The Bridge offers an organizational tool called an image stack.
A stack is most useful when trying to cull one or two of the best
pictures from a half dozen or more shot in a single sitting or
under similar circumstances. All photos of the bride and groom
cutting the cake in one stack, all shots of the bride dancing with
her father in another—that kind of thing. I didn’t photograph
any brides during my animal adventures with my boys, so we’ll
assemble an image stack from my children instead.- Select all pics of my children. Most likely, you don’t know my
family. So I’ll make it easy: The pics of my sons are the ones
with boy-people in them. Assuming the images are still sorted
in the custom order and you know a boy when you see one,
here’s how I recommend you select them:- Click the first thumbnail, the one of the my elder son, Max,
getting the mummy treatment (labeled ➊ in Figure 1-17 on
the next page). - Press the Shift key and click the next thumbnail—the one
with my two boys when they were small enough to fit in
the same chair (labeled ➋) to add it to the selection. - Skip the monkey (although there are days I mistake my
children for less evolved primates). Ctrl-click (�-click) the
next image, Bubbles Sam.jpg (labeled ➌), and then Ctrl-
Shift-click (�-Shift-click) Underwater Sam.jpg to select the
range of thumbnails in between (labeled ➍ in the figure).
You should now have nine images selected. - Skip the next four nonhuman creatures, and then perform
the same Ctrl-click, Ctrl-Shift-click (�-click, �-Shift-click)
operation to add the last four images to the selection (la-
beled ➎ and ➏ in the figure on the next page).
- Click the first thumbnail, the one of the my elder son, Max,
Figure 1-16.Organizing and Examining Photos 21