P: Keyboard Shortcuts for Basic Tone and Color Adjustments

Custom shortcuts would be ideal. I agree, they are a no-brainer. 🙂 Photoshop has them, but not Lightroom.

I'd like to support John's suggestion for custom keyboard shortcuts.

Are they overkill to address this particular FR? Yes, but only if you are prepared to invest in further hardware or live with "press three keys at a time" shortcuts. What if a standard keyboard provides all the keys one needs, provided one could tailor their assignment to one's needs?

Custom shortcuts would solve other problems too (such as certain LR shortcuts becoming unavailable because of installed helper tools or certain shortcuts requiring two hands and too many fingers) and would not be difficult to support. Custom shortcuts are a no-brainer to my mind.

I processed more than 200,000 images last year, all weddings with very variable lighting, some shot by better photographers than others, which added to the variation.

I love AutoSync and I use it constantly, but it's not the solution to everything. There's no way I'd consider moving sliders individually for all of those photos. I ended up with serious RSI issues from trying to do that in ACR for my first few years before LR came into existence, with far lower volumes. My ShuttlePro / Wacom pen combination works really well for this situation now, but there's definitely a valid feature request here for volume users.

Custom shortcuts would be best case scenario, but not required. These shortcuts don't need to compete with existing shortcuts - all of the users I've spoken to are just wanting to be able assign the shortcuts to custom keyboards and other gadgets.

The fact that RPG Keys, Motibodo, LR Paddy, Autohotkey, Knobroom, and all these other variations exist proves that there is a significant chunk of the userbase that would find it useful. One could say that these existing products already cover the need, however they each have significant performance or workflow issues that wouldn't exist with a LR-native feature.

The more you shoot the more invaluable it is.

Auto-sync is useless if most if not all of your images require unique values, which is often the case in wedding processing.

You do know what Auto Sync means, I assume? It certainly is the same as "moving multiple sliders or clicking multiple buttons for many of those photos", just instead of always working on one image at a time it means selecting bursts of similar frames (almost inevitable with volume) and having each slider motion apply immediately to that burst - whether it's 1, 10s or 100s. I've just never felt the need for shortcuts for the sliders.

Those Lee Jay mentioned strike me as sufficient. You only have to remember two, and they conveniently cycle through the sliders. Have you ever tried them?

Jarred, thanks for your support. Your photo processing volume is similar to mine. A dedicated hardware controller with physical sliders would probably be as good or better. Ideally, we would have both options and could choose either.

Yikes! All of those mouse clicks add up to *huge* numbers, and every time you have to navigate with the cursor and take your eyes off the image.

I understand. It isn't a solution for your workflow. Auto syncing hundreds of photos is not the same as moving multiple sliders or clicking multiple buttons for many of those photos, which is what I currently need to do.

Yep, this is sorely needed, if not a dedicated hardware controller solution (physical sliders!!!). I hand-edit around 50,000 images a year, and almost never sync. Not because I don't want to, but for us wedding and event pros photographing people, working in highly dynamic scenes, almost always in mixed light, two images are only very rarely the same. So that's 50k exposure slider moves, 50k temp slider moves, 50k contrast slider moves, etc. Working with the mouse is tiresome as it requires a high amount of precision, relative to pressing keys, let alone the ease that physical knobs and/or sliders would provide.

That's an old question and there's a variety of answers ranging from judging an idea as detrimental to how one sees the product used, through to a feature one doesn't want or considers trivial resulting in less development time to implement those one does want. Here though I don't really argue *against* your idea, just think the solution isn't quite the one you described.

By the way, I'd say that my default use of auto sync means I am individually adjusting tens of thousands of images, just doing so much more efficiently. Auto sync is always on, whether one item or hundreds are selected. And as I said, I've never even thought it would be helpful to have shortcuts for the items in the Basic panel.