Everything we use for the yearbook is stored on a portable hard drive. Why? It helps make the work portable.

I’ve got a desktop in my classroom, a laptop, and a desktop at home. By using the portable hard drive, we can work on whichever computer is most convenient – the classroom desktop after school, the laptop when we’re out and about, or my personal desktop when I need to do some work at night. But, I purchased a smallish 250gb hard drive, and by the end of the year space gets to be a bit of concern.

By the end of 2011, we just eked by with about 5gb of free space left on the hard drive before I went about archiving the data on DVDs. This got me thinking, though, about how I can potentially save space. One place that you can easily carve out some space is your Lightroom catalog backups.

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This post contains some random keyboard shortcuts that you can define in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom through the use of the TranslatedStrings.txt file.

Don’t know what that is? You should probably go back to the first post in this guide: Guide to Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

That will explain how to create a TranslatedStrings.txt file and use that to customize Lightroom and change keyboard shortcuts. Then, you can come back here and make use of this reference material. Keep reading…

This post contains a list of all of the web photo gallery related keyboard shortcuts that you can define in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom through the use of the TranslatedStrings.txt file.

Don’t know what that is? You should probably go back to the first post in this guide: Guide to Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

That will explain how to create a TranslatedStrings.txt file and use that to customize Lightroom and change keyboard shortcuts. Then, you can come back here and make use of this reference material. Keep reading…

This post contains a list of all of the print related keyboard shortcuts that you can define in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom through the use of the TranslatedStrings.txt file.

Don’t know what that is? You should probably go back to the first post in this guide: Guide to Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

That will explain how to create a TranslatedStrings.txt file and use that to customize Lightroom and change keyboard shortcuts. Then, you can come back here and make use of this reference material. Keep reading…

This post contains a list of all of the slideshow related keyboard shortcuts that you can define in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom through the use of the TranslatedStrings.txt file.

Don’t know what that is? You should probably go back to the first post in this guide: Guide to Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

That will explain how to create a TranslatedStrings.txt file and use that to customize Lightroom and change keyboard shortcuts. Then, you can come back here and make use of this reference material. Keep reading…

This post contains a list of all of the develop related keyboard shortcuts that you can define in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom through the use of the TranslatedStrings.txt file.

Don’t know what that is? You should probably go back to the first post in this guide: Guide to Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

That will explain how to create a TranslatedStrings.txt file and use that to customize Lightroom and change keyboard shortcuts. Then, you can come back here and make use of this reference material. Keep reading…

This post contains a list of all of the library related keyboard shortcuts that you can define in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom through the use of the TranslatedStrings.txt file.

Don’t know what that is? You should probably go back to the first post in this guide: Guide to Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

That will explain how to create a TranslatedStrings.txt file and use that to customize Lightroom and change keyboard shortcuts. Then, you can come back here and make use of this reference material. Keep reading…

This post contains a list of all of the application wide keyboard shortcuts that you can define in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom through the use of the TranslatedStrings.txt file.

Don’t know what that is? You should probably go back to the first post in this guide: Guide to Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

That will explain how to create a TranslatedStrings.txt file and use that to customize Lightroom and change keyboard shortcuts. Then, you can come back here and make use of this reference material. Keep reading…

This post contains a list of all of the possible keyboard shortcuts you can define in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom through the use of the TranslatedStrings.txt file.

Don’t know what that is? You should probably go back to the first post in this guide: Guide to Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

That will explain how to create a TranslatedStrings.txt file and use that to customize Lightroom and change keyboard shortcuts. Then, you can come back here and make use of this reference material. Keep reading…

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom comes with tons of built-in keyboard shortcuts to help increase your productivity. I’d hazard a guess that the majority of keys and key combinations on your keyboard are mapped to a shortcut.

Within the Lightroom program, however, there is no way to customize these shortcuts. If you want to do that, you need to perform something of a simple hack – use a localization file (TranslatedStrings.txt) to redefine the keyboard shortcuts for various menu options in Lightroom. While there are a handful of hardcoded shortcuts that you can’t seem to change, most of Lightroom’s keyboard shortcuts can be either wiped out or re-assigned to new keys.

It would be fairly simple work – if only there was simple and clear documentation of how each shortcut is named in this file. I haven’t been able to find that lurking around the Internet, so I’m posting all of the information here. This lengthy series aims to offer a comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts that can be edited through the use of the TranslatedStrings.txt file. Keep reading…