Super Fast Photo Captions

April 8th, 2008

Captioning your photos on Photosleeve is really really easy.

Just click on the text or the pencil,

Enter your new caption,

And then click ok,

This is great when you’re just captioning one photo, but it can be a pain if you’re trying to caption all the photos in an album. We considered creating a page with a bunch of thumbnails that you could enter multiple captions in at once, but we found that we really liked having a full, large view of the photo while we were captioning. Hmm …

Since Photosleeve pre-fetches the next photo, it’s not so much the page transition that makes captioning large batches of photos slow — it’s all the mouse clicking. So we added some keyboard shortcuts that let you edit photo captions quickly:

  • Right- and Left-arrows flip through photos or pages
  • c starts editing a caption
  • Enter saves a caption

You can caption super fast by combining these keys and getting into a rhythm:

[c]  My first caption   [Enter]  [Right-arrow]
[c]  My second caption  [Enter]  [Right-arrow]
[c]  My third caption   [Enter]  [Right-arrow]
...

This example edits three photo captions in a row. The [c] starts editing the caption, [Enter] saves it, and then [Right-arrow] moves on to the next photo. It’s easy! Go give it a shot.

Derek & Ryan

P.S. Photosleeve Keyboard Shortcuts

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