter and makes
finding your “keepers” that much more of
a task. So, we're going to group similar poses
into a stack with just one thumbnail show-
ing. The rest of the photos are collapsed
behind that photo. Start by clicking on the
first photo of a similar pose (as seen high-
lighted here), then press-and-hold the Shift
key and click on the last photo that has the
same pose (as shown here) to select them
all (you can also select photos in the Film-
strip, if you prefer).
Step Two:
Now press
Command-G (PC: Ctrl-G)
to
put all your selected photos into a stack
(this keyboard shortcut is easy to remember,
if you think of G for Group). If you look in
the grid now, you can see there's just one
thumbnail visible with that pose. It didn't
delete or remove those other photos—they
stacked behind that one thumbnail (in a
computery, technical, you'll-just-have-to-
trust-that's-what's-happening kind of way).
Look how much more manageable things
are now that those five photos are collapsed
down to one.
