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!

1 – Develop Presets can now be applied with Action Keys

Create your own shortcuts to your most used Develop Presets.

For example, with the new AI tools introduced in Lightroom 12, you can retouch portraits with a single key press by creating an Action Key to the new “Adaptive Portrait” develop presets or to your own adaptive AI develop presets.

2 – Enable / Disable SuperKeys with SHIFT+ESC

Superkeys can now be disabled and then re-enabled by pressing the keyboard combination SHIFT+ESC. This is occasionally necessary if you need to type into Lightroom’s fields or pop-ups when you have created and overridden your keyboard keys with custom hotkeys or actions.

Big improvements in how actions are created!

Selecting your action for an action key is now much easier using the new expanding menu.

Swap SHIFT key behavior for Hot Keys

In prior versions of LRSK, the SHIFT key would only make finer slider adjustments for Hotkeys. However, now you can swap this behavior and make larger changes when using the SHIFT key with Hot Keys. This option can be found under Preferences / Settings.

Other fixes

(Windows): Bug fix with CTRL key. With certain key combinations, LRSK would stop responding to key presses

(Windows): Bug fix where the “Copy” window would not get the focus when using a Copy action key

Other minor stability & bug fixes

NOTE: When upgrading from 3.2.3, all your custom-defined Speed Keys, Speed Menu Items, and user settings will be lost

Changes since v3.2.3

• The user interface has been completely redesigned for a new modern look
• Create Hotkeys to either increase or decrease sliders

• Create Action Keys to apply either masking presets, keyboard shortcuts, or Lightroom commands.
  For more info on Actions Keys, see the FAQs
  • Masking Presets: This allows you to choose your favorite masking tool (ie: brush, radial, linear gradient, subject, sky, etc…) along with your favorite masking preset applied
  • Keyboard Shortcuts: Choose from a list of Lightroom keyboard shortcuts (ie: Copy Previous, Match Total Exposures, Export, etc…)
  • Lightroom Commands: Select from a list of commands (ie: Auto Tone, Reset Crop, etc…)

• Enable / Disable the heads-up display (HUD)
• Optimize the slider adjustments by buffering commands being sent to Lightroom to create more responsive updates to your image when applying large movements with your cursor
• A fully licensed 14-day trial is now available with your download

• Speed Menu can now be resized vertically
• A new “compact view” mode for the Speed Menu, allowing you to view more presets at once

• 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.