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Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast.
My name is Terry White and in this episode, we're going to take a look at
at least five keyboard shortcuts for Lightroom
that will definitely speed up your workflow,
so let's go ahead and dive right in.
The first thing I'm going to do is I'm here in library view
and just for a quick review for my new Lightroom users,
when you select a photo, you can switch between your various views
right from the keyboard.
So for example, we're out in the grid view, which shows us all our thumbnails.
If I hit the letter E, that will take me to the loupe view.
Hitting the letter G again will take me to the grid view,
so E for loupe--"loupe" with the "e" on the end--
and G for grid.
All right. But let's say we want to kind of get more real estate
for the image that we're going to look at in loupe view,
so I'm going to go ahead and go to loupe view
and I want to have less stuff at the top of the screen.
So here's your first keyboard shortcut:
if you hit the letter F as in "full screen,"
that will take you up one level to full screen.
You'll still see the menu bar.
If you hit the letter F one more time, now you're in full-screen mode,
giving yourself some more screen real estate at the top and bottom of your screen.
Now, of course, you can still get to the menus just by dragging your mouse
up to where the menu bar will be and it will pop back down,
but hitting the letter F once will take you into one full-screen view
and hitting it again will take you up to the full screen view,
and then hitting F one more time will take you all the way back down.
So by the way, here's a bonus tip while we're there:
a lot of times we kind of want to see the image and nothing else around it,
so hitting the letter L for lights dim/lights off.
So L, lights on; L, lights dim; L, lights off.
So just a quick way--and again, you can still use your arrow keys,
left and right, to review the images while the lights are off.
Everything still works; it's just that you don't see the rest of the interface.
So again, going back to lights on.
Now, let's talk about what we're really here to do, and that is to rate and review
and flag and pick our images, so I'm going to hit the letter T for the toolbar,
and that will bring up the toolbar down here at the bottom so I can see all my pick flags,
all my star ratings and my color labels.
And of course, we could just go down there and click on each one of those as we need to,
but we want to work fast and efficiently and you can work more efficiently from the keyboard.
So for example, hitting the letter P will make this a pick.
Hitting the letter X will make this a reject.
But what if you hit the letter P by mistake
and you didn't want it to be a pick; you wanted to take it back down to being neutral
or no flag?
Well, here's another keyboard shortcut, and that is Command on the Mac;
Control on Windows--down arrow key will decrease the flag status.
If I hit it one more time, it will make it a reject.
If I hit Command-Up or Control-Up on Windows,
that will increase the flag status one more time,
will make it a pick flag.
So if you get into it by accident, you can get out of it on purpose
by just hitting your Command-up and down arrow keys.
Now, what about the stars?
Well, the stars are pretty simple--they're the numbers on the keyboard.
So 1 star, 2 star, 3 star, 4 star, 5 star--and if I don't want any stars,
just hit the number 0 and that will take me back down.
And of course, that leaves us with our color labels,
so 6 for red, 7 for yellow, 8 for green, 9 for blue, and I don't know--
I don't believe there is one for the purple one, unfortunately.
I don't think there's a keyboard shortcut for that.
If there is, I will have to look it up and see what it is
because I can't remember.
But anyway, hitting the number again will take the label off.
Now, here's your third, or killer keyboard shortcut for doing this,
because let's say I make this a pick.
Well, if I made it a pick, now I'm ready to move on to the next image.
In other words, I don't want to have to look at this anymore.
I want to go to the next one, so now, normally, I would hit the right arrow key to do that.
But I'm going to decrease the flag status real quick
and I'm going to turn on the Caps Lock key
because when your Caps Lock key is on, you get some extra magic here
and that is if you press any of your flagging options--so like, for example, if I do a pick--
then what it does is it automatically advances to the next photo.
So you can quickly mark your picks and rejects and it will take you to the next photo
for you automatically.
And I don't really like this photo; she's not really looking at the camera.
There's something going on in the bottom right-hand corner, so I'll mark that a reject.
And again, it takes me to the next photo.
Eyes are closed here--reject.
It takes me to the next photo--maybe that's a pick--and we're done.
It took me to another photo that was slightly brighter or more exposed.
Okay, so there we are.
