Canvas navigation

How to get around the editor’s canvas — zooming, panning, selecting, and the commands that act on the whole capture.

The zoom control

The zoom control sits in the editor’s title bar — at the right end on macOS, at the left end on Windows (where the window buttons and the editor menu take the right).

Control	What it does
− / +	Zoom out / in one step
Slider	Drag to set any zoom level
Percentage	Shows the current zoom; click it to go back to 100%
W × H px	The size of the image you’ll export, in pixels

100% means 1:1 with your screen — the capture looks exactly as it did when you took it. Zoom ranges from 10% to 400%.

The size readout shows the artboard’s size when a background is on, and the cropped capture’s size otherwise — see Artboard.

Zooming

Mouse wheel — Scroll to zoom in or out around the pointer
Trackpad — Pinch to zoom, or hold Cmd/Ctrl and scroll with two fingers
View menu — Zoom In, Zoom Out, Actual Size, and Fit to Window (fits the artboard in the window). On macOS the View menu is in the menu bar; on Windows it’s in the editor menu in the title bar. Their shortcuts are listed under Viewport

Panning

Trackpad — Scroll with two fingers
Space + drag — Hold Space and drag the canvas; release Space to go back to the tool you were using
Middle mouse button — Drag with the middle button pressed
Pan tool — Click the small caret on the toolbar’s Select button (or click the button again while Select is active) and choose Pan for a hand that stays active until you pick another tool

Selecting

Click an annotation to select it; Shift-click or drag a marquee over empty canvas to select several. Selecting covers all the ways in.

With more than one annotation selected, a single combined box surrounds them all. Drag inside it to move everything together. The combined box has no resize or rotate handles — to resize or rotate, select one annotation at a time.

Rotating an annotation

A selected annotation shows a round rotation handle 20 px above the middle of its top edge. Drag it to rotate freely; hold Shift to snap to 45° steps.

There’s no rotation handle on arrows and lines (they’re shaped with their own control points), on redactions, or on a multiple selection. For moving and resizing, see Moving & Resizing.

Right-click an annotation for a menu of actions on it:

Item	Available on
Flip Horizontal / Flip Vertical	Images (media) only
Bring to Front / Send to Back	Everything except redactions and spotlights, which keep a fixed stacking order
Add color to favorites	Annotations with a color — adds it to your saved colors in the Color Selector
Select all (type)	Everything — e.g. Select all Arrows selects every arrow in the capture
Delete	Everything

Rotating and flipping the capture

To turn or mirror the screenshot itself rather than one annotation, use the Edit menu:

Command	macOS	Windows
Rotate Capture Clockwise	⌘R	Ctrl+R
Rotate Capture Counter-Clockwise	⌘⇧R	Ctrl+Shift+R
Flip Capture Horizontal	—	—
Flip Capture Vertical	—	—

Rotation turns the capture in 90° steps. These commands change the screenshot underneath; your annotations stay where they are. Like everything else in the editor, they can be undone.

The same menu has Reset Artboard, which puts the crop, padding, and background back to how the capture started — see Artboard.