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Affinity Photo Shortcuts
Faster, smoother and more powerful than ever, Affinity Photo continues to push the boundaries for professional photo editing software. With a huge toolset specifically engineered for creative and photography professionals, whether you are editing and retouching images, or creating full-blown multi-layered compositions, it has all the power and performance you will ever need. Buy it via Affinity.com.
| Editing | |
|---|---|
| Resize Document | ⌥ + ⌘ + I |
| Resize Canvas | ⌥ + ⌘ + C |
| Select multiple | ⇧ + click |
| Select overlapping layer content | ⌥ + click |
| Reset Selection Box | . (period) |
| Toggle Snapping | ; |
| Erase with Pixel Tool on current layer | ⌘ |
| Switch between Stroke/Fill (or Colour 1/Colour 2) colour selectors (Colour and Swatches panels) | X |
| Swap Stroke/Fill (or Colour 1/Colour 2) colour selectors | ⇧ + X |
| Set No fill on Stroke/Fill (or Colour 1/Colour 2) colour selectors | / (International and selected keyboards only) |
| Toggle between Crop Tool overlays | O |
| Flip golden spiral overlay (crop tool enabled) | ⇧ + O |
| Modify attribute listed on a panel or dialog | Drag attribute text label |
| Rotate in 15° intervals | ⇧ + drag |
| Rotate around opposite corner | Ctrl + drag |
| Cancel a sizing, moving, or creating operation | esc |
| Resize from centre | ⌘ + drag from a corner handle |
| Mirror shearing | ⌘ + drag |
| Constrain movement horizontally, vertically or diagonally | ⇧ + drag |
| Nudging | Arrow keys |
| Nudging (10x measurement units) | ⇧ + arrow keys |
| Vector graphics | |
| Resize maintaining aspect ratio | ⇧ + drag from a corner handle |
| Edit curves as you draw using node editing (from pen) | ⌘ |
| Creates cusp node (sharp corner) | ⌥ + drag control handle |
| Snap a curve’s control handle to 45° intervals | ⇧ + drag control handle |
| Convert to Curves | ⌘ + ↵ |
| File | |
| New Document | ⌘ + N |
| New From Clipboard | ⌥ + ⇧ + ⌘ + N |
| Open Document | ⌘ + O |
| Close Document/Close App (when no documents open) | ⌘ + W |
| Switch Document/View | Ctrl + ⇥ |
| Save | ⌘ + S |
| Save As | ⇧ + ⌘ + S |
| Export | ⌥ + ⇧ + ⌘ + S |
| ⌘ + P | |
| Tools | |
| Flood Fill Tool / Gradient cycle | G |
| View Tool | H |
| Move Tool | V |
| Crop Tool | C |
| Selection Tools cycle | W |
| Pen and Node Tool cycle | P |
| Zoom Tool | Z |
| Clone Tool | S |
| Shape Tools cycle | U |
| Text Tools cycle | T |
| Dodge, Burn and Sponge Brush Tool cycle | O |
| Retouch Tools cycle | J |
| Painting Tools cycle | B |
| Erase Tools cycle | E |
| Marquee Selection Tools cycle | M |
| Free Hand Selection Tool | L |
| Liquify | |
| Liquify Push Forward Tool | P |
| Liquify Push Left Tool | L |
| Liquify Twirl Tool | T |
| Liquify Pinch Tool | U |
| Liquify Turbulence Tool | B |
| Liquify Mesh Clone Tool | C |
| Liquify Reconstruct Tool | R |
| Liquify Freeze Tool | F |
| Liquify Thaw Tool | W |
| Liquify Zoom Tool | Z |
| Liquify View Tool | H |
| Develop | |
| Sampler Tool | S |
| White Balance Tool | W |
| Red Eye Removal Tool | R |
| Blemish Removal Tool | L |
| Overlay Paint Tool | B |
