#Krita shortcuts how to#

I always wanted to make something like this. Of course you can also localize the text, in which case I will be very interested to know about! All you need is a copy of Inkscape to start changing all strings. If you modify your shortcuts perhaps you will want to have an updated version of the cheatsheet above. Toggle Discrete actions means that change is made using steps. It would be neat if it could be possible to only use a key + mouse motion to use this toggles, but sadly it is not the case for now. Something to note is that “Toggle” actions mean that the option is active during the keyPress so to be able to use them it is mandatory (for now) to use the “Mouse button” + Modifier as shown above. Now every time you press and hold you can use the mouse button to zoom in and out.

For example to set Zoom to work on the Key This interface is very powerful, you can change all actions to whatever you want.

Show Popup Palette: Toggles the appearance of the favorite brushes presets wheel.

Zoom Canvas: Actions regarding display size.

Pan Canvas: Move around the canvas actions.

Change Primary setting: I’m not entirely sure of what this one does.

Alternate Invocation: Mostly Color picker actions.

Tool Invocation: General Ok, Cancel actions.

Inside you will see the following sections: To acces it go to “Configure Krita > Canvas Input Settings”. This on edeals with all input regarding Canvas.

#Krita shortcuts how to#

This is perfectly fine, but if you want to change how to Zoom, Pan, Rotate, Color pick and all program events it is possible using another Interface. From here you can modify most of Krita tool invocation as well as common actions like save or create layers.

Hide brushed and stuff bar: It hides only the bar with brushes and save options.Īll shortcuts can be modified to your liking, to do so go to “Settings > Configure shortcuts…”.

and, Previous and Next Favorite presets.

, Desaturate: Ligthness, Average, Luminosity, Min, Max.

, Undo Polygon Selection Points: Now you can undo selection polyline steps.

Wrap around mode: Make seamless textures easily.

The current layer will change to the layer that contains the clicked pixel.

Press and hold ‘R’ and click on the canvas. Quite a lot of changes happened from 2.7 and in the shortcuts department the new defaults include: Krita 2.8 is close to be released and to join the celebrations I updated the shortcuts sheet to reflect the new additions.