Feature Release Version: 2025.6 build 8612
Release Date: June 2025
Applies to: macOS
Nearly any keyboard shortcut in the program can be customized, and shortcuts can also now be assigned to functionality that never had a shortcut assigned to it before.
How to Customize Keyboard Shortcuts
Navigate to "Keyboard Shortcuts" in Settings
Choose Keyboard Shortcuts from the dropdown menu at the top left of the Settings window
Choose the Section for the area of the program whose shortcuts you'd like to customize
Menus: the shortcuts for any menu that appears in the Mac menu bar (File, Edit, Image, etc.).
Contact Sheet: Any of the Contact Sheet functionality that is not explicitly available in the menus (i.e. changing Star Rating or Color Label filters, or setting Star Ratings or Color Labels on single images.
Preview: Any of the Preview window functionality not explicitly available in the menus.
Assign or Change a Shortcut
- Select the shortcut you wish to change from the list of shortcuts.
- Click the button above the Shortcuts list (titled Record Shortcut in the screenshot): if the function you've selected already has a shortcut associated with it, the button will show the current shortcut.
Press the desired key combination (e.g.,
CMD + Shift + S).The program will inform you about any conflicts, and will prevent you from setting any shortcut that will conflict with another in that section of the program.
Tips & Best Practices
The Contact Sheet and Preview windows share quite a bit of functionality, and that functionality often has the same shortcut in both areas of the program, but shortcuts for each window must be set separately.
Example: By default, the square bracket keys, '[' and']', rotate your images 90 degrees counter-clockwise and clockwise, respectively, in both the Preview and Contact Sheet windows. If the shortcuts for these functions are changed to '-' and '=' in the Contact Sheet section, '[' and ']' will still rotate your images in the Preview window.
Changes are saved as soon as the shortcut is recorded (as long as there are no conflicts).
The buttons below the list allow for setting the selected shortcut, the entire section, or all shortcuts back to their default setting.
While modifying a shortcut that is currently set, an 'X' will appear in the customization button. Click the 'X' to remove the shortcut from that functionality. If you have a conflict when setting a shortcut, do this to clear out the conflicting shortcut if you don't want to set a different shortcut to that functionality.