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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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21 actions and 21 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
Select the whole image Image open Windows CtrlA Source
Drop the current selection Selection active Windows CtrlShiftA Source
Bring back the last selection Image open Windows CtrlShiftD Source
Feather the selection edge Selection active Windows ShiftF6 Source
Show or hide the selection outline Selection active Windows CtrlH Source
Show the colour selector Canvas Windows ShiftI Source
Invert the selection Selection active Windows CtrlShiftI Source
Adjust the levels Layer selected Windows CtrlL Source
Invert the layer colours Layer selected Windows CtrlI Source
Adjust the colour curves Layer selected Windows CtrlM Source
Adjust the colour balance Layer selected Windows CtrlB Source
Desaturate the layer Layer selected Windows CtrlShiftU Source
Adjust hue, saturation and value Layer selected Windows CtrlU Source
Select the next layer Layers Windows Page Up Source
Select the previous layer Layers Windows Page Down Source
Cut the selection to a new layer Selection active Windows CtrlShiftJ Source
Copy the selection to a new layer Selection active Windows CtrlAltJ Source
Choose the rectangular selection tool Toolbox Windows CtrlR 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