Comments on: Accelerate Access to Lightroom Plugin Extras

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:49:16 +0000

@Charles, Thanks for the feedback. Jeffrey has been adding keyboard accelerators to his menu items so if you use this technique it should help you make easy use of his many plugins. And if you try the LR3 Beta 2 you don’t even need this hack because they have added this to the base product.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:16:09 +0000

Just what I need when I need it. Haven’t tried it yet but am confident, thanks! Jeffrey Friedl needs his own menu

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 13:17:38 +0000

@Simon, glad to hear it worked for you. Is there something I need to document better to make the process clearer?

By: Simon Leppard

Simon Leppard — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:53:14 +0000

Brilliant.

Thank you for sharing this.
I spent 20 minutes searching for the file on Windows 7 then, read this page properly and downloaded the file.

Works a Dream

Simon

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:56:37 +0000

@Kets, The accelerators only work with menu items unfortunately. If there is no menu item for the adjustment then this technique won’t be able to provide an alternate access path to it.

Not 100% sure how Kevin does this but I believe it would just be some kind of macro functionality. You might be able to mock up something similar using AutoKey or some other macro recording/executing software. Open Source Keys has also popped up onto the radar recently and might offer a cheaper alternative, though it is less proven so you need to weigh up whether you are willing to put the effort into making it work.

In the mean time you might want to consider the Quick develop feature in the Library module as well. It provides quick access to most of these adjustments. Works for me.

By: Kets

Kets — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:43:18 +0000

Hi,
Two of the primary adjustments I use in lightroom are WB and exposure. There are presently no keyboard shortcuts to increase or decrease either of these adjustments. Will the plug in route solve this? Also, I’m trying to figure out how Kevin Kubota got it right with his wireless tool – http://kubotaworkshops.com/store/cart.php?target=product&product_id=16300&category_id=258

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:36:50 +0000

@Dancedar, don’t feel bad. I almost wrote a bug report to Adobe about that until I finally worked out the triggers for when it showed and when it didn’t.

I noticed that Jeffery was starting to rollout this support in his plugins. Good to see!

By: dacedarr

dacedarr — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:37:49 +0000

Matt, thanks for that- how stupid am I! A little strange they don’t show when ‘clicked’ but extremely useful – Alt-f + s + g for Friedl’s Geoencoding plugin works flawlessly as he’s just updated it to be supported – hooray!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:24:31 +0000

@Mark, Thanks for supporting this approach. If a few more of us do it Adobe might even formalise a shortcut/accelerator key approach in LR3 SDK. Fingers crossed.

@Dancedar, for some unknown reason the accelerators will only show if you use the keyboard to activate the menu. e.g. use Alt + F to open the file menu, and the accelerators should show. If that doesn’t give you any joy please confirm exact location where you have installed the TranslatedStrings.txt file. Any empty Plugin Extra’s menu should be irrelevant.

By: dacedarr

dacedarr — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:32:51 +0000

Hi,
I’m running the En version and used your TranslatedStrings.txt, restarted LR 2.4 and I’ve no Plugin&s and Auto Adva&nce underlining/shortcut key working in my LR

I’ve also nothing in my PluginExtra’s menu (none defined) so maybe that’s the problem?