Affinity Photo 2 keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet

Printable cheat sheet covering all 160 Affinity Photo 2 2 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.

All shortcuts

  • V — Move Tool
  • H — View Tool (Pan)
  • C — Crop Tool
  • W — Selection Brush Tool
  • W — Flood Select Tool (cycle)
  • L — Freehand Selection Tool
  • M — Rectangular Marquee Tool
  • M — Elliptical Marquee Tool (cycle)
  • B — Paint Brush Tool
  • B — Pixel Tool (cycle)
  • E — Eraser Tool
  • G — Flood Fill Tool
  • G — Gradient Tool (cycle)
  • O — Dodge Brush Tool
  • O — Burn Brush Tool (cycle)
  • O — Sponge Brush Tool (cycle)
  • S — Clone Brush Tool
  • J — Healing Brush Tool
  • J — Patch Tool (cycle)
  • J — Inpainting Brush Tool (cycle)
  • J — Blemish Removal Tool (cycle)
  • R — Blur Brush Tool
  • R — Sharpen Brush Tool (cycle)
  • R — Smudge Brush Tool (cycle)
  • P — Pen Tool
  • A — Node Tool
  • T — Text Tool
  • U — Rectangle Tool
  • U — Ellipse Tool (cycle)
  • Z — Zoom Tool
  • I — Colour Picker Tool
  • R — Red Eye Removal Tool (cycle)
  • X — Swap foreground/background colours
  • D — Reset colours to black/white
  • BracketRight — Increase brush size
  • BracketLeft — Decrease brush size
  • Ctrl+N — New Document
  • Ctrl+O — Open Document
  • Ctrl+S — Save
  • Ctrl+Shift+S — Save As
  • Ctrl+W — Close Document
  • Ctrl+P — Print
  • Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S — Export
  • Ctrl+Shift+P — Place Image
  • Ctrl+Z — Undo
  • Ctrl+Y — Redo
  • Ctrl+Shift+Z — Redo (alternate)
  • Ctrl+X — Cut
  • Ctrl+C — Copy
  • Ctrl+V — Paste
  • Ctrl+Shift+V — Paste in Place
  • Ctrl+Shift+Alt+V — Paste Style
  • Ctrl+Alt+V — Paste Inside
  • Ctrl+J — Duplicate Selection
  • Delete — Delete
  • Shift+F5 — Fill
  • Ctrl+T — Free Transform
  • Ctrl+Shift+I — Invert Pixel Selection
  • Ctrl+A — Select All
  • Ctrl+D — Deselect
  • Ctrl+Shift+D — Reselect
  • Shift+F6 — Feather Selection
  • Ctrl+Alt+0 — Grow/Shrink Selection
  • Ctrl+Alt+R — Refine Selection
  • Ctrl+Shift+S — Select Sampled Colour
  • Ctrl+Shift+N — New Pixel Layer
  • Ctrl+G — Group Layers
  • Ctrl+Shift+G — Ungroup Layers
  • Ctrl+E — Merge Down
  • Ctrl+Shift+E — Merge Visible
  • Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E — Flatten (Merge All)
  • Ctrl+Shift+R — Rasterize Layer
  • Ctrl+Shift+BracketRight — Move Layer to Front
  • Ctrl+BracketRight — Move Layer Forward
  • Ctrl+BracketLeft — Move Layer Backward
  • Ctrl+Shift+BracketLeft — Move Layer to Back
  • Ctrl+I — Invert Adjustment Layer
  • Slash — Lock/Unlock Layer
  • Ctrl+Alt+G — Toggle Clipping Mask
  • Ctrl+Alt+M — Mask to Below
  • Ctrl+Equal — Zoom In
  • Ctrl+Minus — Zoom Out
  • Ctrl+0 — Zoom to Fit
  • Ctrl+1 — Zoom to 100%
  • Ctrl+2 — Zoom to 200%
  • Ctrl+4 — Zoom to 400%
  • Ctrl+8 — Zoom to 800%
  • Ctrl+R — Toggle Rulers
  • Ctrl+Semicolon — Toggle Guides
  • Ctrl+Quote — Toggle Grid
