P: Show stack in Smart collections

[RvDam]

I use a lot of stacks. I stack my RAW's for panorama's, focus stacking, timelapse, etc. I assign a color label to the original RAW's and stack the mages that belong to the same sequence. I have a smart collection for every color label, but I see all the individual images and not the stack. I would like to see the stack, like I see the stack in the library.

[richardplondon]

For several reasons this sounds quite problematic.

A workaround may be to number rate or otherwise flag the top member for each stack. Then within the context of the Smart Collection you can filter on this. A named view filter is very rapid to recall e.g. at the right hand end of the Filmstrip. And you can make a different named view filter which cancels what the first one does.

Filtering to show only images higher than three stars say, would then be equivalent so far as what images you see, to collapsing all of the stacks. So a distinction between primary image and subsidiary images, can be represented by these other means. And removing this view filter would then look like expanding stacks again.

This method works on the attributes of each individual image taken alone - which is all that a Smart Collection, as currently designed, can ever take any notice of. Stacking, and custom sorting, AFAICT rely on an association of the images concerned, within a persisting "place".

Smart Collections work on-the-fly and in-the-moment - no persistence, no memory. There is no there there.

[JohanElzenga]

Stacks are local. If you stack images in one place (their folder, a collection), then they are not stacked in other places. A smart collection is a search result, that is why you cannot stack images in a smart collection and why stacking in another place is not carried over when the images show up in a smart collection. I use color labels for this too, and I label the brackets in purple. Then I added 'Label color is not purple' as criterion to all my smart collections.