GIMP Quickreference GIMP

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F1
Help Window
Shift F1
Context Help Menus can also be activated
F10 by Alt with the letter
underscored in the menu name. Main Menu
,
click

Shift F10
Drop-down Menu

Toolbox
Tools
R Rect Select
E Ellipse Select
F Free Select
Z Fuzzy Select
Shift O Select By Color
F11
Toggle fullscreen
Shift Q Toggle quickmask
Ctrl W Close document window
Zoom
+ Zoom in
- Zoom out
1 Zoom 1:1
Ctrl E Shrink wrap
This ts the windows to the image size.

Shift Ctrl E Fit image in window

I Scissors wheel

Shift Zoom
B Paths
O Color Picker Scrolling (panning)
M Move Ctrl Scroll canvas
C Crop and Resize
arrows
Shift

Shift R Rotate Scrolling by keys is accelerated,

drag i.e. it speeds up when you
Scroll canvas
press Shift+arrows, or jumps to the borders with
Ctrl+arrows.
Shift T Scale wheel

Shift S Shear Scroll canvas vertically

Perspective
wheel

Shift P Ctrl Scroll canvas

Shift F Flip horizontally
T Text Rulers and Guides
Drag o a ruler to create
drag

Shift B Bucket Fill

L Blend guide
Drag o the horizontal or vertical ruler to create a new
Drag
the rulerato sample point out
drag

guide line. Drag aCtrl

guide line onto delete it.
N Pencil
Paintbrush of the rulers
P Shift Ctrl R Toggle rulers
Shift E Eraser Shift Ctrl T Toggle guides
A Airbrush
K Ink

Shift
C
U
Clone
Blur/Sharpen
Edit
S Smudge
Shift D Dodge/Burn Undo/redo
Double click on the tool buttons opens the Tool Options
dialog.
Ctrl Z Undo
Context Ctrl Y Redo
X Swap Colors Clipboard
D Default Colors Ctrl C Copy selection
Click on the colors to change the colors. This places a copy of the selection to the GIMP
clipboard.
Ctrl X Cut selection

File
This works the same as "copy selection" followed by deleting
the selection. Ctrl V Paste clipboard
This places the clipboard objects as a oating
selection
Ctrl K Clears selection
Shift Ctrl C Named copy selection
Ctrl N New image Shift Ctrl X Named cut selection
Ctrl O Open image Shift Ctrl V Named paste clipboard
Ctrl Alt O Open image as new layer
Ctrl D Duplicate image Fill
Ctrl 1 Open recent image 01 Erase selection
Ctrl 2 Open recent image 02
Ctrl D Fill with FG Color
Ctrl 3 Open recent image 03
Ctrl D Fill with BG Color
Ctrl 4 Open recent image 04
Ctrl D Fill with Pattern
Ctrl 5 Open recent image 05
Open recent image 06
Layers
Ctrl 6
Ctrl 7 Open recent image 07
Ctrl 8 Open recent image 08
Ctrl 9 Open recent image 09 PgUp
, Ctrl Tab
Select the layer above
Ctrl 0 Open recent image 10 PgDn
Shift , Ctrl Tab
Select the layer below
Ctrl S Save image Home
Select the rst layer
Shift Ctrl S Save under a new name End
Select the last layer
Ctrl E Export to Ctrl M Merge visible layers
Shift Ctrl E Export ... Ctrl H Anchor layer
Ctrl Q Quit

Dialogs Selections
Ctrl T Toggle selections
Ctrl L Layers Ctrl A Select all
Shift Ctrl B Brushes Shift Ctrl A Select none
Shift Ctrl P Patterns Ctrl I Invert selection
Ctrl G Gradients Shift Ctrl L Float selection
Shift Ctrl T Tool-Options Shift V Path to selection
Ctrl P Palettes
Shift Ctrl I Info window
Navigation window
Filters
Shift Ctrl N

These open a new dialog window if it wasn't open yet,

Within a Dialog
otherwise the corresponding dialog gets focus.

Alt F4
, Ctrl Close the window
W
Ctrl F Repeat last lter
Jump to next widget
Tab
Shift Ctrl F Reshow last lter
Shift Tab
Jump to previous
Enter
Set thewidget new

Ctrl
Space
, to canvas.
returns focus

Alt PgUp ,
Enter

Ctrl PgDn In a multi-tab

value
This accepts the new value you typed in a text eld and
Activate current button or
list dialog, switch
Zoom tool
Within a File Dialog tabs
Zoom in
click

Shift L Open Location

Zoom out
click

Alt
up
Up-Folder Shift

Alt
down
Down-Folder drag