Lightroom Classic is well-known for its proliferation of keyboard shortcuts. For many years, Lightroom Queen has been recognized as the source of the most extensive keyboard shortcut list, including many that aren’t on Adobe’s own list.
The shortcuts and keyboard layouts vary by language. So last year, in conjunction with John R. Ellis (Plug-in Developer and also a Lightroom Guru on our Forums), we started publishing these in the 16 additional supported languages. We did this using a plugin Any Shortcut that John has developed.
Add and Change Lightroom’s Shortcuts
We’ve often been asked if it’s possible to create your own Lightroom shortcuts. There is a way of editing keyboard shortcuts using Translated Strings, but it’s not for the faint-hearted. But now there’s an easier option…
Outside of some shortcuts that Adobe have hard-coded into the program (such as ‘G’ for Grid view, ‘D’ for Develop), the Any Shortcut plug-in lets you add your own shortcuts, change some of them or even remove ones that cause confusion.
If you haven’t already downloaded and use our shortcut lists, please go ahead and do so. And if you’d like to modify or add shortcuts, check out John’s page for Any Shortcut! You can trial it for 30 days.
We’ve been very pleased with our use of the plug-in for what we wish to do with it and thought you might like to know about it too.
For extensive information on Lightroom Classic, see Adobe Lightroom Classic – The Missing FAQ.
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Need to create a shortcut command for a User Preset in LR CC. Is this possible?
No, sorry.
Is it possible with “Any Shortcut” to create a shortcut to a specific crop proportion… eg, to 5×4 crop?
Hmmmmm no I don’t think that’s possible. Best trick for that is to select all of the photos in Grid view and select the ratio there, as it’ll update all the selected photos, then you can go through and adjust the crop on them individually.
I’m having problems with the trial
Any shortcut does not work when changing shortcuts on windows
Looking forward to your helpful feedback
Thank
We’d suggest contact John via his support link (on the page linked to above). John is veery responsive if there’s a bug on his plugins.
Can you add a shortcut to an item on the contextual (right-click) menu?
I need a shortcut for “rename folder,” as I’m having a ton of folders to identify…
I don’t think so, no, sorry.
If I’ve installed Keyboard Tamer, does that count as manually editing the TranslatedStrings files. If it does, how do I restore the factory Translated strings?
Keyboard Tamer was a huge help that I’ve missed, and I’m very excited about Any Shortcu
Thanks!
Lynne
If I remember rightly, then yes Keyboard Tamer updated the Translated Strings file. Uninstalling and reinstalling Lightroom would definitely reset to defaults, or if you still have KT installed, it appears there was a Restore Defaults button in there.