P: Better auto stacking for bracketing, HDR, Focus Stacking and Panoramas

The auto stacking feature is great, but if you're someone who shoots without some kind of significant pause between frames, its utterly useless.  

The biggest time sink for photography when bracket shooting for me is having to manually stack series of images (and there's not even a keyboard shortcut to group into stack).  This seems extremely silly to me when we *know* what bracket number we have shot in... 

It would be extremely useful to have auto stacking by frame counts... 3/5/7 etc so that you can batch highlight shots in a catalogue and just tell LR to stack everything by 3's

I mean, we have HDR, Panorama, HDR-Panorama, so why not add Focus Stacking? And by that I mean a superior version to the one in Photoshop which seems kind of outdated and gives inferior results compared to other apps.

EDIT: Why has my post been moved to this thread when it's absolutely not the same topic? It's not about stacking previews in the slide show, it's about FOCUS STACKING functionality which until today is not present in Lightroom Classic CC.

The Auto Stack function in version 1.20 of @johnrellis Any Source plugin now works like a charm for me and is very helpful for preparing any HDR brackets for panorama production!
Kudos to John!

@thomas_bredenfeld, I sent you a private message about your other issue -- did you receive it? 

Thanks for giving it a try. I misunderstood how the stack workaround would work in other languages, and I'll get out a fix asap.  I'll contact you privately about the other issue.

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@ john rellis: kudos for trying to solve this long-lasting problem! curios as i am, i tried it immediately, but got an error message from group-into-stack.scpt. peeked into it to notice, that it only works with the english version of LR. made a copy and filled in the german menu items and was able to get it to work, but it creates only one stack with 8 x 5 images selected.

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The new Auto Stack command in my Any Source plugin lets you stack every n photos or by the time between when the shutter closed in the previous photo and it opened in the current photo:

Update: I fixed the bug with languages other than English.

I had used some other off-brand software for photo editing, and this was a useful no-brainer feature. Never quite understood why it was so difficult for Adobe to incorporate this super simple idea!

Hi,

I really don't understand how this is already not a feature but I wanted to push for this update.

When you are shooting real estate, it's a very mechanical workflow, 3-5 brackets and hdr merge.  The capture time stacking IS NOT A VIABLE OPTION FOR REAL ESTATE!!!  In dark rooms and basement, I sometimes have to do long exposures of up to and exceeding 30 seconds.  This meaning that in order to make this work, I would need to actively take at least one minute between brackets which is not always the case when you make some fine adjustments in the same position.  

Adobe, can you PLEASE just put a set stack feature.  Example: every 5 photos is a stack?

Please vote this up!

Cheers,

-Travis

Necesitamos una manera automatica más sencilla