Apple Aperture 3.5 - Manual (Page 93)

Chapter 4 Organize and sort photos 93
After creating a stack and selecting the pick, you can close the stack by clicking the Stack button
on the pick photo. When a stack is closed, only the stack’s pick photo appears in the Browser.
Clicking the Stack button again expands the stack.
Only the pick photo is
shown when the stack
is closed.
By closing stacks, you quickly reduce the number of photos you have to visually sort through
when selecting photos in the final photo edit.
After creating stacks, you can organize and change them as needed. You can add photos to
a stack and remove those that don’t belong. You can also split a stack into multiple stacks
if necessary.
Important: When you open an Aperture library in iPhoto, only stack picks are shown. The photos
within stacks are not shown or accessible, but they are not discarded. To work with your photos
within stacks, open the Aperture library in Aperture.
Create stacks
You can create stacks in two ways: specify that Aperture create stacks automatically, or you can
create stacks manually. For example, if you shoot a series of photos in quick succession (such
as at a sports event) or if you bracket photos to allow for differences in lighting or exposure,
you most likely will want to view those photos together. Aperture can stack those photos
automatically based on metadata recorded by the camera as the series of pictures is taken.
A series of photos taken
in quick succession.
You can also have Aperture automatically group new versions of the same photo as you
create them.
Stack photos automatically
1 In the Library inspector, select a project or an album that contains the photos you want to stack.
2 Choose Stacks > Auto-Stack (or press Option-Command-A).
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