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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
Anchor the floating layer Floating layer Windows CtrlH 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
Merge the visible layers Image open Windows CtrlM Source
Open the image properties Image open Windows AltReturn Source
Repeat the last filter Image open Windows CtrlF Source
Show the last filter's dialog again Image open Windows CtrlShiftF Source
Offset the layer contents Image open Windows CtrlShiftO Source
Show the toolbox Anywhere Windows CtrlB Source
Open the layers dialog Anywhere Windows CtrlL Source
Open the brushes dialog Anywhere Windows CtrlShiftB Source
Open the patterns dialog Anywhere Windows CtrlShiftP Source
Open the gradients dialog Anywhere Windows CtrlG Source
Search for a command and run it Anywhere Windows / Source
Reset to the default colours Canvas Windows D Source
Swap the foreground and background colours Canvas Windows X Source
Switch back to the last tool Canvas Windows ShiftX Source
Make the tool smaller Canvas Windows [ Source
Make the tool larger Canvas Windows ] Source
Center the image in the window Image open Windows ShiftJ Source
Fit the image in the window Image open Windows CtrlShiftJ Source
Go back to the previous zoom Image open Windows ` Source
Shrink the window around the image Image open Windows CtrlJ Source
Show or hide the selection outline Image open Windows CtrlT Source
Show or hide guides Image open Windows CtrlShiftT Source
Show or hide rulers Image open Windows CtrlShiftR Source
Switch full screen on or off Image open Windows F11 Source
Zoom in on the image Image open Windows 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