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August 19, 2026
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P: Swap W and Shift W hotkeys.....

  • August 19, 2026
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How do we change the hotkeys in Lightroom?  The current W and Shift W are backwards, Masks, at least in my experience over the past 7 years using Lightroom, are 99.999999999999999999% used more than using the white balance tool, which gives the wrong color most the time anyways.  In 7 years using lightroom daily, I think I’ve used that white balance selected maybe once or twice.  But every single photo I need to use the masks and when simply pushing one button for the other tabs but requiring to hover my pinky over the shift and remember to hold shift before pushing W to get to the masks is insanely annoying.  

So we need options to either change it ourselves, or the developers need to swap this.  I can’t imagine most other photographers or editors are constantly using the white balance dropper tool thing every single photo when they copy paste the settings and VERY rarely is it off slightly on the rest of the photos in that set, but masks on the other hand are almost always off and needing adjusted.  So it doesn’t make sense the more simple hotkey is not on the more used option.

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    johnrellis
    Legend
    August 20, 2026

    Moderators, ​@Rikk Flohr_Photography, please merge with this popular feature request: 

     

    johnrellis
    Legend
    August 20, 2026

    In my opinion, I think it’s very unlikely Adobe will ever provide a facility for changing keyboard shortcuts in LR. However, the Any Shortcut plugin will let you change the shortcuts that LR has defined (including W and Shift W), and the Any Menu plugin lets you add shortcuts for any Lightroom menu item, plugin command, script, preset, keyword set, color label set, folder, or collection. 

    Thai5C65Author
    Inspiring
    August 20, 2026

    Will take a look at that, thanks