Author Topic: Possible to assign Tag / Untag to Different Keys?  (Read 81 times)

Offline jkm

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Possible to assign Tag / Untag to Different Keys?
« on: June 23, 2025, 10:29:54 PM »
Is there anyway to set Tag to a separate key than Untag?

In the midst of culling millions of photos, it always takes an extra confirmation step of looking down in the corner somewhere after pressing the dual-purpose "tag/untag" key to make sure I haven't done the opposite of what I want to, since a photo may be in either state to begin with. And if it's the opposite of what I wanted when I look at the corner, then I have to go back a photo and do it again.

It would save all this effort and basically double my speed of tagging photos (which is less common than rating photos numerically, but still very used) and make the possibility of an error go down from 1% or so to basically 0%.

But there is no way in the Keyboard Shortcuts to assign a separate key to Tag than the key for Untag. The only option is "Toggle tag."

So basically, is it possible at all? Or does it need an underlying bit of programming to be added to do this?

I would love the ability to do this, and it would probably increase my working speed and productivity by 10% at least.

Thank you!

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Re: Possible to assign Tag / Untag to Different Keys?
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2025, 10:49:11 PM »
Is there anyway to set Tag to a separate key than Untag?

In the midst of culling millions of photos, it always takes an extra confirmation step of looking down in the corner somewhere after pressing the dual-purpose "tag/untag" key to make sure I haven't done the opposite of what I want to, since a photo may be in either state to begin with. And if it's the opposite of what I wanted when I look at the corner, then I have to go back a photo and do it again.

It would save all this effort and basically double my speed of tagging photos (which is less common than rating photos numerically, but still very used) and make the possibility of an error go down from 1% or so to basically 0%.

But there is no way in the Keyboard Shortcuts to assign a separate key to Tag than the key for Untag. The only option is "Toggle tag."

So basically, is it possible at all? Or does it need an underlying bit of programming to be added to do this?

I would love the ability to do this, and it would probably increase my working speed and productivity by 10% at least.

While you didn't specify, based on your description, you're talking about the Preview keyboard shortcuts.  It would be easy to add a "Tag: Set" and "Tag: Clear" like the Contact Sheet has.

Please make a feature request so our team can evaluate.

-Kirk