Culling
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Space or P | Pick the current photo (keeper) |
| U | Unflag — clear the pick/reject back to neutral |
| X | Reject the current photo |
| 1 – 5 | Rate 1 to 5 stars (press the same number again to clear) |
| 0 | Clear the star rating |
| 6 | Red label |
| 7 | Yellow label |
| 8 | Green label |
| 9 | Blue label |
Each decision advances to the next photo automatically (toggle this off in Settings → Behavior). Pick, reject, and rating clear each other where it makes sense; color labels are independent.
Space is the fast cull key; P does the same thing if you're used to it from Lightroom or Photo Archive. The purple label is in the Culling menu — it has no number key, because 0 now clears the rating (the standard meaning across Lightroom, Bridge, and the rest of the suite).
Compare
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| C | Enter Compare — lock the current photo as the reference (left) and browse candidates on the right |
| ← → | Move the candidate (right pane) through the shoot |
| Space / P / U / X / 1–5 / 6–9 | Your culling keys act on the candidate |
| Return | Make Select — promote the candidate to the new reference and keep going |
| Escape | Exit Compare |
Zoom and pan are synchronized across both panes, so at 100% they show the exact same spot — the fastest way to pick the sharpest frame in a burst.
Moving around
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| ← → | Previous / next photo |
| ↑ ↓ | Move up / down a row in the grid |
| Tab or E | Toggle between grid and loupe (detail) view |
| Double-click thumbnail | Open that photo in the loupe |
| Escape | Leave the loupe (back to grid); clear an active filter; close a dialog |
In the loupe (detail view)
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Z | Toggle fit-to-screen ↔ 100% |
| Double-click image | Toggle fit ↔ 100% |
| ⌘+ | Zoom in |
| ⌘- | Zoom out |
| Drag / two-finger swipe | Pan around a zoomed photo |
Filters
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| ⇧⌘A | Show all photos |
| ⇧⌘P | Picks only |
| ⇧⌘X | Rejects only |
| ⇧⌘T | Rated only |
| ⇧⌘L | Color-labeled only |
| ⇧⌘U | Uncategorized only |
| Escape | Clear the active filter |
Filtering by star count (1+, 2+, …) is done from the filter bar at the top of the window.
Bursts & brackets
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| J | Collapse or expand a focus-bracket run under a single tile |
| R | Cycle through the frames inside a collapsed run |
Focus-bracket bursts from OM-System cameras are grouped automatically, so a long run reads as one tile with a shot count. Other cameras are unaffected.
View
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| ⌘1 | Grid view |
| ⌘2 | Loupe (detail) view |
| View → Sort By | Sort the grid by filename, date, rating, or import order; reapply a field to flip direction. A sort button in the header offers the same. Your choice is remembered between launches. |
Session
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| ⌘O | Open a folder |
| ⌘N | New session |
| ⇧⌘E | Export decisions to XMP sidecars |
| ⇧⌘⌫ | Move rejected photos to the Trash |
| ⌘Z | Undo the last decision |
| ⇧⌘C | Clear all decisions (asks first) |
| ⌘S | Show session statistics |
| File → Show in Finder | Reveal the current photo in Finder (also on the right-click menu) |
| ⌘E | Edit in Photo Developer — hands a RAW file to your raw editor; appears only when Photo Developer is installed |
| ⌘? | Getting Started guide |
| ⌘/ | This shortcut reference |
Export lives on ⇧⌘E, in line with the rest of the DigTek photo suite. ⌘E used to work as a spare export key; as of 1.2.6 it belongs to Edit in Photo Developer instead — so if that was your habit, move it across. Delete-rejected lives on ⇧⌘⌫ — well clear of ⌘D, so a destructive trash is never one stray keypress away.
Everything the keys do is also on a right-click, in the grid and in the loupe: pick, reject, rating, color label, Start Compare, Show in Finder. The current state carries a checkmark, and clicking a checked item clears it — the same behaviour as pressing the key again. The menu is there to teach the keyboard, not to replace it.
A note on text fields: while you're typing in the export dialog or in Settings, the single-key shortcuts above are suspended so your keystrokes land as text. Return confirms, Escape cancels.