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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?

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Risto Les
Participating Frequently
November 25, 2014
Thanks Rob, I certainly like it, easy to assign Wacom short cut to it. The thing is that there is no way I would have fould that combinaison by trial & error before my tablet would have crashed to the wall out of frustration ... 😕😕 (why not e.g Alt p e o l?)

If in mac version those letters are underlined is there any possibility to get screen shots, otherwise I' ll be asking those short cuts separately to each menu item....

Victoria: thanks for your comment. Could you be more precise, which OS and which functionality?

Thanks for you help!
BR Risto
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areohbee
Legend
November 25, 2014
Indeed, so for example "Open as Layers in Photoshop.." is:

Alt-p-e-o-o

Try it!
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Risto Les
Participating Frequently
November 25, 2014
In many cases the first letters are the same, e.g. Photo > Edit > open as smart object vs open as layers...
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areohbee
Legend
November 25, 2014
In Windows, if none of the characters are underlined, then it's the first character.
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Victoria Bampton LR Queen
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 25, 2014
This is just standard OS menu functionality - it's not specific to Lightroom
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Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
Risto Les
Participating Frequently
November 25, 2014
Does Mac version have underlined letters in menu items ?

Windows version doesn't....so I guess one has to do it with trial & error... should I make an improvment proposal or a bug report?
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areohbee
Legend
November 25, 2014
Hmm.. - anyway, yeah, I press Alt-p and see what's underlined, then Alt-p-e..

The help document seems pretty good, but has some holes you may need to fill in the hard way - screenshots may help.. - sorry.
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Risto Les
Participating Frequently
November 25, 2014
Hi Rob

Thanks again for your help.

I checked the help documentation of LR, but those Alt+ shortcuts, e.g. that ALT+PEA, do not exist there... I wonder why those are hidden... Where did you find that command or did you just have a try?

BR
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areohbee
Legend
November 24, 2014
There is a list in Lr help (e.g. press 'F1' key), I found here:

http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/help...

Also, you can get a list of Library module shortcuts from the help menu whilst in Library module, similarly for Develop..
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Risto Les
Participating Frequently
November 24, 2014
Hi Rob

Thanks to your answer as well (see above).

I'm using a wacom tablet, so probably I would rather assing the valid keystroke strings to various short cut triggers in the tablet which is quite easy to do

The main problem for me is to know what are those strings (your point 3), where could I find the relevant documentation? I did some google search previously but didn't find anything useful.

(E.g. concerning this particular string - do I need to hold ALT pressed when typing all 3 characters, or just when typing P...from the script it seems that the latter is the case. How about any other command strings?)

Thanks for your help!

BR
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