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Lightroom Classic Stacking Question
Feb 14, 2020 16:42:49   #
DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area
 
Sometimes in Lightroom Classic, (I'm currently using version 9.3, but this has been happening for a while), if I select several photos, right click, and select Stacking/Group Into Stack, LR will group the photos and also collapse the stack. Other times, it'll group the photos, and won't collapse the stack. I then have to subsequently right-click the stack and select Stacking/Collapse Stack. Does this ever happen to you? Any idea why?

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Feb 14, 2020 18:57:38   #
bleirer
 
This should explain it and more, https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-classic/help/grouping-photos-stacks.html

Clicking the number top left in the stack expands the stack, so that is likely what you did.

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Feb 15, 2020 20:06:17   #
DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
 
Sometimes I want to combine a bunch of photos and I won't be using them for anything else. Maybe something like a panorama, but they could be unrelated photos. I send them as layers to PS and do my thing, then save them back to LR. That gives me one file for the result and n files for the originals. I usually want to stack them unless some of them have standalone uses. (Then I might consider making a virtual copy and using that in the process).

The easiest way to stack them is to select the one you want on top of the stack, then add (Ctrl-click or Shift-click in Windows, whatever is equivalent in Mac) the others to the selection. Ctrl-G (Windows) will usually stack them. Occasionally it won't at which time I do Shift-Ctrl-G, then Ctrl-G again and that generally does it.

Note that all the selected images have to be in the same folder to be able to stack them. If they're not, you'll have to move some of them if you really need to stack them. You can't stack photos when you're looking at a collection. If you aren't into keyboard shortcuts, Photo -> Stacking is where you want to look. If LR won't allow you to stack them that menu item will be greyed out.

As noted above, the stack appears in the grid view with a number in the upper left representing the number of files in the stack. Clicking on that number will toggle the stack.

I do a fair amount of stacking when I scan photos. I need two scans, one for the photo and one for any writing on the back (if any). I then combine the images in PS so the result has both front and back for documentation that won't get lost when you send the photo to someone else. I can add white space and text, but taking a photo of the back shows people the original documentation. Sometimes it's hard to read so someone else can judge if I got it right. Sometimes it's hard to read because the original was in a photo scrapbook with black pages and someone wrote on the black paper with pencil. Documentation of family photos is particularly important when the subject has been dead for 100 years or more and nobody alive actually saw the person.

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