Navigating: The Five Essential Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts make navigating through your photos faster and easier. Here are five of the simplest and most useful shortcuts. Learning these five one-key shortcuts can save you a lot of time.

V
Cycles through the three main view modes — Browser Only (just thumbnails), Viewer Only (big photo, no thumbnails), and Browser and Viewer (a split view, with thumbnails on the bottom and the Viewer above).
W
Switches to the next pane in the Inspector — Projects, Metadata, or Adjustments. Just press W to get to the pane with the tools you need. The same shortcut works when you’re in Full Screen mode and using the heads-up display.
F
Enters and exits Full Screen mode.
Z
Zooms your selected photos to 100 percent in either the main Viewer or Full Screen mode. Pressing Z again turns zooming off, returning you to Fit-to-View mode.
P
Activates Quick Preview mode. In Quick Preview, Aperture loads previews only instead of full-resolution images, so you can browse through photos extremely fast. If you find an image you want to adjust, just press P again to leave Quick Preview mode and load the image.
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