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October 18, 2017
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P: Keyboard Shortcut customization

  • October 18, 2017
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Enjoying the new CC for the most part, but one of the concerns I've got so far is that some of my most-used keyboard shortcuts have been changed.

For instance, I used to quickly cruise through new imports and use the Pick flag shortcut to find my selects. This used to be a very intuitive key—P—but in LR CC it's now...Z. And there's no way that I've found to change it back.

Could we please have configurable keyboard shortcuts? Or at least some sort of legacy mode so our muscle memory is still effective in the new environment?

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    mlphoto.raw
    mlphoto.raw
    Known Participant
    December 12, 2023

    Thanks for the quick response. 

    I too use Lightroom Mobile, with keyboard attached sometimes, and there still isn't a way to adjust exposure or any of the sliders via key press.
    Which for a casual user, to use their fingers to move sliders around on one or two images is fine, but as soon as you add hundreds/thousands of images, its extremely inconsistent. 

    Yes LrClassic exist for that, but since I leave my main computer with LrClassic with ~100TB of photos at home, and while working abroad, use Lightroom mobile/CC with sync'd catalog to cull/edit, this change would boost my productivity considerably. Currently I only use mobile/CC for culling. Which is a missed opportunity. 

    Again thanks for the official answer, perhaps other photographers who manage their image catalog wholly within the Adobe ecosystem will chime in and have similar difficulties. But I get a feeling most will download Lr Mobile or CC on their laptop & phone, and just give up and uninstall before voting, because of its non-cohesive shortcuts and UI to its Classic counterpart.

    ps. Photoshop is beginning to implement a lot of the simple UI behavior such as double clicking on a slider will snap the adjustment to center, which was originally in LrC first. Additionally Adobe could appease dissatisfied customers of other platforms by harmonizing the KBSC, could just allow them to re-map their KBSC like Photoshop with their preferred buttons, if it were an option. 

      Rikk Flohr_Photography
      Community Manager
      Rikk Flohr_PhotographyCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      December 11, 2023

      @Mark.Dahm 

      This thread migrated from the previous Sprinklr forum at feedback.photoshop.com, where this request was reviewed by Product Management and was marked as "Not Planned". When the forum was migrated, that was mapped to "Declined". That is perhaps a poorer word but nonetheless conveys the meaning. 

      At this point, I am unaware of a plan to harmonize KBSCs between Applications. No matter which app is chosen as canon, the users of other apps will not be satisfied.  Photoshop/Camera Raw/Lightroom Classic/Lightroom Desktop and Lightroom Mobile (tablet with an attached keyboard) would all have to be considered. 

      This remains a feature request that needs more votes and justification for such a shift. 

      My recommendation to @mlphoto.raw  is to vote and comment if you are affected. 

       

      Rikk Flohr: Adobe Photography Org
        mlphoto.raw
        mlphoto.raw
        Known Participant
        November 9, 2023

        Wow, this issue/idea is from 2017, six years ago. 

        The development of this software doesn't seem to care at all about the professional user, but rather casual user that might adjust few sliders on one image at a time. 

        Flagging is one minor annoyance, I can work around that, but adjusting exposure values by using a track pad, dragging the cursor on the exposure slider, for each individual images........ is total backwards from Classic, where you can use + & - keys to fly through the images adjusting exposure and other values. 

        This would all be solved by offering "programmable" keyshortcut tab in Lightroom CC like the Lightroom Classic. 


        I can't believe its been declined. 

        Z really adobe? Z to flag an image? when for decades it has been P?  

         

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          mikeli77
          Known Participant
          October 27, 2023

          I'm a long time LRc (lightroom classic) user and am expanding to also use LR Desktop CC (creative cloud) on my other devices. Knowing the keyboard shortcuts LRc, I'm getting frustrated when using LR CC apps when some of the keyboard short cuts are different.

           

          Couple examples:
          Action, LRc shortcut, LR CC shortcut

          1. flag as PICK, P, Z
          2. crop, R, C


          Workaround

          print out side by side short cut keys as a look up reference and keep near your computer (having to look up and translate something you already know - slows down the edit workflow "I think I will wait until I get back home and use LRc")

          Improvement Idea
          Allow users to select which shortcut set they would like to use via a preference within the LR CC apps. This would benefit LRc users in being able to leverage usage patterns they are already familiar with and could facilitate more users to use or try out LR CC and potentially migrate to LR CC (potentially improve cloud sales?)

            mlphoto.raw
            mlphoto.raw
            Known Participant
            November 29, 2023

            I've posted about this issue many many times. 