| Overlay Erase Tool | E |
| Overlay Gradient Tool | G |
| Crop Tool | C |
| Zoom Tool | Z |
| View Tool | H |
| Export | |
| Slice Tool | S |
| Layer Select tool | L |
| Panorama | |
| Transform Source Image Tool | A |
| Add to Source Image Mask Tool | L |
| Erase From Source Image Mask Tool | U |
| Tone mapping | |
| View Tool | H |
| Zoom Tool | Z |
| Overlay Paint Tool | B |
| Overlay Erase Tool | E |
| Overlay Gradient Tool | G |
| Edit | |
| Undo | ⌘ + Z |
| Redo | ⇧ + ⌘ + Z |
| Copy Merged | ⇧ + ⌘ + C |
| Paste Style | ⇧ + ⌘ + V |
| Paste FX | Ctrl + ⌘ + V |
| Paste without Format | ⌥ + ⇧ + ⌘ + V |
| Paste Inside | ⌥ + ⌘ + V |
| Fill | ⇧ + F5 |
| Inpaint | ⌥ + ⇥ |
| Layer operations | |
| Select All Layers | ⌥ + ⌘ + A |
| Group | ⌘ + G |
| Ungroup | ⇧ + ⌘ + G |
| Duplicate | ⌘ + J |
| Invert | ⌘ + I |
| Move to Front | ⇧ + ⌘ + ] |
| Move Forward One | ⌘ + ] |
| Move to Back | ⇧ + ⌘ + [ |
| Move Back One | ⌘ + [ |
| New Layer | ⇧ + ⌘ + N |
| Merge Down | ⌘ + E |
| Merge Selected | ⇧ + ⌘ + E |
| Merge Visible | ⌥ + ⇧ + ⌘ + E |
| Toggle between Frequency Separation layers | F |
| Live projection | |
| Edit Live Projection | Ctrl + ⌘ + P |
| Brush | |
| Picks up a new brush colour with colour picker | ⌥ + drag |
| Picks and applies the colour under the cursor | Alt + ⌥ + click |
| Change selected layer content/brush tool’s opacity | numeric keys (4=40%, 43=43%, etc.) |
| Increase/decrease brush width (Photo and Liquify Personas) | ] [ |
| Decrease/increase brush width with on-screen readout | Ctrl + ⌥ + drag (left/right) |
| Decrease/increase brush hardness with on-screen readout | Ctrl + ⌥ + drag (up/down) |
| Draw straight line connecting two strokes | ⇧ + click |
| Text | |
| Bigger text | ⌘ + > |
| Smaller text | ⌘ + < |
| Precise bigger text | ⌥ + ⌘ + > |
| Precise smaller text | ⌥ + ⌘ + < |
| Tighten | ⌥ + ← |
| Loosen | ⌥ + → |
| Tighten More | ⌥ + ⌘ + ← |
| Loosen More | ⌥ + ⌘ + → |
| Bold | ⌘ + B |
| Italic | ⌘ + I |
| Underline | ⌘ + U |
| Show Character | ⌘ + T |
| Show Typography | ⇧ + ⌘ + T |
| Superscript | Ctrl + ⌘ + + |
| Subscript | Ctrl + ⌘ + – |
| Align Left | ⌥ + ⌘ + L |
| Align Right | ⌥ + ⌘ + R |
| Align Centre | ⌥ + ⌘ + C |
| Justify Left | ⌥ + ⌘ + I |
| Increase Paragraph Leading | ⌥ + ↓ |
| Decrease Paragraph Leading | ⌥ + ↑ |
| Precise Paragraph Increase Leading | ⌥ + ⌘ + ↓ |
| Precise Paragraph Decrease Leading | ⌥ + ⌘ + ↑ |
| Raise Baseline | ⌥ + ⇧ + ↑ |
| Lower Baseline | ⌥ + ⇧ + ↓ |
| Precise Raise Baseline | ⌥ + ⇧ + ⌘ + ↑ |
| Precise Lower Baseline | ⌥ + ⇧ + ⌘ + ↓ |
| Special Characters | Ctrl + ⌘ + Spacebar |
| Spelling Options | ⇧ + ⌘ + ; |
| Line Break | Ctrl + ↵ |
| Non Breaking Space | ⌥ + Spacebar |
| En Dash | ⌥ + – |
| Em Dash | ⌥ + ⇧ + – |
| View | |
| Zoom In | ⌘ + + |
| Zoom Out | ⌘+ – |
| Zoom to Fit | ⌘ + 0 |
| (Zoom to) 100% | ⌘ + 1 |
| (Zoom to) 200% | ⌘ + 2 |
| (Zoom to) 400% | ⌘ + 3 |
| (Zoom to) 800% | ⌘ + 4 |
| (Zoom to) Actual Size | ⌘ + 8 |
| (Zoom to) Pixel Size | ⌘ + 9 |
| Hot key panning | Spacebar |
| Hot key zoom in | Spacebar + ⌘ + Click |
| Hot key zoom out | Spacebar + ⌥ + Click |
| View Tool | H |
| Scroll vertically up/down | Mouse scroll wheel |
