Many of you know that I am a fan of adding keywords to photos in Lightroom, so that you can find them quickly later. In this post I will go over some shortcuts to help you add keywords more quickly. With a photo selected (or group of photos selected in Grid view): Ctl/Cmd-K will open up [...]
When designing a book in Lightroom, I move between multi-page, spread and page view a lot. There are icons in the toolbar to select these: However, knowing some handy shortcuts speeds up my work a lot. Ctl/Cmd E: Multi-Page View Ctl/Cmd R: Spread View Ctl/Cmd [...]
The metadata panel in Lightroom has lots of little shortcuts you can click on to get places and see or change things. The panel is the last one down on the right side of the Library module. In the Default metadata view you can rename your photo; find the master photo of your virtual copy; show [...]
UPDATE: The shortcut in Lightroom 6 and CC 2015 is just F. While I know a fair amount about Lightroom, I am always picking up more from my fellow bloggers. Here's a quick but useful shortcut from Sean McCormack over at Lightroom-Blog.com: To see your image and nothing but your image, type Shift-Ctl-F on the PC, [...]
Sometimes your mouse is a zoom tool, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes you have easy acess to your navigator panel, sometimes you don't. You can always, however, use "Ctl/CmdCtl/Cmd +" and "Ctl/Cmd -" for zooming in and out. These work in every view (Grid, Loupe, Compare, Survey) in the Library module and in every mode in the [...]
This isn't Lightroom or Photoshop-related, but since I'm in charge here, I can get away with it! I have really been enjoying Windows 7. I had no plans to upgrade to it from XP, but my computer died and I had to replace it -- right after W7 was released. It is truly a pleasure to [...]
In the Lightroom Develop module, there are different ways to look at Before and After for changes that you have made. One of my favorites is to use the backslash key to toggle between Before and After. The default Before state is the first step in the History panel, usually your file import. So by default, [...]
From my experience teaching, I know that some folks love shortcuts and others much prefer to use menus. But even if you are in the second group, you will find that learning and using just a handful or so of the most important shortcuts will really speed up your Lightroom experience. I dare say, you will [...]
Just a quick post for today, with my most used shortcuts. I can't recommend these enough -- they work everywhere, Photoshop, Camera Raw, Lightroom, and in places where other shortcuts don't necessarily work, like in Photoshop filters. First, the left bracket key [ and right bracket key ] for decreasing and increasing brush size ... paint [...]