Comments on: VSCO Introduces Keys, A Keyboard Shortcut Tool For Lightroom http://fstoppers.com/vsco-introduces-keys-a-keyboard-shortcut-tool-for-lightroom Video Blog for Creative Professionals Sat, 25 May 2013 00:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: redisredhttp://fstoppers.com/vsco-introduces-keys-a-keyboard-shortcut-tool-for-lightroom/comment-page-1#comment-53574 redisred Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:57:00 +0000 http://fstoppers.com/?p=55388#comment-53574 Hey guys, just wanted to give you a heads up: We just made some pretty big changes to VSCO Keys based on user feedback. Tons more Lightroom shortcuts added, smarter auto on/off functionality, and the price has been reduced to $79 ($59.25 if you’ve previously purchased VSCO Film)! We’re really grateful for everyone’s feedback and very stoked to make this an even better product accessible to even more people. More info here: http://visualsupply.co/blog/vsco-keys-1-1-update If you have any other questions, let us know at support@visualsupply.co

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By: Michael Paolinihttp://fstoppers.com/vsco-introduces-keys-a-keyboard-shortcut-tool-for-lightroom/comment-page-1#comment-52774 Michael Paolini Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:30:00 +0000 http://fstoppers.com/?p=55388#comment-52774 By the way, aside from the keyboard confusion listed above, I’m pleased to say this is working as advertised – and as a result reminding me how slow LR4 is at rendering changes in Development :0)

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By: Michael Paolinihttp://fstoppers.com/vsco-introduces-keys-a-keyboard-shortcut-tool-for-lightroom/comment-page-1#comment-52773 Michael Paolini Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:28:00 +0000 http://fstoppers.com/?p=55388#comment-52773 Really the ESC is more of a uncomfortable / unusual stretch with my pinky when it comes to keyboard layouts to my thinking.   Even so I have large hands and a small stock mac wireless keyboard – so it turns out I put the 3rd party Num Pad Keyboard next to it and end up with a full size wireless keyboard with Num Pad (and that is something that is familiar and I’ve used for decades).  So no not really much extra hand movement for me.   Even so, I think the slight extra movement is more than offset by not having to move my eyes up to the menu bar to visually check which keyboard (and take in the distractions up there which I have no intention of turning off since they are helpful when I’m not editing and easily hidden by using Full Screen Mode). Also if there is any extra time, for me I suspect it will get made up by not having to undo what I’ve just done because I tapped the R key thinking I was about to recrop and was in the wrong keyboard.  (Having lived through multiple versions of LR over the years, I’m fighting a lot of muscle memory here admittedly.).
That brings me to second thing I dislike about not running LR in Full Screen mode (e.g. to see the widget) – the Mac Launch Pad.  Turns out if I bump the mouse and the cursor moves over the lower screen, the Launch Pad floats on up and demands attention…

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By: Joakim Bidebohttp://fstoppers.com/vsco-introduces-keys-a-keyboard-shortcut-tool-for-lightroom/comment-page-1#comment-52748 Joakim Bidebo Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:26:00 +0000 http://fstoppers.com/?p=55388#comment-52748 If your on Windows there is no reason at all to even think of getting this. Do yourself a favor get Paddy and donate couple of dollars. I’m using Paddy. It can do everything that VSCO can and more.

“Just because it’s photo related lets charge ridiculous amount of money.”

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By: Renato Valenzuelahttp://fstoppers.com/vsco-introduces-keys-a-keyboard-shortcut-tool-for-lightroom/comment-page-1#comment-52720 Renato Valenzuela Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:00:00 +0000 http://fstoppers.com/?p=55388#comment-52720 AfterShot Pro has keyboard shortcuts built in.  granted the GUI isn’t as nice, but still easy to work with.

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By: redisredhttp://fstoppers.com/vsco-introduces-keys-a-keyboard-shortcut-tool-for-lightroom/comment-page-1#comment-52701 redisred Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:50:00 +0000 http://fstoppers.com/?p=55388#comment-52701 Michael, this is actually some really good feedback, thank you! One question on the external keyboard thing though: wouldn’t you be moving your hands a lot farther than just the escape key with a second keyboard? To me that sounds actually slower to have to pick up your hands every time, no?

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By: Michael Paolinihttp://fstoppers.com/vsco-introduces-keys-a-keyboard-shortcut-tool-for-lightroom/comment-page-1#comment-52700 Michael Paolini Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:34:00 +0000 http://fstoppers.com/?p=55388#comment-52700 The potential for editing in full screen was enough for me to download the trial and check it out.    

On the whole, I rather like it, but there is one short coming that stops it from being a buy for me.  It doesn’t support additional keyboards.  Or put another way, I use essentially my keys on keyboard for LR already – for the same reasons I’d like to use something like this, keys are fast.  As a result I’m having to bang the ESC key to jump back and forth and this is a bit of a pain in the ass since it requires me remembering if the “R” key is crop or increment temperature.  I’d much prefer R to always be crop and to move the slider functions to an extra external keyboard like the external bluetooth numpad I bought for the purpose a while back.  :-)

Another piece of feedback, is in order to get a visual clue as to which keyboard is active you can’t be running LR in Full Screen – doing so hides the OS Status Bar.  Certainly support external keyboards would help that since the keys could be active all the time.   (It’s not so much the screen real estate your giving up here, though there is that, so much as the visual distractions that come with that bar as well as the luminance change to the eyes when looking at it.

Lastly, for the website, you guys have great information and tutorials, once you log in.  Why the heck are you hiding that from people thinking about your product?  That’s dumb – we most don’t want to log in to learn about a new product, they rather simply surf it.   If it hadn’t been for your post here adding information not available viewing your website, but certainly available once you log in, I would have passed over this product completely.

~mike

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By: Sergiu Bacioiuhttp://fstoppers.com/vsco-introduces-keys-a-keyboard-shortcut-tool-for-lightroom/comment-page-1#comment-52675 Sergiu Bacioiu Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:07:00 +0000 http://fstoppers.com/?p=55388#comment-52675  It’s coming in the next few weeks with lots of bugs. Like the ones that they are to embarrassed to write about in the change log.  http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lr4_second_convert_two_dng_on_another_batch_of_photo_with_different_settings_will_affect_the_first_task_already_in?utm_content=topic_link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=reply_notification

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By: Sergiu Bacioiuhttp://fstoppers.com/vsco-introduces-keys-a-keyboard-shortcut-tool-for-lightroom/comment-page-1#comment-52672 Sergiu Bacioiu Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:02:00 +0000 http://fstoppers.com/?p=55388#comment-52672  Use this it’s free. https://sites.google.com/site/dorfl68/ You can donate a few dollars to the developer.

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By: Sergiu Bacioiuhttp://fstoppers.com/vsco-introduces-keys-a-keyboard-shortcut-tool-for-lightroom/comment-page-1#comment-52671 Sergiu Bacioiu Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:00:00 +0000 http://fstoppers.com/?p=55388#comment-52671 You can do this with Paddy. https://sites.google.com/site/dorfl68/ I use Paddy with Logitech G13.

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