The easiest way to expand and collapse stacks is to press the letter S on your keyboard. We can also expand stacks by going to the Photo > Stacking > Expand / Collapse options (depending upon the current status of the stack). On the thumbnail, you'll see an indicator that it's part of a larger stack. When a stack is expanded, we can see all of the individual images inside it. We can collapse the stack by pressing S again. Once you do this, all of the images in a stack are individually visible. When images are in a stack, select the stack and press the letter S on your keyboard to expand that stack. Expanding a stack doesn't remove the grouping -it just makes each of the images visible. Once your images are in stacks, you might want to view the individual images that comprise it. As I stack these images, you'll see three individual images combined into a single stack in my Lightroom catalog.
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After you've selected the images to stack, select this option to combine them.
Photostack in lightroom series#
The Photo > Stacking > Group into Stack menu option is used to combine a series of images into a single stack. Once we do that, our images will be stacked. I did this by holding Command on my keyboard ( Control on Windows) and clicking on the images to stack.Īfter we've selected the images to stack, we just need to go to the Photo > Stacking > Group into Stack menu option to combine our images. I might not want them to each be visible, so I'll combine them in a stack. The images are similar but differ slightly. In the center of Adobe Lightroom, I've selected three images that are great candidates for stacking. You can do this either in the center panel of Lightroom, or on the filmstrip at the bottom of the application.
Photostack in lightroom mac#
One great way to do this is to hold Command (⌘) on Mac ( Control on Windows) and click on several different images that we want to stack. Let's create our first stack by selecting the images to stack. To stack images, we'll be working in the Library module of Adobe Lightroom.
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To keep my Lightroom catalog nice and clean, I'll frequently use stacks to group images. Here, I've stacked three images that are very visually similar. We can stack lots of images onto a single tile so that our Lightroom catalog is much neater. Stacking images doesn't alter the original files-it only changes the way that they display in Lightroom. Think of stacking images as taking all of the playing cards on a table, and neatly stacking them into a deck. When you have a series of images that are really similar, it often makes sense to combine them into a single stack. Stacks are all about tidying up your view in Adobe Lightroom. All About Stacks in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom