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olivierlacan
olivierlacan
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June 23, 2021
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P: Improve keyboard shortcuts for iPadOS version

  • June 23, 2021
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Currently, the iPad and iOS versions of Lightroom offer a measly set of keyboard shortcuts that don't cover basic tasks such as mode switching between Edit, Crop, Healing, Clone modes or even applying automatic edits which seems like an awfully common task on such a platform.

 

The full list is here at the moment and here's a screenshot from within the current version of the app for posterity. https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-cc/using/keyboard-shortcuts-lightroom-mobile.html

 

Oddly there doesn't appear to be a support article from help.adobe.com about Lightroom CC keyboard shortcuts, unlike with Lightroom Classic which has a massive help document with all possible shortcuts. 

 

I've attached a screenshot of the list of available shortcuts as it appears in-app on iPadOS running v6.3.0 EC9ADC/56 when holding the Command key which is an operating system wide convention for keyboard shortcut discovery.

 

At a glance, missing on iOS/iPadOS are the following basic shortcuts:

- Command + [ or ] to rotate left or right when browsing shots

- Shift + A to apply Auto Settings on currently selected image(s)

- Command + C to copy all current image settings (the default behavior is akin to Shift + Command + C on iOS for some reason)

- Command + Shift + C to copy specific image settings by selecting them first

- E to open Edit mode

- C to open Crop mode

- H to open Healing Brush mode

- B to open Brush mode (or Selective Edits mode as it's called on iOS)

- K to open Tags

- I to open Info (which is instead use to toggle through info overlays on the shot itself on iOS)

- / to show or hide the Filmstrip at the bottom of the screen when browsing through shots

- J to show clipping

- \ to show the original photo before edits 

- Command + or - to zoom in on the photo

- Space to toggle zoom

 

There are also no shortcuts to: 

- Toggle Histogram with Command + 0

- Toggle Light settings with Command + 1

- Toggle Color settings with Command + 2

- Toggle Effects with Command + 3

- Toggle Detail with Command + 4

- Toggle Optics with Command + 5

 

That's just for the Photo view. I'm sure there are many more opportunities for helpful screenshots such as top-level navigation which offers nearly nothing in Grid view because the overloaded I shortcut that toggles info overlays on each photo. There are no shortcuts to: 

- Command + F to focus the search bar and enable filters

- Alternate between square grid and original aspect ratio grid 

- T to add selected photos to target album (it's quite tedious to move photos to an album on iOS/iPadOS)

- Command + Delete or Delete to immediately delete a photo without tapping through multiple modals

 

I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of other potentially useful shortcuts as well, but it would be really nice to see an update with a hefty improvement in shortcuts. Thank you.

 

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    khalid27270468y23c
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    November 23, 2022

    Hello,

     

    i use my iPad most of the times when editing my photos in lightroom, it works perfectly and i can even edit RAW format photos.

     

    The thing that would make the experience more efficient i think if they were more keyboard shortcuts, CMD+Z for example or DEL for deleting photos faster.

     

    I don't know if the shortcuts are there but somehow don't work for me.

    thank you.

    scotte80431767
    scotte80431767
    Participant
    September 27, 2022

    I'd also like to see the use of keyboard shortcuts to allow group selections of photos in the mobile version. Such as holding shift to select a range of photos. Having to tap each one is very tedious compared to desktop. 

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    brianb27070235
    Participating Frequently
    September 4, 2022

    The rotate 90 degrees shortcut is essential for anyone who shoots large volumes of photos (events in particular).  It's impractical to have to open the crop panel, hit the rotate button up to three times, then confirm for every photo, just to rotate an image.  This requires a single keyboard press in LR Classic or even LR CC desktop and can be done very quickly when culling images.  With the iPad version it is effectively unusable, and the only real option is to find an internet connection, wait for everything to upload to the cloud, wait again for it to download to a laptop, and handle the rotates there.

    selondon
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    selondonCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 24, 2021

    You make some good suggestions.

     

    The best place to request features is on the following forum, which is monitored by the engineering team:
    https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/categories/photoshop_family_lightroom_mobile

    olivierlacan
    olivierlacanAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 22, 2022

    Why isn't that forum linked to from the iPad version of the app if it's the place to ask for features? I literally came here from the app: 

    Adobe seems to be switching discussion/request forums every six months at this point, I've lost track of how many times I've had to figure out where this place migrated to. 

     

    It's exhausting.

    olivierlacan
    olivierlacanAuthor
    Known Participant
    February 22, 2022

    After checking out the referenced forum, it's now read-only since August 24, 2021, so I guess it *wasn't* the place to go ask for features after all. 

     

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