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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?

272 replies

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.
Inspiring
April 2, 2019
> Your pessimism is the only irrelevant labour here. People come here to be heard, and some random dude on the internet saying 'STOP IT!' isn't going to change that.

Yeah. It's kind of like refusing to vote in a democracy. Voting may not get you what you want. Sometimes it may only prevent something you really don't want from happening, if enough people voted the way you did. But not voting does nothing at all to help. So if you want Adobe to listen, vote, and take 2 minutes out of your life to justify your vote to Adobe. It may not make Adobe do anything, but it isn't that hard to do, and slowly, slowly, we may reach a critical mass. We can't know before we "waste" 2 minutes of our life on the subject.
johnrellis
Legend
April 2, 2019
Adobe product developers do read most everything posted here, though they reply to only a small fraction of the posts.  And it's been clear over the past nine years that posts here sometimes do influence Adobe's thinking.  But there are so many feature requests, and the LR team has fairly limited resources, so most feature requests don't get acted upon. 

But users should continue to provide feedback, because Adobe does read these posts, and because they're continually getting new blood on the team and evolving their thinking.  A post I made about keyboard shortcuts was circulated to the product team a while ago:
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/custom_keyboard_shortcuts_in_lightroom?topic-...
Inspiring
April 2, 2019
Very well. Knock yourself out.
Inspiring
April 2, 2019
Well it's a bit late, as I've already made the post...

Why is this website here if they aren't going to listen?

I understand that this post being around for 8 years makes it unlikely to happen, but this is a really important feature for me. If I have any chance of making an influence I'll take it.

Your pessimism is the only irrelevant labour here. People come here to be heard, and some random dude on the internet saying 'STOP IT!' isn't going to change that.