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.
7 actions and 7 key variants match.
- Krita Documented
| Action | Keys | Row actions |
|---|---|---|
| Show the colour history Canvas | Windows H | Source |
| Swap the foreground and background colours Canvas | Windows X | Source |
| Switch back to the previous brush preset Canvas | Windows / | Source |
| Choose the normal blending mode Painting | Windows AltShiftN | Source |
| Choose the multiply blending mode Painting | Windows AltShiftM | Source |
| Choose the screen blending mode Painting | Windows AltShiftS | Source |
| Choose the overlay blending mode Painting | Windows AltShiftO | 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