Mouse & Keyboard Use
- Double click on a
thumbnail image or single click on this icon
to switch
to a Full Screen view of the image
- In Full Screen, move your
mouse pointer to the bottom border of the screen
where a control bar (see next figure) will pop up
to provide fast access to major program functions. (Note:
Moving your mouse pointer onto this control bar will
enable the mouse wheel to be used for zooming in/out on
the image)
- In Full Screen, move your
mouse pointer to the right border of the screen
where an image properties window with EXIF metadata
will pop up
- In Full Screen, move your
mouse pointer to the top border of the screen
where a thumbnail browser window will pop up to provide
fast access to other images in the same folder and other
program commands
- In Full Screen, move your
mouse pointer to the left border of the screen
where a panel will pop up to provide fast access to file
and image editing functions
- In Full Screen, move your
mouse pointer to the right-bottom corner of the
screen where the Windows Taskbar will pop up to provide
fast switching to other programs that are running
- When the mouse cursor
becomes a magnifier shape
, it means the displayed image has
been formatted to fit within the current available window
or screen area. Now you can press and hold the left
mouse button and the image will be viewed in a
magnifier. With the left mouse button being held down,
moving the mouse around will move the magnifier across
the image. The Magnifier zoom ratio and Magnifier
size (See Magnifier tab in the Settings) determine the magnification level of the
image within the magnifier and the size of the magnifier
area
- When the mouse cursor
becomes a hand shape
, it means the displayed image is larger than
the current available window or screen area. Now you can press
and hold the left mouse button and move the mouse
around to pan/scroll the image within the current window
or screen area
- When Normal (Pan) mode
is
selected, pressing and holding the Ctrl key will
change the mouse cursor to a cross shape 
. Now you can
use the mouse to SELECT and ZOOM (select a
rectangular area of the image by using the left mouse
button to click and drag, then release the button to zoom
in on that area of the image)
- When Rectangle, Circle or
Freehand select mode (
,
or 
respectively) is selected,
pressing and holding the Ctrl key will change the
mouse cursor to a cross shape . Now you can use the mouse to
define a selection area. By clicking your right mouse
button with the mouse cursor within the selection area, a
pop up menu will appear that allows you to zoom, copy,
cut, crop or delete the selected area or to even save the
selection into a file
- Scrolling your mouse wheel
will display next or previous image
- Holding the Ctrl
key, the mouse cursor will become a cross shape - scroll
your mouse wheel to zoom in or zoom out on
the image
- Holding the Shift
key, the mouse cursor will become a circle shape
- click left mouse button to zoom in or right
mouse button to zoom out on the image
- Press Spacebar, Right
arrow or PgDn key to go to next
image. When you reach the end of current folder, press Alt
+ Right arrow to proceed to next folder
- Press Backspace,
Left arrow or PgUp key to go to previous
image. When you reach the beginning of current folder, press Alt
+ Left arrow to proceed to previous folder
- When the displayed image is larger than
the current available window or screen area,
use Arrow (Up, Down, Left, Right)
keys to pan/scroll the image within the current window
or screen area
- Press Home key to go
to first image
- Press End key to go
to last image
- Press 1,2,3,...9 key to zoom image to 100%, 200%,
300%,... 900%
- Press A or / key
to display image in actual size
- Press B or * key
to display image in best fit within the
current window or screen area
- Press + key to zoom in
on the image
- Press - key to zoom out on
the image
- Press C key to start
the copy to folder function on the current image
file
- Press M key to start
the move to folder function on the current image
file
- Press D key to pop
up the Draw Board window to add text, lines, rectangles,
ellipses, highlighted areas and watermark(s) to the image
- Press E key to edit
image with the first External Program (user
defined)
- Press I key to
display a window with the image properties including EXIF and
Histogram. Press I key again to hide this window
- Press S key to pop
up the Slideshow Options window to configure a slideshow
- Press T key to pop
up the JPEG Comment window to edit
image description/comment (for JPEG images only)
- Press L or <
key to rotate left
- Press R or >
key to rotate right
- Press H key to flip horizontally
- Press V key to flip vertically
- Press W key to open
Windows Explorer at the current folder
- Press X key to pop
up the Crop Board window to crop image
- Press Ctrl+R
key combination to pop up the Resize/Resample
window to resize image
- Press Ctrl+H
key combination to pop up the image's Histogram window
- Press Ctrl+Z
key combination to undo last change made to
the image (multi-level undo)
- Press Ctrl+Y
key combination to redo last change made to
the image (multi-level redo)
- Press Enter or F
key to switch between Full Screen/Browser View or
Full Screen/Windowed View
- Press mouse wheel button
to switch between Full Screen and Browser
View
- Press Esc key to exit from Full Screen or exit the program when in Browser or Windowed View