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How to find/identify iPhone panos in Lightroom using metadata

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December 27, 2019
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Hi,

In Lightroom, I'd like to use metadata to quickly identify (and then select) my iPhone panoramic pics. Apple's Photos app creates the "panoramic" category for me but I don't use Apple Photos app. Instead I'd like to do so within Lightroom. Anyone know how? I've gone through the parameters I can think of, like focal length, aspect ratio but none of them isolate just the panos.

Thanks for you help!

Mike

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"I already have that filter (aspect ratio) turned on in grid view."

Doing the menu command View > Sort > Aspect Ratio is different than filtering by Aspect Ratio. The filter just identifies photos that are portrait, landscape, or square. But View > Sort > Aspect Ratio sorts the visible photos by the numeric aspect ratio width / height. So the very tall and narrow photos (smallest ratio) come first and the very wide and narrow photos come last (largest ratio). E.g. in my catalog the first photos are:

and the last photos are:

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johnrellisCorrect answer

Legend

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"I already have that filter (aspect ratio) turned on in grid view."

Doing the menu command View > Sort > Aspect Ratio is different than filtering by Aspect Ratio. The filter just identifies photos that are portrait, landscape, or square. But View > Sort > Aspect Ratio sorts the visible photos by the numeric aspect ratio width / height. So the very tall and narrow photos (smallest ratio) come first and the very wide and narrow photos come last (largest ratio). E.g. in my catalog the first photos are:

and the last photos are:

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Thanks so much, John! That's a pretty good solution!

Unfortunately non-pano photos that have been cropped to a "pano-ish" aspect ratio also get mixed in with the real panos, but hey, yours is the best solution so far and will save me a lot of time. Much appreciated. 🙂

Adobe, please consider making pano recognition a new feature in future updates of LR.

johnrellis

Legend

In Library grid view, do View > Sort > Aspect Ratio. The vertical and horizontal panoramas will be at the beginning and end.

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loyal_Wave16B8Author

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Thanks. Yes, I already have that filter (aspect ratio) turned on in grid view. But it's only reduced my 22,000 iPhone photos down to 12,000. It'd be great to have another metadata variable to isolate panoramic photos from simple horizontal aspect ration photos. Any others ideas? If not, can I hope for this new feature in a future version of LR?

cmgap

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When you use the Panoramic feature in Lightroom it adds the word Pano to the filename. You can filter all photos in your catalog with the Text filter > any searchable field > pano and all images that Lr has merged will return in that search.

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loyal_Wave16B8Author

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Thanks. Yes, I use that technique to locate the panos I shoot with my 5DIV. BUT I'm refering to panos that I take with my iPhone.

I'd like to be able to locate these iPhone panos easily in LR (though they were not created in LR).

I've shot 2.000 panos this year alone on my iPhone. But they're mixed in with 20.000 others iPhone photos. Is there some way LR can recognize these panos without me having to manually find and select them from the grid?

Thanks!

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