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ColinMcD
Inspiring
April 27, 2015
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P: Ability to batch process Photo Merge (HDR and panorama)

  • April 27, 2015
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Now that we have HDR inside Lightroom, with virtually no user input, the next step is surely a batch facility for a folder full of bracketed images.
Please!!!!

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    kljffrs
    Participant
    June 2, 2015
    This is a must for shooting HDR time-lapse sequences. We need to be able to batch stack every ____ number of images and then apply the merge to HDR function to those stacks.

    Until then I guess I'm still using photomatix.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    May 18, 2015
    HDR without batch processing makes the feature far less than usable in a high volume professional environment. None of the HDR software we use lacks Batch processing functionality.

    Sometimes I wonder if anyone at Adobe actually uses their own software, or at least observes it being used by real professionals. (ie not the people on stage talking about photography, but the professional photographers out in the world actually 'doing' it.)
    Bob Somrak
    Bob Somrak
    Legend
    May 4, 2015
    I don't do too many HDR's as I find Lightrooms PV2012 to be able to edit 99% of my exposures but for those that do this on about every exposure a batch mode like LR/Enfuse does seems like a NECESSARY option.
    M4 Pro Mac Mini. 48GB
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    May 4, 2015
    Wow! So batch mode it is not I normally stack my brackets and color label them. I sorted by color and then went individually and hit Control+Shift+H and it started on them. you've got to do it one at a time so 30 times is still a pain but I like the HDR's better than LR/Enfuse
    MadManChan2000
    Adobe Employee
    MadManChan2000
    Adobe Employee
    April 29, 2015
    If you hold down the Shift key, you can start HDR merges in "headless" mode, i.e., the "HDR..." menu option will become "HDR" and then it will kick off a HDR merge without bringing up the Preview dialog. You still have to manually select which images to merge, but this is a faster way to proceed without having to thru the Merge Preview dialog. Note that if you kick off many merges, this will be very processor intensive and Lr may slow down a lot ...
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      ColinMcDAuthor
      Inspiring
      April 28, 2015
      Well I can still dream. I've just spent ages doing a folder full of bracketed shots. None of them needed anything other than standard treatment. Batch would be great!
      johnrellis
      johnrellis
      Legend
      April 28, 2015
      Unfortunately, the LR SDK doesn't provide the facilities to do that. Plugins could use keyboard-stuffing to simulate typing the commands, but that tends to be fragile and unreliable.
      Fermat
      Fermat
      Participant
      April 27, 2015
      I'm pretty sure the great plugin writing community will take care of that request...
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