Alphabetic Lightroom

Thinking about shortcuts in Lightroom: This is not a comprehensive list, but certainly an alphabetic one. For those who think there are plenty of free shortcut letters (I kid!)

A: A toggles Auto Mask when using Adjustment brush
B: Add to Quick/Target Collection
C: Compare
D: Develop
E: Loupe
F: Full Screen
G: Grid
H: Hide
I: Info in loupe
J: Toggle Cell info in Grid, Highlight Clipping in Develop
K: Brush
L: Lights Out
M: Graduated Filter
N: Survey Mode in Library, Spot Removal in Develop
O: Overlay. Shows Crop overlays or Brush Masks
P: Pick
Q: Nothing: Cmd Q quits on Mac, never tried Ctrl Q on PC (usually go for Alt-f4)
R: Crop
S: Toggle Stacks open and closed, Copy previous Crop ratio in Develop
T: Toolbar
U: Unflagged
V: Black and White (Yes! Grayscale is gone, gone, gone)
W: White Balance
X: Reject
Y: Before/After view
Z: Zoom

Rotating Images

Shortcut of the day: Control/Command [ will rotate left(Counter Clockwise), while Control/Command ] will rotate right (Clockwise).

You can also rotate inside the Gird cell with expanded view on, (press J to cycle between cell views) and via the Toolbar with Rotate ticked.

Filmstrip Selection tip

I found and interesting thing today while in the Filmstrip. With one image selected in Loupe view (or Grid) using the shortcut Shift Command Down Arrow (Shift Control Down Arrow on PC) will select an additional 6 images. This can be repeated to add another 6 and so on. Using Shift Command Up Arrow (Shift Control Up Arrow on PC) will remove 6 images from the selection.
If you start with an image on the middle, then using Shift Command Up Arrow (Shift Control Up Arrow on PC) will select images to the left of the current image, while Shift Command Down Arrow (Shift Control Down Arrow on PC) will deselect them.

Update: Troy Gaul tell me the number (6 in my case) is based on the number of thumbnails in the grid row for grid view (obviously not visible in Loupe view), so having smaller thumbnails or a wider window will increase this number.

For single image additions to the selection, use Shift Command Left Arrow (Shift Control Left Arrow on PC) to add to the right and Shift Command Right Arrow (Shift Control Right Arrow on PC) to the left. The opposite arrow will deselect (i.e. if you use the left arrow to select, the right arrow shortcut will deselect).

This weeks shortcut.

While I know this has come up on Twitter, here's a variant.

Press 'V' to make an image convert to Black & White. Press again to go back to colour. Easy?
Now in Develop, press and hold 'V'. It goes to grayscale.. Now release the key.. It goes back to colour.

It's a cool way of seeing if an image works in B&W quickly.

If you try it in Library, you'll get what Don Ricklin calls a 'psychedelic effect', i.e it strobes between B&W and colour!

Brian Reyman Lightroom Shortcuts

Brian Reyman has posted a very pretty and interactive Keyboard shortcuts PDF. While the keyboard shortcut list is already supplied on Lightroom Help, this is a neat package of it. Currently PC only, but I'm hoping Brian will release a Mac version also (as I've hinted at him over at Lightroom Forums).

Update: As per the comments, Brian has now posted a Mac version. Thanks Brian!

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Shift + Command + Option + , or as it is on PC, Shift + Control + Alt + , .

It's the shortcut that brings up the Plugin Mananger, very useful when you're working on a Plugin!

Web Shortcut of the moment.

As I'm working on a new Web Engine, I'm using CSS Edit to check my layouts. To do this I need a rendered site, so I currently needing to Preview in Browser a lot. Rather than constantly opening the Left Panel to click the button, I'm using Cmd + Option + P (PC: Ctrl + Alt + PC). It's a great way to check how your Web Gallery looks in a browser. Once you have the Preview visible, you can cut and paste the address into other browsers to check compatibility.