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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
    June 18, 2018
    It’s taken some time but Adobe has finally listened. A few weeks ago Lightroom CC for iOS got an upgrade that allows for left handed use.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    June 9, 2018
    Adding my voice to the others - it looks like this has been an issue for a long time. I am so glad I saw this thread before making a purchase. I thought I would try editing out on my husband's Surface Pro 4 and it was frustrating having my hand in front of the photo while trying to use the sliders. Please help the lefties out!
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    May 29, 2018
    not being able to move panels may be an accessibility issue for some disabled users and should be addressed by adobe as such.
    Victoria Bampton LR Queen
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    Victoria Bampton LR QueenCommunity Expert
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    May 29, 2018
    > saying that iOS has lefty panels is irrelevant to this thread
    I was replying to Christopher, who stated he was contemplating upgrading to Lightroom CC, and didn't specific which operating system he was planning to use. 
    Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
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    ruffraff
    Participant
    May 28, 2018
    I really do not care about mobile Lightroom apps. My money is invested in using my desktop Wacom digitizer for fine grained editing. Using iOS is fine for some users, but most of us are still using desktops, and of those probably more than 20% of us are left handed. So saying that iOS has lefty panels is irrelevant to this thread.
    Victoria Bampton LR Queen
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    Victoria Bampton LR QueenCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 28, 2018
    Left handed panels has recently been added to the Lightroom CC iOS app.
    Victoria - The Lightroom Queen
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    May 28, 2018
    How disappointing that Adobe doesn't care about their left handed customers.   Recently purchased a 2 in1 and have been using Lightroom 5.7.1    Was contemplating upgrading to Lightroom CC..... not anymore.  It is was too difficult to work on photos being a lefy.... will look for another vendor that appreciates their left handed customers.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    May 2, 2018
    Thought I would try and edit a photo in tabletmode for the first time, well... This is a serious problem for us lefthanded. epic fail adobe, please fix.
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    Joe Foe Toe
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    April 27, 2018
    Another lefty vote for this. We're about 15% of the population, and probably a greater percentage of Lightroom users, as several studies show an over-representation of lefties in the arts. This just wouldn't seem to be any major programming, swap the panels, and a y-displacement for the flyovers. After we get Adobe to do this, let's move to the camera manufacturers for us left-eyers!
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    Anonymous
    April 27, 2018
    And another vote. I'd also love an option to fix the panels to their current position and state. When rotating an image I regularly find myself enlarging a panel instead of rotating because I moved the cursor just a notch too far to the right. Or I erroneously touch the tab key and all my panels are gone. I hate that. They could make the program a lot more user friendly by letting users decide how they want to interface with it.
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