| Scroll horizontally left/right | ⇧ + Mouse wheel |
| Toggle Full Screen | Ctrl + ⌘ + F |
| Switch between views | ⌘ + ` |
| Show Rulers | ⌘ + R |
| Show Guides | ⌘ + ; |
| Show Grid | ⌘ + ‘ |
| Grid Plane cycle | ‘ |
| Split View cycle (Liquify/Develop Persona) | , |
| Pixel selection/Mask | |
| Select All | ⌘ + A |
| Deselect | ⌘ + D |
| Invert Pixel Selection | ⇧ + ⌘ + I |
| Add to selection (Marquee/Free hand selection tools only) | Ctrl |
| Remove from selection | ⌥ |
| Grow/Shrink | ⌘ + B |
| Feather | ⇧ + F6 |
| Refine Edges | ⌥ + ⌘ + R |
| Move selection in 1-pixel increments | arrow key |
| Move selection in 10-pixel increments | ⇧ + arrow key |
| Selection from layer | ⌘ + click layer thumbnail or O |
| Selection from layer luminosity | ⇧ + ⌘ + click layer thumbnail |
| Polygon selection (Freehand Selection Tool only) | ⇧ + ⌘ + click on page. |
| Quick Mask | Q |
| Invert Mask | ⌘ + I |
| Workspace | |
| Show/Hide Studio (panels) | ⇧ + ⌘ + H |
| Show/Hide Toolbar | ⌥ + ⌘ + T |
| Toggle UI | ⇥ |
| Hide Workspace | ⌘ + H |
| Adjustment and filter | |
| Levels (Adjustment) | ⌘ + L |
| HSL (Adjustment) | ⌘ + U |
| Invert (Adjustment) | ⌘ + I |
| Curves (Adjustment) | ⌘ + M |
| Black and White (Adjustment) | ⌥ + ⇧ + ⌘ + B |
| Repeat Filter | ⌘ + F |
| Liquify | |
| Mask All | ⌘ + D |
| Invert Mask | ⌘ + I |
| Clear Mask | ⌘ + A |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Preferences | ⌘ + , |
| Liquify Persona | ⌥ + ⌘ + L |
| Export Persona | ⌥ + ⌘ + E |
| Develop Persona | ⌥ + ⌘ + R |
| Hide Others (applications) | ⌥ + ⌘ + H |
| Media Browser | ⇧ + ⌘ +M |
| Editing | |
|---|---|
| Resize Document | Alt + Ctrl + I |
| Resize Canvas | Alt + Ctrl + C |
| Select multiple | ⇧ + click |
| Select overlapping layer content | Alt + click |
| Reset Selection Box | . (period) |
| Toggle Snapping | ; |
| Erase with Pixel Tool on current layer | Ctrl |
| Switch between Stroke/Fill (or Colour 1/Colour 2) colour selectors (Colour and Swatches panels) | X |
| Swap Stroke/Fill (or Colour 1/Colour 2) colour selectors | ⇧ + X |
| Set No fill on Stroke/Fill (or Colour 1/Colour 2) colour selectors | / (International and selected keyboards only) |
| Toggle between Crop Tool overlays | O |
| Flip golden spiral overlay (crop tool enabled) | ⇧ + O |
| Modify attribute listed on a panel or dialog | Drag attribute text label |
| Rotate in 15° intervals | ⇧ + drag |
| Rotate around opposite corner | Ctrl + drag |
| Cancel a sizing, moving, or creating operation | esc |
| Resize from centre | Ctrl + drag from a corner handle |
| Mirror shearing | Ctrl + drag |
| Constrain movement horizontally, vertically or diagonally | ⇧ + drag |
| Nudging | Arrow keys |
| Nudging (10x measurement units) | ⇧ + arrow keys |
| Vector graphics | |
| Resize maintaining aspect ratio | ⇧ + drag from a corner handle |
| Edit curves as you draw using node editing (from pen) | Ctrl |
| Creates cusp node (sharp corner) | Alt + drag control handle |
| Snap a curve’s control handle to 45° intervals | ⇧ + drag control handle |
| Convert to Curves | Ctrl + ↵ |
| File | |
| New Document | Ctrl + N |
| New From Clipboard | Alt + ⇧ + Ctrl + N |
