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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.

Everything Clipboard Editing Files and printing Formulas and data Messages and mail Navigation Paragraphs and lists Search Selection System View and zoom

20 actions and 20 key variants match.

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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
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
Clear the selected area Selection active Windows Delete 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
Duplicate the selected layers Image open Windows CtrlShiftD Source
Select the top layer Layers Windows Home Source
Select the bottom layer Layers Windows End Source
Select the layer above Layers Windows Page Up Source
Select the layer below Layers Windows Page Down Source
Show or hide the selection outline Image open Windows CtrlT Source
Choose rectangle select Toolbox Windows R Source
Choose ellipse select Toolbox Windows E Source
Choose free select Toolbox Windows F Source
Choose fuzzy select Toolbox Windows U Source
Choose select by colour Toolbox Windows ShiftO Source
Choose scissors select Toolbox Windows I 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