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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?

272 replies

Participating Frequently
June 2, 2017


I would like to request that keyboard shortcuts be made available when working in the Lightroom Library Grid mode - instead of having to click with the mouse and go over to the quick develop panel - i would like to be able to use keyboard shortcuts to do batch adjustments to images (such as the one stop of exposure increase, add contrast - basically all the settings in quick develop should be keyboard shortcuts to increase or decrease but able to do so on multiple images selected at once - the way you can from the develop module, except without needed to option click to sync the images.)

My goal is to be able to do batch adjustments from the keyboard quickly to  multiple images from the library module using the same keyboard shortcuts that work in the develop module. The grid mode is an easier way to see multiple images and do basic corrections quickly when working with thousands of images. 

Also would like to see custom keyboard shortcut functionality for all of Lightroom modules, to create users own preference of keyboard hotkeys for editing
iank82564794
Participant
June 1, 2017


it would appear that i am not alone in this request. i have always found customised keyboard
shortcuts very useful, i use them in photoshop. why then has lightroom got no option for this?
it makes no sense have it in other adobe programs, but not this one. 
Inspiring
April 21, 2017


It would be great to have some options for customizable hot keys in Lightroom. 

A couple personal favorites would be hotkeys for the Target Adjustment Tools available in the Tone Curve, Hue/Saturation/Luminance and B&W adjustment panels. 

(Editing away in the Develop module)
Presses Tone Curve Target Adjustment hotkey
Target Adjusts away
Quickly moves on to next photo 
Inspiring
February 13, 2017
What the heck? Since Lightroom 2015.8 users of non-English keyboards can't use these one-key shortcuts:
  • Before/After
  • Deselect Active Photo
  • Toggle Flag
  • Show Filter Bar
Reason is explained by John. R. Ellis here: https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-translatedstrings-lr-en-us-txt-not-...

Those functions have one-key shortcuts for keys that do not exist on non-English keyboards and since Lightroom 2015.8 keyboard shortcuts can't be remapped to one-key shortcuts in Lightroom running on Mac.

Those actions can have two-or-more-key shortcuts made via macOS Preferences, but no one-key shortcut can be made. So Mac people using non-English keyboards can't have access to essential functions via their keyboards as people using English keyboards can.

It's been months. Fix this, Adobe.
Inspiring
February 3, 2017
This is not a bug actually, it's a lack of functionality in Lightroom, please help million of users to do something simple like, for instance, to reduce or expand a stack of pics with one touch.

please, help us!
Inspiring
January 24, 2017
OK but in QWERTZ swiss french keyboard, it's no possible to use [ and ], it's key combination of alt + 5 or alt + 6, ; , it's shift + ,, ? it's shif +? this shortcuts are not acceptable in base of a day work !! Please use the system same in PS customizable shortcuts ais the solution !!!
Yves Crausaz, Suisse, retraité actif dans le monde de la photo et des arts graphiques.
Diko.bg
Known Participant
January 20, 2017
Actually indeed the The Keyboard Tamer has it all made available. But limited to one modification if not paid.
Diko.bg
Known Participant
January 20, 2017
Yep, Keyboard Tamer for LR is there. But it's definitely a donationware. If you don't "donate" you get to modify ONLY one shortcut. That by all IT software definitions is called TRIAL. Once limitations are present it is no longer a payment of free will. 😕😕 
Known Participant
January 6, 2017
Productivity in Photoshop is so greatly improved by customisable keyboard shortcuts, Lightroom would likewise be vastly improved (and Adobe - this would be a sales feature !!).  Hurry up Adobe, please
Participating Frequently
December 26, 2016


Dear Adobe,

I've been using Lightroom and Photoshop for years now, and paying quite a lot for this, and I have the following issues:
- In Photoshop, I cannot use many shortcuts unless I remap them manually
- Worse, in Lightroom I cannot use the shortcuts. Period. You don't even allow me to go through the hassle of remapping them.

Unless I'm mistaken, we AZERTY users don't get a discount even though you are providing us with an extremely degraded software.

This is unacceptable. It has been unacceptable for years.

DO SOMETHING