macOS · Adobe Lightroom Classic

Your keyboard.
Your Lightroom.

Darkroom Deck turns your keyboard into a customizable Lightroom Classic editing console.

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Darkroom Deck Key Mapping window showing Lightroom controls mapped to a keyboard. — Darkroom Deck · Key Mapping

Build the Lightroom keyboard that makes sense to you.

01 Map Lightroom to your keyboard: Assign Lightroom controls directly to keys. Exposure on one key, white balance on another — set your own step values and keep both hands on the board.
02 Build your own editing layout: Every photographer works differently. Darkroom Deck lets the keyboard match the photographer — use six keys or sixty, and ignore the controls you never touch.
03 More than sliders: Map Lightroom adjustments, presets, commands and workflow actions — not just the develop sliders.
04 Layers: Create different keyboard layouts for different editing workflows and switch between them instantly.
05 Presets: Map Lightroom presets directly to keys, including presets using Lightroom’s AI-aware functionality.

Demo

Press a key. Lightroom responds.

A short, unedited screen recording: mapped keys on one side, Lightroom Classic sliders and the photograph on the other.

Landscape photograph mid-edit in Lightroom Classic — Mapped keys, Lightroom Classic sliders, one continuous take.1920 × 1080 · silent

The visual keyboard

No shortcut cheat sheet required.

The keyboard is the interface. Darkroom Deck shows you exactly what every mapped key does, so your editing setup is always visible.

Screenshot slotClose-up crop of the Darkroom Deck keyboard view with mapped cobalt keys.

Visual keyboard · mapped keys

Inside the app

Every Lightroom control, where you want it.

Screenshot slotLightroom-style accordion controls: Basic, Color Mixer, B&W, Color Grading.

Adjustment panels

Screenshot slotPreset mapping interface — Lightroom presets, including AI-aware presets, assigned to keys.

Preset mapping

Screenshot slotLayers — separate keyboard layouts for different editing workflows.

Layers

Screenshot slotLayer Switcher HUD — switch the active layout instantly.

Layer Switcher HUD

Why it exists

Editing should feel like muscle memory.

Darkroom Deck was built around a simple frustration: editing with a keyboard can be incredibly fast, but only when the keyboard matches the photographer. The goal is to reduce friction between seeing the change you want and making it.

Stop memorizing somebody else's workflow.

Founding cohort

Get early access — and help shape the launch.

Darkroom Deck is nearly ready for its first external photographers. We're inviting a small group of Lightroom Classic users with different shooting and editing styles to work with it in real workflows, find the rough edges and help shape the first public release.

Join the Founding Cohort

Mac + Adobe Lightroom Classic required.

Questions

What is Darkroom Deck?: A customizable keyboard-control application for Adobe Lightroom Classic.
Does it replace my keyboard?: No. It turns the keyboard you already use into a Lightroom editing console.
Do I need special hardware?: No.
What platforms are supported?: The initial version is for macOS and Lightroom Classic.
Is Darkroom Deck available to download yet?: Not publicly. We are preparing a limited founding photographer cohort before the public release.
Will this be a subscription?: No. The planned public release is a one-time purchase.
Can I request cohort access?: Yes, through the access-request form.

Your keyboard.Your Lightroom.

Build the Lightroom keyboard that makes sense to you.

Map Lightroom to your keyboard

Build your own editing layout

More than sliders