Make temporary groups created by similarity in Culling "permanent" i.e. by implementing a "Stacking" feature or allowing to add Keywords while Culling is active

What problem do you see this solving?

The new Culling feature is great during import and also when rating pictures already imported. But is it "crippled" or at least not thought through to the end. While it is great to have groups of similar pictures identified once, it is currently not possible to make this grouping permanent. I could achieve this manually as a workaround by adding some custom keywords like group1, group2, ..., group-n which is not very elegant and since we have the groups identified by the software already, could be automated. I would be semi-happy if you could at least allow to add keywords during culling. I cannot understand why star rating 1..5 and color rating *is* possible and keywords *is not*. C1 just bleeps... This is maybe because software developers are not active photographers and do not understand workflow... it cannot be a technical limitation.

Ideally it would be possible to "Stack" the images based on the Culling results. Stacking, like possible in other software, does not seem to exist in C1, any search returns "Focus Stacking" which is not what is meant here. Here we mean "a pile of similar pictures". I have checked in both Session Workflow and Catalog Workflow and watched Davids Grovers Video on culling (Capture One Livestream) and simply cannot find it.

Also, by making the initial culling groups "permanent", you can work around the fact that culling currently works only with the preview pictures and not the _processed_ images! For performance reasons, that is acceptable! Processing the images will not dramatically impact "similarity" if we talk about "series shots" at least.

Having the above feature(s) - making the Culling results usable as part the workflow by automatically stacking similar pictures - would improve and significantly speedup my workflow, as manual selection of groups of similar pictures are eliminated and the similarity grouping is carried over to the later processing stages of the workflow. Often I will make my final rating and pick my "selects" *after* I have optimized the pictures as much as I could. And having the similarity groups preserved would make it much easier to copy across the Adjustments to the whole group.

When was the last time you were affected by this lack of functionality, or specific tool?

I was really thrilled by this new feature Culling until I discovered that I could not "carry over" the results to the following stages of the workflow, either manually by keywords or automatically by Stacking groups of similar pictures. This is when enthusiasm turned into disappointment, as it does happen sometimes with C1. It truly is a love-hate affair, with deep sympathy being the "average feeling" and not paying Adobe-Tax for features I do not need, giving great satisfaction.