P: Allow for keyboard shortcut customization

[Guest]

Customizable keyboard shortcuts in Lightroom would be great. I just find it so confusing that crop and brush tools and things like that have such odd keyboard shortcuts in Lightroom. I understand that changing that all now would be awful for many existing users, but being able to override them like I can in Photoshop would be helpful. Doesn't anyone else out there find they use to wrong keyboard shortcuts in the wrong program?

[chrisoaten]

Damn right. Customisable keyboard shortcuts is, well... key.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

This is REALLY needed more now than ever.

Paddy doesn't work well since CC (LR 5 really). VSCO just said they aren't going to be supporting Keys anymore.

We can have our own shortcuts in PS (which saves TONS of time for me every day). Can you PLEASE add them in LR now too?

[chrisoaten]

Also, if you could make Lightroom suck less, that would be good, too.

[karlisk54281377]

Adobe, please integrate this option! Take a closer look over to PhaseOne and CaptureOne Pro 8 – thats the way of productivity 😉

[chrisoaten]

Even Aperture, at which Adobe people look down their nose, has a vastly superior keyboard customisation option.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Wow, 5 years? What? Adobe, are you kidding me? Customizable Shortcuts Please!

[Diko.bg]

And that  Keyboard Tamer plugin seems to be available no more.

[Diko.bg]

Due to poor and slow performance I am currently investigating my options to migrate to Capture One. :-))))

[John R Ellis]

The Keyboard Tamer plugin is available here: http://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/keyboardtamer.php

[chrisoaten]

I would, too, if I weren't married to an indispensable (and expensive to license) plug-in that relies on LR for roundtrip editing.

[chrisoaten]

Coming from Aperture and using whatever key I damn well like. For years.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Wow! This FR has been hanging around for 5 years! I've tried LR from the first beta, but have only been using LR since it got LR Mobile. I'm a die-hard PS user, and one of the reasons I have never taken to LR is the lack of any way to customize kbsc. I really don't like learning completely foreign kbsc for every app I use. I'm not calling for LR to become more like PS by having layers and masks—why destroy the simplicity that people wanted in the first place? But it seems to me that pursuing workspace customization is part and parcel of the goal of simplicity. It's not "simple" to be forced to learn kbsc that exist in LR solely for LR—or we're stuck mousing about in menus. It makes the app feel far more klunky than it otherwise would.

[flog31879166]

I can't believe this ticket is 5 years old. 
Decent keyboard shortcuts would improve productivity by miles. (And lessen RSI)

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

i need to made custom keyboard in lightroom like in premiere pro! All keys, arrows, backspace etc.

[jonhob]

If you use a Mac you can make your own keyboard shortcuts. I've made some to make my export options much faster.

[John R Ellis]

The standard OS X App Shortcuts work well with menu commands, but they don't help with LR commands that don't appear in the menus.  For that, you need to edit TranslatedStrings.txt (or use Keyboard Tamer to do that for you, if it still works).

[chrisoaten]

THIS is what keyboard shortcut customisation looks like. Complete control over how you want to work. You know, like invoking Crop with the C key, not the R key.

Still beggars belief that Apple can do this but Adobe can't. Even more amazing that after five years, Adobe still isn't meeting this need among its users. Get it together, ya gronks.

Yeah, and I'm fully friggin' aware Apple dropped Aperture. So don't start on me. 

  

[KevenA]

Bought a Wacom Intuos Pro tablet as well, only to find out Lightroom doesn't have a custom keyboard function—making using the tablet not that effective and resulting in having to go back to the keyboard.

[KevenA]

(I registed to Photoshop Family only to be able to post this.)

This is so frustrating for any user who...
1. Doesn't like the current shortcuts
2. Wants to add shortcuts to functions/commands that don't have one (instead of gong through various dropdown menus every single time)
3. All graphics tablet users

Probably 2/3 of Lightroom users fall in one—or many—of these categories to some extent.

Seriously, this is an important feature for all pieces software like this! And it has been 5 years!

Adobe, do something! 

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

What were you hoping to accomplish with your wacom tablet and keyboard shortcuts?  What were you going to use the keyboard shortcuts for?

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

Mac or PC? On Mac, you can use the OS Keyboard Shortcuts preferences to assign a shortcut to any menu command, which might help.

[chrisoaten]

It might help a little but it's a half-baked option.

[Victoria Bampton LR Queen]

No arguments from me Chris - I'd like to see it too - but it may help in the meantime.

[KevenA]

Ah, tried it again and now the modifier keys work (first time I tried, only F1-F12 keys worked). Thanks for telling me, Victoria. I would have missed it. 

However, it has limitations. For example, I can't use only letter keys (or single keys). In Lightroom, I find the P, U, X shortcuts awfully organized and spread all over the keyboard. When triaging my shoot pictures, I would like to have all three keys together under three fingers, right next to the Shift key. A much better layout! Maybe I'll have to wait for Adobe to add a full feature. Does the same thing happen for you when adding only letters or single keys in the App Shortcuts feature of OS X?

What has been you experience with the App Shortcuts feature (unless you're on PC)?

Kind regards and thanks again.

[chrisoaten]

Your response, Keven, indicates exactly why customisable shortcuts are necessary, which is that when it comes to workflow, each user's preference are unique, so come on, Adobe, get onto it.

To answer your question regarding system-level shortcut modification (even though you didn't direct it to me) in OS X, my experience is that it's such an inadequate solution it's not worth bothering with.