Lightroom 3: Streamlining Your Digital Photography ... - Ken Gilbert

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LIGHTROOM® 3: STREAMLINING YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY PROCESS
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⌘+G or
Ctrl+G
Stack
selected
photos
⌘+Shift+G
or
Ctrl+Shift+G
Unstack
selected
photos
Th is can cause trouble: you could easily apply changes to photos that you didn’t
mean to. Pay careful attention to which images are selected at all times, and be
deliberate in making your selections.
⌘+Click or Ctrl+Click
To add to or subtract from a selection hold the ⌘ or Ctrl key and click additional
thumbnails in either the Grid or Filmstrip.
Shift
To add a contiguous range of photos to a selection. With one image selected,
hold the Shift key on your keyboard and click another thumbnail. All the images
between the two will become selected.
With multiple photos selected, click a photo’s cell (not the thumbnail preview)
to deselect all the others.
Grouping thumbnails into stacks
Th ink of stacks like good, old-fashioned slides. Stacks save space in the Grid and
are also useful when you’ve shot a sequence of similar images and want to group
them together. Stacking images can save time during editing.
Examples: many landscape photographers oft en capture a sequence of photos,
all with the same composition, with only the light in the scene changing over
time. Portrait photographers might have a series of shots that all have very minor
diff erences in the pose of the subject.
By stacking these kinds of shots together you can clean up the thumbnail Grid
view, signifi cantly reducing distraction during editing. Later, when you’re ready to
choose the champion shot (the winner between several competing shots) expand
the stack to fi nish editing those photos. Th en, when you’re done choosing the
fi nal selects, you can unstack the photos, or move the champion to the top of the
stack and collapse it again.
Stacks can only be applied in Folder image sources.
A stack can be collapsed, which will then only show the thumbnail for the top
photo, or expanded to show all the photos in the stack; see Figures 3–27 and 3–28.
A couple of limitations: stacks are not available in collections, and a single photo can
only be a member of one stack. If you try to make a stack and it doesn’t work, it’s
likely because the current source doesn’t allow stacking or that one or more of the
images already belongs to another stack.