I would like to expedite my workflow and utilize keyboard shortcuts. Why does Photolab only have minimal keyboard shortcuts in the customize section?
Something like “E” and exposure compensation could be adjusted with plus/minus , “W” for White Balance, etc
It seems silly that a “high end” software tool has omitted this function.
As @RaceDog mentions, there are no keyboard shortcuts for even the most basic adjustment tools such as Exposure, Contrast and Temperature/Tint adjustment.
Other applications manage to have shortcuts (some even with fully customisable ones!) for pretty much any adjustment imaginable with the software.
Keyboard shortcuts also allow devices such as LoupeDeck or Tourbox to be used with the software because the controls are mapped to the shortcut.
Currently you are significantly limited with what you can use these devices for in PhotoLab.
@RaceDog , there are numerous Feature Request threads asking for keyboard shortcut improvements that you can add your vote to if you wish. A number of them go back many years, so one can only hope that this is something DxO work on one day.
My guess is that ‘added keyboard shortcuts’ isn’t considered a good marketing headline for a new release of PL.
However, if they were added then I’d more readily recommend PL to colleagues, many of whom are very in tune with the Lr shortcut keys already. Some also use Loupedecks too, so they would want to be able to continue using their device if they were to switch applications.
https://forum.dxo.com/search?q=keyboard%20shortcut%20%23dxo-photolab%3Afeature-requests
This is probably the most useful one to cast your vote on: User assigned keyboard shortcuts)
I’m aware of the situation, however the shortcuts E and W are already used
(as can be seen from the screenshot).
@ Wolfgang Aha, I understand your post better now.
I believe Racedog was using the letters E & W as examples for Exposure Compensation and White Balance, he wasn’t necessarily saying those would be the final keys used to select those adjustments.
Oh, the joys of the subtleties of the written word and how they can be read an understood in different ways 
It seems that most of you gentlemen are on Windows versions but for the Mac versions, KeyboardMaestro opens up a lot of scope for deep keyboard modification. Even the built-in keyboard shortcuts allows one to do add keyboard shortcuts for existing menu items.
This won’t get you to LoupeDeck level controls but it does work for a TourBox. The main shortcut I use to avoid carpal tunnel with dragging sliders is to make the wheel change values of sliders if I click into the numeric part. Up/Down keys on a wheel is enough to give most of the feeling of analogue controls. This works also on the Contour Design Shuttle wheels which many of you may already have in a drawer.
I’ve also mapped copy all adjustments and paste selected adjustments to the big button and the small button respectively (too many modified keys to hold down each time and those are the two I use all the time). Paste selected adjustments as geometry and retouch shift between every shot (sports photography) but exposure and colour do not.
It is obvious why this list is short isn’t it - It is probably called the “The short (and) cut list” of a reason.
