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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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Rikk Flohr_Photography
Community Manager
May 5, 2021

This thread is being merged into an existing authoritative thread for better tracking and response. Please review the official answer (if any) in the second post on the thread for more information. 

Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
artyom468
Participant
May 4, 2021

Thanks for your reply ; yes I know it exists, but I would really prefer to not invest in a device just to do this. It was possible (and maybe still is) with some plugins in the past, and it's probably THE MOST requested feature ever in Lightroom Classic (and has been for what, 10 years now ?)... That absolutely should be integrated in LR. Alternative title could have been : "Come on Adobe, don't you want your customers to be happy" ?

jwArtWorks
Known Participant
May 4, 2021

You could try using a Loupedeck controller. It allows full customization and lots of programming capabilities!

artyom468
Participant
May 4, 2021

Is there a way to set Custom Shortcuts in Lightroom Classic, for example the way VSCO Keys used to do it ?

It was a MASSIVE time saver, to be able to perform actions (like pressing a key to add +0.3 exposure), whether you were in Library or Develop module, etc.

Without this the software is a lot worse, a lot slower and way less fun to use than it was 5 years ago. You could even cull through images with a gaming controller ! 

Known Participant
November 27, 2020

*James Brooks 

yuuuuuup..... 

Inspiring
November 26, 2020

Nine and a half years and still no option for Windows users to make their own keyboard actions/shortcuts. Please, please PLEASE just do this already. Photoshop is 100x better already having this function. 

johnrellis
Legend
October 16, 2020

The Keyboard Tamer plugin lets you define shortcuts and quickly restore them after an update to the application.

ouiouiphoto
Known Participant
October 16, 2020

Yes it is just a trick 😉 

.Sheepdog trying to help Lightroom and Photoshop beginners
Participating Frequently
October 16, 2020

Thanks, Ouioui - I didn't know that I could do that but if they are shortcuts which can be overwritten so easily, they're no good for my purposes.  Merci!