Keyboard Shortcuts for GIMP

Are you finding the Keyboard Shortcuts for GIMP? GIMP provides shortcuts to help you quickly work on documents. Here is the list of all shortcuts that you can use. This post will help you to check and make your work faster with the most used.

Edit Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Ctrl+ZUndo
Ctrl+YRedo
Ctrl+XCut
Ctrl+CCopy
Shift+Ctrl+CCopy Visible
Ctrl+VPaste
Shift+Ctrl+VPast as New Image
DeleteClear
Ctrl+,Fill with FG Color
Ctrl+.Fill with BG Color
Ctrl+;Fill with Pattern

View Shortcuts 

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Ctrl+EShrink Wrap – Reduce image window to size of image
F11Toggle Fullscreen View
Ctrl+TShow Selection
Shift+Ctrl+TShow Guides
Shift+Ctrl+RShow Rulers

File operations 

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Ctrl+NNew Image
Shift+Ctrl+VCreate a new Image from Clipboard
Ctrl+OOpen Image
Ctrl+Alt+OOpen as Layers
Ctrl+SSave Image
Shift+Ctrl+SSave As
Ctrl+PPrint
Ctrl+WClose
Shift+Ctrl+WClose All
Ctrl+QQuit

Layer Shortcuts 

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Shift+Ctrl+NNew Layer
Shift+Ctrl+DDuplicate Layer
Ctrl+HAnchor Layer
Page Up/Page DownSelect Previous/Next Layer
Home/EndSelect Top/Bottom Layer

Select Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Ctrl+ASelect All
Shift+Ctrl+ASelect None
Ctrl+IInvert Selection
Shift+Ctrl+LCreate a Floating Selection
Shift+OSelect by Color
Shift+VSelect from Path
Shift+QToggle Quick Mask

Image Operations 

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Ctrl+DDuplicate Image
Ctrl+MMerge Visible Layers
Alt+ReturnDisplay Image Properties

Selection Tools 

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
RRectangle Select
EEllipse Select
FFree Select
UFuzzy Select
Shift+OSelect by Color
IIntelligent Scissors

Paint Tools 

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Shift+BBucket Fill
LBlend
NPencil
PPaintbrush
Shift+EEraser
AAirbrush
KInk
CClone
HHeal
Shift+UBlur / Sharpen
SSmudge
Shift+DDodge / Burn

Transfrom Tools 

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
QAlign
MMove
Shift+CCrop
Shift+RRotate
Shift+TScale
Shift+SShear
Shift+PPerspective
Shift+FFlip

General 

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
BPaths
OColor Picker
ZZoom
Shift+MMeasure
TText
Ctrl+BToolbox
DDefault Colors (Sets foreground to black and background to white)
XSwap Colors

Dockable Dialogs

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Ctrl+LLayers
Shift+Ctrl+BBrushes
Shift+Ctrl+PPatterns
Ctrl+GGradients
Ctrl+BToolbox

Help Menu 

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
F1Help
Shift+F1Context Sensitive Help

PlugIn Shortcuts 

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Ctrl+FRepeat Last PlgIn
Shift+Ctrl+FPlug In

Selection Shortcuts 

Keyboard Shortcuts (Windows)Menu Description
Ctrl+ASelect All
Ctrl+Shift+ASelect None
Ctrl+IInvert Selection
Ctrl+TToggle Selection
Shift+VPath to selection
Ctrl+Shift+LFloat Selection

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Well, there you have it, GIMP shortcuts list. You might not have known about these shortcuts. If I’ve left important something out in this list, feedback is appreciated and welcome on the Make A Public List.

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