Thursday, June 15, 2006
Keyboard shortcuts in Picasa
Picasa is a great tool from Google for organizing your photos.
However, its documentation is a bit sparse, and hard to find (and from a developers point of view it's one of the few Google offerings without an API).
Certainly underdocumented are the many keyboard shortcuts that the program offers, which both serve to make using the program easier and faster, and in some cases offer facilities that are not available with the mouse, or via the menus.
My favourites are:
However, its documentation is a bit sparse, and hard to find (and from a developers point of view it's one of the few Google offerings without an API).
Certainly underdocumented are the many keyboard shortcuts that the program offers, which both serve to make using the program easier and faster, and in some cases offer facilities that are not available with the mouse, or via the menus.
My favourites are:
- CTRL + ALT - displays the image the mouse is over at full screen size
- CTRL L - brings up a web browser view of the whole Picasa interface
- Google's official list of keyboard controls for Picasa
- An expanded unofficial list helpfully given in alphabetical order
Labels: picasa
# posted by zmarties @ 6/15/2006 09:50:00 pm 
