- Import Images
- Understand the Organizer Work Area
- Work in the Media Browser
- Rate Photos
- Review Photos Full Screen
- Use Stacks to Organize Similar Photos
- Create Keyword Tags
- Use Keyword Tags to Sort and Identify Photos
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Use Stacks to Organize Similar Photos
You’ve spent a day at Yosemite shooting picture after picture, and when you return home in the evening and download all of those photos to your Media Browser, you realize you have about a dozen shots of the same waterfall—some lit a little differently than others, some with different zoom settings, but all similar.
Stacks serve as a convenient way to group those related photos together. They not only save valuable space in the Media Browser, they also make assigning tags much faster, because tagging a stack automatically tags every photo in the stack. When you’re ready to take a careful look at all of those waterfalls and weed out the greats from the not-so-greats, you simply expand the stack to view all of the stacked photos at once.
To create a stack:
In the Media Browser, select the photos you want to include in a stack (FIGURE 3.27).
FIGURE 3.27 Select similar photos to organize them into a stack.
Choose Edit > Stack > Stack Selected Photos, or press Ctrl+Alt+S/Command+Option+S.
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The photos are stacked together, indicated by a Stack icon in the upper-right corner of the top photo in the stack (FIGURE 3.28).
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FIGURE 3.28 When stacked, the photos occupy just one thumbnail and gain the Stack icon.
To automatically suggest stacks:
Select a group of images.
Choose Edit > Stack > Automatically Suggest Photo Stacks.
Click Stack to combine a row of photos into a new photo stack (FIGURE 3.29).
FIGURE 3.29 Let the Organizer automatically suggest stacks.
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To view all photos in a stack:
Choose View > Details to show the photos with details visible, if they aren’t already. A stack can only be expanded when Details is active.
Click the arrow icon at the right of the stack (FIGURE 3.30). Or, choose Edit > Stack > Expand Photos In Stack (press Ctrl+Alt+R/Command+Option+R). The photos in the stack appear (FIGURE 3.31).
FIGURE 3.30 When Details is active, the stack’s expansion arrow is visible.
FIGURE 3.31 An expanded stack reveals the photos that have been grouped together.
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To unstack photos in a stack:
Choose Edit > Stack > Unstack Photos.
The stacked photos return to their original locations in the Media Browser.
To flatten a stack:
If you’re certain you don’t want any photo in a stack except for the top one, you can “flatten” the stack and delete the others. Choose Edit > Stack > Flatten Stack.
In the dialog that appears, click OK to delete all of the photos except for the top photo in the stack (FIGURE 3.32).
FIGURE 3.32 A warning reminds you that you are about to delete all but the top photo in your stack.
You can also choose to delete the associated image files from the disk.
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VIDEO 3.3
Display and Change Information for Photos