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You guys are not photographers I guess. A huge percentage of photos developed by LrC or CR goes to be edited further in PS. Also, both apps are in the Photo Suite etc ... Those are 2 steps of the same process for the majority. I am baffled you guys are not aware of that.
Anyway, this is a futile conversation.
By @Maruhana
What makes you think we are not aware of that? Of course we are, but that doesn't change the things I said. I use Lightroom Classic and Photoshop every day, and teach both apps. I know what shortcuts to use in both apps. Do I ever make a mistake and press 'C' in Lightroom Classic when I wanted to activate the crop tool? Sure, that has happened a few times. But not nearly enough times to bother about it. This is indeed a futile conversation, because Adobe is not going to change this.
You guys are not photographers I guess.
By @Maruhana
That's jumping to a conclusion. Many of the people responding to you have used Photoshop and Lightroom for many years, and are photographers.
Here’s the deal. What you are asking for is a legitimate request. Of course it would be nice to have more consistency. There is nothing wrong with wanting that. In fact, Adobe would agree with you, because if you look at for example the keyboard shortcut editor in some Adobe apps, they offer alternate shortcut sets if you want one app’s shortcut to match another app. (Of course one problem here is that the Lightroom apps do not have a keyboard shortcut editor, that is a whole other feature request that I support.)
There is nothing wrong with your request in isolation. But the problem is that it can't be fixed in isolation. There is a context here, and understanding the context is the key to the entire answer.
The context is priorities. There is a lot on the plate of every application’s software development team. There are a lot of great ideas. You can look at the feature request list on this website (the Ideas category) and see hundreds of feature requests. So given limited person-hours, one priority is, which of those hundreds of features get done first?
Related to that are other priorities: What other jobs are the programmers supposed to be working on? These can vary across the different product teams. One priority is bugs that must be fixed, those need time. Another is that individual product teams may be asked to develop new features for competitive reasons (“we need to add feature X because competitor Y has it and our users are asking for it”). Or upper management might say “We are adding a new cloud service and we need all of you product teams to add support by June.” All of these just add to the things a feature request must compete with for development time.
That is a huge part of the real answer you want. Your idea is a good idea. In fact it’s a great idea that Adobe has partially implemented in some apps (by providing shortcut customization). But, the question each of the separate product teams ask themselves is, in the next few months, how should your request be ranked relative to (within the context of) the hundreds (maybe even thousands) of other potential items they can or need to complete?
And the answer is, although your idea is legit and important and probably should be addressed in some form, very very often it is determined that there are quite a few items that are ranked higher in priority.
The release notes and the Ideas section do show that every year, many of the publicly documented user requests get implemented, and reported bugs do get fixed. So it isn’t like they aren’t listening or can’t do it. It is often largely a matter of what else is going on that they decide they need to do first.
And let me tell you, you are doing the right thing by calling attention to it; this is one of those “squeaky wheel” situations. But one voice is usually not enough. A software company is more likely do act if lots of people are bugging them about the same thing. Which is part of the reason the Ideas section lets you upvote the publicly submitted user ideas, to let user votes help set the priority. So maybe your next step is to figure out how to elevate the priority of this request against the requests and bugs it is competing with constantly, like could you get 200 votes for it in the Ideas section? That would put it on the front page when sorted by votes.
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