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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: The View on July 09, 2007, 01:52:58 am

Title: Virtual copies - how to erase them, and: shortcuts
Post by: The View on July 09, 2007, 01:52:58 am

1. I would like to have a shortcut to create virtual copies.

The menu doesn't mention one, Mr. Evening's Lightroom book, doesn't. So maybe there isn't one.

Can you customize keyboard shortcuts?

2. How do you erase virtual copies? If you hit the delete button, Lightroom proposes to erase the master file. Which, of course, I do not want to. I couldn't find a "delete virtual copy" item in the menu.

Title: Virtual copies - how to erase them, and: shortcuts
Post by: francois on July 09, 2007, 04:26:27 am

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1. I would like to have a shortcut to create virtual copies.

The menu doesn't mention one, Mr. Evening's Lightroom book, doesn't. So maybe there isn't one.

Can you customize keyboard shortcuts?

I don't think that you can customize shortcuts.

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2. How do you erase virtual copies? If you hit the delete button, Lightroom proposes to erase the master file. Which, of course, I do not want to. I couldn't find a "delete virtual copy" item in the menu.

If I select the virtual copy and hit the delete button, LR offers to erase the virtual copy only (Message: "Remove the selected virtual copy from from Lightroom"). Are you sure you selected the virtual copy and not the master file? Are your files arranged in a stack?

Title: Virtual copies - how to erase them, and: shortcuts
Post by: Victoria Bampton on July 09, 2007, 07:18:57 am

The shortcut to create a virtual copy is Ctrl-' or Cmd-'.

All of the shortcuts are on my website at www.photoshopservices.co.uk/lightroom.htm

You can't currently customize keyboard shortcuts.