Custom keybindings

The defaults follow Lightroom, so most photographers can start without learning anything. Every one of them can be changed.

The full list is on the shortcuts page, and ? shows it inside the app without leaving the photo.

Changing one

Open the keybindings dialog from the settings. Pick a command, press the key or the combination you want, and it is done. A command can have more than one binding. The loupe answers to both E and Enter out of the box.

Your changes are stored on the machine, not in the project, so they follow you between shoots rather than between computers.

Resetting

The dialog can put any single command, or all of them, back to the default.

The rule about Shift

Shift does two jobs, and knowing which is which explains every odd case.

1. It is part of some bindings. Ctrl + Shift + A deselects everything.
2. On a classification key (a star, a flag, a label, a tag, a delete) it inverts the Caps Lock auto-advance for one press.

Cullant looks for a binding that includes Shift first. If there is one, it wins. If there is not, it looks again without Shift and treats the Shift as the advance inverter.

In practice this means that if you bind something to a Shift combination on a classification key, you lose the inverter for that key. It is usually better to pick a different key.

Bindings that do not exist yet

A few commands ship with no key at all. Showing and hiding the filmstrip is one of them. They are in the list waiting for you to give them one.

Two keys, one action

Some actions have a chord instead of a single key. T followed by a number applies a task tag; the number is the tag’s own, which you set in the tag editor.