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]

"So why, with so many people commenting/requesting this feature for so many years, has this request been ignored?"

Unfortunately, Adobe rarely discloses why it chooses not to act on particular feedback. However, a senior product manager did engage in this topic six months ago, in response to detailed suggestions I provided:
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/custom_keyboard_shortcuts_in_lightroom?topic-...

[Nick_13]

I would be lost without it, and a lot slower in my workflow too

[DMEEPhD]

It's a brilliant invention.  I was a bit disappointed when there was no firmware upgrade path from Loupedeck to Loupedeck+; however, the redesign and manufacturing quality, which was outstanding in the original, was improved in the + version.

Bloody Finns really know how to make great, cool, products.  It was the + version which prompted me to finally upgrade to LR 7.

[johnrellis]

LR 8.0 reintroduced a previously fixed typo with the Group Into Stack shortcut in German.  There's clearly a broken internal process...

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom-german-keyboard-shortcut-for-group-...

[stylish_mindset15A7]

Dear Jeffrey Tranberry

I was really glad to hear you as an Adobe Rep answering to this thread that you would  act on this

> I've shared this with the Lightroom team

8 months have passed now, I eagerly was hoping that the product LR Classic CC would now in its major new release 8 finally get beyond such issues and work properly. I like to ask here again if there will be any progress on this? If I somehow, (apart from my monthly money transfer  to you) can support this I'd gladly contribute - just let me.

Again - I really want to put a stress on the fact that I do not just ask for a fancy gimmick. I talk about the plain impossibility to use keyboard shortcuts on e.g. Swiss German Keyboards. I am ready and willing anytime to again report in any desired detail whatever you want me to and to work on this.

Thank you for a simple sign of life, wish you to have a great thanksgiving.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Adobe please.

Lightroom is fantastic but my efficiency is bottle-necked to a fairly extreme degree by this lack of shortcut configuration.

So many tools I frequently use require awkward movements. I use a big screen so moving my mouse to click on a tool requires a lot of arm and hand adjustment. If I use the (forced) default keyboard shortcuts I have to keep looking down at my keyboard to find the key, if it's not where my hand is resting comfortably I have to readjust.

Both of these points may sound trivial but the accumulated time and effort consumed by simply manoeuvring the application takes away so much from the experience. I find it really difficult to zone in and really make progress when I have to either readjust how I'm sitting to move the mouse across the screen, or turn on the light so I can see the keyboard.

Pleeeeeeeease Adobe! Please. It's. Been. 8. Years.

So much productivity can be set in motion by this simple change.

[chrisoaten]

Ah, the keyboard shortcut plea. Been going on for, what... three years that I've been following this thread? Four, perhaps? Anyway, I feel your pain but, just in case you were labouring under the illusion that Adobe is listening to you...

STOP IT!

Adobe is not listening to you.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Well it's a bit late, as I've already made the post...

Why is this website here if they aren't going to listen?

I understand that this post being around for 8 years makes it unlikely to happen, but this is a really important feature for me. If I have any chance of making an influence I'll take it.

Your pessimism is the only irrelevant labour here. People come here to be heard, and some random dude on the internet saying 'STOP IT!' isn't going to change that.

[chrisoaten]

Very well. Knock yourself out.

[johnrellis]

Adobe product developers do read most everything posted here, though they reply to only a small fraction of the posts.  And it's been clear over the past nine years that posts here sometimes do influence Adobe's thinking.  But there are so many feature requests, and the LR team has fairly limited resources, so most feature requests don't get acted upon. 

But users should continue to provide feedback, because Adobe does read these posts, and because they're continually getting new blood on the team and evolving their thinking.  A post I made about keyboard shortcuts was circulated to the product team a while ago:
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/custom_keyboard_shortcuts_in_lightroom?topic-...

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

> Your pessimism is the only irrelevant labour here. People come here to be heard, and some random dude on the internet saying 'STOP IT!' isn't going to change that.

