Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC - Manual (Page 125)

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Organizing photos
Last updated 4/20/2015
About stacks
You can create stacks to group a set of visually similar photos together, making them easy to manage. Stacks are useful
for keeping multiple photos of the same subject or a photo and its virtual copies in one place, and they reduce clutter
in the Grid view and the Filmstrip.
For example, you may want to create a stack to group multiple photos of a portrait session taken with the same pose, or
for photos taken at an event using your camera’s burst mode or auto-bracket feature. When you take photos this way,
you end up with many similar variations of the same photo, but you usually only want the best one to appear in the Grid
view or the Filmstrip. Stacking the photos lets you easily access them all in one place instead of having them scattered
across rows of thumbnails.
When grouping photos in a stack, the photos are stacked according to their sort order in the Grid view, with the active
photo at the top of the stack.
A stack is collapsed when stacked photos are grouped under the thumbnail of the top photo in the Grid view or the
Filmstrip. A stack is expanded when all photos in a stack are visible in the Grid view or the Filmstrip.
Here are a few tips for working with stacks:
• Any Develop adjustments, ratings, flags, or color labels applied to a collapsed stack affect only the photo at the top
of the stack.
• If you select a photo in a stack and add it to a Quick Collection or collection, only the selected photo is added, not
the entire stack.
• When you search for photos, the top photo in a stack shows the number of photos in the stack in the upper-left
corner.
Stack photos
1 In the Grid view or the Filmstrip in the Library module, select the photos you want to stack.
Note: Stacked photos must be located in the same folder.