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November 6, 2020
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P: Auto Stack for ONLY selected photos?

  • November 6, 2020
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I've been trying out the Auto Stack feature to help with speeding up HDR batches. I'm finding a huge problem in that it seems when you use "Auto Stack by Capture Time" it automatically considers it for all the photos in your folder, not just the ones you selected. I mostly organize my photos by month/year so I want the ability to select a group of them to be analyzed for Auto Stack, not the entire folder. Thanks for any advice or workaround ideas! 

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AxelMatt
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December 1, 2024

@niklas0D4417906185 

 

There is also an easier way to stack only HDR pictures in a folder or collection. 

 

  1. Rate all HDR photos to "1 Star".
  2. Filter by rating 1 Star with filter setting "Rating is equal to".
  3. Select all, Auto-Stack by Capture time.

 

You are not limited to 1 star. You can also use any other label (color, white flag, keyword) that you can filter by.

 

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Participant
December 1, 2024

Me and my colleague is stacking photos for HDR daily.

This is our current workflow:

1. Cull unwanted photos, just a quick look through.
2. Rate all HDR photos to "1 Star".
3. Rate all non-HDR photos to "2 Star".
4. Sort by rating, 1 Star or less.
5. Select all, Auto-Stack by Capture time.
6. CTRL + H (Hotkey for HDR).
7. Make a coffee or watch the entirety of the series walking dead while you wait for your HDR's to merge. (Takes a while)
8. In Library, select Search, Search by Text, write in search field "HDR".
9. CTRL + A ( hotkey for select all), then rate them to 2 Star as well.
10. You now have all your HDR's and regular photos at a 2 Star rating and can easily CTRL + A (select all) and develop all.

Participant
November 30, 2024

This would still be a great feature to have!

StevenB
Participant
November 6, 2020

Select the images you want to stack and hit Command G (Mac). Then , if they don't stack, hit S. Once stacked, you can use the S key to unstack and restack

blainefAuthor
Participant
November 7, 2020

Thanks russcolban- that is the manual way of stacking which I've been doing for years. I'm trying to find a way of using the "Auto Stack by Capture Time" feature for many photos that I've selected. Often being 100+ images in a folder with thousands of other images that I don't want to be auto stacked. 

The workaround is to select the group of images I want to Auto Stack, move them to a new folder, Auto Stack them, then move back into the other folder. This would be much easier if it would only Auto Stack from the images selected.