Arrows don't always work

[raphaels28255986]

Hi guys,

I always view, adjust and crop my images in D against a white background by pressing L twice.
Works great for me.
But when I want to move to a next or previous frame ... arrows fail. More so when I am in full screen. Is there a reason - and a remedy? That would save me the time from going back to a regular screen to click on previous or next frames.

It's been dogging me for years but was always too lazy to deal with it; or too pressed for time.

Thanks a lot.

[dj_paige · Accepted solution]

Hold the Ctrl key down and press the arrow key when you want to move right or left

[raphaels28255986]

Thanks dj.

Why is it that sometimes they work without the Control key and not at other times?

[dj_paige]

Depends on what you are doing, sometimes the arrow is used by the active part of the user interface; but Ctrl-arrow is always move left or move right

[richardplondon]

Sometimes the adjustment / tool you have active is itself  using the arrow keys.

Crop is one example. Whenever the crop boundary has got room to move, you can scroll the image in various directions "underneath" this boundary.

The Ctrl key informs LrC when you want to switch to another image, and not move the current image's crop.

[raphaels28255986]

Thank you Richard.