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

  • December 19, 2017
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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

Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 14, 2018
Jon, were the JPEGs showing in Lightroom? Or hidden as raw+jpeg pairs? The former sounds buggy, the latter less so (but an excellent point for documentation!)
Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Inspiring
September 13, 2018
Just a note, if you migrate your Classic Library, it will only import the RAW files (I learned this only after the import happened). At least that is how it is handling it now.
Known Participant
September 9, 2018
I'm about to make the jump from Lightroom Classic CC to Lightroom CC. Having over 200,000, many of which I started shooting with JPG + RAW (+ once accidentally), this would be a nightmare to organize manually. Please add stacking RAW + JPG please!
Participant
August 25, 2018
super curious / disappointing that this is NOT supported! please .. how are we supposed to work on the jpg for most cases and declutter the dupes in library view?
Participating Frequently
August 6, 2018
Hey Joel, been there, done that. First of all, it’s essential that you download all the photos in your Photos library to your local drive and that you turn your iCloud Photo Library off once completed. This is the only way to make sure that you have all the originals as Photos might store your originals in the cloud otherwise (i.e. if you have the “optimize storage” option turned on). Also make sure that all the photos taken with iOS devices are uploaded to the iCloud Photo Library and then downloaded to your local hard drive.

Once you’re sure that you have all your original files in your Photos library, you should right-click on the Apple Photo Library and choose “show package contents” from the dialogue. You’ll then see a “Masters” folder in the finder. That’s the one you want to import to Lightroom as it should contain all your original photos (raw AND jpeg).

This might help: http://osxdaily.com/2017/02/23/where-...

And this, too: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2301611
joelf81678843
Participant
August 6, 2018
I am just about to switch over from Apple Photos to Adobe Lightroom CC but I can't figure out a way to migrate my photo catalog that both includes RAW and JPEGs. The past few months I have shot in both formats, but previously I have only used JPEG, meaning that I can't just exclude all JPEGs from the import either...
Inspiring
August 4, 2018
I didn't realize the new Lightroom doesn't do this, and now I have tens of thousands of "duplicates" in my library from our month-long vacation with no easy way to even filter them, nevermind stack them
Inspiring
July 24, 2018
I need JPG and RAW together because I shoot fuji mirrorless.  There are two solutions that would  for me. 

1) Read the film simulation I used when I shot the photo, and apply it to the RAW file.  Lightroom just added support for all the Fuji film simulations.  But, setting these 1 at a time is not feasible when you take a thousand photos. This is the best solution.  I could skip JPG all together and just shoot RAW.  I've found a plugin for classic that applies the film simulation to the RAW file, but that doesn't work for lightroom CC because it doesn't support plugins.

2) stack RAW and JPG.  I can review my JPGs, then grab the RAW if I need more room for adjusting exposure.
Participant
July 8, 2018
Yeah, because I do like how my camera renders the JPG and I use it as a reference frame to ensure I am not getting too far field with edits in post.
Participant
April 12, 2018
I think different people have different use cases. For me, sometimes I just want to rip the pictures off my SD card and post them somewhere without doing any post processing, so grabbing the JPEGs off my camera yields better results. But I still want to have the RAW files so I can do edits at a later date when I have time. After I process the RAW files from a “photo shoot” I’ll then delete the JPEGs, since I agree that there’s not much point in working with both formats at the same time.