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Anonymous

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P: Allow for keyboard shortcut customization

Forum|Forum|15 years ago
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?

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chrisoaten

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Damn right. Customisable keyboard shortcuts is, well... key.

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FeedbackCommunityMember

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Coming from Aperture and having used "m" for years...

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JohnRolfeEllis

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Yeah, at a minimum it will be LR 7, since Adobe rarely introduces new features in minor releases.

Why not assign a single letter like "a"? I'm sure there are lots of other letters available too.

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

Thanks John.
I'll have to just wait then.

Although, not having high hopes as we are already on version 6 with a feature missing that any other software would consider a must have since version 1.

Victoria Bampton LR Queen

Community Expert

You're a star, thanks for checking that John.

Victoria - The Lightroom Queen

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JohnRolfeEllis

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I just verified that assigning "a" in LR CC 2015 works:

"$$$/AgDevelop/Menu/View/BeforeAfter/Before/Key=a"

It looks like "m" is hardwired to the Gradient Filter. (Adobe has been sloppy in parts of LR, sometimes not getting keyboard shortcuts from TranslatedStrings.txt.)

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FeedbackCommunityMember

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Victoria, yes. English version on a FI/SW keyboard.

John, yes, I've been doing that for other apps. But unless it's a one key solution, it's kind of useless, especially when brushing and quickly switching between the before and after. If you accidentally keep your modifier key pressed, it might do something else when you start brushing.

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JohnRolfeEllis

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Note that on Mac, you can use the standard OS X facilities to change the shortcut for View > Before/After > Before Only. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts. OS X requires you to enter a shortcut with a modifier, but you could choose Ctrl+Q or something else you could more easily type with one hand than Shift+Alt+7.

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JohnRolfeEllis

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Many, many people have modified the TranslatedStrings.txt, either directly or via the Keyboard Tamer plugin, over the past five years. It's been quite robust for them. On Mac, it does get overwritten by updates, so best to save a copy away. (I too would prefer that LR supported keyboard customization better.)

Victoria Bampton LR Queen

Community Expert

I'll run some more tests... it was working when I last checked it a few weeks ago. So to check we're on the same page, you're running on the English version on a Finnish/Swedish keyboard?

Victoria - The Lightroom Queen

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