153 Shortcuts for Ulead PhotoImpact 8

Jump to: File Menu, Edit Menu, View Menu, Format Menu, Selection Menu, Object Menu, Web Menu, Window Menu, Help Menu, Miscellaneous, Visual Open, Tool panel

1. File Menu

Ctrl+N

Creates a new image file.

Ctrl+O

Opens a folder where an image file was last saved.

Shift+A

Creates a new Web page

Shift+O

Opens the Visual Open dialog box

Ctrl+W

Closes the current image file. A message box prompts to save file

Ctrl+S

Saves the current image file

Ctrl+Shift+S

Saves the file in another filename, format and location

Ctrl+Alt+S

Saves the image as an HTML file

Ctrl+Alt+ (0~9)

Previews the image in a Web browser

F7

Launches the Acquire scanner process without post processing

F8

Launches the Acquire digital camera process without post processing

Ctrl+Shift+E

Opens the Capture Setup dialog box

Ctrl+Shift+C

Minimizes your PhotoImpact program and automatically switches to Capture mode

Ctrl+Alt+P

Opens the Print Preview window

Ctrl+Shift+P

Prints multiple copies of a single image, or prints multiple images on the same page

Ctrl+Shift+R

Prints image into multiple sheets of paper that can be joined together to create a poster

Ctrl+P

Prints the current image file

F11

Captures selected source. This is the default setting. It can be changed

F6

Displays the Preferences dialog box

Ctrl+Q

Closes PhotoImpact. If you have any image files open that have not been saved, you are prompted to do so

2. Edit Menu

Ctrl+Z

Undoes the last menu command

Ctrl+Y

Redoes the last menu command

Ctrl+T

Repeats the last menu command

Ctrl+X

Cuts the current selection

Ctrl+C

Copies the data to the clipboard

Ctrl+V

Pastes data from the clipboard as an object

Ctrl+Shift+V

Pastes the image data from the clipboard as a new image in a separate window

Delete

Deletes the current selection

Ctrl+R

Crops the image to the current selection

Ctrl+D

Duplicates the base image and any objects, creating a new image file

Ctrl+F

Opens the Fill dialog box, where you can select to fill the selection with a solid color, gradient or texture

Ctrl+H

Opens the Fadeout dialog box

Shift+Z

Enables/Disables Object Painting Mode, which allows you to see through overlapping objects

Ctrl+K

Enables/Disables Mask mode by placing a tinted mask over your image except where a selection exists

3. View Menu

Ctrl+I

Creates another copy of the image file

Ctrl+0

Displays the image at its actual size

Ctrl+M

Maximizes the window and displays the image at 1:1 ratio

+

Zoom in

-

Zoom out

Ctrl+Shift+0

Resize the current image

Ctrl+U

Toggles between showing or hiding all toolbars and panels to display the image at full screen

