Cannot find Lightroom Keyboard Shortcuts to Change

[IsaacDolanVideography]

Hello there,

I'm working in Lightroom 8.2 in Windows 11.

I primarily work in Premiere since I mostly do video work. In Premiere, you can go to edit -> keyboard shortcuts, and you can view and customize keyboard shortcuts and commnads.

I am getting into some real estate photography, and I am trying to use Lightroom to combine the bracketed photos and edit them, but going from Premiere to Lightroom, it seems like none of the basic keyboard shortcuts are the same. Everything I am finding "help" for is for Lightroom Classic which I am not using. I'm using just the regular, ole Lightroom V8.2. According to Google, you can change the shortcuts in regular Lightroom, but not Lightroom classic, but I cannot find where it is to save my life to actually change it. I can't even find anywhere in Lightroom where it would tell me what the shortcuts are. Like I mentioned, in Premiere, it's right there in edit -> keyboard shortcuts.

All I am trying to do is speed up my workflow with simple keyboard shortcuts like going back to a normal cursor from a brush, zooming in and out, etc., but Lightroom seems to not be anywhere near as intuitive as Premiere is. I can't even find a shortcut list online that actually matches what the actual shortcuts are on my Lightroom. For example, everything keeps telling me "z" is zoom, but "z" flags the photo as a "pick." This is driving me insane...

Any direction or help would be greatly apprecaited, as this is becoming very frustrating. Thank you!

[Rob_Cullen]

Here is a link (courtesy of Lightroom Queen) where you will find Keyboard shortcuts for "Lightroom"  (aka Lightroom-Desktop v8.2 'Cloud based'

)

https://www.lightroomqueen.com/keyboard-shortcuts/

TBMK KB shortcuts are 'hard-wired' in Lightroom. I don't know if any apps exist to modify shortcuts.

[Conrad_C · Accepted solution]

All I am trying to do is speed up my workflow with simple keyboard shortcuts like going back to a normal cursor from a brush, zooming in and out, etc., but Lightroom seems to not be anywhere near as intuitive as Premiere is. I can't even find a shortcut list online that actually matches what the actual shortcuts are on my Lightroom. For example, everything keeps telling me "z" is zoom, but "z" flags the photo as a "pick." This is driving me insane...

By @IsaacDolanVideography

There are several things going on here…

Lightroom has gone through some confusing changes in the last few years. It started when Adobe rewrote Lightroom from the ground up as a cloud-based service that syncs easily among client apps on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and web browsers. They now call this “Lightroom.” The Lightroom they originally released in 2007, which remains locally oriented and with only limited cloud support, was re-branded as Lightroom Classic.

So the Z key shortcuts you saw are all correct…but not correct for all forms of Lightroom. 

Z means “Zoom in/out” what is now called Lightroom Classic, but any shortcut list you saw that was posted before the big transition still calls that app Lightroom. 

Z for Pick is for what is now called Lightroom.

Unfortunately, your experience with editing Premiere Pro keyboard shortcuts has set your expectations too high for other Adobe apps. The keyboard shortcut editor in the Adobe video/audio apps is the best and most powerful shortcut editor Adobe has. It's fantastic, I love how it’s graphically oriented with great visual feedback for what key has what shortcut. It is so great that some of us who have used the video apps have been asking Adobe for a long time to please put it into the graphic design and photo apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom Classic). That still has not happened. Adobe sort of made a tiny amount of progress there when they recently upgraded the Adobe Bridge keyboard shortcut editor by bringing in the good one from the video apps. But we’re still waiting for the 1990s-era shortcut editor in the more major non-video apps to be upgraded.

So, in short, this is what you’re dealing with:

• Premiere Pro, After Effects, and now Adobe Bridge have the best, most powerful, and most intuitive keyboard shortcut editor Adobe has. 
• Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign have an outdated, frustrating keyboard shortcut editor. 
• Lightroom Classic, Lightroom, Camera Raw, and other Adobe apps still have no keyboard shortcut editor at all. 

[IsaacDolanVideography]

Ah ha, thank you so much! This makes so much more sense. See, even Google's AI couldn't find me the correct answers. Sometimes you just need a good ole fashioned human who knows what they are talking about!

Hopefully Adobe will integrate the keyboard shortcut editor from Premiere, After Effects, and Bridge into all of their apps, because my workflow is able to be so much quicker in premiere because of the shortcut editor.

I appreciate the help!