  • Ctrl+Shift+Semicolon — Toggle Snapping
  • Ctrl+Period — Fullscreen Preview
  • Ctrl+5 — Split View
  • Ctrl+6 — Mirror View
  • Tab — Toggle Studio Panels
  • Shift+Tab — Toggle Toolbar
  • Ctrl+L — Levels Adjustment
  • Ctrl+M — Curves Adjustment
  • Ctrl+U — HSL Adjustment
  • Ctrl+Shift+U — Black & White Adjustment
  • Ctrl+Shift+B — Brightness/Contrast Adjustment
  • Ctrl+B — Colour Balance Adjustment
  • F7 — Unsharp Mask Filter
  • F6 — Gaussian Blur Filter
  • Ctrl+Alt+R — Resize Document
  • Ctrl+Alt+C — Resize Canvas
  • Ctrl+Alt+BracketLeft — Rotate 90 Degrees Left
  • Ctrl+Alt+BracketRight — Rotate 90 Degrees Right
  • Ctrl+Shift+H — Flip Horizontal
  • Ctrl+Shift+V — Flip Vertical
  • Ctrl+Comma — Preferences
  • Ctrl+Alt+K — Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Ctrl+Shift+L — Align Left
  • Ctrl+Shift+C — Align Center Horizontally
  • Ctrl+Shift+R — Align Right (Rasterize cycle)
  • Ctrl+Shift+T — Align Top
  • Ctrl+Shift+E — Align Center Vertically
  • Ctrl+Shift+B — Align Bottom
  • Ctrl+Alt+L — Switch to Liquify Persona
  • Ctrl+Alt+D — Switch to Develop Persona
  • Ctrl+Alt+T — Switch to Tone Mapping Persona
  • Ctrl+Alt+E — Switch to Export Persona
  • P — Liquify Push Forward Tool
  • L — Liquify Push Left Tool
  • T — Liquify Twirl Tool
  • U — Liquify Pinch Tool
  • B — Liquify Turbulence Tool
  • C — Liquify Mesh Clone Tool
  • R — Liquify Reconstruct Tool
  • F — Liquify Freeze Tool
  • W — Liquify Thaw Tool
  • W — White Balance Tool
  • R — Red Eye Removal Tool
  • B — Blemish Removal Tool
  • O — Overlay Paint Tool
  • G — Overlay Gradient Tool
  • E — Overlay Erase Tool
  • C — Crop Tool
  • S — Slice Tool
  • L — Layer Tool
  • Ctrl+F — Repeat Last Filter
  • Ctrl+Shift+C — Copy Merged
  • Ctrl+Alt+N — New from Clipboard
  • Ctrl+Alt+A — Select All Layers
  • Ctrl+Shift+T — Transform Again
  • Ctrl+Shift+Y — Show Histogram Panel
  • F8 — Show Info Panel
  • F10 — Show Channels Panel
  • F11 — Show Layers Panel
  • Ctrl+Alt+Y — Show History Panel
  • Ctrl+Enter — Convert Selection to Mask
  • Ctrl+Alt+9 — Smooth Selection
  • Ctrl+Shift+Quote — Snap to Grid
  • Shift+P — Perspective Tool
  • Shift+M — Mesh Warp Tool
  • Ctrl+Shift+X — Channel Mixer Adjustment
  • Ctrl+Alt+C — Selective Colour Adjustment
  • Ctrl+Alt+H — Shadows/Highlights Adjustment
  • Ctrl+Alt+T — Threshold Adjustment
  • Ctrl+Alt+P — Posterize Adjustment
  • P — Push Forward Tool
  • O — Overlay Paint Tool
  • G — Overlay Gradient Tool
  • E — Overlay Erase Tool
  • Space — Hand/Pan Tool (Temporary)
  • ShiftLeft — Constrain/Straight Line
  • MouseLeft — Edit/Open Item

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  • Clip Studio Paint shortcuts
  • Corel Painter shortcuts
  • Darktable shortcuts
  • Figma shortcuts

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  • Affinity Photo 2 cheat sheet
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