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

[Gary_Rowe]

I currently shoot a lot of Bracketed shots for exposure blending, and with each shot having a different shutter speed the auto-stacking can fail to accurately stack the grouped shots - especially when the shutter speed gets up into 10+ seconds!I would love an option for Auto Stacking to work on the time delay between the shutter closing and the shutter opening again, so it is a true measure of the gap between shots. In this way I can auto-stack on all bracketed shots even when the shutter speed is seconds long. Calculate the time between shots by adding the shutter speed to the capture time of the first shot, and then compare this to the capture time of the next shot, and if I am using Continuous shooting, this gap will be only a fraction of a second, regardless of the shutter speed.Gary

[imontv08]

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 And by that I mean a superior version to the one in Photoshop which seems kind of outdated and gives inferior results compared to other apps.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.

[grizzlywhiskey]

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

[johnrellis]

Better auto stacking is one of the more popular outstanding feature requests:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-better-auto-stacking-for-bracketing-hdr-foc...

While waiting for the next ice age, consider the Auto Stack command of the Any Source plugin, which provides options other than capture time for stacking photos.

[johnrellis]

Moderators, @Rikk Flohr: Photography, please merge with this existing Idea:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-ideas/p-better-auto-stacking-for-bracketing-hdr-foc...

[johnrellis]

"and there's not even a keyboard shortcut to group into stack"

The shortcut is Ctrl/Cmd G.