Tutorial: useful Lightroom shortcuts

Note: As my list of Photoshop keyboard shortcuts seems to be quite popular I would like to share a list of my favourite Lightroom keyboard shortcuts today. BTW there is also a list of Photomatix Pro shortcuts available here.

Modules and view

These shortcuts are used to navigate between different modules and also to choose different ways to preview your photos:

• G - go to Grid view in Library - useful for viewing a lot of photos at once. I often use this view to group photos, stack them, find bracketed sets or panoramas
• E - go to Loupe in Library (view preview of a photo). Mode that is useful to preview your photos
• D - Develop selected photo
• C - compare 2 images
• N - survey images - lets you see a number of images at once and pick your favourite one. Useful if you have a number of similar images and want to choose the best one (eg. in terms of focus or composition).
• L - toggle "light" mode. Useful for previewing image on completely dark background
• F - shows currently selected photo in full-screen mode. Click again to leave full-screen mode

Rating and labels

• 0 - set rating to 0
• 1 to 5 - set rating to a given number of stars
• 6 - set Red color label
• 7 - set Yellow color label
• 8 - set Green color label
• 9 - set Blue color label
• CTRL + UP ARROW - increase Flag rating (usually to mark as Picked)
• CTRL + DOWN ARROW - decrease Flag rating (ustually to mark as Rejected)

Tools

• R - crop tool 
• Q - spot removal tool
• M - graduated filter tool
• CTRL + M - radial filter tool
• K - adjustment brush tool

Other

• CTRL + BACKSPACE - delete rejected photos from current folder
• CTRL + G - stack selected photos 
• CTRL + ' - create virtual copy of a phot
• Z - zoom in/out
• SHIFT + TAB - toggle visibility of all panels 
• ALT - ALT key is somewhat special in Lightroom. Click and hold it in Develop module and a lot of buttons will work differently (eg. they will allow you to reset or preview various things)