F2

Toggles between showing or hiding the EasyPalette

Ctrl+F2

Toggles between showing or hiding the Quick Command Panel

F10

Toggles between showing or hiding the AccessPanel

Ctrl+F3

Toggles between showing or hiding the Text / Path Panel

Ctrl+F5

Toggles between showing or hiding the base image and the Web background

Ctrl+F8

Toggles between showing or hiding the marquee

Ctrl+F7

Toggles between showing or hiding the bounding box around objects

Alt+Enter

Displays the Photo Properties dialog box

Ctrl+ Number

Magnifies or reduces the image view in different sizes

Shift+V

Displays or hides Ruler

Shift+F7

Displays or hides Slice Lines

Shift+F8

Displays or hides Image Maps

Ctrl+Shift+G

Displays or hides Guidelines

Ctrl+Shift+L

Snaps to Guidelines

Ctrl+Shift+R

Displays or hides Grid

Ctrl+Shift+N

Snaps to Grid

4. Format Menu

F9

Opens the Post Processing Wizard dialog Box

Shift+C

Opens the Post Processing Wizard dialog Box

Ctrl+F9

Starts up the Auto-enhancing process

Ctrl+B

Opens the Brightness & Contrast dialog box

Ctrl+V

Opens the Color Balance dialog box

Ctrl+E

Opens the Hue & Saturation dialog box

Ctrl+Shift+F

Opens the Focus dialog box

Ctrl+Shift+T

Opens the Tone Map dialog box

Ctrl+Shift+H

Opens the Highlight Midtone Shadow dialog box

Shift+N

Opens the Expand Canvas dialog box

Shift+F

Opens the Frame & Shadow dialog box

Ctrl+G

Opens the Image Size dialog box, where you can adjust the size of the image

5. Selection Menu

Space

Toggles between showing and hiding the active selection

Ctrl+A

Selects the entire contents of the image

F5

Preserve Base Image

Ctrl+Shift+O

Converts the selection into an object

Ctrl+Shift+E

Copy Selection to Object Library

Shift+G

Select None

6. Object Menu

Shift+D

Duplicates selected object

Ctrl+Shift+A

Selects all objects in an image

Shift+E

Edit the selected type of object

Shift+W

Shows the Wrap/Bend properties dialog box of the selected object

Shift+M

Merges the selected object to the base image

Ctrl+Shift+M

Merges all the objects into the base image

Ctrl+Alt+G

Groups the selected objects into one object

Ctrl+Alt+U

Ungroups the selected object into separate objects

Shift+S

Opens the Shadow dialog box

Alt+Up

Bring the selected object forward

Alt+Down

Send the selected object backward

Ctrl+Alt+Up

Moves the object to the highest level

Ctrl+Alt+Down

Moves the object to the lowest level

Ctrl+Shift+Enter

Opens the Object Properties dialog box when there is an active object

Delete

Deletes the active object

7. Web Menu

Shift+T

Opens the HTML Text Entry Box

Shift+L

Link an object from file to the current image

Shift+R

Opens the Rollover dialog box

F12

Opens the Component Designer dialog box

Shift+B

Opens the Background Designer dialog box

Shift+T

Opens the HTML Text Entry Box

Shift+Enter

Opens the Web Properties dialog box

Shift+Q

Deletes the excess borders of the selected object (Trim Object)

F4

Opens the Image Optimizer dialog box

Shift+P

Applies the Paint on Edges effect

8. Window Menu

Shift+F5

Arranges all open windows diagonally in the workspace from left to right and top to bottom

Shift+F4

Evenly distributes all open windows vertically in the workspace

Shift+F6

Evenly distributes all open windows vertically in the workspace

9. Help Menu

F1

Opens the Ulead PhotoImpact online help

Shift+F1

Activates the Context Sensitive Help

10. Miscellaneous

Ctrl+Shift+K

Toggles between moving the selection and copying the selection

G

Show Global Viewer

Shift+F9

Find next - EasyPalette

Alt+P

Play - Quick Command Panel

Tab

Show/Hide Toolbars and Panels

Page Up/Page Down

Scroll image vertically

Home/End

Scroll image horizontally

F2

Show/Hide EasyPalette

Ctrl+F2

Show/Hide Quick Command Panel

Ctrl+F3

Show/Hide Brush Panel/Text/Path/Slice/Image Map Panel

Ctrl+Shift+Delete

Deletes the selected thumbnail from the EasyPalette

Arrow Keys

Moves the object up/down one pixel or to the left/right

F10

Opens the Document Manager

Ctrl+F1

Show EasyPalette Pop-up

Ctrl+A

Selects all texts in the text box

11. Visual Open

F5

Refresh the visual open window

Ctrl+A

Select all thumbnails

12. Tool panel

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Display tools submenu

K

Pick tool

B

Z-Merge Tool

M

Goes through all the various Selection tools

A

Adds to the current selection area

S

Subtracts from the current selection area

T

Text Tool

P

Goes through all the various Paint tools

O

Toggles between the Object Paint Eraser Tool and the Object Magic Eraser Tool

R

Crop tool

Q

Transform tool

Y

Eyedropper tool

C

Measure tool

/

Zoom tool

H

Goes through all the various Retouch tools

D

Goes through all the various Path tools

N

Goes through all the various Clone tools

.

Stand tool

F

Goes through all the various Clone tools

I

Slice tool

U

Image map tool

C

Switches to the Eyedropper tool temporarily by holding down this key

W

Switches to the Pick Tool temporarily by holding down this key

X

Switches the Foreground and Background color

Z

Switches to the Zoom tool temporarily by holding down this key

E

Toggles between Painting and Erase mode when using the Painting Tool

L+ Dragging

Tiles an object over another image

M+Dragging

Uses an object as a mask

Alt+Click tool

Goes through all the different tools of the selected tool

Ctrl+Click tool

Goes through all the different tools of the selected tool

Shift

Constrains the selection to a circle or square and draws a straight line in increments of 45 degrees

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