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View photos in full screen

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May 9, 2012
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I'm sure this must have been answered before but I cannot find any references to it so here goes...

I want to look at my photos...in full screen. Just click *somewhere* and it fills the screen, and then just use arrows to see the next photo. Click again *somewhere* to go back to library mode. Where is that *somewhere*? I thought this was one of the most basic functions but I can't find it

edit: using LR4 on a mac

edit 2: looking for something similar to *space* when selected an image in Bridge

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Correct answer areohbee

How nice that someone actually answered the question, rather than paternalistically insisting that LR and it's developers are simply smarter than the OP, and that they should cease asking questions as the most direct path to a satisfactory end user experience.

piolet_rampe wrote:
they should cease asking questions

I don't think anybody was trying to "shut anybody up" (I could be wrong).

But understand, we're all users, and we can't change what Adobe does, or what Lightroom is (I mean in the short run, long run: yes).

We all have to adapt or be unhappy.

I've asked for a (full screen) presentation mode beginning with Lr2, and now in Lr5 we have it.

So, I used an auto-hotkey macro for a half decade, which was a kluge, but did the job just fine, now I use the 'F' key, which (in Lr5, not Lr4) does about the same thing (except no "Lights out" - boooo - but Adobe assured me Lr6 would take care of the "lights" too - yayeee ).

Rob

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GadgetRepair

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The "F" key works on my HP laptop. When viewing a picture on Lightroom CC (installed on my laptop on 8/10/2019), I just click the F button and get full screen mode without any extraneous stuff. Then just use right or left arrow to move through the filmstrip (which isn't visible). Another click of the F button takes me back to Lightroom. Works great!

Jim

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sonjabrenna

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The ANSWER to your question:

On a Mac in LR4 in the develop module press simultaneously "shift", "command" and "F".

It works.

You can view and scroll through pictures fullscreen like in Bridge, but not as fast.

areohbee

Legend

A glaring omission by my standards as well.

What I do:

* Use an autohotkey macro to issue the appropriate multitude of keystrokes, which in my case is:

To present:

{Shift down}{tab}{Shift up}{F7}tll

and to un-present:

{F7}{Shift down}{tab}{Shift up}lt

Note: I use Lightroom in a window, with left-most panel extended onto left monitor, and the rest of the window on right-most monitor (thus the F7 in there).

A slideshow would be fine, if it didn't have it's own set of inadequacies...

Until Adobe can address some of these things...

Cheers,

Rob

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Kalles_KaviarAuthor

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I am realy trying to like LR, and I do like many thing about it! I have tried it several times over the last couple of years but always given up in frustration. My main gripe with LR is the organisation. First you have to import everything and then you have to put everyting in collections when it would be so much easier to just point LR to my perfectly organised folders (which is the way I want it! Like ACDSee). I don't need collections and all the other extra work. Yes, yes, I have heard the rants about that being the advantage with LR, but it is not for me. Now that the Map mode is here I am trying again because that is one feature I've been waiting for for ages.

I am not a keyboard fan. I want a simple button as an option.

Anyway, I gave it another try and, shure, shift-tab is a simple enough thing to do. Oh wait, I also have to remember F and T, but anyway. Good to know you can do it at least. Thanks.

areohbee

Legend

You do have to import, but you don't have to put anything in collections if you don't want to.

I use folder-based organization too. collections mostly for publishing and to-do/to-check...

Personally, I import into an "Inbox", then after editing, distribute to final destination(s). I think most people import directly into final destination(s), then edit there. - there's more than one way...

Also, if you have a single root for all your photos, then you can import new photos by doing a folder-sync of the root - did you know that? Or if you know where the new photos are, just sync that specific folder.

How do you get your photos from card to these nicely organized folders of which you speak?

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dgluck1

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Try "shift" plus "tab" for a Mac

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donald newlands

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Thanks!

Shift + TAB works on Windows too.

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On Board

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How nice that someone actually answered the question, rather than paternalistically insisting that LR and it's developers are simply smarter than the OP, and that they should cease asking questions as the most direct path to a satisfactory end user experience.

JP Hess

Inspiring

About the closest you can come to that functionality would be to press the "F" key to go into full screen mode. Then collapse all of your panels. Or, you could initiate a slide show.

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Kalles_KaviarAuthor

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Thanks for the reply but that is quite astonnishing!

(and the slideshow is, to me, one of the most useless thing I've seen so far)

I don't really know what to say...reminds me why I keep using other software I guess...

Too bad, there are some really good features here but with such basic things missing and other just incredibly complicated and awkward.

*sigh*

JP Hess

Inspiring

Kalles Kaviar wrote:

Thanks for the reply but that is quite astonnishing!
(and the slideshow is, to me, one of the most useless thing I've seen so far)
I don't really know what to say...reminds me why I keep using other software I guess...
Too bad, there are some really good features here but with such basic things missing and other just incredibly complicated and awkward.
*sigh*

It takes about 5 seconds to collapse the panels and initiate full screen mode. Then you can zoom to fill if you want. Is that really such a terrible inconvenience?

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