Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

• Hover over the top image and click the button that ap-
  pears next to the number to see a preview slide show of the
  images in the stack. Unfortunately, the preview slide show
  is too fast to be of any real use.


• To scroll through the images in the stack at a saner pace,
  manually move the black circle to the right of the button
  along its gray track, as I’m doing in Figure 1-19. (Again, you
  need to be hovering over the thumbnail with your mouse
  cursor to see this control.)


• With the stack expanded, drag a file to the front of the line
  or choose Stacks.


• Promote to Top of Stack to make the file the lead image
  for the stack.


• Drag a file to a location outside the stack to remove it from
  the stack. You can also drag files into the stack. If you drag
  one stack into another, the files are assimilated into the sec-
  ond stack and the first stack goes away. (The Bridge does
  not support nested stacks.)


• Click the number again to collapse the stack to a single
  thumbnail.


• When working with a collapsed stack, clicking the stack
  selects just the lead image. Drag the thumbnail to move the
  corresponding file out of the stack. To select all images in
  the stack, click the border of the outer thumbnail or Alt-
  click (Option-click) the thumbnail. When the entire stack is
  active, the outer border lights up, as Figure 1-21 illustrates.

Note that this ability to select images does not work if you’ve used the

slider to stop the preview slide show manually and left something other

than the “official” top-of-stack image on top.

• When an entire stack is selected, you can rate all the im-
  ages in the stack using any of the techniques described in
  Step 16 on page 18. You can also rotate all images and view
  them together in the Preview panel.


• The Bridge even permits you to drag a selected stack and
  drop it into a different folder in the folder tree. However,
  note that this ungroups the stack and moves all images to
  the new location as independent thumbnails.

Figure 1-19.

Figure 1-20.

Click the edge, or Alt-click

inside, to select the entire stack

Click inside the thumbnail

to select the lead image only

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