All keys
Every key Cobalt Photo answers to, by where it works — the same list as Settings → Keys. Choose a window to see only its keys.
In the app: ? in Settings on the Keys tab opens this page.
In the viewer, F1 shows its keys over the picture; in the manager's search line, F1 shows what can be typed.
Keys
| Drop panel | |
|---|---|
| Ctrl | Hold it while dragging a file: the drop panel opens |
| Viewer | |
| → Space | Next picture |
| ← Backspace | Previous picture |
| Home End | First, last picture |
| Wheel | Next, previous picture |
| Ctrl + Wheel + − | Zoom in, out |
| 0 | Fit to window |
| 1 | Actual size |
| Drag | Move a zoomed picture |
| Wheel | Along a panorama; closer or wider in a 360° photo |
| Home | Back to the front of a 360° photo |
| F double click | Full screen |
| F5 | Slideshow |
| Ctrl+Alt+← → | Rotate left, right |
| Del | Delete |
| Ctrl+C | Copy picture |
| Ctrl+E | Convert… |
| E Ctrl+Enter | Edit |
| Ctrl+M | Show in the picture manager |
| Esc | Close |
| Ctrl+O | Open… |
| Ctrl+S | Save as… |
| Ctrl+P | Print… |
| Ctrl+Shift+E | Show in folder |
| Alt | The menus: File, View, Tools, Help |
| F1 | The viewer's keys, over the picture |
| Editor | |
| Ctrl+Z | Undo |
| Ctrl+Y Ctrl+Shift+Z | Redo |
| Ctrl+S | Save |
| Ctrl+Shift+S | Save a copy… |
| Ctrl+C | Copy to clipboard |
| \ | The original, while held |
| Tab | Hide or show the panels |
| R | Crop & rotate; Enter leaves it |
| D | Draw on the picture |
| T | Text on the picture |
| S | Stickers |
| W | Watermark |
| F | Frame and canvas |
| E | Effects |
| A | Areas: a part of the picture |
| Del | Remove the chosen text, drawing or sticker |
| + − Wheel | Zoom in, out |
| 0 | Fit to window |
| 1 | Actual size |
| Esc | Close (asks about unsaved changes) |
| Picture manager | |
| ← → ↑ ↓ Home End PgUp PgDn | Move between the pictures |
| Shift+← → ↑ ↓ Shift+click | Select from the last one to here |
| Ctrl+click Ctrl+Space | Select or unselect one more |
| Ctrl+A Ctrl+Num + | Select all |
| Esc Ctrl+Num − | Select none |
| Num + Num − | Select, deselect by mask |
| Num * | Invert selection |
| Space Enter | Open in the viewer |
| Del | To the Recycle Bin |
| Ctrl+C | Copy the files |
| Ctrl+X | Cut the files (pasted, they move) |
| F2 | Rename the picture; several (or none selected: all shown) by a template |
| 1 … 5 0 | Stars on the selected (0: none) |
| 6 7 8 9 | Colour label: red, yellow, green, blue (again: off) |
| X | Rejected, or not any more |
| E | Edit |
| Ctrl+M | Edit the metadata of the selected |
| Ctrl+Z | Undo the last renaming, or put back the metadata just removed |
| Ctrl+Shift+C | Copy their paths |
| Ctrl+V | Paste files into the folder |
| Ctrl+Shift+N | New folder in the folder shown |
| Alt+Enter | The picture's Properties (Windows' window) |
| Ctrl+E | Convert the selected |
| Ctrl+R | Resize the selected |
| Ctrl+Shift+D | Find duplicates |
| Ctrl+Shift+I | Import photos from a card or a folder |
| F5 | Slideshow… |
| Ctrl+Alt+← → | Rotate left, right |
| Ctrl+O | Open a folder |
| Alt+← → | Back, forward (the mouse's side buttons too) |
| Ctrl+L Alt+D F4 | Type or paste a path |
| Alt+↑ Backspace | Up to the folder above |
| Ctrl+B | Show or hide the sidebar |
| Ctrl+I | Show or hide the details |
| Ctrl + Wheel | Thumbnail size |
| Ctrl+, | Settings |
| Search in the manager | |
| Ctrl+F | To the search line |
| Ctrl+S | Save the search in the sidebar |
| Ctrl+Shift+F | Find pictures: the search with the mouse |
| F1 | In the search line: what can be typed |
| Enter ↓ | In the search line: on to the pictures found |
| Esc | In the search line: clear the search |
| Enter Space | On a chip under the folder's name: change it |
| Del | On a chip: remove it |
| Slideshow | |
| Space | Pause and go on |
| ← → PgUp PgDn | Previous, next picture |
| Home End | First, last picture |
| ↑ ↓ | A second longer, shorter each |
| T | Text on the picture off and on |
| M | Music off and on |
| Esc | End the slideshow |
| Cull | |
| 1 … 5 | Stars, and on to the next shot (as chosen) |
| X | Rejected, or not any more |
| 0 | No stars, not rejected, no label |
| 6 7 8 9 | Colour label: red, yellow, green, blue (again: off) |
| ← → Home End | The shot before or after, the first or last |
| Space | The next shot not marked |
| Z | 100 % where the pointer is, or the whole shot again |
| C | The burst side by side, or one shot |
| Ctrl+Z | Undo the last mark |
| Enter | Done: the rejected and the chosen |
| Esc | Back from 100 %, or close (the marks are kept) |