Intuitive shortcuts to help you complete your labeling tasks faster.
Most used annotations
We recommend putting your most-used features at the top of your ontology. That way you can use the dedicated tool hotkeys to label the first 9 objects in your ontology.
Objects
Function
Hotkey
Description
Jump to objects
Down
Select the next object in the Objects panel.
Next object
Down
Select the next object in the Objects panel (same as above).
Previous object
Up
Select the previous object in the Objects panel.
Bring to front
Cmd/Ctrl + Up
Bring the annotation to the foreground.
Send to back
Cmd/Ctrl + Down
Send the annotation toward the background.
Hide vertices
Shift
Hide the vertices on a polygon or polyline object.
Copy selected object
Cmd/Ctrl + C
Copy the selected object.
Copy all objects
Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + C
Copy all objects in the current view.
Paste clipboard
Cmd/Ctrl + V
Paste the contents copied to the clipboard (one or multiple objects).
View controls
Function
Hotkey
Description
Pan
Click + Drag
"Grab" the image and reposition it on the Editor stage.
Pan while editing
Space + Click + Drag
"Grab" the image and reposition it on the Editor stage while you are in the middle of creating an annotation.
Zoom in
Z + Click
Zoom into the image.
Zoom out
Option/Alt + Z + Click
Zoom out of the image.
Zoom to fit
Shift + Z
Automatically adjust the zoom level so the image fits centered on the Editor stage.
Zoom to 100%
Shift + 0
Returns the view of the image to 100% zoom level.
Increase brightness
=
Increase the brightness of the image in the Editor stage.
Decrease brightness
-
Decrease the brightness of the image in the Editor stage.
Increase contrast
Shift + +
Increase the contrast of the image in the Editor stage.
Decrease contrast
Shift + _
Decrease the contrast of the image in the Editor stage.
Increase opacity
[
Increase the opacity of the image in the Editor stage.
Decrease opacity
]
Decrease the opacity of the image in the Editor stage.
Toggle object titles
.
Show the annotation names over each annotation on the image
Toggle annotations
Shift + S
Hold to hide all other annotations on the image other than the one you have selected.
Drawing tools
Function
Hotkey
Description
Pen tool
P
Select the pen tool for drawing a segmentation mask free hand or point by point.
Brush tool
B
Select the brush tool.
Auto segment: Box
R
Select box mode for using AutoSegment 2.0, powered by Meta's SAM.
Auto segment: Hover and click
T
Select hover and click mode for using AutoSegment 2.0, powered by Meta's SAM.
Fill tool
I
Use this tool to segment all other pixels in the image that have not yet been segmented. Useful for labeling backgrounds.
Erase mode
Opt
Switch the selected drawing tool to erase mode.
Draw over existing objects
D
Draw over existing segmentation masks with the selected pen tool. When active, the mask being drawn will claim the selected pixels that belonged to an existing mask.