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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?

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    Risto Les
    Risto Les
    Participating Frequently
    November 20, 2014
    As a windows user that doesn't make me feel much better... :-/

    I did some search and it seems to me that windows does't have the capability to assign keyboard short cuts within other than MS office applications.

    That leaves windows users with some plugins that are either as expensive as LR itself or are not properly supported....?

    To me that confirms that there is a huge need for this capability natively within LR...
    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    November 19, 2014
    Risto wrote, "At the moment there is a shortcut only to open in PS, but e.g. not to open in PS as smart object...."

    I agree that LR would benefit from a general facility for assigning shortcuts. However, on Mac you can assign shortcuts to nearly all of menu commands using OS X's built-in facility for assigning shortcuts. For example, I just assigned F4 to Photo > Edit In > Open as Smart Object in Photoshop:

    Risto Les
    Risto Les
    Participating Frequently
    November 19, 2014


    As tablets are becoming more and more frequent in photo editing it would be most useful to be able to assign personalized short cuts to LR menu items in the same way as in PS. E.g. Photo>Edit in> (different options for external editing). At the moment there is a shortcut only to open in PS, but e.g. not to open in PS as smart object....
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    Mattias Thuvander
    Participant
    September 4, 2014
    This is needed because some keyboard shortcuts in Lightroom is created for English keyboards only. Some shortcuts doesn't work at all when you use for example, a Swedish keyboard.

    "Rotate picture" and "Hold to view before/after" is two shortcuts that doesn't work for me and that I really would like to use.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
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    March 7, 2014


    Photoshop has custom keyboard shortcuts.

    Please add them to Lightroom already! v5 and still not there? Ridonkulous
    Diko.bg
    Diko.bg
    Known Participant
    January 15, 2014
    And if any of you had seen the Shortcutkeys in Adobe Illustrator... Man even in PS they still have to implement that button for "Jump to the conflict key" that is AWESOME...

    Otherwise as I can see for a couple of years no change even here. Please Adobe go google LR Paddy and check it. Then remember PS and AI and implement that all in LR. 😉
    Diko.bg
    Diko.bg
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    January 15, 2014
    That is my issue as well.
    Diko.bg
    Diko.bg
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    January 15, 2014
    THANKS! However it is a work-around and NOT the solution. Adobe... do you hear?
    Diko.bg
    Diko.bg
    Known Participant
    January 15, 2014
    I need that SO MUCH!!! Especially the custom presets.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    December 10, 2013


    I want to be able to quickly change my keyboard shortcuts to improve my workflow. Looked for a similar way to change it like Photoshop, only to discover it doesn't exist!

    Can we get this?
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