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May 5, 2011
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P: Allow for keyboard shortcut customization

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?

291 replies

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.
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October 9, 2018

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Adobe wake up; Lightroom has been overtaken by programs with no so much tradition like Lightroom. The shortcuts are plain stupid. My brain can't learn the both Photoshop shortcuts, and different ones for Lightroom. Capisci????
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Participant
October 9, 2018
I've been watching this thread for about 7 years. Not a lot of progress.

Well done Adobe. 
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October 9, 2018
Totally looking forward to not break my little brain while toggling between programs. I want to think that's not that hard to make available the option to choose "Photoshop like keyboard shortcuts". Adobe, please take note. Really frustrating!
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Inspiring
July 31, 2018
Is the possibility to set shortcut for All Photographs been removed (I've just tried it and did not work), or was your shortcut Option+A not for changing to All Photographs?
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PhilBurton
Inspiring
July 11, 2018
How about an "official statement" from Adobe product management on their short-term and long-term plans to address this hot mess.  If Adobe doesn't plan to address this issue internally, then they need to provide and document an API that allows third-party developers to address this issue completely, meaning non-English keyboards.  Silence, however, is not acceptable.

I'm in the USA so this issue doesn't affect me directly, but it's not acceptable in the year 2018 to assume that US customers are somehow more "important" than non-US customers.
Phil
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Inspiring
July 11, 2018
We're STILL having this discussion? FFS, Adobe.
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johnrellis
Legend
July 11, 2018
"True, that's why i mentioned keyboard maestro or better touch tool.These tools can map anything to anything on a application or global level."

Unfortunately, there are context-dependent shortcuts in LR, e.g. "x" for Photo > Set Flag > Reject.  That shortcut is only active when the keyboard focus is not in an input field, e.g. Caption.  If you tried to use a utility to remap "x", you wouldn't be able to type "x" into a caption.
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PhilBurton
Inspiring
May 13, 2018
John,
The proper role of product management is only to specify which languages/keyboards etc need to be supported.  The focus of product management should be on the choices of which languages/keyboards to support, and which not to support.
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Known Participant
April 2, 2018
7 years and this is still not a feature... This should have been in version 1.
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