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Stack or unstack photos – Adobe Elements Organizer 9 User Manual

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USING ELEMENTS 9 ORGANIZER

Managing files and catalogs

Last updated 9/12/2011

Many actions applied to a collapsed stack, such as editing, e-mailing, printing, and so forth, are applied to the
topmost item only. (However, if you move a collapsed stack, all the photos in the stack move.) To apply an action
to all the photos in a stack, expand or unstack the photos and select all of the photos individually. To apply an action
to some photos in a stack, expand the stack and select those photos individually.

If you apply a tag to a collapsed stack, the tag is applied to all items in the stack. When you search for the tag, all
items in the stack appear individually in the search results. If you want to apply a tag to only one or a few photos in
a stack, expand the stack and then apply the tag to those photos.

A stack can contain a version set. If you edit an original photo that’s already in a stack, Elements

Organizer

automatically creates a version set with the original photo and its edited copy. The version set is nested in the
original stack. It’s also possible to manually stack existing version sets.

You can access all stack commands by right-clicking/ctrl-clicking or by using the Edit menu.

More Help topics

About version sets

” on page 108

About albums

” on page 70

Stack or unstack photos

In the Media Browser, do one of the following:

To stack photos, select the images you want to stack; then right-click/ctrl-click the photo you want on top of the
stack and choose Stack

> Stack Selected Photos from the context menu.

To unstack photos, right-click/ctrl-click the stack and choose Stack

> Unstack Photos.

You can also access these commands from the Edit menu.

Stack visually similar photos automatically (Windows)

Elements

Organizer can automatically stack photos that are visually similar and taken during short time intervals. For

example, if you take a series of photos of one person in rapid succession, or take pictures of the same objects with
different light settings, Elements

Organizer can group the photos and suggest a stack.

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