# Krita Gang ## Default Krita Shortcuts The presets as of Krita 4.3.0. [See the docs for more info](https://docs.krita.org/en/reference_manual/preferences/shortcut_settings.html?highlight=shortcuts). ### Painting #### Brush/Tool Shortcuts | Function | Shortcut | | -------- | -------- | | toggle eraser | E | | freehand brush tool | B | | fill tool (use twice to fill all the way to the edges) | F | | color picker | P, or hold ctrl and tap/click | | change brush size | shift and drag pen| | rectangular selection | ctrl-R | | transform tool | ctrl-T| | show selection (handy if you're not totally sure what you just did) | ctrl-H | | deselect selection | ctrl-shift-A | | show canvas only | tab | ### Layer Management | Function | Shortcut | | -------- | -------- | | navigate between layers or layer groups | pg up \| pg dn | | adds a layer directly above the active layer | insert | | group selected layers | ctrl-G | | make a clipping group of selected layers | ctrl-shift-G | | deleted selected layers | shift-delete | | merge layers (by default, merge active layer with the one below it) | ctrl-E | ### File/Krita Management | Function | Shortcut | | -------- | -------- | |toggle Mirror mode (shows the canvas flipped horizontally) | M | | paste whatever you have copied as a reference image | ctrl-shift-R | | save file | ctrl-S | | save file as new | ctrl-shift-S | | undo | ctrl-Z | | redo | ctrl-shift-Z | And of course, ctrl-Z to undo, ctrl-shift-Z to redo ## How to Set Your Own Shortcuts You can change your shortcut settings by heading to Settings > Configure > Keyboard Shortcuts. ![krita-shortcuts]() Krita actually ships with shortcuts from Photoshop and Paint Tool SAI by default. This is useful if you're coming from another program with different shortcut settings, or if you want to nab someone else's shortcuts. Just add the file with the settings to the ~/.config/krita/input/ folder. The shortcuts are sorted into categories to make it easier to find, but there's also a search bar so you don't have to hunt for something to find, say, mirroring tools, of which there are many.  By default, only the mirror view has a key binding. But I still think it's cool that you *can* have a shortcut for something as specific as 'mirror all layers vertically'! > You can set a shortcut for a wild amount of things, but of course that's kind of useless if you don't remember what your shortcuts are, so I wouldn't make too many (especially one key ones, since it's easy to accidentally press a key and then have no idea what changed but suddenly everything is confusing and you've hecked up a drawing). ## Custom Shortcuts I Use | Function | Shortcut | Usage | | -------- | -------- | ----- | | show reference images | 0 (zero) | being able to toggle references on/off makes the canvas neater, meaning i can put reference images directly where i need to without worrying about cluttering the canvas | | -------- | -------- | ------- | | outline selection tool (lasso) | O | use lassos to make moving and coloring things easier| #### Lasso functionality Use these when you have the lasso tool active. These change the 'action' of the outline selection tool/lasso, which you can do manually in tool options.  | Function | Shortcut | | -------- | -------- | | replace: new lassos will replace previous | R | | intersect: | n/a | | add: new lassos will join/add to previous | A | | subtract: new lassos will remove/subtract from previous | S | | symmetric difference | | ## Krita Workspaces