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Vadaar
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January 10, 2014
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P: Swap Develop panels for Left-Handers

  • January 10, 2014
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I'm a left-hander, and I find that using a Wacom tablet with Lightroom is incredibly cumbersome at times. This is due to the fact that all of the develop panels are on the right side of the screen, and accessing them with my pen means crossing my arm all the way across my body to the right so that the pen can access the sliders on the right panel. My idea is to add a "left-handed mode" that would simply swap the location of the left/right panels, making it easier to access the develop (and other currently-right-sided) panels when using a pen tablet.

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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    March 22, 2019
    I want to use the Surface Pen for editing photos too, but as a lefty is kind of imposible.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    February 23, 2019
    Wake up Adobe....Wacom have just sold a bucket-load of Cintiq 16s to left-handers who are only now just discovering that you don't value them.  We don't care that it involves a bunch of developers to fix - not when our entire hand is covering our screens every time we go for a slider.  We have adapted to a world designed for right-handers, but this one is too much.  I am genuinely "annoyed at you" for the first time in many years.  Please use our subscription money to make your products usable for all.  Imagine 17% of your users collectively rejoicing that someone thought of their needs for once.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    February 23, 2019
    Wake up Adobe....Wacom have just sold a bucket-load of Cintiq 16s to left-handers who are only now just discovering that you don't value them.  We don't care that it involves a bunch of developers to fix - not when our entire hand is covering our screens every time we go for a slider.  We have adapted to a world designed for right-handers, but this one is too much.  I am genuinely "annoyed at you" for the first time in many years.  Please use our subscription money to make your products usable for all.  Imagine 17% of your users collectively rejoicing that someone thought of their needs for once.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    January 8, 2019

    Just posted this message to my social channels and someone redirected me to this site ... great to see i am not alone in this but frustrating that years later we still don't have a proper solution to fix it ...

    Several versions of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom over the years yet we still can't change the panels in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to move over to the left hand side of the screen. Being a Left handed user I would love to see this ! Being able to move all of the editing panels over to the left of the screen instead of always on the right.

    I have Adobe Photoshop setup so that all of my panels are on the left and love it. (it looks weird to other non left handed folks but works great for me on my Wacom Creatives Europe MSP and Cintiq 27" Displays)



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    jasperofpuppets
    Participating Frequently
    December 20, 2018
    Thank you! It's almost 2019 and unfortunately there is still no fix to this issue, so we have to keep hounding them on this. 
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    jasperofpuppets
    Participating Frequently
    December 20, 2018
    Seriously. Why has this problem not been addressed already? The mere fact that we have to come on here and beg them to fix it is completely ludicrous.
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    jasperofpuppets
    Participating Frequently
    December 20, 2018
    This thread was first start 5 years ago and STILL NO update to Lightroom Classic for left-handed users!? This is complete trash. Adobe, if you're reading, PLEASE FIX THIS!
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    richb84235456
    Participant
    December 12, 2018
    I was so excited to see the latest update supporting custom panel order only to quickly discover that Adobe ignores the lefties again.  Can't swap left/right.  Come on Adobe.  Really?  
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    December 12, 2018
    Adding. Unbelievable that this is not an option. I just got access to a Surface Studio, was super excited to work on it with Lightroom and within the first 2 minutes realized I had to switch the panels. Shocking to find out it's not an option!
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    ruffraff
    Participant
    June 18, 2018
    For iOS....not for either desktop version though, and that is where I use my Wacom Cintiq digitizer. In fact my bet is that most folks who seriously use digitizing are using these things. They're incredibly useful in Photoshop, and these things work on both Windows and MacOS platforms.

    I'm also not going to do much with any of Adobe's cloud platform offerings because frankly I prefer managing my files locally, and I'm frequently offline doing photo stuff on my laptop with very unreliable connections. Hard drives are cheap.

    No, for all their efforts to get us all onto a user base that is regularly dependent on their cloud servers, I will probably never go there, so iOS is a non-starter for me.
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