P: Ability to batch process Photo Merge (HDR and panorama)

Thanks for the insight into the teams and workloads, that's a relief.

On the upside, I have to say they've done a good job with photo merge and keep improving it. It's only a bit of "wasn't invented here", but with the boundary warp and rawish output I find myself using it more than expected. And waiting a *lot* more than expected to queue the next one 😛

I understand the frustration Marsu. FWIW, there are completely different teams working on iOS/Android/Web/Sync functionality, so any unexpected mobile app development doesn't impact on desktop development.

Sorry if my post sounded argumentative, that's the way one gets when sitting in front of LR waiting for the current photo merge to end (and the computer to un-freeze).

I just don't get it why they don't just add this basic feature, but work on LR for Apple Watch.  A queue can't that confusing ... but on the other hand, we got an impression of what the LR team thinks of their users when they added the "import dialog of hell" 😆

I'm not here to argue over whether it's a bug or a feature. Either way, they rarely pre-announce.

As far as Adobe goes, they define a bug as something not working the way it was designed to work. They didn't design merge to use a queuing facility, at least in its early incarnations, so they'd call it a feature/enhancement.

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter what we call it - I wholeheartedly agree it would be a useful addition.

@Victoria: The inability to queue anything (photo merge, export) in an app that is designed for bulk photo processing is not an upcoming feature - it's a bug that needs fixing. The functionality is all there, they just need to add a "limit parallel ops to _" option.

I'm using it for nature shots, so the stellar deghosting really helps. For architecture, the other projection modes LR doesn't feature are often a lot better, I dunno about the difference 3->4, or how good free apps like Hugin compare. However other then open source software, the development of Autopano has stopped  when Kolor was sold. But you can still use their forum to get some help from other users - just don't expects the devs to reply. Well, we're used to the latter from Adobe 😛

Marsu42, do you use AutoPano a lot? Do you use it for real estate interiors? Just curios. I use it for Google business views and for my real estate stuff. Looking for someone using it the same way as I who know it better than I. I find Autopano amazing but tricky to use. I am just using Pro 3.7 haven't bitten the bullet and moved to giga 4.

You've gotta be kidding - you're saying you're a pro or at least very busy shooter, and take the time equivalent to 2 shoots to sit in front of LR and manually queue hdr ops? If that's the case, Adobe's customers are ready to accept everything before they use a 3rd party app like AutoPano and Adobe doesn't need to change anything 😕😕

Hi Eric!! LR's HDR is excellent and would be even more so if batch processing was available. Shooting Real estate and Interiors, I need it daily and any extra free time slots in my workflow are welcome, especially if I can get in another shoot because of it. Thanks for your consideration!

I'm with Alex! I primarily do Real estate and interiors as well and HDR batch processing would allow me to get in 1 or two extra shoots a day. A money maker and time saver!