LIBRARY - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3: Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process - page 98

h is can cause trouble: you could easily apply changes to photos that you didn't
mean to. Pay careful attention to which images are selected at all times, and be
deliberate in making your selections.

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⌘ +Click or Ctrl+Click
To add to or subtract from a selection hold the ⌘ or Ctrl key and click additional
thumbnails in either the Grid or Filmstrip.

Shit
To add a contiguous range of photos to a selection. With one image selected,
hold the Shit key on your keyboard and click another thumbnail. All the images
between the two will become selected.

With multiple photos selected, click a photo's cell (not the thumbnail preview)
to deselect all the others.

⌘ +G or
Ctrl+G
Stack
selected
photos

Grouping thumbnails into stacks
h ink of stacks like good, old-fashioned slides. Stacks save space in the Grid and
are also useful when you've shot a sequence of similar images and want to group
them together. Stacking images can save time during editing.

⌘ +Shift+G
or
Ctrl+Shift+G
Unstack
selected
photos

Examples: many landscape photographers ot en capture a sequence of photos,
all with the same composition, with only the light in the scene changing over
time. Portrait photographers might have a series of shots that all have very minor
dif erences in the pose of the subject.

By stacking these kinds of shots together you can clean up the thumbnail Grid
view, signii cantly reducing distraction during editing. Later, when you're ready to
choose the champion shot (the winner between several competing shots) expand
the stack to i nish editing those photos. h en, when you're done choosing the
i nal selects, you can unstack the photos, or move the champion to the top of the
stack and collapse it again.

Stacks can only be applied in Folder image sources.

A stack can be collapsed , which will then only show the thumbnail for the top
photo, or expanded to show all the photos in the stack; see Figures 3-27 and 3-28.

A couple of limitations: stacks are not available in collections, and a single photo can
only be a member of one stack. If you try to make a stack and it doesn't work, it's
likely because the current source doesn't allow stacking or that one or more of the
images already belongs to another stack.