


Specifically the u character in Pl ug-in Extras, and the B character in Run Manual Backup. If you look closely at the screenshot above you will notice an underlined character in each menu item. Using Keyboard Accelerators on WindowsĪbove is a screenshot of the Pl ug-in Extras menu from within the Lightroom’s File menu. Mac users needn’t feel left out as you can use an existing capability of OS/X to more than make up for this limitation. The first thing to note about the Lightroom SDK’s keyboard shortcut capability is it is specific to the Windows platform.
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Today we’ll be discussing how to take advantage of these capabilities including the slight change introduced by Lightroom 4.

In Lightroom 3 the method I used was “baked into” Lightroom so the configuration steps I outlined were no longer required. At the time the Lightroom SDK provided many capabilities but assigning keyboard shortcuts to menu items was not one of them. Lightroom is no exception, as can be evidenced by the plethora of keyboard shortcuts available and the fact the team dedicated a shortcut (Ctrl or Cmd + /) to displaying the shortcuts relevant for the current module.īack when Lightroom 2 was the latest and greatest version available I wrote about how to configure it to use keyboard shortcuts to access plugin menu items. Keyboard shortcuts can be one of the quickest ways for proficient users to navigate around a program. Keyboard Shortcuts and Lightroom Plugin Menu Items