| Open Document | Ctrl + O |
| Close Document/Close App (when no documents open) | Ctrl + W |
| Switch Document/View | Ctrl + ⇥ |
| Save | Ctrl + S |
| Save As | ⇧ + Ctrl + S |
| Export | Alt + ⇧ + Ctrl + S |
| Ctrl + P | |
| Tools | |
| Flood Fill Tool / Gradient cycle | G |
| View Tool | H |
| Move Tool | V |
| Crop Tool | C |
| Selection Tools cycle | W |
| Pen and Node Tool cycle | P |
| Zoom Tool | Z |
| Clone Tool | S |
| Shape Tools cycle | U |
| Text Tools cycle | T |
| Dodge, Burn and Sponge Brush Tool cycle | O |
| Retouch Tools cycle | J |
| Painting Tools cycle | B |
| Erase Tools cycle | E |
| Marquee Selection Tools cycle | M |
| Free Hand Selection Tool | L |
| Liquify | |
| Liquify Push Forward Tool | P |
| Liquify Push Left Tool | L |
| Liquify Twirl Tool | T |
| Liquify Pinch Tool | U |
| Liquify Turbulence Tool | B |
| Liquify Mesh Clone Tool | C |
| Liquify Reconstruct Tool | R |
| Liquify Freeze Tool | F |
| Liquify Thaw Tool | W |
| Liquify Zoom Tool | Z |
| Liquify View Tool | H |
| Develop | |
| Sampler Tool | S |
| White Balance Tool | W |
| Red Eye Removal Tool | R |
| Blemish Removal Tool | L |
| Overlay Paint Tool | B |
| Overlay Erase Tool | E |
| Overlay Gradient Tool | G |
| Crop Tool | C |
| Zoom Tool | Z |
| View Tool | H |
| Export | |
| Slice Tool | S |
| Layer Select tool | L |
| Panorama | |
| Transform Source Image Tool | A |
| Add to Source Image Mask Tool | L |
| Erase From Source Image Mask Tool | U |
| Tone mapping | |
| View Tool | H |
| Zoom Tool | Z |
| Overlay Paint Tool | B |
| Overlay Erase Tool | E |
| Overlay Gradient Tool | G |
| Edit | |
| Undo | Ctrl + Z |
| Redo | ⇧ + Ctrl + Z |
| Copy Merged | ⇧ + Ctrl + C |
| Paste Style | ⇧ + Ctrl + V |
| Paste FX | Alt + Ctrl + V |
| Paste without Format | Alt + ⇧ + Ctrl + V |
| Paste Inside | Alt + Ctrl + V |
| Fill | ⇧ + F5 |
| Inpaint | Alt + ⇥ |
| Layer operations | |
| Select All Layers | Alt + Ctrl + A |
| Group | Ctrl + G |
| Ungroup | ⇧ + Ctrl + G |
| Duplicate | Ctrl + J |
| Invert | Ctrl + I |
| Move to Front | ⇧ + Ctrl + ] |
| Move Forward One | Ctrl + ] |
| Move to Back | ⇧ + Ctrl + [ |
| Move Back One | Ctrl + [ |
| New Layer | ⇧ + Ctrl + N |
| Merge Down | Ctrl + E |
| Merge Selected | ⇧ + Ctrl + E |
| Merge Visible | Alt + ⇧ + Ctrl + E |
| Toggle between Frequency Separation layers | F |
| Live projection | |
| Edit Live Projection | Ctrl + Alt + P |
| Brush | |
| Picks up a new brush colour with colour picker | Alt + drag |
| Picks and applies the colour under the cursor | Alt + Ctrl + click |
| Change selected layer content/brush tool’s opacity | numeric keys (4=40%, 43=43%, etc.) |
| Increase/decrease brush width (Photo and Liquify Personas) | ] [ |
| Decrease/increase brush width with on-screen readout | Alt + right button down + drag (left/right) |
| Decrease/increase brush hardness with on-screen readout | Alt + right button down + drag (up/down) |
| Draw straight line connecting two strokes | ⇧ + click |
| Text | |
| Bigger text | Ctrl + > |
| Smaller text | Ctrl + < |
| Precise bigger text | Alt + Ctrl + > |
| Precise smaller text | Alt + Ctrl + < |
| Tighten | Alt + ← |
| Loosen | Alt + → |
