Keyboard shortcuts

You can quickly access common tools using your Smart Keyboard or Bluetooth keyboard, if you've purchased one for your iPad. Most of the keyboard shortcuts listed here can be customized in Affinity Photo's preferences.

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File shortcuts

Action Key
Save Document S
Save Document as Copy S
Export Document S
Print Document P
Resize Document I

Tools shortcuts - General

Action Key
Canvas Rotation Tool R
Crop Tool C
Move Tool V
View Tool H

Tools shortcuts - Photo Persona

Action Key
Art Text Tool T
Burn Brush Tool O
Clone Brush Tool S
Color Picker Tool I
Convert Document Tool D
Erase Brush Tool E
Frame Text Tool F
Gradient Fill Tool G
Inpainting Brush Tool J
Node Tool A
Paint Brush Tool B
Pen Tool P
Pixel Tool X
Rectangle Tool U

Tools shortcuts - Selections Persona

Action Key
Column Marquee Tool C
Elliptical Marquee Tool E
Feather Selection Tool F
Flood Selection Tool W
Grow/Shrink Selection Tool G
Freehand Selection Tool P
Rectangular Marquee Tool M
Refine Selection Tool R
Row Marquee Tool O
Smart Selection Brush Tool S

Tools shortcuts - Liquify Persona

Action Key
Freeze Tool Z
Mesh Clone Tool M
Pinch Tool I
Punch Tool P
Push Forward Tool F
Push Left Tool L
Reconstruct Tool R
Thaw Tool W
Turbulence Tool U
Twirl Tool T
View Tool H

Tools shortcuts - Develop Persona

Action Key
Blemish Removal Tool B
Crop Tool C
Overlay Erase Tool E
Overlay Gradient Tool G
Overlay Paint Tool P
Red Eye Tool R
View Tool H
White Balance Tool W

Tools shortcuts - Panoramas

Action Key
Brush Tool L
Crop Tool C
Erase Tool U
Transform Tool A
View Tool H

Tools shortcuts - Tone Mapping Persona

Action Key
Overlay Erase Tool E
Overlay Gradient Tool G
Overlay Paint Tool P
View Tool H

Edit shortcuts

Action Key
Undo Z
Redo Z
Copy C
Cut X
Paste V
Paste Filter Effect V
Paste Inside V
Paste Style V

Layer operations shortcuts

Action Key
Duplicate Selection J
Group G
Ungroup G
Live Stack Group G
Merge Down E
Merge Selected E
Merge Visible E
Move Back [
Move Forward ]
Move To Back [
Move To Front ]
New Pixel Layer N
Nudge (Move Tool) arrow keys

Text shortcuts

Action Key
Bold B
Italicize I
Underline U

View shortcuts

Action Key
Grid '
Guides ;

Selection shortcuts

Action Key
Deselect D
Invert Selection I
Refine Selection R
Select All A
Selection From Layer O
Vector Select All A

Adjustment and Filter shortcuts

Action Key
Black and White (Adjustment) B
Curves (Adjustment) M
HSL (Adjustment) U
Invert (Adjustment) I
Levels (Adjustment) L
Fade F

Misc shortcuts

Minimize App H
Minimize Document W

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