Keyboard shortcuts and modifiers

Bold text{| width= "800px" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" border="1" !colspan="6"|By Activity |- |Operation to be performed |Shortcut |- |Abort current operation Such as exit review mode and abort adding a title/comment etc. |Escape key |- |Add as links When dragging files onto jAlbum will force the items to be added as links. |Cmd + Alt/Ctrl + SHIFT Key held down |- |Close album project Closes the current project. |Cmd/Ctrl + W |- |Copy settings path Copy the path to the setting selected in the search results, useful when supporting others by posting in forums |SHIFT or ALT/OPT + click on result |- |Dashboard Opens a plugin, if installed, which gives information on variables, settings, the current skin and access to certain files. |Alt/Opt + D |- |Delete Deletes the selected items. |Cmd/Ctrl + BACKSPACE |- |Edit item Edit the current item. |Alt/Opt + RETURN |- |Edit Skin Properties Open's the skin's properties file for editing |Alt/Opt + S |- |Exclude item(s) Toggle the include/exclude status of selected objects or object being edited. |'-' key |- |Flag item In 'Review' mode, use keys 6 to 9 to assign a flag colour to the image or use the 'F' key to toggle through the available colours: none, red, yellow, blue and green |'6 to 7 and/or F' key |- |Filter Bar Toggle the status (Hide/Show) of the Filter Bar. |Cmd/Ctrl + F |- |Help Open the online help pages at jAlbum.net. |F1 |- |Insert a new line When editing captions insert a newline character. |SHIFT + ENTER |- |Keep the aspect ratio. When cropping images keeps the aspect ratio constrained. |SHIFT Key + dragging selection points |- |Load skin with skin defaults. Skins can have specific settings saved to be used as the default, if a default settings file exists you can still use the skin's own defaults using |ALT/OPT + load skin |- |Make Album. |F9 |- |Make All. |F9 + SHIFT |- |Make Changes. |F9 + Alt/Opt |- |New album project. |Cmd/Ctrl + N |- |New folder. |Cmd/Ctrl + N + SHIFT |- |Open a project using the file chooser. |Cmd/Ctrl + O |- |Open configuration directory Open the directory where user added skins, tools and plug-ins are stored. |Cmd/Ctrl + C + SHIFT |- |Open empty page in the text editor. |Cmd/Ctrl + E |- |Open image directory |Cmd/Ctrl + I + SHIFT |- |Open output directory. |Cmd/Ctrl + O + SHIFT |- |Open preferences. |Cmd/Ctrl + , (comma key) |- |Open program directory. |Cmd/Ctrl + P + SHIFT |- |Open project gallery. |CMD/CTRL + G |- |Open project within the project gallery. |SHIFT or ALT/OPT + double click image |- |Open recent project |Opens the nth project in the menu's list of recent projects CMD/Ctrl + Number of project e.g. 1 or 2 or 3 etc. |- |Open Settings Open the settings window. |F4 |- |Open skin directory. |Cmd/Ctrl + S + SHIFT |- |Open the skin's files for editing. Opens the various pages that constitute the skin's functional coding. |Cmd/Ctrl + E + SHIFT |- |Open Spell checker Start spell checking of the active text entry field. |F7 |- |Open System Console Opens the system console for debugging. (When not in a text entry field) |F7 |- |Open Select with default application Open the select item with the application associated with that file type |Alt/Opt + double click |- |Open With: Select a different application In explore mode the thumbnail contextual menu offers an open with option, using the Alt/Opt key lets you select another application |Explore mode, thumbnail contextual menu, open with + Alt/Opt |- |Organise: Group by data. Arrange images in folders by date, by year, month and date for example. |Cmd/Ctrl + Alt/Opt + G |- |Organise: Flatten. Arrange all images into a single folder, all objects are extracted from subfolders. |Cmd/Ctrl + Alt/Opt + F |- |Organise: Group alphabetically Arrange images by in folders by initial character of file names. |Cmd/Ctrl + Alt/Opt + A |- |Organise: Group by place. Arrange images by place, uses gps location information embedded in images. |Cmd/Ctrl + Alt/Opt + P |- |Organise: Wrap in folder. Wrap selected objects in a new folder. |Cmd/Ctrl + Alt/Opt + W |- |Preview Preview album in integrated browser. |F12 |- |Preview in external browser When clicking on the preview button (spyglass to the right of 'Make album') will force the preview to open in your default browser. |Alt/Opt Key held down |- |Print Prints the selected items as a contact print sheet. |Cmd/Ctrl + P |- |Project information Brings up an information window on the current project with details on location of files, disc space used, locations and dates. |Cmd/Ctrl + I |- |Quit Close the application. |Cmd/Ctrl + Q |- |Redo the last file operation. |Cmd/Ctrl + Z + SHIFT |- |Rate item(s) Assign a 'star' rating to image(s) in the range of none to five stars |0 to 5 |- |Refresh Updates the 'explore' or 'preview' windows. |F5 |- |Refresh thumbnail cache Force all thumbnails to be redrawn if externally made changes to the image do not show. |View menu, update + Alt/Opt/SHIFT |- |Reload the skin. |Cmd/Ctrl + R |- |Rename selected item. |F2 |- |Review Open the 'slide show' to review and rate images. |Cmd/Ctrl + F + SHIFT or when in 'Explore mode' press Spacebar with image(s) selected |- |Save project settings. |Cmd/Ctrl + S |- |Search for controls by label. |Ctrl + SPACE |- |Screen grab of Settings . |SHIFT or ALT/OPT whilst selecting result path from a search. |- |Selects all items in the current folder. |Cmd/Ctrl + A |- |Select or deselect the current image as the representing image for the folder it resides within, only when in 'Review' mode |T |- |Toggle visibility of rating and flags in review mode. |H |- |Undo the last file operation. |Cmd/Ctrl + Z |- |Upload/Manage album. |Cmd/Ctrl + M |- |Multiple upload locations With an upload window already open, clicking on the upload button will open another upload window so you can upload to two locations at a time. |Alt/Opt + Click |}