PSE7 - Photo preview of stacks ?

I heavily use the organizer in PSE7 to...well organize my pictures. So far I'm rather happy with PSE, but there is one thing I really want this program to have...
I work a lot with stacks containing hundreds of pictures -now what I would like to achieve is that PSE shows me 4-6 preview pics (of my choosing) when I click on a stack...is this at all possible with PSE ?

Jay,
It sounds like what youre thinking of is similar to the way Flickr lets you browse your Flickr sets. It shows all of your sets in a grid, with one thumbnail per set.
Thats a good way of browsing your photos, but PSE doesnt support it, as youve discovered. However, as Barb suggested, many of us do find that the combination of date/time, rating, keyword tags and tag categories are a good method of organizing and quickly finding the photos were interested in. I use the standard categories of Places, Events, and People, and I can navigate my 12K photos very quickly.
For example, suppose you want to group and browse photos by vacation. In your current method, you might put each vacations photos into a stack, and youd like to browse all your vacations visually, seeing only a few representative photos from each stack. In PSE, you could have a keyword category tag called Vacations, and a tag within that category for each specific vacation. Then for each vacation, you could assign a few photos a star rating of 5 stars. To quickly browse your vacations visually, you could then check the box next to Vacations and select the Find option of 5 stars. This would show you a few of the best preview photos from each vacation. Once youve found the vacation youre interested in by visual inspection, you could see which particular vacation tag is assigned to the chosen photos and then check its box to show just photos from that vacation.

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