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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

Inspiring
April 19, 2016
Wow! This FR has been hanging around for 5 years! I've tried LR from the first beta, but have only been using LR since it got LR Mobile. I'm a die-hard PS user, and one of the reasons I have never taken to LR is the lack of any way to customize kbsc. I really don't like learning completely foreign kbsc for every app I use. I'm not calling for LR to become more like PS by having layers and masks—why destroy the simplicity that people wanted in the first place? But it seems to me that pursuing workspace customization is part and parcel of the goal of simplicity. It's not "simple" to be forced to learn kbsc that exist in LR solely for LR—or we're stuck mousing about in menus. It makes the app feel far more klunky than it otherwise would.
Inspiring
March 28, 2016
Coming from Aperture and using whatever key I damn well like. For years.
Inspiring
March 28, 2016
I would, too, if I weren't married to an indispensable (and expensive to license) plug-in that relies on LR for roundtrip editing.
johnrellis
Legend
March 28, 2016
The Keyboard Tamer plugin is available here: http://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/keyboardtamer.php
Diko.bg
Known Participant
March 28, 2016
Due to poor and slow performance I am currently investigating my options to migrate to Capture One. :-))))
Diko.bg
Known Participant
March 28, 2016
And that  Keyboard Tamer plugin seems to be available no more.
Inspiring
March 16, 2016
Wow, 5 years? What? Adobe, are you kidding me? Customizable Shortcuts Please!
Inspiring
November 19, 2015
Even Aperture, at which Adobe people look down their nose, has a vastly superior keyboard customisation option.
Participating Frequently
November 19, 2015
Adobe, please integrate this option! Take a closer look over to PhaseOne and CaptureOne Pro 8 – thats the way of productivity 😉
Inspiring
September 4, 2015
Also, if you could make Lightroom suck less, that would be good, too.