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My 5 Favorite Simple (1-Click) Adobe Lightroom Short Cuts To Speed Up Your Workflow

There are dozens and dozens of shortcuts in Lightroom All of them are helpful and it will depend on how you use Lightroom to decide which ones are right for you. I learned several of these short-cuts on KelbyOne. But there are five 1-Click Keyboard Shortcuts that I use all the time and are easy to remember.

  1. Before/After Toggle: its always great to see how your photo has changed after you finish all your edits. You need to be in the Develop Module to use it. Its very simple and quick to see a Before and After image by clicking (\) key. On a Mac its right under the Delete key in the upper right corner of the keyboard. Press it once and you will see the Before image (with no Lightroom changes – except cropping). Press it again and you will see your current After image.

  2. Library Module >>to>> Develop Module: while in Lightroom I am always moving from the Library Module into the Develop Module and from the Develop Module to the Library Module. For some reason I did not learn this trick until I had been using LR for years. To quickly go from the Library Module to Develop press (D) which makes sense. And to go from the Develop Module to the Library Module you need to press (G) which is not intuitive. I would think you should press L but I think the reason Adobe decide the shortcut is (G) is that it brings you into Library Grid View.

  3. Clipping or Shadows & Highlights Indicator: After editing your photo in the Develop Module I often want to see if there are any clipping (highlights) in the photo which means you are losing detail. One way to do this is to toggle black point and white point clipping by clicking the triangle shapes in the top corners of the histogram in the Develop module. A much simpler way to do it is simply hit the (J) key. Hitting (J) instantly toggles both black and white point clipping on and off so that you can see where you are losing details in your image and fix it.

  4. A quick way to change the size of your thumbnails—use the (-) minus to make them smaller and plus (+) to make them larger

  5. One key quick zoom to 1:1 (100% full size) view-press the letter ‘ z ‘ on your keyboard and your thumbnail jumps to a 1:1 sized 

 
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