Grouping photographs into stacks

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• November 04, 2022 16:12

Hello all.  I’m a Lightroom user trying to migrate to Capture One.

I do a lot of focus stacking, so I may have a session with hundreds of photographs that ultimately become just a handful of images.  In LR I can group all the photographs that make up one image into a single stack with the final result on top.  This means that while browsing, I only see the final images, not the hundreds of photographs used to create them.

From what I’ve read, CO doesn’t have this feature.  How do you manage this situation?

frank.

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  Boris Tomsic

  • November 04, 2022 23:11
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  The way I've been managing that is with Keywords and Filters. For example:
  - images to stitch Keyword = "Stitch" -> with the resulting panoramic image = "Pano"
  - Hdr -> HDRmerged
  - Focus -> Stacked

  However, as the keywords are listed alphabetically in the Library they would be scattered thru the list, so I prefix these "special" keywords with a special character (# * + - ), that way they all sit together at the top of the Library list. Alternatively (or additionally) you could use hierarchical keywords (parent/child) feature.
  e.g. Focus (parent) > Stacked (child) (or the other way round?)
  (don't use < or > as a special character as it is used to signify parent/child relationship between keywords)
  

  Then Filter the Keywords to show the images you want

  Further to that, you can use Albums/Groups/Projects in a Collection, and Smart Albums utilising the Keywords

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  Daniel Dorau

  • May 19, 2023 08:25

  I'd love to see some way of grouping images for panoramas and/or images to be HDR merged. Otherwise it's sometimes a bit hard to repeatedly keep track of the set of images that will go into a panorama for example.

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