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Dunn Creations
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February 4, 2026
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When uploading, there should be a feature to group the same photos to make organization / sorting through easier and less time consuming.

  • February 4, 2026
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When uploading photos, it would be so helpful if they automatically grouped together by ‘same moment’ and all that is required of photographer is to click on the stack of grouped photos to sort or delete. It would be even better if AI determined the

‘blurry’ or worst photos and grouped them in the back of each stack.

    Correct answer D Fosse

    Photoshop is a pixel editor, it is not a file manager. For that you use Bridge or Lightroom Classic, which can organize your files in zillion ways, including what you have in mind.

     

    Any automatic grouping is obviously not an option. It wouldn't fit 99% of the users, regardless of criteria.

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    Conrad_C
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    Community Expert
    February 6, 2026

    Photoshop only works with individual documents. It doesn’t help organize whole folders of images. For that, Adobe has other applications.

     

    If you want automatic gathering/grouping, as others have pointed out that can be done using the “stacking” feature of the organizer applications Adobe Bridge or Adobe Lightroom Classic, where you can “stack” photos as if you were organizing photos by stacking piles of photo prints on your table. 

     

    Both let you manually stack photos, but because you are asking about automatic stacking, I’m not sure if Adobe Bridge does that but Lightroom Classic absolutely does. Pictured below is the dialog box that appears in Lightroom Classic if you choose the command Photo > Stacking > Auto Stack. You can see that it can try to auto-stack by how closely photos were captured at the same moment, or visual similarity.

     

     

    As ExUSA noted, the Assisted Culling feature in Lightroom or Lightroom Classic, shown below, can help quickly narrow down photos based on which ones are in focus, exposed properly, etc. It can also automatically stack photos for you. 

     

    Photos that don’t meet your criteria can be assigned the “rejected” flag so that you can review them as a group before deleting all rejected images at once.

     

     

    Legend
    February 5, 2026

    Lightroom now has an Assisted Culling feature, you might look into that.

    D Fosse
    Community Expert
    D FosseCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    February 4, 2026

    Photoshop is a pixel editor, it is not a file manager. For that you use Bridge or Lightroom Classic, which can organize your files in zillion ways, including what you have in mind.

     

    Any automatic grouping is obviously not an option. It wouldn't fit 99% of the users, regardless of criteria.