Those are some quick keyboard shortcuts for working with your picks and rejects,
so that's with the Caps Lock on.
Now, I'm going to go over to the Develop module
and to do that, I'm going to hit the letter D for "develop."
That will take me over to the Develop module and I will see all of my Develop options,
and I want to crop this photo, and normally, that would be the letter R on the keyboard.
I know--for "CRRROP." Actually, no.
I look at it as "R" as in "reduce," so if I hit the letter R,
that will take me into the Crop rectangle
and of course, you can grab any of the corners you want
and do your crop thingy--do it the way you want.
Now, there is one more thing that we want to be able to do here,
and this is one of my favorite new keyboard shortcuts in Lightroom 3,
and that is sometimes I want to crop a photo
and I want the cropped rectangle to be the opposite orientation.
So in this case, it's portrait and I want it to now be landscape,
so here's my favorite option now on the crop tool: hit the letter X
and that will switch your rotation from portrait to landscape,
just by hitting the letter X.
I use that all the time.
Okay, and then once you're done, you can hit the Enter key.
That will again make your crop real.
Of course, this is all non-destructive, so if you hit the letter R again,
you're right back to the crop rectangle; you have not lost anything in your photo.
Let's go back to loupe view and again, we can go to grid view from here if we want,
and we can look at the rest of our photos, of course,
but one of the things that I kind of like to do sometimes
or when I'm reviewing photos is also put in keywords.
So for example, let's say we go back to this photo.
We'll look at it in loupe view.
We have some keyword suggestions here, and the keyword suggestions
are pretty much just suggesting from keywords you're previously applied to other photos.
And then, of course, you have your keyword set here.
There are some sets that we include.
You can make your own sets,
But let's say we want to use one of these keywords that are here.
Of course, we can just click on it and that will apply it,
but we're talking about keyboard shortcuts, and of course, making things fast.
So if you hold down your Option key on the Mac or your Alt key on Windows,
and now I want to do Option-9
and it's nice that it's showing you the overlay of what they are
so you will have an idea of which one.
So I can go ahead and click to put in my own,
and of course, it will allow me to use the ones that are here
or I can hold down my Option key and get to those.
So the Option key will work with your currently selected set
and of course, you can make your own set so it would have your key words in it
so that you can choose it.
All right, so now that we've done that,
let's see if I've got time for one more, and this is probably going to be an extra bonus tip here.
So we've got the images here and one of my other keyboard shortcuts that I love to do
all the time is make a virtual copy.
So let me explain what a virtual copy is, for those of you who are new.
I have this image here, and let's say we go and look at it
and I kind of want to do something else with it, but I also want to keep the original.
Maybe I want to crop it a little bit more to get rid of some of this fake grass
that was in front of the background.
All right, so we got it here, and I want to keep the one I have
but I also want another one to work on.
So a virtual copy is just that--it's a virtual representation of the image.
So now, if I hit Command on the Mac or Control on Windows and the quote
or little ' , it will make a virtual copy of that photo.
Now, the virtual copy is just like the original, but it will let me do things to this copy,
but it's taking up any extra drive space.
So for example, I can go ahead and go to my cropping for this
and I can go ahead and crop this image in
and now if I hit R again to get me out of it and go back to my grid view,
I will have the one that is more cropped versus the one that isn't.
You can do all kinds of things, of course, with your virtual copies, as I've shown before.
For example, if you wanted kind of an antique grayscale on that one,
you could do that as well, and it's not going to touch your original.
So you can now have two copies of the photo that you could export
because of your virtual copy, and again, the keyboard shortcut was Command-quote
to get to that.
So I hope those keyboard shortcuts helped you, and by the way,
I'll throw one more out there just because I'm thinking about it right now,
and that is we talked about full screen mode
and getting rid of some of the interface and, of course, the letter T to get rid of the tools
or bring the tools up.
Another one that I love to do is when I'm not working with the side panels,
just like in Photoshop, if you hit the Tab key, it will hide all your panels,
Lightroom works the same way
and lights on, lights off, lights dim,
and Tab key to bring them back.
So some of my favorite keyboard shortcuts that I use every single time I'm using Lightroom
and I hope you enjoyed it.
My name is Terry White. Thanks for watching.
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