Optimizations

Optimizations have been made to prevent LrSK from lagging when sending rapid slider adjustments.

The following shortcuts require LrC 13.3+

• Toggle Object Aware
• Toggle Generative AI

When applying develop presets with LrSK, including those with AI masks, they will now get applied to all the selected images (LrC 13.3+)

Support has been added for those who store their presets with their catalog.
If your presets are stored with your catalog, check off the option under settings as shown in the image below.

The “Update Lightroom Rate” option has been added to support slower systems.
It’s the maximum number of slider updates that can be sent per second to Lightroom.

This option is most noticeable on Windows PCs. A large update rate may overwhelm Lightroom, causing the image refresh to lag when applying rapid slider adjustments.

So, if you notice a lag with Lightroom refreshing the image, setting a lower update rate may help.

Masking presets with local toning hue & saturation (ie: color overlay) are now supported (LrC 13.3+)

Prior to LrC 13.3, color overlays in masking presets would be ignored and not applied. This is because of the lack of Adobe’s SDK support. So starting with LrC 13.3 and LrSK 5.6.1, color overlays in masking presets will be applied as expected.

Thomas from Fotopodcast calls LrSK “the best Lightroom Classic plug-in ever” on their latest podcast.

Fotopodcast is the second longest-running podcast in Germany. They have been discussing all things photography since way back in 2008!

Thomas has created this amazing review of him demonstrating LrSK and all its features. He covers the use of Speed Keys, and how he defines Action Keys to apply develop presets, masking presets, and more…

The video is in German. So, for all the non-speaking German individuals, like myself, enabling YouTube subtitles to auto-translate does an excellent job with the translation.

Thank you kindly Fotopodcast and especially its team member Thomas for expressing their love for LrSK!

Three new Speed Keys / Hotkeys have been added allowing you to adjust the amount sliders of Masks, Presets, and Profiles in Lightroom Classic.

Transform / Upright Options have been added

You now have the ability to create Action Keys to the transform / upright options.

Five new commands have been added.

The newly added options are:

• Auto Upright
• Guided Upright
• Level Upright
• Vertical Upright
• Full Upright

These can be found under “Lr Command”.

• Enhancement: When masking is active, pressing Hotkeys will now adjust the masking sliders, identical to how Speed Keys behave.
• Enhancement: Added additional keyboard shortcuts to the list of available actions. ie: Spot Removal Tool, Crop Tool, Convert to grayscale, and more
• Distinctive naming for the types of keys for less confusion
  • Hotkeys (previously +/- shortcuts): Keys assigned to either increase or decrease sliders
  • Action Keys (previously shortcuts): Keys to perform one of three types of actions.
    (Masking Tools with Presets, Keyboard Shortcuts, or Lr Commands)
  • Speed keys (unchanged): Keys that are pressed and held then using a mouse, trackpad, or arrow keys to change the values

• Bugfix: Allow default Lr shortcuts to passthrough when a key has been assigned as a Hotkey. ie: If “Z” is assigned as a hotkey, pressing Cmd+Z will now perform the Undo command in Lr.