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                           <em>Stacks</em> let you group files
together under a single thumbnail. You can stack any type of file.
For example, use stacks to organize image sequences, which often comprise
many image files. </p>

                        <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span>Bridge stacks are different from Photoshop
image stacks, which convert groups of images to layers and store
them in a Smart Object. </div>

                        <p>Commands that apply to a single
file also apply to stacks. For example, you can label a stack just
as you would a single file. Commands you apply to expanded stacks
apply to all files in the stack. Commands you apply to collapsed
stacks apply only to the top file in the stack (if you’ve selected
only the top file in the stack) or to all files in the stack (if
you’ve selected all files in the stack by clicking the stack border). </p>

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default sort order in a stack is based on the sort order for the
folder that contains the stack.</p>

                        <div class="fignone"><img alt="" id="br_stack_collapsed" src="images/br_stack_collapsed.png" /><div class="figdesc">A Bridge stack in the Content panel (collapsed)</div><br />
                           
                           
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                        <div class="fignone"><img alt="" id="br_stack_expanded" src="images/br_stack_expanded.png" /><div class="figdesc">An expanded stack</div><br />
                           
                           
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                                 <img src="images/dingbat.png" />&#160;Select the files you want to include
in the stack, and choose Stack&#160;&gt; Group As Stack. The
first file you select becomes the stack thumbnail. The number on
the stack indicates how many files are in the stack. </span></div>

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                        <ul><li class="stepexpand"><span>To change the stack thumbnail,
right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac&#160;OS) the file
you want to be the new thumbnail and choose Stack&#160;&gt;
Promote To Top Of Stack.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>To expand a collapsed stack, click the stack number.
To expand all stacks, choose Stack&#160;&gt; Expand All Stacks.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>To collapse an expanded stack, click the stack number.
To collapse all stacks, choose Stack&#160;&gt; Collapse All
Stacks.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>To add files to a stack, drag the files you want to add
to the stack.</span> 
                                 <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span>While you can add a stack to another stack, you cannot
nest stacks. Files in the added stack will be grouped with the existing
stack files.</div>

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<li class="stepexpand"><span>To remove files from a stack, expand the stack and then
drag the files out of the stack. To remove all files from a stack,
select the collapsed stack and choose Stack&#160;&gt; Ungroup
From Stack.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>To select all files in a collapsed stack, click the border
of the stack. Alternatively, Alt-click (Windows) or Control-click
(Mac&#160;OS) the stack thumbnail.</span></li>
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                           <p>In stacks that contain 10 or more images,
you can preview (scrub) the images, specify a frame rate, and enable
onion skinning, which allows you to see preceding and succeeding
frames as semitransparent overlays on the current frame.</p>

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                        <ul><li><span>To preview a stack, hold the mouse over
the stack in the Content panel until the slider appears, then click
Play or drag the slider. If you don’t see the Play button or slider,
increase the thumbnail size by dragging the Thumbnail slider at
the bottom of the Bridge window.</span></li>
<li><span>To set the playback frame rate, right-click (Windows)
or Control-click (Mac&#160;OS) the stack and choose a frame
rate from the Stack&#160;&gt; Frame Rate menu. </span></li>
<li><span>To set the default stack playback frame rate, choose
a frame rate from the Stack Playback Framerate menu in Thumbnails
preferences.</span></li>
<li><span>To enable onion skinning, right-click (Windows) or Control-click
(Mac&#160;OS) the stack and choose Stack&#160;&gt; Enable
Onion Skinning.</span></li>
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