Photo viewer shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts for the Portman2 photo viewer: page through photos, show the info card and chips, and star, file, rotate or delete the photo on screen.
In the viewer and in a popup window, a verb acts on the image you are looking at — never on the whole selection.
Click closes the viewer; double-click resets zoom while zoomed. The grid cursor follows as you page, so closing drops you where you left off.
Moving around
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
← / → |
Previous / next image (hold to flick) |
Opening and closing
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
Space / Enter / Esc |
Close the viewer or popup window |
Ctrl+Enter |
Open this image in its own window |
Selecting
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
Ctrl+Space |
Select / deselect this image |
Acting on photos
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
H |
Hide. While hidden photos are shown, this toggles the badge and leaves the photo where it is; otherwise it leaves the view |
S / Shift+S |
Star / unstar |
R / Shift+R |
Rotate clockwise / counter-clockwise (photos only) |
T |
Tag — pick an existing tag or create one |
L |
Add to album — pick an existing album or create one |
Shift+L |
Remove from this album (only inside an album view) |
U |
Restore from the trash |
E |
Reveal in Explorer (one image at a time) |
Ctrl+E |
Edit — opens the edit view. From the grid that is the whole selection, every tile previewing live; from the viewer, the one photo on screen |
Ctrl+Shift+F |
Find similar photos — switches the grid to everything that looks like this image; with several selected, more like these, by the same kind of scene |
Ctrl+C |
Copy the files themselves — paste them into Explorer or an email |
Ctrl+Shift+C |
Copy edits — take this photo's look, without its crop, to paste onto others |
Ctrl+Shift+V |
Paste edits — give the copied look to the selection, or in the viewer to the photo on screen; each keeps its own crop, and one Ctrl+Z puts them all back |
Alt+Enter |
Open the context menu for the current target |
Ctrl+Z |
Undo the last action (the last 10 are remembered) |
Deleting
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
Del |
Move to the trash, with a confirmation |
Ctrl+Del |
Move to the trash without confirming — inside the Trash view, delete forever with a confirmation |
Shift+Del |
Delete from disk forever, with a confirmation |
Ctrl+Shift+Del |
Delete from disk forever without confirming — a toast counts down for 10 seconds and can still cancel it |
Album slots
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
1 … 0 |
ADD to album slot 1–10 — never removes; already there says so |
Ctrl+1 … Ctrl+0 |
The same, and an empty slot asks which album to put in it (hold Ctrl to see the slots) |
Shift+1 … Shift+0 |
REMOVE from album slot 1–10 — explicit, because a digit never takes anything out. Top-row digits only: Windows turns Shift+Numpad into the navigation keys before the app sees it |
Windows and dialogs
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
F11 |
Toggle fullscreen |
F |
Toggle floating card ↔ edge-to-edge fit (remembered) |
I |
Toggle the image info overlay: file facts, RGB + luma histograms (remembered) |
O |
Toggle the album chips (remembered) |
P |
Toggle the tag chips (remembered) |