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

Hey Eric, I'm responding to this simply to pester you to keep your eyes on this thread 🙂 We're all losing hours of our lives using Camera RAW's amazing HDR capabilities without a batch function. When will the madness end?

I've been looking at examples of batch HDR functions using ExtendScript... it seems that some people have utilized other methods in Photoshop that produce different results.

I respect what this guy has done, however, if his script utilized Camera RAW's HDR merge, it would be what we all are asking Adobe to do:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/12776...

I looked through ExtendScript documentation, and it seems there are ways to program automation with Camera RAW, but whether or not the HDR Merge function is accessible to scripting is undocumented and thus a mystery.

http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/da...

This guy seemed to be working with scripting and Camera RAW ... basically automated bracketing of a single photo using ACR's exposure controls...

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/62323...

It just seems that the solution to this should be within reach, but that Adobe failed to create a way to access the batch feature ... and if they had allowed that, I'm sure that someone at Adobe who was intimately familiar with ExtendScript would have been able to program a batch HDR merge script in his sleep.

I'v just tried the Shift key thing and yes the preview does not show up and I save about 1/3 the time. BUT if you are confident with the registration of your exposures and you uncheck "auto align" then it takes about 1/2 the time than if you go through the preview route! - I tested this with 5 frames off a Nikon d800 (36mp frames) on a MacBook Pro (late 2011)

Hope this helps.

I also require batch processing... Either built in, either thanks to the SDK and a plugin, but we definitely should have a way to do that. This is quite limited right now.

What Colin McDonald said...

Sorry, this is not a "Future Feature". It is an existing feature implemented badly.

Adobe are brilliant at developing new features, many of which we would never have imagined. But as far as customer care is concerned in this respect, they are poor.

We pay for service, in this case we are not getting it. A bug or a badly implemented feature should be high on the list of priorities for rectification.

A simple acknowledgement that this was an aspect of this feature that was badly implemented, and is scheduled for correction is all we ask for. Then we know that they are at least listening to their customers.

To set expectations, they can't reveal their plans for future features in advance, so I wouldn't expect to hear anything until they're ready to unveil a feature.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

At least Adobe could acknowledge that this is an issue and that it is or is not under urgent consideration.

Just leaving us all hanging is very bad customer care

Another +1 million for the batch HDR. Also +1 for comment above about people at adobe actually using their software. The LR hdr's do look great but it takes far too long!

Why are we subscribing to this software? Please fix it for us

Please add a batch process to HDR Merge!
Pretty please?