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Participating Frequently
December 19, 2017
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P: Please stack RAW+JPEG files

  • December 19, 2017
  • 61 replies
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Contrary to Lightroom Classic, Lightroom CC doesn't automatically stack the two photos of a RAW+JPEG pair together. This creates quite a bit of clutter. Could you please implement this feature? Thank you.

61 replies

Participating Frequently
September 23, 2021

It has been almost three years and it does not seem like Adobe took care of this (potentially trivial) issue. Are there solutions to that outside of Adobe that can help organizing Lightroom CC catalog? Was it a mistake going with Adobe CC and should I have just stayed with classic and local storage?

Participant
September 8, 2021

I'm trying to migrate from classic to ecosystem, this missing feature makes me crazy. Now, I give up and use classic back. 

Inspiring
July 8, 2021

Earth to product team ... please implement this feature asap! Organising photos is at least ~25% of any photo professionals time. Not being able to stack RAW+Jpeg makes the process a much more confusing and time consuming process.

Inspiring
June 5, 2021

@gioel_molinari it's not even the side by side - I'd filter them if that was the issue.  The broader issue is if I am rating an image, flagging it, deleting it, etc - there's always duplicates.

Participant
June 5, 2021

agree - really wtf product team? Do you not use raw+jpg ?? its a mess to have them side by side. And its been years on the ask list with plenty of upvotes

Inspiring
June 5, 2021

It's been years, and it still seems this isn't on the radar? Really bummed - one of the biggest reasons I used LR classic over Capture One.

Inspiring
July 1, 2020
Just putting my vote in here as well. In process odf migrating from Apple Photos, and just went through hell of trying to get Lightroom Classic to work just because I wanted to auto-stack, and after all of that it doesn't even work for ecosystem. If Apple Photos can do this, why not Lightroom?!

As an aside, Lightroom Classic is a bit of a dog performance wise, was worth loading it up to see that it wasn't what I wanted!
Known Participant
June 9, 2020
Are there any updates on this topic?
MoodJourney
Participating Frequently
September 6, 2019
This should simply be a basic functionality for a normal workflow. Importing raws and jpegs should be automatically stacked, like Lightroom Classic has been doing. Please prioritize this requirement and please ensure this stacking is also applied to web shared libraries so viewers don't see duplicate photos but only the selected photo at the top of the stack....this is also a problem; currently stacked photos are all displayed in the web shared album.

This feature is such a basic need that I question keeping the CC subscription!

In general, LR CC needs to improve the photo importing options in line with LR Classic!
jeffneate
Participant
August 10, 2019
That's a great suggestion, cygl7. It should be simple to implement a feature that auto-stacks shots created at exactly the same date and time.

I've just migrated from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom CC and was really disappointed to discover
this feature-gap.