| Tighten More | Alt + ⇧ + ← |
| Loosen More | Alt + ⇧ + → |
| Bold | Ctrl + B |
| Italic | Ctrl + I |
| Underline | Ctrl + U |
| Show Character | Ctrl + T |
| Show Typography | ⇧ + Ctrl + T |
| Superscript | Ctrl + Alt + + |
| Subscript | Ctrl + Alt + – |
| Align Left | Ctrl + Alt + L |
| Align Right | Ctrl + Alt + R |
| Align Centre | Ctrl + Alt + C |
| Justify Left | ⇧ + Alt + Ctrl + \ |
| Increase Paragraph Leading | Alt + ↓ |
| Decrease Paragraph Leading | Alt + ↑ |
| Precise Paragraph Increase Leading | ⇧ + Ctrl + ↓ |
| Precise Paragraph Decrease Leading | ⇧ + Ctrl + ↑ |
| Raise Baseline | Alt + ⇧ + ↑ |
| Lower Baseline | Alt + ⇧ + ↓ |
| Precise Raise Baseline | Alt + ⇧ + Ctrl + ↑ |
| Precise Lower Baseline | Alt + ⇧ + Ctrl + ↓ |
| Special Characters | Ctrl + Alt + Spacebar |
| Spelling Options | ⇧ + Ctrl + ; |
| Line Break | Ctrl + ↵ |
| Non Breaking Space | Alt + Spacebar |
| En Dash | Alt + – |
| Em Dash | Alt + ⇧ + – |
| View | |
| Zoom In | Ctrl + + |
| Zoom Out | Ctrl + – |
| Zoom to Fit | Ctrl + 0 |
| (Zoom to) 100% | Ctrl + 1 |
| (Zoom to) 200% | Ctrl + 2 |
| (Zoom to) 400% | Ctrl + 3 |
| (Zoom to) 800% | Ctrl + 4 |
| (Zoom to) Actual Size | Ctrl + 8 |
| (Zoom to) Pixel Size | Ctrl + 9 |
| Hot key panning | Spacebar |
| Hot key zoom in | Spacebar + Ctrl |
| Hot key zoom out | Spacebar + Alt + Click |
| View Tool | H |
| Scroll vertically up/down | Mouse scroll wheel |
| Scroll horizontally left/right | ⇧ + Mouse wheel |
| Toggle Full Screen | |
| Switch between views | Ctrl + ⇥ |
| Show Rulers | Ctrl + R |
| Show Guides | Ctrl + ; |
| Show Grid | Ctrl + ‘ |
| Grid Plane cycle | ‘ |
| Split View cycle (Liquify/Develop Persona) | , |
| Pixel selection/Mask | |
| Select All | Ctrl + A |
| Deselect | Ctrl + D |
| Invert Pixel Selection | ⇧ + Ctrl + I |
| Add to selection (Marquee/Free hand selection tools only) | Ctrl |
| Remove from selection | ⌥ |
| Grow/Shrink | Ctrl + B |
| Feather | ⇧ + F6 |
| Refine Edges | Ctrl + Alt + R |
| Move selection in 1-pixel increments | arrow key |
| Move selection in 10-pixel increments | ⇧ + arrow key |
| Selection from layer | Ctrl + click layer thumbnail or O |
| Selection from layer luminosity | ⇧ + Ctrl + click layer thumbnail |
| Polygon selection (Freehand Selection Tool only) | ⇧ + Ctrl + click on page. |
| Quick Mask | Q |
| Invert Mask | Ctrl + I |
| Workspace | |
| Show/Hide Studio (panels) | ⇧ + Ctrl + H |
| Show/Hide Toolbar | Alt + Ctrl + T |
| Toggle UI | ⇥ |
| Hide Workspace | Ctrl + H |
| Adjustment and filter | |
| Levels (Adjustment) | Ctrl + L |
| HSL (Adjustment) | Ctrl + U |
| Invert (Adjustment) | Ctrl + I |
| Curves (Adjustment) | Ctrl + M |
| Black and White (Adjustment) | Alt + ⇧ + Ctrl + B |
| Repeat Filter | Ctrl + F |
| Liquify | |
| Mask All | Ctrl + D |
| Invert Mask | Ctrl + I |
| Clear Mask | Ctrl + A |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Preferences | Ctrl + , |
| Liquify Persona | Alt + Ctrl + L |
| Export Persona | Alt + Ctrl + E |
| Develop Persona | Alt + Ctrl + R |
| Hide Others (applications) | Alt + Ctrl + H |
| Media Browser | Alt + Ctrl + M |
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