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Lightroom's Number Keys Are Doing More Than You Think — Here's the Full Map
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Lightroom's Number Keys Are Doing More Than You Think — Here's the Full Map

I have a bad habit of clicking things I don’t need to click. I’ll mouse all the way up to the module tabs to switch from Library to Develop, or hunt around for the star rating buttons in the toolbar, when the keyboard has been sitting there the whole time with faster answers built right in. Keyboard shortcuts in Lightroom aren’t exactly hidden, but the number-based ones specifically tend to get overlooked because they don’t show up in obvious places.

Lightroom CC Just Got Faster — Here's How to Actually Turn That Speed On
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Lightroom CC Just Got Faster — Here's How to Actually Turn That Speed On

There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes from painting a local adjustment brush across a high-resolution RAW file and watching Lightroom chug along like it’s thinking really hard about your life choices. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit. It’s the kind of lag that makes you question your hardware, your file format, your entire career path. So when Adobe dropped Lightroom CC with a serious architecture overhaul under the hood, I paid attention immediately.