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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?

276 replies

mastix
Inspiring
October 8, 2020

I hate lightroom shorcuts I want to get rid of them . They mess my workflow when I am typing keywords metadata. Suddenly I jump to develope mode etc. One option DISABLE KEY SHORTCUTS that's it. Not that complicated he ?

Peter A Lund
Inspiring
March 13, 2020


Hey, 

its 9 Years since we started this discussion. 

Now that we all pay for this product, can we pls get keyboard shortcuts? 

thanxs 
rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,the whole world belongs to you.>Be content with what you have;rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,the whole world belongs to you.
Inspiring
January 8, 2020
Don't hold your breath.
Inspiring
January 8, 2020


Hello there,

I'm using Lightroom in English language (mostly to follow tutorials), on a French computer / keyboard.

A few shortcuts are not possible to use because this language missmatch :

In the English version of lightroom, the shortcut "before/after only" used to disable all the develop effects which is set on the backwards slash key (\) isn't usable at all.
Pressing this key on the French keyboard does a "-0.10" exposure because it's located on the "8" key, and pressing the key where this symbol is normally placed on an English keyboad does nothing at all.

The only way to make this shortcut work is setting Lightroom in French, and using the combination of keys "Shift+S" (which is by the way absolutely not close to the English shortcut).

I found topics that are almost 10 years old where people are facing the same problem, and a simple ability to remap the shortcuts would solve the problem.

It's really frustrating to not be able to use some important shortcuts, especially because of such a silly reason, and also knowing that in the other Adobe programs, it's either possible to remap all the shortcuts, and there aren't even such compatibility problems in the first place...
Inspiring
December 24, 2019
Yeah, mate. Wouldn't we all but take a look at the age of this thread. Nine years we've been asking Adobe for this and it hasn't yet happened.

As an aside, I noticed the the other day the keyboard shortcut for Crop in Lightroom Classic is R but in Lightroom Cloud it's C. So Adobe can edit the shortcuts but users can't.

Ta, Adobe. Ta, muchly.
Inspiring
December 24, 2019
would like a shortcut option for Changing: Exposure, Highlights, Contrast, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Clarity and etc... 
Known Participant
December 12, 2019
Loupedeck is the answer, whilst Adobe ignore this development
Inspiring
December 12, 2019
How has it been 9 years since this post was made and still no way to customise shortcuts lol
Inspiring
April 19, 2019
Please please please, add the ability to edit the keyboard shortcuts for Lightroom!  I customize my keyboard in AE, Premiere and Photoshop... why not have the same ability in Lightroom?  I don't mind learning weird shortcuts, but my most used features don't seem to have them at all and I always have to go to a menu... My #1 most used item - Open layers in Photoshop... As a Real Estate photographer, all day long I am doing this... 
Inspiring
April 2, 2019
Yeah, except in your rush to virtue signal your faith in democratic voting, you missed that I've been following this thread for years and put my hand up for keyboard shortcuts years ago; indeed, long before you turned up.

Go blow your sanctimonious bullshit out your arse.