will47 wrote:
I am practicing photo stacking and starting from ACR. I am not using Lightroom. Once I have chosen the images I want to use how do I get them into PS as layers?
In one of the tutorials I watched I also saw a way that if you make an adjustment to one image you can apply it to all of them. How do you do that?
Neither ACR nor Lightroom is currently capable of focus stacking.
But this is the workflow I use, which works equally well for ACR/Photoshop and Lightroom/Photoshop. I find Lightroom to be more seamless and intuitive.
1) Shoot my stack
2) Import into Lightroom (or I suppose you can open the multiple images in ACR)
3) Adjust one image, sync other images in the stack sequence to the adjusted image so that the edits to the adjusted image are copied to the rest of the sequence.
4) In Lightroom, I select the images that I want to open in Photoshop as layers, then I use the "edit in" option by right clicking inside the picture area of one of the thumbnail images in in the selected set. At the bottom of the flyout menu is the option to open as layers in Photoshop. This assumes that you have not changed the default external app - which should be Photoshop.
If you won't consider using Lr, then you can do pretty much the same thing using Bridge ACR and Photoshop
Open Bridge, select the images you want to stack, open the selected images using Adobe Camera Raw, then edit one of the images, select them all and press Alt-S to sync the adjustments among the selected images, then click "done". This will create an xmp file for each edited image. Open Photoshop, then use the script to load files into stack, use files, browse for your files for stacking, and once they load into the script you can automatically align source images, press ok. They will open as layers.
I had to go back and do it in Photoshop and search the internet for a procedure, because ever since adopting Lr as part of my workflow, I have only used the edit in approach - faster, easier more intuitive.