Drive every tool from the keyboard
Every file4edit tool can be driven without a mouse, and this page lists the shortcuts in four groups: anywhere, sliders, the crop box and the compare slider. Ctrl+V — Cmd+V on a Mac — pastes an image from the clipboard straight into the tool you are on, arrow keys nudge a crop selection one pixel at a time, Shift with an arrow resizes the selection instead of moving it, and Tab cycles through its eight resize handles. The page shows Mac keys when it detects a Mac and Windows and Linux keys otherwise.
How it works
- Paste an image Ctrl+V, or Cmd+V on a Mac, drops whatever is on the clipboard straight into the current tool. Tab reaches the dropzone and Enter opens the file picker if you would rather choose a file.
- Move between controls Tab moves forward, Shift+Tab moves back, Enter activates the focused control and Esc dismisses an open panel or dialog.
- Set a slider precisely Arrow keys adjust by one step, Shift with an arrow takes a larger step, Home jumps to the minimum and End to the maximum. Double-clicking a filter slider returns it to neutral.
- Work the crop box Arrow keys nudge the selection by one pixel, Shift with an arrow resizes it rather than moving it, and Tab cycles through the eight resize handles.
- Compare before and after On the compare slider, arrows move the split by two percent, Shift with an arrow by ten percent, and Home and End show only the before or only the after.
Questions
- How do I paste an image into file4edit?
- Press Ctrl+V, or Cmd+V on a Mac, with any tool open. The image on your clipboard is loaded straight into that tool. There is no upload step: the paste is handled inside the browser tab, like everything else in file4edit.
- Can I use file4edit without a mouse?
- Yes. Tab and Shift+Tab move between controls, Enter activates the focused one and opens the file picker on a dropzone, and Esc closes an open panel. Sliders take arrow keys with Home and End for the extremes, and the crop box takes arrow keys to nudge, Shift with arrows to resize, and Tab to cycle its eight handles.
- Is there a shortcut for finding a tool?
- Ctrl+K, or Cmd+K on a Mac, opens a command palette over every tool and page in file4edit. It matches on subsequences rather than substrings, so typing 'itp' finds Images to PDF and 'fvcn' finds the favicon pack, and an exact prefix still ranks first.
- Does the page show Mac keys on a Mac?
- Yes. The shortcuts page checks the platform and renders the Command symbol instead of Ctrl where the two differ, so what you read is what your own keyboard does.
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