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Lightroom Tip O' the Week
Stacks are pretty cool … I use them quite a bit while I shuffle around images in Library mode.
There’s a very nice shortcut for creating and collapsing stacks that I’m totally digging lately … it’s ultra-simple:
- Select the images you would like to stack (selections can be in or out of sequence)
- Press Command+g (mac) or Ctrl+g (pc)
… to collapse the stack:
- Select the first image in the stack
- Press Command+shift+g (mac) or Ctrl+shift+g (pc)
{here’s the kicker: does not work on virtual copies, but if you commit those virtual copies, you’re back in business}
|Brandon Oelling
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I don't know what you mean by "the kicker: does not work on virtual copies". As I'm sure you know new Virtual Copies are automatically stacked with their parent image...
I love your tip to export virtual copies to DNG to create real copy that doesn't have the size and destructive edit baggage of a TIFF file. For me that's the REAL tip o the week!
I was referring to item #1 whereby if you try to pick virtual copies from different parent images and try to stack them together.
Example:
Say you have 5 virtual copies in a collection titled 'my collection'. If you try to create some stacks from a sub selection of those 5 images Lightroom will not allow it.
Anyone else seeing these similar limitation(s)?
To get virtual copies to stack (with other, different virtual copies), you have to unstack them from their initial, default stacks with their originals. Once they've been unstacked, I'm able to stack them with other virtual copies as if they were regular images.
I did get an error saying that "Stacks cannot contain photos that are stored in different folders" the first time I tried. So, for some reason, all images in a stack must be in the same real folder. I'm not sure why that limitation exists. When I placed the photos in the same folder, I was able to stack them.
-Scott
So what I am noticing based on my suggested workflow in my comment regarding a collection ...
... unless you unstack first, any collections that include ONLY the virtual copies from images that are still 'unstacked' in the 'all photographs view' will require you to go back and 'unstack'.
Yes I know ... in words it sounds a bit goofy ...
Ahhh, I get it now. I rarely have need to do that anyway.
When I first started with lightroom I was annoyed that I couldn't stack images from different folders. My workflow used to include multiple subfolders in each main folder to house work in various states of completion (eg. Raw, Converted, Sharpened for Print, etc.). Since switching to Lightroom I have gone away from doing that and now just use different flags, stars, and stacks to do the same thing. Generally the top image in a stack is the completed image...
I did get an error saying that "Stacks cannot contain photos that are stored in different folders" the first time I tried. So, for some reason, all images in a stack must be in the same real folder. I'm not sure why that limitation exists. When I placed the photos in the same folder, I was able to stack them.
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Pretty nifty shortcuts but im still working out the full extend of the benefits...how embarrasing.
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Brilliant idea.
Note to self, remember the shortcuts.
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