How To Batch Process Panorama And HDR Images In LR Classic

Learn how to speed up your Lightroom workflow by batch processing panorama and HDR images. Stitching panos and HDR images is very time consuming. You can potentially save yourself hours of idle time by batch processing these tasks.
To create start batch panorama processing it is best practice to create a standard pano with the exact settings that you want to use for the batch process. Once the first pano has been stitched together you can stack each one of your panorama sequences into groups. To do this select the first image in the sequence, then shift click on the last image in the sequence. Then control click (mac) or right click (pc) on any one of the images that you have selected and choose "Stack Images". Repeat these steps for every pano sequence. Next select every stack by Command clicking (mac) or control clicking (pc) each image stack thumbnail photo. Lastly Control click (mac) or right click (pc) on any of the selected images and choose Photo Merge - Panorama. This will start the batch panorama process.
The process for creating batch HDR and HDR panoramas is very similar. Watch the video for more details.

[@Pgpixcraft]

Great! That’s gonna help a lot, thank you!

[@naturemikephoto]

Thanks for the comment. Yes, it certainly speeds up the workflow.

[@photographingwildlife8779]

Try "Auto Stack by Capture Time" and you won't have to stack them all individually. Use edit and select all, then Photo/Stacking/Auto Stack by Capture time, and set it to a time you used in between your photos and it will automatically stack them all for you. Works great for HDR since I usually shoot them using bracketing. I did not know you could batch process them! Thank you for your instructions! Very helpful!

[@naturemikephoto]

Oh yes, that’s a great tip! Glad we could help each other out. Cheers! 😃