Grouping photos in stacks, About stacks – Adobe Elements Organizer 9 User Manual
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USING ELEMENTS 9 ORGANIZER
Managing files and catalogs
Last updated 9/12/2011
2 Do one of the following:
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Press Delete on your keyboard.
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If you selected one item, choose Edit > Delete From Catalog. You can also right-click/ctrl-click and choose Delete
From Catalog.
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If you selected multiple items, choose Edit > Delete Selected Items From Catalog. You can also right-click/ctrl-click
and choose Delete Selected Items From Catalog.
3 To delete the original file, select the Also Delete Selected Item(s) From The Hard Disk option, and click OK.
Grouping photos in stacks
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 in one place, and they reduce clutter in the Media Browser. When you
search for photos, the top photo in a stack appears with the stack icon
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For example, create a stack to group together multiple photos of your family taken with the same pose; or, for example,
photos taken at a sports event using your camera’s burst mode or auto-bracket feature. Generally, when you take
photos this way, you end up with many similar variations of the same photo, but only really want the best one to appear
in the Media Browser. Stacking the photos lets you easily access them all in one place instead of scattered across rows
of thumbnails.
Stacking photos saves space and keeps related photos together.
Note: Stacks are useful for managing and finding versions of the same photo. Albums are more suitable as containers for
photos grouped by subject, event, holiday, or whatever grouping you want.
Tips for working with stacks
Keep these points in mind when working with stacks:
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By default, the newest photo is placed on top of the stack. You can specify a new top photo by right-clicking a photo
in a stack that you want on top, and selecting Stack
> Set As Top Photo.
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Combining two or more stacks merges them to form one new stack. (The original stacks are not preserved.) The
newest photo, or the photo that was selected before merging stacks, is placed on top of the stack.
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To locate all stacked photos, choose Find
> All Stacks.