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October 20, 2017

P: Keyboard shortcuts for rotate left and right changed incorrectly

  • October 20, 2017
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[Update: The shortcuts for rotate left and right were incorrectly changed in German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Swedish.  See here for details:
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-classic-cc-keyboard-shortcuts-for-r...
- John Ellis]

Hi Adboe,

I like working with LR and it's the software product I use the most. It's a good piece of software and I never had any troubles working with it and I always was a happy user. (German keyboard layout on a Mac)

But in the new LR version the keyboard shortcuts to rotate images have been changed, unfortunately to the worse. From (Command+) and (Command+.) to (Command+<) &
(Command+#). You did fix something that was not broken.

Here's what these new shortcuts do:
1) They only work for me when an image I have fully zoomed into an image.
2) The shortcut to rotate an image clockwise (Command+#) is the same as the one to zoom into an image (Seriously?! Did no one double check that before the release?).
3) In the previous LR version you could rotate images with the shortcuts in both directions without having to use two hands on the keyboard because the keys for both directions were right next to each other (, & .). Now the keys used for this are on the opposite ends of the keyboard (at least mine, which has a German layout).

I really hope you come up with an update to bring back the old shortcuts to rotate images.

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39 replies

johnrellis
Legend
March 29, 2018
Tanuj,

I tested the rotate shortcuts for the five languages involved, DE, ES, FR, IT, SV. They all appear to have workable shortcuts (though someone using ES or FR should comment on the choice of Cmd + ]):



However, the shortcuts shown in Help > Library Module Shortcuts are still wrong for ES and FR.  Whoever edited ES and FR forgot to update the separate entries for that Help screen.

Also, in German, the Strg key is still incorrectly labeled as Ctrl in the shortcuts shown in the menus:



This is because of the following incorrect change in TranslatedStrings*.txt:
$$$/Win/MenuDisplay/KeyboardShortcutElement/Ctrl=Strg
=>
$$$/Win/MenuDisplay/KeyboardShortcutElement/Ctrl=Ctrl
Inspiring
March 28, 2018
Hi All,

The issue for keyboard shortcuts not working correctly for German keyboard has been fixed in the latest update of Lightroom Classic CC 7.2.
I would request you all to please make sure that you have Lightroom 7.2 installed  and let us know if the latest update fixed the issue or does the issue persist.
Regards
Tanuj Sandal
BiJeiTi_Ph
Known Participant
January 19, 2018
For italian keyboard I sugget to modify the file: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Lightroom Classic CC\Resources\it\TranslatedStrings_Lr_it_IT.txt

and find out the line:
"$$$/AgLibrary/Menu/Photo/RotateLeft/Key=Cmd+["
"$$$/AgLibrary/Menu/Photo/RotateRight/Key=Cmd+]"

and sobstitute with:
"$$$/AgLibrary/Menu/Photo/RotateLeft/Key=Shift+J"
"$$$/AgLibrary/Menu/Photo/RotateRight/Key=Shift+M"

This solve the problem and match the indication of the Shift+H Windows.
Participant
December 14, 2017
Thx for this info.

I changed  $$$/Application/Menu/Edit/Preferences/KeyWin=Cmd+, to something else and now rotating images works fine for me even in develop module.
 
johnrellis
Legend
December 14, 2017
LR 7.1 tries to correct the German rotate shortcuts for Library (but not Develop):
"$$$/AgLibrary/Menu/Photo/RotateLeft/Key=Cmd+,"
"$$$/AgLibrary/Menu/Photo/RotateRight/Key=Cmd+."
Unfortunately, the shortcut for Rotate Left (Cmd + ,) doesn't work because it is also assigned to Preferences:
"$$$/Application/Menu/Edit/Preferences/KeyWin=Cmd+,"
Even though this assignment seems to imply it's just for Windows, testing shows it also applies to Mac.
johnrellis
Legend
December 13, 2017
In which language are you using LR?  Your post may have been merged into the wrong topic -- this topic is about the shortcuts for rotating photos.
Participant
December 13, 2017


My most important Lightroom feature doesn't work anymore. Exposure correction with default keyboard shortcut "#" doesn'T work anymore. Lowering exposure with "-" still works. But increase with "#" only gives me a error sound.
Participant
December 13, 2017
7.1 still does not fix this.

I cant believe this. Adobe messes up the workflow of thousends of people and is not able to correct such a small bug within a reasonable timeframe.

This is not acceptable.
Participant
December 11, 2017


Hi!

I can't seem to get the shortcut ctrl+[ and ctrl+] to work in Lightroom CC(Windows) and using a swedish keyboard. I guess it has to do with that I need to press altgr+8 to get [ and altgr+9 to get ]. So, ctrl+[ dosent work. Neither does ctrl+altgr+8. So, how can I rotate my photos with shortcuts? 😉

Thanks!
johnrellis
Legend
December 6, 2017
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Please reference the new conversation here: Import of catalogs from servers and external disks