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May 5, 2011
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P: Allow for keyboard shortcut customization

  • May 5, 2011
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Customizable keyboard shortcuts in Lightroom would be great. I just find it so confusing that crop and brush tools and things like that have such odd keyboard shortcuts in Lightroom. I understand that changing that all now would be awful for many existing users, but being able to override them like I can in Photoshop would be helpful. Doesn't anyone else out there find they use to wrong keyboard shortcuts in the wrong program?

290 replies

October 9, 2018
John, I would have not learned the shortcuts if Lightroom wouldn’t messed up my highlights. I tested Capture “just to see”. More than a year later I still use it. The point is, since lr and ps are integrated programs, at least to have to only one set of shortcuts. And please, don’t feed this thread with “one use me too” because it’s simply not the case. I process every single photo in Capture, and if needed I continue in Photoshop. The exact same workflow I had when using Lightroom also.
Its adobes fault I write here, if they wouldn’t mess my highlights I wouldn’t have discovered CP, nor the shortcuts, which, btw, when you have to edit 1500-2000 photos, don’t tell me you wouldn’t like to access the brush, crop, etc by keyboard shortcuts. You just fancy moving around your screen to click it. In my case, I’m too stupid to learn 2 sets of shortcuts, that make no sense to me.
And please, Adobe would pay nothing the make the possibility to actually let me the stupid user change the shortcuts as I damn please.
October 9, 2018
John....
john beardsworth
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October 9, 2018
Resources are always limited. Maybe it's at the forefront because Adobe have focussed on the right things, things one uses every day, and not given priority to use-once "me too" features?
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October 9, 2018
Not beyond the resources of Adobe to do both and keep their product at the forefront, and keep loyal users happy - loyalty can only last so long if it is not appreciated
john beardsworth
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October 9, 2018
There's always been a few people drifting off to C1 (which I have too) and many like to make a grand exit. I wouldn't mind customising a few shortcuts, and I'd probably do that once, but I would rather see Adobe fine tune existing features which I use every day.
October 9, 2018
If Adobe do consider this, they are in big denial. I started to use Capture pro since 1,5 years ago. Being able to use shortcuts similar like in photoshop was directly a bonus; better quality edits the second bonus. I’m paying for photography bundle(ps+lr) just because I use photoshop and the price is similar.
Probably this is the issue why they might be in “error”. Although, they could always surf photography Facebook groups to see how many people have migrated to COP.
john beardsworth
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October 9, 2018
Or they just don't consider that this costs them enough customers to worry?
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October 9, 2018
Seems Adobe are keen to lose so many existing customers.  What is the problem in providing Lightroom customisable keyboard shortcuts (they do have some experience of providing in their other software)
Inspiring
October 9, 2018
As I've pointed out before, if Apple could do it, why not Adobe? Aperture isn't even supported anymore and you can use it with shortcuts of your own design. 

October 9, 2018
Yeah... stupid. There is already a standard imposed by photoshop. Capture One Pro can do it, Adobe Lightroom can't. So, Adobe, buy me a different skin for keyboard. Oh, wait, i already learn quite a few shortcuts that works for me and no matter what stupid shortcuts are in Lightroom, i can't use them. I refuse to think that this is so hard to make available as an option for me stupid user.