Keyboard shortcut to duplicate a mask

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December 8, 2021
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Hi

Is there a keyboard shortcut to duplicate a mask?
For instance the linear gradient.
I know you can get a new and duplicated mask using shortcut N when you have a sky mask.
But not for the other masking tools?

Thommy

Windows

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Correct answer johnrellis

Or hold down Ctrl + Alt / Cmd + Opt while dragging the pin of mask component to make a copy of it. Also, the Lightroom Queen shortcuts have been updated to include all the mask shortcuts:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/keyboard-shortcuts/

john beardsworth

Community Expert

N doesn't duplicate - it creates a new mask with the selected tool. So you have to select the tool/mask component.

Are you aware of the shortcut help? It's the little button on the panel.

What it doesn't list are the drag shortcuts, so Ctrl and drag a mask component and drop it on + - this duplicate the component to a new mask.

Energetic_leader1549Author

Inspiring

Thanks! I did know about the shortcut help and it's really helpful.
But when I have a "select sky mask" selected and press N, it creates a new "select sky mask", kind of duplicating the same mask.

But the settings are zeroed out. So I end up with two "select sky masks" without having to select mask component.

Haha - hope my explanation is understandable 🙂

Thommy

john beardsworth

Community Expert

But the settings are zeroed out. So I end up with two "select sky masks" without having to select mask component.

By @Energetic_leader1549

I hate that too, so there's drag+Alt+Cmd/Ctrl, and hidden away down at the bottom of the sliders panel is a checkbox. Uncheck it and the sliders would be initally set to values that you had used before.

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