Keyboard Shortcuts in iPhoto

1729 days ago in Articles, How do I? by Brent | No Comments

It’s been a while since I posted some keyboard shortcuts, so I thought my next set would be for an Apple application. iPhoto is one of the most popular apps in the OS X iLife suite of products. It provides easy to use management of photos and albums on your desktop. Of course in integrates extremely well with other applications and as usual, has a slew of keyboard shortcuts for you to use. Here’s the list (or at least it’s as exhaustive as I could make it):

Import

• Shift + Cmd + I – Import photos

Organize

• Home – Move to the top of the photo library
• End – Move to the bottom of the photo library
• Cmd + N – Create new album
• Create new album from selection Shift-Command-N
• Option Cmd + N – Create new Smart Album
• Option + Add Button – Create new Smart Album
• Shift + Cmd + T – Show or hide titles
• Shift + Cmd + K – Show or hide keywords
• Shift + Cmd + F – Show or hide film rolls
• Hold down the Option key and click the triangle next to any film roll – Show or hide all film roll photos
• Shift + Cmd + R – Show or hide ratings
• Shift + Cmd + B – Set the title, date, or comments of multiple photos
• Cmd + K – Assign, edit, or search by keywords
• Cmd + I – Show a photo’s image and camera information
• Cmd + D – Duplicate a photo
• Cmd + X – Cut photo
• Cmd + C – Copy photo
• Cmd + V – Paste photo
• Delete – Move photo to Trash from the photo library, or remove photo from album
• Cmd + Option + Delete – Move photo to Trash from album
• Double-click the photo – Open photo in its own window or in edit view (depends on the double-click preference you set)
• Option + double-click the photo – Reverse double-click preference when opening a photo

Selecting and deselecting photos

• Select a single photo Click the photo
• Cmd + A – Select all photos
• Hold down the Shift key and click the non-adjacent photo – Select all photos between the current selection and a non-adjacent photo
• Select the first photo, then hold down the Cmd key and click additional photos – Select photos that are non-adjacent to each other
• Click outside the photos and drag to enclose them within the selection rectangle – Select several photos located together
• Click the film roll icon – Select all photos in a film roll
• Hold down the Cmd key and click the photos you want to deselect – Deselect specific photos in a group of selected photos
• Shift + Cmd + A or click outside a photo – Deselect all photos

Rating photos

• Cmd + 0 – Assign zero stars to a photo
• Cmd + 1 – Assign one star to a photo
• Cmd + 2 – Assign two stars to a photo
• Cmd + 3 – Assign three stars to a photo
• Cmd + 4 – Assign four stars to a photo
• Cmd + 5 – Assign five stars to a photo

Slideshow

• Press the mouse button – Stop a slideshow
• Press the Space bar – Pause and resume playing
• Use the Up and Down Arrow keys – Adjust the speed
• Use the Right and Left Arrow keys – Move through a slideshow manually
• Press 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 – Rate photos

Edit

• Cmd + R – Rotate photo clockwise
• Option + Cmd + R or press the Option key while clicking the Rotate button – Rotate photo counter clockwise
• Press the Right Arrow key – Go to next photo
• Press the Left Arrow key – Go to previous photo
• Press the Cmd key while dragging – Disable constrain setting when selecting an area
• Press the Option key while dragging – Switch between portrait and landscape constrain setting when selecting an area
• Double-click the photo – Return to organize view
• Cmd + Z – Undo last action
• Shift + Cmd + Z – Redo last action

Book

• Select the first page you want changed and press the Option key when choosing a design from the Page Design pop-up menu – Apply a page design through the end of a book
• Cmd + T – Show fonts
• Cmd + 3 – Copy font
• Cmd + 4 – Paste font
• Cmd + : (colon) – Spelling

Book preview

• Press the Right Arrow key – Move forward one page
• Press the Left Arrow key – Move back one page

Share

• Cmd + P – Print
• Shift + Cmd + P – Page setup

General

• Cmd + , (comma) – Show preferences
• Cmd + ? – iPhoto Help
• Cmd + W – Close window
• Cmd + M – Minimize window
• Cmd + H – Hide iPhoto
• Cmd + Q – Quit iPhoto

Hope that helps make things a little easier for you when you are playing around in iPhoto. Be sure to add us as a friend if you have a flickr account. Talk to ya soon!