# Batch Photo Merge in LR?

**URL:** <https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/batch-photo-merge-in-lr/4154>\
**Category:** Digital Camera Scanning\
**Created:** [October 9, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/batch-photo-merge-in-lr/4154 "2021-10-09T16:15:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![cptrios](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.negativelabpro.com/cptrios/32/1905_2.png) [@cptrios](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/cptrios)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2021, 4:15pm UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/batch-photo-merge-in-lr/4154/1 "2021-10-09T16:15:53Z")

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Hi all,

I’ve settled into a decent routine with camera scanning (though I really need a better tripod head for leveling), but one thing remains seriously annoying. I scan 120 frames in 2 or 3 shots and stitch them together, and I really can’t stand the actual stitching process. Select 2/3 shots, right click, Photo Merge, Merge, wait for it to finish, repeat. Not the end of the world, but not extremely fun!

I’m wondering if there’s a way to do this faster. Ages ago I used Autopano, and it would detect separate panoramas in groups of images. There isn’t some sort of plugin that’ll do this in Lightroom, is there? At some point I read that you could at least stack the pano images together and batch merge those, but I couldn’t get it to work. If someone has advice on that, I’d be thrilled!

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**Author:** ![Digitizer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Digitizer](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/u/Digitizer)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2021, 6:18am UTC](https://forums.negativelabpro.com/t/batch-photo-merge-in-lr/4154/2 "2021-10-10T06:18:38Z")

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As far as I found on a page about “autostitch”, which is the main ingredient of autopano, autostitch was also licensed to serif. Maybe that their current [Affinity Photo](https://affinity.serif.com/photo/) stitching is still able to auto-stitch?