Stacking photos?

[spud1]

Is there anyway to stack a group of photos like some other orangizers can do? I have used the stack feature in Photoshop Elements and find it useful - just don't like the other feature in PSE organizer.

[xnview]

Is there anyway to stack a group of photos like some other orangizers can do? I have used the stack feature in Photoshop Elements and find it useful - just don't like the other feature in PSE organizer.

Could you tell me more about this feature?

[spud1]

Sure can. Stacks allow you to select a group of related photos and "stack" them on top of each other. These stacks are usually 1) a group of photos of the same subject taken about the same time, or 2) copies of one photo that has been edited various times. You can also just select a group of random photos and select to "stack" them up together. The advantage of stacks is that the photos take up much less space on the screen and they are grouped for easy management. The top photo in the stack is the photo that is used for the thumbnail. There are hot keys to stack and unstack photos quickly. There is also the ability in some programs like Adobe Lightroom that allow stacks to automatically be created based on the time frame of a group of photos.

Here is some additional reference info:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pselem ... stacks.htm
http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/display/LR/ ... e+-+Basics
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/PhotoshopEl ... -7f62.html

Love your program!
Thanks

[JohnFredC]

Spud1 has included extremely complete references for stacking.

I would only add that LightRoom allows the user to "unstack" and "restack" the stack in-place in the thumbnail grid. The "top" thumb displays the number of stacked images. Clicking the number shown in the thumb toggles between displaying just the top thumb and all of the thumbs. Rearranging the images in the stack (such as changing the "top" or displayed image) is accomplished first by expanding the stack first (click the number), then by dragging the thumbs into the new sequence, then finally by collapsing the stack (by clicking the number displayed in any of the "un-stacked" thumbs). A very straight-forward implementation.

Stacking is also a great way of dealing with thumbs of an image that has different "virtual" versions, should XnView ever implement versioning.

One might ask, if I like LightRoom so much, why do I use XnView? XnView is about an "100 times" faster than LightRoom. Speed counts, big-time!

[XnTriq]

• O'Reilly Digital Media Blogs
  • Inside Aperture
    • Compare, Select, and Rate
      The One
    Inside Lightroom
    • Stack Mode
      Using Stacks
      Lightroom's Organizing Features – Part I
      Lightroom vs. Aperture: Versions and Stacking
      Speeding Browsing by Using Stacks
      Lightroom's Organizing Features – Part Deux
      Creating and Using Stacks

[JohnFredC]

Dear Librarian,

I promise to avoid such silly phrases as "extremely complete" in the future. My humble apologies!

[XnTriq]

Dear Librarian,

I promise to avoid such silly phrases as "extremely complete" in the future. My humble apologies!

John, you got me laughing so hard (about myself), I almost fell off my high horse!

Seriously, though: If it wasn't for your “proselytizing”, odds are that to this day I still wouldn't have heard the news about the brave new world of non-destructive versioning.
You provide us with an invaluable service by sharing your insight on XnView's high-end competitors.

And now back to our regular-scheduled program...

[JohnFredC]

Thanks for your kind remarks. Not all forums are as tolerant to my suggestions as you guys are. I like it here!

[helmut]

Thanks for your kind remarks. Not all forums are as tolerant to my suggestions as you guys are. I like it here!

Thank you for your accolade. Good to have valuable members like you around in the XnView forum, John.

Offtopic:
Some thoughts regarding contributions:
As you might notice, there's sometimes a gap between some of the discussions here in the forum and the XnView reality. Please understand that:
- Sometimes it's hard to describe and discuss a suggestions.
- It's sometimes hard to see the value/benefit of a suggestion.
- Last not least it needs time for Pierre to implement all those suggestions.
This gap should not prevent you and other members from discussing things, but we all might need quite some patience till larger things are finally implemented.