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Sometimes you might take a series of shots of the same or nearly the same subject whether you're bracketing exposures or changing focus or hoping for a better expression on someone's face or that they might open their eyes or be in a better position, et cetera. It's helpful to be able to make a pile or stack of those images so that you can put the best one top while also keeping some of the alternatives. This is called stacking your images. That way you can quickly scan through the folder and know what type images are there without having to look at each and every one. I'm going to change to the Light Table View so that you can more easily see the stacks in this folder. I've created stacks of the first groups of different flower images. You can create stacks manually but in some circumstances you can have Bridge auto stack images for you based on whether they're part of a panorama series or HDR series. If you do have a series of images for a panorama or HDR, click the first image and then come up to Stacks, Auto Stack Panorama/HDR. This feature works amazingly well. Other times, such as with these images, you'll want to manually stack images. Select the images that you want to put together in a stack. I'll select this group and I've select them by Command clicking on the first one and then Shift clicking on the last one because I'm on a Mac. On a PC you would Control click the first one and Shift click the last one. And then with them all selected, you can either press the shortcut Control or Command G or come up here to Stacks, Group as Stack. Notice that all of the images have been condensed into a stack now. You can see that visually, instead of the individual image, it has a frame around it that looks like a stack. In addition, there's a number in the upper left that refers to how many images are in that stack. You can click on that number to open and close the stack. With the stack open, you can click on any particular image within the stack and drag it to a different position in the stack. Remember that the image that's in this first position up here is the image that will appear on top when you close the stack. You can also click and drag an image out of the stack or similarly you can take an image that's out of the stack, click and drag it into the stack. Most of the things that you're going to want to do can be done either by dragging the image thumbnails or from the commands up here in Stack, such as Ungroup from the Stack, Close the Stack, Promote to the Top of the Stack. You can also expand all the stacks in your folder at once or collapse all of them. I'm going to close this one now. Stacking your images can make it a lot faster to browse through a large group of images and when you find a particular stack that interests you, you can go through it image by image. But otherwise, you can browse through the folder by stacks. Even if we go back to our view that has a Filmstrip, when I have a stack in my Content Panel, if I click on the number, then all the different images that are in that stack appear. I think you're going to find that stacks are a very convenient way to work and organize your images when you shoot a lot of images that are similar.