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Krita keyboard shortcuts

Brushes, colours, layers, selections, tools, and the canvas in the free painting app.

97 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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10 actions and 10 key variants match.

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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Show the brush editor Canvas Windows F5 Source
Show the brush presets Canvas Windows F6 Source
Make the brush colour lighter Canvas Windows L Source
Make the brush colour darker Canvas Windows K Source
Raise the brush opacity Canvas Windows O Source
Lower the brush opacity Canvas Windows I Source
Switch eraser mode on or off Canvas Windows E Source
Reset colours to black and white Canvas Windows D Source
Make the brush smaller Canvas Windows [ Source
Make the brush larger Canvas Windows ] Source

About Krita and its shortcuts

Krita is a painting program, and its keyboard reflects what a painter repeats: brush size and opacity, switching between brush presets, rotating and mirroring the canvas, and layer work. The canvas navigation commands matter more here than in a photo editor, because you are constantly turning the drawing.

Krita ships alternative shortcut schemes that imitate other painting software, and every binding is editable. Shortivo publishes the Windows list.

Where the Krita keys came from

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

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