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?

[johnrellis]

"True, that's why i mentioned keyboard maestro or better touch tool.These tools can map anything to anything on a application or global level."

Unfortunately, there are context-dependent shortcuts in LR, e.g. "x" for Photo > Set Flag > Reject.  That shortcut is only active when the keyboard focus is not in an input field, e.g. Caption.  If you tried to use a utility to remap "x", you wouldn't be able to type "x" into a caption.

[chrisoaten]

We're STILL having this discussion? FFS, Adobe.

[PhilBurton]

How about an "official statement" from Adobe product management on their short-term and long-term plans to address this hot mess.  If Adobe doesn't plan to address this issue internally, then they need to provide and document an API that allows third-party developers to address this issue completely, meaning non-English keyboards.  Silence, however, is not acceptable.

I'm in the USA so this issue doesn't affect me directly, but it's not acceptable in the year 2018 to assume that US customers are somehow more "important" than non-US customers.
Phil

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Is the possibility to set shortcut for All Photographs been removed (I've just tried it and did not work), or was your shortcut Option+A not for changing to All Photographs?

[Guest]

Totally looking forward to not break my little brain while toggling between programs. I want to think that's not that hard to make available the option to choose "Photoshop like keyboard shortcuts". Adobe, please take note. Really frustrating!

[KLEdge]

I've been watching this thread for about 7 years. Not a lot of progress.

Well done Adobe. 

[Guest]

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Adobe wake up; Lightroom has been overtaken by programs with no so much tradition like Lightroom. The shortcuts are plain stupid. My brain can't learn the both Photoshop shortcuts, and different ones for Lightroom. Capisci????

[Guest]

Yeah... stupid. There is already a standard imposed by photoshop. Capture One Pro can do it, Adobe Lightroom can't. So, Adobe, buy me a different skin for keyboard. Oh, wait, i already learn quite a few shortcuts that works for me and no matter what stupid shortcuts are in Lightroom, i can't use them. I refuse to think that this is so hard to make available as an option for me stupid user.

[chrisoaten]

As I've pointed out before, if Apple could do it, why not Adobe? Aperture isn't even supported anymore and you can use it with shortcuts of your own design. 

[Nick_13]

Seems Adobe are keen to lose so many existing customers.  What is the problem in providing Lightroom customisable keyboard shortcuts (they do have some experience of providing in their other software)

[john beardsworth]

Or they just don't consider that this costs them enough customers to worry?

[Guest]

If Adobe do consider this, they are in big denial. I started to use Capture pro since 1,5 years ago. Being able to use shortcuts similar like in photoshop was directly a bonus; better quality edits the second bonus. I’m paying for photography bundle(ps+lr) just because I use photoshop and the price is similar.
Probably this is the issue why they might be in “error”. Although, they could always surf photography Facebook groups to see how many people have migrated to COP.

[john beardsworth]

There's always been a few people drifting off to C1 (which I have too) and many like to make a grand exit. I wouldn't mind customising a few shortcuts, and I'd probably do that once, but I would rather see Adobe fine tune existing features which I use every day.

[Nick_13]

Not beyond the resources of Adobe to do both and keep their product at the forefront, and keep loyal users happy - loyalty can only last so long if it is not appreciated

[john beardsworth]

Resources are always limited. Maybe it's at the forefront because Adobe have focussed on the right things, things one uses every day, and not given priority to use-once "me too" features?

[Guest]

John....

[Guest]

John, I would have not learned the shortcuts if Lightroom wouldn’t messed up my highlights. I tested Capture “just to see”. More than a year later I still use it. The point is, since lr and ps are integrated programs, at least to have to only one set of shortcuts. And please, don’t feed this thread with “one use me too” because it’s simply not the case. I process every single photo in Capture, and if needed I continue in Photoshop. The exact same workflow I had when using Lightroom also.
Its adobes fault I write here, if they wouldn’t mess my highlights I wouldn’t have discovered CP, nor the shortcuts, which, btw, when you have to edit 1500-2000 photos, don’t tell me you wouldn’t like to access the brush, crop, etc by keyboard shortcuts. You just fancy moving around your screen to click it. In my case, I’m too stupid to learn 2 sets of shortcuts, that make no sense to me.
And please, Adobe would pay nothing the make the possibility to actually let me the stupid user change the shortcuts as I damn please.

[Nick_13]

Very well said, and behalf of a very large number of sufferers (certainly not a few "me too" users).  I too can have a 1000+ photos a time to deal with, and have found Loupedeck+ an extreme advantage. Lightroom customisable keyboard shortcuts would help me immensely to be more efficient in my work and therefore assist greatly my workflow, as it would for many thousands of other photographers 

[Casey Martin]

I’ve been following this thread for years and I still want it. There are so many inconsistencies when it comes to shortcuts between programs it drives me nuts. Sure the interface to manage the changes would be a rare visit but the shortcuts themselves would get all the time usage.

[Guest]

Well, unfortunately Adobe not. Yesterday I did contact Adobe for “problems” because I didn’t know about the shortcuts issue (they exist, just no relationship between keys and for the love of God, I can’t remember them) to find out how to change them, in a try to see if Adobe has improved his program(Lr). What do you think the guy told me? To write here about the shortcuts so the I don’t know what Adobe team would read the comments. Hmm. ADOBE?????????
At least would be nice to let us know they read and know the what some of us users like to have.
(I guess Adobe also knows that Capture Pro is faster, not only develops better the raw files).
Like everyone else, I have friends who are photographers and some have switched to Capture and some didn’t just because they didn’t want to “learn” a new program. Wonder how long that lasts when I keep posting print screens like the ones above.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I'm glad this keeps coming up again. Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Bridge have all ignored our requests to customize shortcuts. I don't understand why. When the main programs all added customization, they were pushing for people to become aware that they could do this instead of complaining about a missing shortcut, or one that ran counter to the typical shortcuts other apps had adopted, but not these apps.

I realize it's not a JDI. It's a major feature, but it's not a trivial one to the users, either. Maybe first has to be performance, tethered shooting, and integrating better with its kissing cousins, but I'd hope that it's rather high on their priority list. I, anyway, could enjoy using LR more if the shortcuts made any sense to me.

[john beardsworth]

And I too have many thousands of photos at a time. Sure, I would love C to mean crop in LR as it does in PS and Shift I too invert the current selection too, but that's about all. One can hack the translation file to alter some shortcuts (certainly the latter) and I'd be happy if such a hack method became official, but I see a customisable shortcut feature like some other apps as a waste of development time.

[johnrellis]

"At least would be nice to let us know they read and know the what some of us users like to have."

Adobe employees do read everything posted here, though they only sometimes reply. In general, feedback posted in this forum over the past eight years has demonstrably influenced their product decisions, though it's often the case that individual feature requests and bug reports are not acted upon.

[Nick_13]

So why, with so many people commenting/requesting this feature for so many years, has this request been ignored ?  It is not a foreign concept to Adobe.  I appreciate it may not be a simple task, but innovation and keeping users (from where income is derived) happy is surely a major consideration 

[DMEEPhD]

Loupedeck+ is the answer.  A keyboard with dials and sliders and customizable keys for Adobe Lightroom Classic CC, Aurora HDR, and Adobe Premiere Pro CC.Lightroom.

Yes, it's pricey, but the increase in the efficiency of one's workflow will realize the benefits quickly.