Slideshow and animations

Stepping through photos

Point at a photo and press Z to Focus on it — it fills the view. While focused, ← and → show the previous and next photo, in reading order: rows from top to bottom, each row from left to right — the same order Arrange lays photos out in. Hidden photos are skipped. Once you pan or zoom yourself, the arrow keys go back to nudging the selection. Press Z again to go back to the view from before you started.

Slideshow

View → Slideshow (Shift + S) shows photos one after another, each filling the view like Focus. With two or more photos selected, it shows just those; otherwise every visible photo on the board. If you were focused on a photo, the show starts there.

A bar at the bottom of the board controls it:

• Previous / Next (or ← / →) — step by hand. A manual step pauses the show, so the photo you stepped to stays up.
• Play / Pause — start or stop moving on by itself.
• Time per photo — 3, 5, 10, 30, or 60 seconds.
• Order — In order (reading order), Shuffle (every photo once in a random order, then a new round), or Random (any other photo each time). Stepping back always returns to the photo shown before, whichever order is on.
• × — end the show.

Escape, Z, or Shift + S also end it, and the view returns to where it was before the show. You can still zoom and pan while it runs. The slideshow works on a locked board and in the float window too. The time per photo and the order are remembered in this browser.

Animated images

Animated GIFs — and animated WebP and PNG files — play on the board in browsers that can decode them, such as Chrome and Edge; elsewhere they show their first frame. Play animations under File → Preferences… → Display switches playback off and on for the whole board. Videos can't be added to a board yet.

Select one animated photo and the options bar above the board shows its playback controls:

• Play / Pause (K) — stop on a frame, or carry on.
• Previous / Next frame (, / .) — step one frame at a time; this pauses playback.
• The frame slider — drag through the frames to find the one you want; this pauses too. The counter next to it shows which frame is on screen.
• Speed — from a quarter of the file's own speed up to four times as fast.
• Extract Frame — adds the frame on screen to the board as a photo of its own, right of the animation and at the same scale, named after it with the frame number. Undo removes it again.

Each animated photo keeps its own pause and speed while the board is open; they aren't saved with the board.