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GIMP keyboard shortcuts

Tools, selections, layers, views, and filters in the free image editor.

91 shortcuts Windows checked September 14, 2026

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This app has a Windows catalog in Shortivo. No other operating system is published for it yet.

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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Create a new image Anywhere Windows CtrlN Source
Open an image Anywhere Windows CtrlO Source
Open files as layers Image open Windows CtrlAltO Source
Duplicate the image Image open Windows CtrlD Source
Save the image Image open Windows CtrlS Source
Save the image under a new name Image open Windows CtrlShiftS Source
Export the image Image open Windows CtrlE Source
Export to a new name or format Image open Windows CtrlShiftE Source
Close every image Anywhere Windows CtrlShiftW Source
Close the current view Image open Windows CtrlW Source
Show the file in the file manager Image open Windows CtrlAltF Source
Quit GIMP Anywhere Windows CtrlQ Source
Undo the last change Image open Windows CtrlZ Source
Redo the undone change Image open Windows CtrlY Source
Cut the selection Selection active Windows CtrlX Source
Copy the selection Selection active Windows CtrlC Source
Copy from every visible layer Selection active Windows CtrlShiftC Source
Paste from the clipboard Image open Windows CtrlV Source
Paste in the original position Image open Windows CtrlAltV Source
Paste as a new image Anywhere Windows CtrlShiftV Source
Clear the selected area Selection active Windows Delete Source
Fill with the foreground colour Image open Windows Ctrl, Source
Fill with the background colour Image open Windows Ctrl. Source
Fill with the active pattern Image open Windows Ctrl; Source
Select the whole image Image open Windows CtrlA Source
Select nothing Image open Windows CtrlShiftA Source
Invert the selection Selection active Windows CtrlI Source
Cut the selection and float it Selection active Windows CtrlShiftL Source
Create a new layer Image open Windows CtrlShiftN Source
Duplicate the selected layers Image open Windows CtrlShiftD Source

About GIMP and its shortcuts

GIMP is the long-running free image editor, and its shortcuts cover tools, selections, layers and the view. Its tool letters will feel familiar to anyone who has used another raster editor, though the layer and dialog commands follow GIMP's own logic rather than a competitor's.

GIMP lets you rebind everything and ships a way to adopt another program's set, so a configured installation can differ widely. Shortivo publishes the Windows list, and version 3 moved some commands.

Where the GIMP keys came from

Read from 1 documentation page published by the makers of GIMP. Report a key that is wrong

To see how one action is done in other apps as well as GIMP, browse the shortcuts by task. Shortcuts by task