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Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For Metadata & Keywords

Lightroom — Shortcut Keys For Metadata & Keywords

Adobe has gone nuts! In Lightroom there is a key combination for everything. There is even a key combination for taking the dog out and another one for feeding the cat but only if you have the left panel enabled with... in the develop module...

As far as I have figured out there are 235 key combinations in Lightroom! And these Lightroom key combinations do different things depending on the context.

TaskWindowsMac
Go to the Add Keywords field of Keywording panelCtrl + KCommand + K
Set a keyword shortcutCtrl + Alt + Shift + KCommand + Option + Shift + K
Add/remove keyword shortcut from selected photoShift + KShift + K
Enable paintingCtrl + Alt + KCommand + Option + K
Add a keyword from a keyword set to selected photoAlt + 1-9Option + 1-9
Cycle through keyword setsAlt + 0Option + 0
Copy/paste metadataCtrl + Alt + Shift + C / Ctrl + Alt + Shift + VCommand + Option + Shift + C / Command + Option + Shift + V
Save metadata to fileCtrl + SCommand + S
Open Spelling dialog box Command + :
Check spelling Command + ;
Open Character Palette Command + Option + T
  • I have gathered this information from many, many sources including Adobe's own website.

I think that I have all the 235 Lightroom key combinations that work in Lightroom 2.x. The list is by functionality:


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