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25 Lightroom Keyboard Shortcuts That I Use All The Time To Save Me Time. Hi and welcome to Episode 130 of the Photography Explained podcast.

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Here are 25 Lightroom keyboard shortcuts that I use. I have listed these during an editing session – they are not produced from a Google search. Yes these are the ones that I actually use. And if you don’t use Lightroom don’t worry – whatever you use will have similar.

1. P for pick – how I quickly choose photos to think about editing
2. X for reject – a quick way to sort the rubbish out
3. U to cancel flag – for when I change my mind
4. D for develop – takes me straight to editing photos
5. M for map – takes me straight to the excellent map module
6. R for crop – takes me straight to the crop tool
7. O for crop overlays – lets me scroll through the different crop overlays
8. G for grid – takes me to the grid view in the library mode
9. Control C – to copy stuff
10. Control V – to paste the stuff that I have copied
11. Shift Tab – quickly get rid of or bring back the side panels
12. Control A – select all the photos
13. Right arrow key – used on the sliders to give me fine control
14. Left arrow key – the same but the other way
15. Home – takes me to the first photo in a collection/ folder
16. End – takes me to the last photo
17. Page Up – many uses, including the spot removal tool
18. Page Down – many uses, including the spot removal tool
19. K new mask – takes me straight to a new mask
20. Q spot removal – takes me straight to the spot removal tool
21. W – white balance – takes me straight to the white balance tool
22. Y before and after – a quick look at what I have done
23. F full image – gives me the image on a full screen
24. F2 – when I want to change a filename
25. Space bar – zoom in/ out – dead handy

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Episode 131 - How Can I Improve My Photo Editing Workflow? Want To Know What I Do?

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