- Bonjour, my name is Emisio.
In this video, I wanna give you the 13 shortcuts
that I've been using in Lightroom Classic for over 12 years
that speed up my workflow by at least 50%.
It's gonna change the way you use Lightroom,
because there's over 250 shortcuts,
but I discovered I've only been using 13 in 12 years,
and I love shortcuts.
So, let me show you which one I think is the best
that you should know
to speed up your own workflow with Lightroom Classic.
Let's get started.
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because once you master this Light shortcuts,
it just makes life so much easier.
By the way, before we start,
so I'm using a Mac, but if you download this,
you'll have all the Windows shortcuts.
So, make sure you download this and you print it.
The link is under this video.
I'm gonna show you the Mac one.
They are almost the same when it comes to Windows.
Just get the list from the Download down below.
All right, so the first one is show and hide old panels.
This is something I use all the time
when I wanna appreciate a photo.
So, basically what you do is you press Shift+Tab,
and all the panels goes away,
and you press Shift+Tab, and it comes back again.
So, let me do it again, Shift+Tab.
And it's just really cool.
And if you really wanna see everything in just a photo,
you can press LL, it's a little boarders,
and everything becomes black,
if you don't wanna have a gray around.
So, I usually do the Shift+Tab LL to appreciate my photo,
and L again, to get the gray back,
and Shift+Tab to come back.
So I repeat, you go Shift+Tab LL.
Okay, the other way you can do this,
is by pressing F, F is full screen.
So, and full screen is full screen.
It's gonna take a photo full screen.
So, why would you use Shift+Tab instead of full screen?
I'll tell you why?
F is great, but it's slow.
To go from one photo to the next,
it's gonna be very slow.
I just pressed on my keyboard the Arrow key
and took like three seconds.
When you do this shift+Tab technique,
and you go to the next photo, it's much faster.
So, I'm a very impatient man,
so I use more shift+Tab than F.
But F is cool
because you can really see your photo in full screen.
The next one is to go into grid view.
G for grid. G for grid.
So G, and I can see all my photos.
And if you want to see one photo,
let's say, I wanna see this one in full screen, I press E,
and boom, I'm in full screen.
G, I'm back into grid mode,
I click on this one E, I'm in full screen.
G, I'm back.
And I can also double click on the photo.
It's same thing, but I like to use the G and E shortcut.
Another one that's amazing is the C key.
The C key is a compare mode.
So, I can select two photos, I press C,
and then I can press Shift+Tab also,
so now I have everything in full screen.
And check this out, and this is why I use it.
I can zoom in, and I can compare the photos
at the exact same room level we see,
and I can press E to go back.
So, I repeat, C, to go in compare mode,
E, to go back to normal mode, Shift+Tab, to come back.
So, Shift+Tab I use all the time,
and C, I use all the time.
Compare is great when you wanna see,
like you're comparing two photos to see how sharp they are,
or you wanna see the detail in the sky, or whatever,
whatever reasons you have to compare your photos,
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Okay, the next one is amazing. It's the survey mode.
I use that all the time.
So, let's say, for example, my printer wants,
or I need to do like a cover for a book.
I can select different photos, like this,
by holding the Command key and click on a photo,
and then I press the N key, Shift+Tab, so it's full screen,
and now I can see them in full screen.
That's the end. It's called a survey mode.
But what's amazing about it
is let's I'm saying like,
"Oh, no, I don't wanna use this one."
And boom, it's gonna relay out everything.
And I say, "Oh, I don't wanna use this one."
And boom, it makes it bigger.
And it's like Highlander. There can be only one.
And boom, that's the last one.
And you can go like with lots of photos.
I can go all my photos and key Shift+Tab and say,
"Okay, maybe not this one, maybe not this one,
maybe not this one."
And every time the layout changes to make them bigger.
And I use that all the time.
Usually what I do is I filter all my photos,
which gives me a number and then I...
So, I give like a one to every photo which has potential,
and then I give a two on the ones that are really good.
And so then I just select all my two photos.
And then before I give it a three,
which is gonna be like the best of the best,
I use this mode to see all my twos, kind of thing.
So, then you press E or G
to go out of the survey mode, the end mode.
Now, then another one that's vital is the, I.
I, gives you the data.
So I, if you press one time,
is gonna tell you like the resolution.
You see, this is like a medium format,
102 million pixel photo, 11,801 x 6,638.
So, great, great resolution.
It tells you the date I shot it, the time I shot it,
and if I press I again,
it tells you the second, half a second, F.8, ISO 160,
and it even tells you which lens you used,
which was, in this case, a 32 millimeter
out of the zoom lens that goes from 32-64 on my GFX Fuji.
So, and if you press I again, this disappears.
All right, the next one is very annoying,
because it only works when you're in a library module.
So, if I'ma develop it on your list, it's not gonna work.
It's F2. If you press F2, it doesn't work.
I see it doesn't work there. It just does not work.
But then you go to library and you press F2,
and you can rename your photo.
I can say (foreign language),
and it renames the photo.
But so it's kind of a two-step,
first library, and then F2.
Again, if you have some better idea, leave a comment below.
Okay, one of the most shortcut that I use is a star rating.
So, let's say, I would go through this photo,
and this is what I do.
So, I go through the photo, I'm like,
"Oh, am I gonna use this one? Yes."
So, I give it a one, a one, one.
And then this one, oh, this one's amazing
I'm gonna give it a two, and one.
So, I just press one or two on my keyboard or three.
The way I do it is I first go through
and I give a one to everything that has potential.
Okay, then I refilter all my photos.
So, like this by clicking here.
So, now I only have the photos which is one or above.
And then I'm like, no, okay. This one is not good. Yeah.
This one is a two. This one is definitely a two.
This one is a two. This one is a two.
And then I filter by two,
and all I have only is a two and above.
And I go on, and on, and on.
That's the way I do it
to pick up my best of the best photos usually.
So, one is, it has potential,
two is, it really has a lot of potential,
three is usually for the one which are retouched,
four is like exceptional,,
and five is like lifetime exceptional.
So, that's just how I do it.
And if you wanna take the star, just press zero.
So, this is something that I do all the time.
Okay, One that's very important is the Backslash key.
The Backslash key shows you the before and after.
So, this is a black and white I just finished retouching.
Backslash key, before. You see it says before, upright.
And then backslash key again, it shows after, before, after.
Very handy to see what you did with your retouching.
Okay, last but not least, the photos merge option,
which I really like.
I like to go fast, so this is an HDR,
a beautiful HDR I shot in Page, Arizona,
of the Lady in the Wind.
I select all three and I press Ctrl+H,
Ctrl+H on my keyboard.
And then it takes me right away into an HDR.
Now, Okay. And Panorama.
So, this is a Panorama one, two and three photo.
I select all three and Ctrl+M,
Ctrl+H is HDR, Ctrl+M is Panorama.
I use that all the time.
I just think it's faster
to right-click photo merge and voila.
So, this is the 13 most important shortcuts
I've been using for 12 years.
If there's other shortcuts you see that you use a lot,
leave me a comment below.
I'm really interested to know
what is your favorite shortcuts.
Don't forget to download the cheat sheet and to print it.
Put it up on the wall, it's gonna help you.
And I'll see you in another video.
My name's Emisio. Over and out.