Yeah. It's kind of like refusing to vote in a democracy. Voting may not get you what you want. Sometimes it may only prevent something you really don't want from happening, if enough people voted the way you did. But not voting does nothing at all to help. So if you want Adobe to listen, vote, and take 2 minutes out of your life to justify your vote to Adobe. It may not make Adobe do anything, but it isn't that hard to do, and slowly, slowly, we may reach a critical mass. We can't know before we "waste" 2 minutes of our life on the subject.

[chrisoaten]

Yeah, except in your rush to virtue signal your faith in democratic voting, you missed that I've been following this thread for years and put my hand up for keyboard shortcuts years ago; indeed, long before you turned up.

Go blow your sanctimonious bullshit out your arse.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Please please please, add the ability to edit the keyboard shortcuts for Lightroom!  I customize my keyboard in AE, Premiere and Photoshop... why not have the same ability in Lightroom?  I don't mind learning weird shortcuts, but my most used features don't seem to have them at all and I always have to go to a menu... My #1 most used item - Open layers in Photoshop... As a Real Estate photographer, all day long I am doing this... 

[Tom Fewchuk]

How has it been 9 years since this post was made and still no way to customise shortcuts lol

[Nick_13]

Loupedeck is the answer, whilst Adobe ignore this development

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

would like a shortcut option for Changing: Exposure, Highlights, Contrast, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Clarity and etc... 

[chrisoaten]

Yeah, mate. Wouldn't we all but take a look at the age of this thread. Nine years we've been asking Adobe for this and it hasn't yet happened.

As an aside, I noticed the the other day the keyboard shortcut for Crop in Lightroom Classic is R but in Lightroom Cloud it's C. So Adobe can edit the shortcuts but users can't.

Ta, Adobe. Ta, muchly.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Hello there,

I'm using Lightroom in English language (mostly to follow tutorials), on a French computer / keyboard.

A few shortcuts are not possible to use because this language missmatch :

In the English version of lightroom, the shortcut "before/after only" used to disable all the develop effects which is set on the backwards slash key (\) isn't usable at all.
Pressing this key on the French keyboard does a "-0.10" exposure because it's located on the "8" key, and pressing the key where this symbol is normally placed on an English keyboad does nothing at all.

The only way to make this shortcut work is setting Lightroom in French, and using the combination of keys "Shift+S" (which is by the way absolutely not close to the English shortcut).

I found topics that are almost 10 years old where people are facing the same problem, and a simple ability to remap the shortcuts would solve the problem.

It's really frustrating to not be able to use some important shortcuts, especially because of such a silly reason, and also knowing that in the other Adobe programs, it's either possible to remap all the shortcuts, and there aren't even such compatibility problems in the first place...

[chrisoaten]

Don't hold your breath.

[Peter A Lund]

Hey, 

its 9 Years since we started this discussion. 

Now that we all pay for this product, can we pls get keyboard shortcuts? 

thanxs 

[mastix]

I hate lightroom shorcuts I want to get rid of them . They mess my workflow when I am typing keywords metadata. Suddenly I jump to develope mode etc. One option DISABLE KEY SHORTCUTS that's it. Not that complicated he ?

[mastix]

Lightroom classic is giving lots of headache because of the keyword shortcuts. When I enter data in the metadata panel and write tags I hit often a key and it jumps me to another tab like the develop module etc. I want to just disable shortcuts. 

[Rikk Flohr: Photography]

Converting to Idea 

[chrisoaten]

Any shortcut customisation, including disabling shortcuts, would be welcome.

Hello, Adobe? Hello? Adobe? Hello?

<tumbeweeds>

[johnrellis]

While waiting for LR to provide easy keyboard customization (which we've been waiting for a long time, unfortunately), it is possible to assign, change, or disable most shortcuts by using the Keyboard Tamer plugin, changing the shortcuts in System Preferences on Mac, or by editing Translating Strings.txt on Window....