Keyboard shortcuts to place and replace images

[Beautiful-Cranberry]

Hi there devs,

A suggestion that keyboard shortcuts to place and replace images is vital for those of us working with templates. I'd love to see this sometime this year?

[Dan C]

Hi @Beautiful-Cranberry,

Thanks for your feedback

By default, you can use CTRL + SHIFT + M to Place images in Publisher, if you already have a Picture Frame selected when using this shortcut, the placed image will automatically replace any existing content in the selected frame.

I hope this helps! 

[Pšenda]

I also have it set by default.

[Bonteburg]

This is a valid feature request I'd like to second.

Simply placing a new image doesn't honour its transparency gradient settings* – replacing it via the Resource Manager does. So it makes sense to have a replace via, say, right click.

 

*This is the one use case I know so far – may or may not apply to other properties

[MikeTO]

2 hours ago, Bonteburg said:

This is a valid feature request I'd like to second.

The original request in this thread was to offer keyboard shortcuts for Place and Replace Image which already exist. There are also UI buttons for this - Place is in Tools and Replace Image is in the Context Bar.

I agree that it would make sense to add Replace Image to the context menu but it's already so long.

I use the keyboard shortcut for Replace Image constantly.

[Bonteburg]

Thanks! There was a misunderstanding that took quite a while for me to wrap my head around.

Apparently, when you have a transparency gradient applied to a jpg* within a picture frame and replace it with a native afphoto, designer file or an svg, it doesn't keep that gradient.

I'm not sure if that's expected behaviour or not, but it surely confused me about what the Resource Manager could and couldn't do.
(Spoiler: Whether you use the Resource Manager or another method doesn't matter).

Replacing it with a jpg works
(Huge thanks for the hint about the replace button, now I can't not see it... )

 

*Again I didn't test yet if it happens with other effect settings, or if it's the replaced file having to be the same format (as opposed to something always happening with specific formats)