Comments on: Friday Tip - Auto Stacks

By: Carey

Carey — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:00:02 +0000

Auto-stacks: so close yet so far. I can’t believe you can’t auto-stack a RAW together with its (same file name) JPEG. (Sorry, even a 1 second difference doesn’t work right.) Adobe, what are you thinking?

By: DaVoice

DaVoice — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:54:24 +0000

Stacking works manually as well. When you’re in the folders or library node, you can select several photographs and then either stack them via “CTRL+G” shortcut or by using the “photo/stacking/group into stack” drop-down option. This should work for all formats Lightroom actively can handle.

BUT this will not work when in the collections view, so for me stacking is not really useful. Since I do switch between collection and keyword node form time to time but very rarely use the library node I gave up on stacking altogether.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:51:26 +0000

I used stacks all the time back when I was using Elements Organizer, it’s a really handy tool. I’m very much a noob with Lightroom yet, and was wondering if it’s possible to stack your Raw+Jpegs together somehow. I tried autostack with :01 second differential, and it mostly does ok, but still occasionally gets more than one set of raw+jpeg when I’m taking multi-shot sequences. Is it possible to stack just one raw and its jpeg together?

By: Hector

Hector — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:53:46 +0000

Nice tip.

I’ve used this in the past for IR images where I take one photo non IR then 3 photos at different exposures. I’ve also used this to quickly stack panos.

Thanks for the blog. It’s the first one in My Yahoo.

HMG

By: Beau Harbin

Beau Harbin — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:22:30 +0000

I would really like LR be able to stack based on bracketing. The problem with auto stacking that I see if that it would stack things that are done with bracketing and stacks that are just multiple shots in a row. To me those are different. But that might just be me. Thanks for the great blog Matt.

By: Ignacio Garcia

Ignacio Garcia — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:39:48 +0000

Didn’t know stacks!! But they are great.
I’ve tried auto stack with a couple of colections, and it works perfectly.

By: Gerry Pacher

Gerry Pacher — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:44:49 +0000

Hi Matt,

Due to effectiveness reasons I love to work with stacks; It’s a great feature. But I’m wondering whether there is a way to use the lightroom stack feature in combination with CS3 HDR merge. Do you know a smart way?

Kind regards,

Gerry