Luminous Landscape Forum
Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: drralph on January 24, 2019, 03:38:53 pm
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How do I set which photo in a Lr stack that I want to be visible on the top of the stack when collapsed? I shoot a lot of bracket sets, and the first photo is generally too dark to get an idea of the subject.
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Make it the "most-selected" before you create the stack. So when x images are selected, you'll see that one of them has a lighter grey frame around the thumbnail. Click another thumbnail to make it the most-selected.
There are also right click commands for moving to the top of the stack.
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Expand your stack in the filmstrip and drag the one you want to show to the beginning of the stack.
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These methods do succeed in changing the image displayed on a collapsed stack. Unfortunately, they also move the image to the top of the stack, which I am hoping to avoid.
These are stacks of 9 exposure bracketed images, repeated every 30 degrees around a pano. When I am ready to post-process, I will select each group of 9 and do an HDR process, then stitch the resulting images into a pano. By moving an image to the top and out of it's group of 9, I may end up an forgetting about that image (usually the best), and doing the HDR without it. But it doesn't look like there is a way of selecting a display image for a compressed stack without moving it to the top.
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But it doesn't look like there is a way of selecting a display image for a compressed stack without moving it to the top.
Moving it to the top is how you select a display image.
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Can the OP add a Virtual Copy to each stack and put that on top of each stack?
Personally, I would think 9 exposures for each 30 degree 'stop' is massive overkill (for a
total of 108 images per pano and a pain to manage but that is a different conversation ;)
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I like the idea of a virtual copy at the top. I would not make the mistake of including it in an HDR process.
Regarding "overkill," I couldn't disagree more! :D The images I am working on where captured while standing in the East River, beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, where the temperature was 11℉, to capture the Super Blood Wolf Whatever. There are no second chances. If you take off your gloves for some adjustment, you limit the time you have to work. I have a system, and it works for me. :)