Aug
08
Picasa Keyboard Shortcuts
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Picasa Keyboard Shortcuts
While many people using a mouse, some prefer keyboard shortcuts; this list shows Picasa’s key board shortcuts and should prove useful as you import, organise, edit and share your travel photographs:
Shortcuts for selecting photos
- Ctrl-A: Select all photos in a folder/album
- Ctrl-D: Deselect photos
- Ctrl-I: Invert photo selection
- Home: Select the first photo in your folder/album
- End: Select the last photo in your folder/album
- Ctrl-H: Hold selected photos in Photo Tray
- Ctrl-O: Choose a file on your computer to display in Picasa
Shortcuts for viewing photographs
- Ctrl-1: View your photos as small thumbnails
- Ctrl-2: View your photos as large thumbnails
- F11: Use Picasa in full-screen mode
- Ctrl-4: Start a slideshow
- Ctrl-5: View your timeline
- Ctrl-Enter: Locate the photo file in Windows Explorer
- Hover over a photo and use Ctrl-Alt: Full-screen photo preview
Shortcuts for editing photographs
- Ctrl-3: Open an image in ‘Edit Mode’
- Ctrl-R: Rotate the image clockwise
- Ctrl-Shift-R: Rotate the image counter-clockwise
- Ctrl-Shift-H: Flip image horizontally
- Ctrl-Shift-V: Flip image vertically
- Ctrl-Shift-B: Add black and white effect
- Ctrl-8: Add a star
Shortcuts for watching videos
- / [slash]: Pause or play video
- , [comma]: Rewind video
- . [period]: Fast forward video
- Miscellaneous shortcuts
- Ctrl-E: Email selected photos
- Ctrl-P: Print selected images
- Ctrl-Shift-P: Print album contact sheet
- Ctrl-T: Add tags to your photos
- Ctrl-N: Create a new album
- F1: View help content
- X: Exclude a photo when importing
- Ctrl-M Open the import room
Shortcuts in the Picasa Viewer
- Ctrl-U: Single image upload
- Ctrl-R: Rotate the image clockwise
- Ctrl-Shift-R: Rotate the image counter-clockwise
- Ctrl-8: Add a star
- Left and right arrow keys: Scroll through images
- Mousewheel: You can both zoom and scroll through photos. Adjust mousewheel behavior by clicking the down arrow menu > Configuration. You have two options:
- Zoom with mousewheel (hold Ctrl to navigate)
- Move filmstrip with mousewheel (hold Ctrl to zoom)
That concludes our series on Picasa software, but we may look at Picasa Web Albums in the future.
Bonnes Voyages
James
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