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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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Rikk Flohr-Retired
Adobe Employee
October 8, 2020

Converting to Idea 

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mastix
Inspiring
October 8, 2020

Lightroom classic is giving lots of headache because of the keyword shortcuts. When I enter data in the metadata panel and write tags I hit often a key and it jumps me to another tab like the develop module etc. I want to just disable shortcuts. 

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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 ?

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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 
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Inspiring
January 8, 2020
Don't hold your breath.
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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...
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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.
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Inspiring
December 24, 2019
would like a shortcut option for Changing: Exposure, Highlights, Contrast, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Clarity and etc... 
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Known Participant
December 12, 2019
Loupedeck is the answer, whilst Adobe ignore this development
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Inspiring
December 12, 2019
How has it been 9 years since this post was made and still no way to customise shortcuts lol
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