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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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Matching shortcuts
Action Keys Row actions
Rotate the canvas to the left Image open Windows Ctrl[ Source
Show or hide the grid Image open Windows CtrlShift' Source
Snap to the grid Image open Windows CtrlShift; Source
Scale the image to a new size Image open Windows CtrlAltI Source
Resize the canvas Image open Windows CtrlAltC 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
Apply the last filter again Image open Windows CtrlF Source
Open the Krita handbook Anywhere Windows F1 Source
Show the colour selector Canvas Windows ShiftI Source
Show the colour history Canvas Windows H Source
Show the brush editor Canvas Windows F5 Source
Show the brush presets Canvas Windows F6 Source
Search every action Anywhere Windows CtrlReturn Source
Invert the selection Selection active Windows CtrlShiftI 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
Swap the foreground and background colours Canvas Windows X Source
Make the brush smaller Canvas Windows [ Source
Make the brush larger Canvas Windows ] Source
Switch back to the previous brush preset Canvas Windows / Source
Adjust the levels Layer selected Windows CtrlL Source
Invert the layer colours Layer selected Windows CtrlI 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