overview

The lighttable view allows you to view and manage your image collection.

The centre view contains thumbnails of your images – how they are displayed depends on which mode you are working in.

While the mouse is over an image thumbnail or images are selected, there are a number of actions you can perform:

🔗keyboard shortcuts

The following keyboard shortcuts are enabled by default in the lighttable view:

  • F1, F2, F3, F4, F5 adds or removes a color label (red, yellow, green, blue, purple, respectively). A color label will be added if any selected image does not currently have the label; otherwise the label will be removed

  • 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 sets the star rating

  • R rejects the image(s)

  • Ctrl+D duplicates the image(s)

  • Ctrl+C copies the full history stack

  • Ctrl+V pastes all of the copied history stack

  • Ctrl+Shift+C selectively copies the history stack

  • Ctrl+Shift+V selectively pastes from the copied history stack

  • D opens the image in the darkroom view for developing

  • W fully zooms into the current image while the key is pressed

  • Ctrl+W fully zooms into the current image and show areas in focus

🔗drag-and-drop

You may change the sequence of images displayed, processed, or exported when sort by is set to custom sort by dragging and dropping their thumbnails.

🔗touchpad

In lighttable culling layouts, touchpad zooming and panning gestures can be used:

  • pinch with two fingers to zoom
  • scroll with two fingers to pan