Aperture stacks are collected together in the order that you select individual shots. This is handy when you already see or know the pick, or the most promising shots of a stack. If you click shot one, then shift-click shot five, the stack is ordered one to five, no doubt. But if you click shot five, then shift-click shot one, the stack is assembled in reverse order.
Best of all, if you click shot four, then Command-click three then one then five then two, the resulting stack's order corresponds: 4-3-1-5-2.
And obviously, it doesn't matter if some shots in the middle aren't selected at all. It's simply the order of selection that determines the order within the stack. Handy during intensive scrutiny, but even more so when you just want to assemble stacks quickly, but can already see the self-evident "leading contenders."
Props to bagelturf, who let me know that this isn't common knowledge. His great Aperture articles inspired me to share this.
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