            Z on LrC is zoom, but LrCC it is "Pick".

            Also there is no keyboard shortcut for adjusting sliders such as exposure by plus/minus keys like found in LrC. Frustrating for a guy like me, who go back and forth between LrC with its catalog sync'd to the cloud, and to using LrCC for travel.  

            https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-ecosystem-cloud-based-ideas/p-keyboard-shortcut-customization/idc-p/14223321#M9835

            They "declined" the above request to match or make shortcuts customizable. 

              mlphoto.raw
              mlphoto.raw
              Known Participant
              November 6, 2023

              Dear Adobe team and community, 
              This baffles me, why are the shortcuts completely different between the Cloud vs Classic? 

              I travel a lot, and absolutely adore the functionality of Lightroom Classic able to sync with Lightroom Cloud and provides a seamless mobile solution between my home computer and my mobile...

              But the complete oversight of keyboard shortcuts, is absolutely driving me bonkers.

              For example:
              R is default for Crop for Classic. But Cloud, its C. 
              Exposure adjustment (assignable) is + or - key on Classic.  But on Cloud, there.. is no shortcut for adjusting any values. 
              Flagging, this is a particularily infuriating one:
              On Classic: P is to flag, U is to unflag, and X is for reject. On Cloud its Z to flag, U to unflag, and X to reject. 

              What are your team smoking to put "Z" as a flag? When on all other adobe apps its assigned as ZOOM. 

              Any input would be appreciated. 

                mlphoto.raw
                mlphoto.raw
                Known Participant
                November 7, 2023

                @Mark.Dahm Could you provide insight on this? 
                Any chance of the keyboard shortcuts being programmable? 

                Mark.Dahm
                Community Manager
                Mark.DahmCommunity Manager
                Community Manager
                November 7, 2023

                @Rikk Flohr: Inactive , you have any insights here?

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                  schrajmund
                  Participating Frequently
                  March 28, 2021

                  Please let us setup different Shortcuts scheme, or at least provide a straightforward table in the software, and let us choose a legacy layout, with the same keys as in LR Classic

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                  FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
                  Inspiring
                  May 31, 2020
                  I would also like to have the shortcut customization but for a different reason. I use Lightroom Classic CC in English but with a non-English keyboard. As a result only those shortcuts work which are assigned to a key which matches between the English and the non-English keyboard. So basically only letters except Z and Y. Also I bought some extra drawing table which also works based on shortcuts - the special buttons can be assigned to shortcuts, but as the shortcuts does not work the assignment does not work either. 
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                  FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
                  Inspiring
                  February 12, 2020
                  I completely agree. Whenever software designers try to reinvent the wheel—or "move the cheese"—without first asking "why?" and "is it worth the trade-offs?" it ends up punishing the poor souls who use the software. Oh sure, we can eventually unlearn years of muscle memory, but why? And what is to keep the next version of LR from changing "Pick" to "G" or some other arbitrary key? Allowing users to customize their shortcuts would be a great policy.
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                    upsidedownjim2
                    Participating Frequently
                    January 29, 2020
                    Any progress on getting keyboard customization into Lightroom Classic? I found a blog post offering plug-in suggestions from Julieanne Kost going back to 2012 (https://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2012/02/lr3-customizable-keyboard-shortcuts.html). One site gave a 404 error and the other supports up to LR 6. Why hasn't such a useful feature been added in 8 years? If keyboard customization is implemented - please let the num pad be used, all modifier key combos and allow any function to have a custom keyboard shortcut. 
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                    ~huck~
                    Participant
                    April 13, 2018


                    I was excited to open and start using Lightroom CC until I put my hands on the keyboard and realized that many if not most of the shortcuts have been changed. Please revise the key shortcuts so that they match those in Classic for identical features.
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                    LuisAE
                    Participant
                    November 14, 2017
                    I think it is a big mistake from ADOBE TO change the shortucts from Lightroom Classic (???!!!).
                    Always I use P to pick and now is Z from Zoom?
                    They begin wrong
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