Using Stacks in Aperture

Video Transcript

"BRANDON SARKIS: My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'll be showing you how to use Apple's Aperture program for the Mac. Okay the next thing I'm going to show you are the stacks. The reason you'd want to stack photos is if you were doing, for example, I have these all stacked in sets of three because these were all the same photo but in three different exposures, it's for compositing. But if you were doing like a group of photos or if you were stacking up a set of pictures of like you know your dog or you're stacking up--you wanted to stack up a set of pictures that were all of a birthday party or you want to stack up a bunch of pictures that are similar, that's the reason you would do it. You'll see down here in the browser window I've got a bunch of different like pictures from a wedding that are all stacked. You'll see they have a little number in the corner of their stacks and it tells how many photos are in the actual stacks. So you can see this one is three, we'll click on it and it'll expand. If I hit the Apple key or the command key, I can highlight all three photos so we can see them all at once and you can see that, you know, this is the normal exposure, this is the darker exposure and this is a lighter exposure. And so let's say I wanted to use the lighter one as the pick which is the one you'll see when you collapsed the stack. Let me go into the stacks menu up here and I'm going to make that one the pick and it's going to reverse the order down here in the bottom and so that way when I close it, you'll see that one on top. However, that isn't the one I wanted to pick so I can just go up here and hit pick which will swap those. Something else you can do is you can auto-stack so you can select a whole bunch of pictures and stack them by time. So I'll show you how that works and since it is auto-stack images, there's a little time slider here so I can just slide this up and you'll see that as I slide it, the numbers of pictures in the stacks gets larger. If I slide it back to where I had it, you'll see that everything goes back into groups of usually three that was either two I went too far, so we'll fix that real quick, there we go. I've just highlighted a read photo in there on accident and so I'm going to undo the auto-stack just to put it--you can also do open all stacks or close all stacks. If you wanted to open 'em all at once, you'll see all the photos at once. "