Stacks

In order to group related photos, we use the “Stacks”.

The first thing you do when you want to group photos is to select the photos.

Then click “Stacks” in the menu bar and select “Group Into Stack” in the drop-down menu.

This places the individual photos stacked neatly in the “Content” (1) panel.

The number of pictures in this stack are displayed in the upper left corner (2).

If you click it, it unfolds the stack, and you can see all photos in this stack.

To delete a picture from a stack, open the stack and click and drag this picture to the desired position.

To reposition an entire stack to a new position, hold Alt key on your keyboard pressed while you drag the stack to its new position. Release the mouse button, and then the Alt key.

Rename Batch

One can name a file by clicking on the name and typing a new name. The extension is retained. But you can also select multiple files at once and rename. This is done by first selecting the files, if the files are adjacent, use the Shift key, if they are not, use the Ctrl key.

Once the files are selected, click the downward pointing arrow next to the “Refine” button in the toolbar, and select “Batch Rename”.

This opens the dialog “batch rename”.

Here we have a few options.

The first three in the “Destination” (1) seem obvious.

In the section “New filenames” (2), we determine the new names for our photos. You can add lines by clicking the plus sign, you can delete lines by clicking the minus sign.

What I need is a significant text, followed by a dash, followed by a sequence of three digits.

When I click the “Save” button, I see that all the selected photos are given a new name with a serial number.

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