Paddy, the free workflow improvement program for Lightroom. (Paddy is for Windows only, sorry)
Paddy download, including source code
Discussion board for help and bug reporting
Paddy radically improves the workflow in Adobe Lightroom by allowing you to assign any adjustment setting - including moving the sliders and applying a preset - to essentially any key, external keypads, mouse buttons, a MIDI keyboard and MIDI controllers with physical encoders and faders. This gives you all editing (and some other) tools of Lightroom at the push of a button or move a physical fader. You do not need the mouse any more to get to presets or to adjust the sliders.
Paddy also has a full scripting engine for Lightroom.
Paddy supports several external keyboards natively, including the [XKeys_Professional] 58 key external keyboard which is at least similar (if not the same) as what some commercial solutions use, and the Logitech G13, which is a reasonably prices gaming keypad. Paddy is free (the external keyboard is not, obviously).
Paddy supports the [Behringer_BCF2000] and [Behringer_BCR2000] MIDI controllers natively, with their own GUI and the ability to share your settings with other users. Other MIDI controllers can be used as well, and notes as well as chords on MIDI keyboards can be mapped to Lightrooom functions.
For external keyboards, there are several ways you can go
For Midi any controller can work, but there are essentially three options
In addition to the external keyboards, you can still map functions to the Function keys, the Numpad keys, and any other keys if you desire, up to 7 levels deep(e.g., CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-Q)
Templates for devices can be found at the [Official_Paddy_Template_site]
You can find more on registration here
The main user guide can be found under [Paddy_user_guide] in the Wiki
The PDF version - typically a few edits behind - can be found here https://sourceforge.net/projects/padd.../98%20Documentation/
We have video tutorials on our YouTube Channel
Go to the [Paddy_Developer_Wiki]
Paddy is a third party product for use with Adobe Lightroom. Adobe, the Adobe logo, Lightroom and Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. X-keys is a trade mark of P.I. Engineering, Inc. GENOVATION is a registered trade mark of Genovation Incorporated.
Paddy is licensed under CC BSD
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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Wiki: 3_Layers_XKeys_Layout
Wiki: Official_Paddy_Template_site
Wiki: Paddy_Developer_Wiki
Wiki: Paddy_user_guide
Wiki: Standard_XKeys_Layout
Wiki: Using_only_a_standard_keyboard