Krita keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet

Printable cheat sheet covering all 113 Krita 2025 keyboard shortcuts and hotkeys, organized by category. Export as PDF or print directly.

All shortcuts

  • Shift+Alt+Q — Select Behind Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+R — Select Clear Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+C — Select Color Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+B — Select Color Burn Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+D — Select Color Dodge Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+K — Select Darken Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+E — Select Difference Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+I — Select Dissolve Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+X — Select Exclusion Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+H — Select Hard Light Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+L — Select Hard Mix Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+P — Select Hard Overlay Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+U — Select Hue Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+G — Select Lighten Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+A — Select Linear Burn Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+W — Select Linear Dodge Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+J — Select Linear Light Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+Y — Select Luminosity Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+M — Select Multiply Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+N — Select Normal Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+O — Select Overlay Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+Z — Select Pin Light Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+T — Select Saturation Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+S — Select Screen Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+F — Select Soft Light Blending mode
  • Shift+Alt+V — Select Vivid Light Blending mode
  • Ctrl+M — Color Adjustment curves
  • Ctrl+B — Color Balance
  • Ctrl+Shift+U — Desaturate
  • Ctrl+U — HSV Adjustment
  • Ctrl+I — Invert
  • Ctrl+L — Levels
  • Ctrl+Shift+I — Invert selection
  • F5 — Show Brush Editor
  • F6 — Show Brush Presets
  • H — Show color history
  • Shift+I — Show color selector
  • U — Show common colors
  • Backslash — Show Tool Options
  • PageUp — Activate next layer
  • PageDown — Activate previous layer
  • Ctrl+Alt+J — Copy selection to new layer
  • Ctrl+Shift+J — Cut selection to new layer
  • Ctrl+J — Duplicate layer or mask
  • Ctrl+Shift+E — Flatten image
  • Ctrl+E — Merge with layer below
  • Ctrl+PageDown — Move layer down
  • Ctrl+PageUp — Move layer up
  • Insert — Paint layer
  • F3 — Properties
  • Ctrl+Shift+G — Quick clipping group
  • Ctrl+G — Quick group
  • Ctrl+Alt+G — Quick ungroup
  • Shift+Delete — Remove layer
  • F2 — Rename current layer
  • Ctrl+Backspace — Fill with background color
  • Ctrl+Shift+Backspace — Fill with foreground color
  • BracketRight — Increase brush size
  • K — Make brush color darker
  • L — Make brush color lighter
  • D — Reset foreground and background color
  • A — Selection mode Add
  • R — Selection mode Replace
  • S — Selection mode Subtract
  • E — Set eraser mode
  • X — Swap foreground and background color
  • P — Color picker
  • C — Crop tool
  • G — Draw a gradient
  • J — Elliptical selection tool
  • F — Fill tool
  • B — Freehand brush tool
  • T — Move tool
  • Q — Multibrush tool
  • Ctrl+R — Rectangular selection tool
  • Ctrl+T — Transform tool
  • Ctrl+W — Close
  • Ctrl+N — New
  • Ctrl+O — Open
  • Ctrl+P — Print
  • Ctrl+Q — Quit
  • Ctrl+S — Save
  • Ctrl+Shift+S — Save as
  • F4 — Save incremental backup
  • Ctrl+Alt+S — Save incremental version
  • Delete — Clear
  • Ctrl+C — Copy
  • Ctrl+Shift+C — Copy merged
  • Ctrl+X — Cut
  • Backspace — Fill with background color
  • Shift+Backspace — Fill with foreground color
  • Ctrl+V — Paste
  • Ctrl+Shift+R — Paste as reference image
  • Ctrl+Alt+V — Paste at cursor
  • Ctrl+Z — Undo
  • Ctrl+Shift+Z — Redo
  • Ctrl+F — Apply filter again
  • F1 — Krita Handbook
  • Ctrl+Alt+C — Resize canvas
  • Ctrl+Alt+I — Scale image to new size
  • Ctrl+Shift+A — Deselect
  • Ctrl+H — Display selection
  • Ctrl+Shift+D — Reselect
  • Ctrl+A — Select all
  • Ctrl+Shift+F — Full screen mode
  • M — Mirror view
  • Ctrl+0 — Reset zoom
  • Ctrl+BracketLeft — Rotate canvas left
  • Ctrl+BracketRight — Rotate canvas right
  • Tab — Show canvas only
  • Ctrl+Shift+Semicolon — Snap to grid
  • Ctrl+Equal — Zoom in
  • Ctrl+Minus — Zoom out
  • Space — Hand/Pan Tool (Temporary)
  • ShiftLeft — Constrain/Straight Line
  • MouseLeft — Edit/Open Item

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Related pages

  • Krita shortcuts
  • Krita cheat sheet
  • Learn Krita shortcuts
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