5 Hidden Shortcuts on Lightroom CC for iPad and Cell
Daven Mathies/Digital Traits
With Lightroom CC, picture enhancing matches proper within the palm of your fingers — however a keyboard (with its many shortcuts) doesn’t. Whereas Lightroom CC on a cell machine could also be lacking keyboard shortcuts, the enhancing app nonetheless has a number of shortcuts inbuilt. The issue? The gesture-based controls are sometimes hidden, requiring a cheerful accident or a tutorial to search out them.
Identical to mastering the keyboard shortcuts on the desktop model of Lightroom enables you to work sooner, studying Lightroom’s gesture shortcuts on an iPad or cellphone will make you extra environment friendly. We sat down with Adobe to uncover among the hidden shortcuts inside Lightroom CC on cell.
Swipe to fee and assessment (iPad solely)
On the iPad, enter the “fee and assessment” mode by tapping the star icon. From right here, swipe up or down on the left aspect of the picture to extend or lower the ranking, or on the correct aspect of the picture so as to add or a take away a flag. Swiping side-to-side nonetheless scrolls to the subsequent or earlier picture within the catalog.
Use two fingers to entry ALT/Possibility shortcuts (iPad and cell)
On desktop variations of Lightroom, holding down the ALT or Possibility key whereas dragging a slider alters the show to point out what you might be adjusting. For instance, when used on the highlights slider, holding ALT/Possibility will present a clipping map that shows the place the highlights are blowing out, with related choices for blacks, shadows, whites, and publicity.
On iPad and cell, holding one finger on the picture as you regulate a slider replicates the ALT/Possibility key. Attempt utilizing your thumb on one hand to faucet and maintain whilst you transfer the slider with the index finger in your reverse hand.
Faucet sliders to make small changes (iPad and cell)
When you’ve got giant fingers or in any other case wrestle to make minor changes on the sliders, you possibly can faucet a slider to make small modifications. Tapping as soon as will transfer the slider in small increments — between 2-5 factors, relying on if you’re on iOS or Android — whereas a double-tap resets the slider. You may faucet on the correct or left aspect of the slider to maneuver the adjustment within the desired course.
Faucet and maintain to see the before-and-after view (iPad and cell)
That is one thing that many cell enhancing apps have in frequent. After making changes to a photograph, merely faucet and maintain on the picture to carry up the unique, unedited picture. The phrase “earlier than” will show so long as you maintain your finger down, then simply elevate as much as return to the “after” view to see the outcomes of your edits.
With an iPad keyboard, maintain Command to see the shortcuts (iPad solely)
Going cell doesn’t essentially imply skipping the keyboard altogether. The iPad keyboard brings keystroke shortcuts again, however they’re not precisely the identical as on desktop. Thankfully, there’s a straightforward trick to see what they’re: Maintain Command on the iPad keyboard and the shortcuts can be displayed on display screen. This makes it simpler to adapt your desktop workflow to the iPad, and hopefully cuts again on the frustration of determining new shortcuts.
