Baryta Help
Navigation and keyboard shortcuts.
Baryta for macOS. Every way to move around, every key, every
gesture.
Moving around
Baryta has three surfaces. The sidebar lists your
servers and folders, and folders expand in place. The grid
shows the selected folder. The viewer shows one
photograph, and a slideshow runs inside the viewer. They
nest in that order, and every way back steps out one level at a time.
Between surfaces
| Go | How |
|---|
| Grid → photo |
Return, Space, double-click, ⌘+ past the largest thumbnails, or a pinch out past the largest |
| Photo → grid |
Esc, G, B, ⌘G, ⌘B, the chevron in the window bar, ⌘- at fit, or a pinch in from fit |
| Zoom → photo |
Return or Space returns a zoomed photograph to its framing before the next press leaves for the grid |
| Photo → slideshow |
⌘⏎, or the play button in the window bar |
| Slideshow → photo |
Esc, Return, G, B, or touching any viewer control |
| The sidebar |
The pane button at the left of the window bar shows and hides it |
Keyboard
Anywhere
| Key | Action |
|---|
| ⇧⌘N | Add a server |
| ⌘, | Settings |
| ⌘+ ⌘- | Thumbnail size in the grid, magnification over a photograph |
| ⌘⏎ | Start a slideshow of the current folder |
In the grid
| Key | Action |
|---|
| ← → | Previous and next photograph |
| ↑ ↓ | Up and down a row |
| Page Up Page Down | A viewport of whole rows |
| Home End | First and last photograph (also ⌘↑ and ⌘↓) |
| Return Space | Open the selected photograph |
| ⌘+ ⌘- | Thumbnail size, one column at a time |
Looking at a photograph
| Key | Action |
|---|
| ← → | Previous and next photograph |
| Return Space | Back out one level |
| Esc G B | Back to the grid (also ⌘G and ⌘B) |
| Z | 1:1, and back again |
| ⌘1 | Actual size — 1:1 |
| ⌘0 | Zoom to fill |
| ⇧⌘0 | Zoom to fit |
| ⌘+ ⌘- | Zoom a step at a time |
| N | Show or hide the navigator |
| I | Cycle the information readout |
| T | Show or hide the window bar |
During a slideshow
| Key | Action |
|---|
| Space | Pause and resume |
| Esc | End the show |
| ← → | Step manually |
| I | Cycle the information readout |
| T | Show or hide the window bar |
The Photo and Slideshow menus carry the same commands.
Mouse and trackpad
In the grid
| Gesture | Action |
|---|
| Click | Select |
| Double-click | Open |
| Scroll | Scroll the grid |
| Pinch | Thumbnail size, one column per gesture |
Looking at a photograph
| Gesture | Action |
|---|
| Click | Show or hide the window bar |
| Double-click | 1:1 where you clicked, and back again |
| Drag | Pan the photograph, or move the window when there is nothing to pan |
| Right-click | Show or hide the navigator |
| Pinch | Zoom between fit and 1:1 |
| Two-finger scroll | Pan the photograph |
| Mouse wheel | Zoom, anchored under the pointer |
Stepping through photographs with the keyboard hides the
pointer until the mouse moves.
The navigator
Right-click a photograph, or press N, for a card showing the
whole image with a rectangle marking what you are looking at.
Inside the card
| Gesture | Action |
|---|
| Click | Jump there |
| Drag | Pan by moving the rectangle |
| Double-click | 1:1 at that point |
The information readout
I cycles it; the button in the window bar switches it off and
on. Each level adds to the one before.
Levels
| Level | Shows |
|---|
| Off | Nothing |
| 1 | ISO, shutter, aperture, focal length, and exposure compensation when one was set |
| 2 | Camera and lens; dimensions, megapixels, file size, date taken, current zoom |
| 3 | A map, for photographs carrying a location. Click it to open Maps |
Anything else
Settings are under ⌘,. For connection trouble, what Baryta
does and doesn’t show, and how to reach a person,
see the support page.