GIMP Quickreference

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View
Window
Menus can also be activated by Alt with the letter F10 underscored in the menu name.

Shift

F1

Help Context Help

Shift

F10

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Shift Ctrl

click

T oolbox
Tools
R E F Z
Shift

F11

Q W

Main Menu Drop-down Menu T oggle fullscreen T oggle quickmask Close document window Zoom in Zoom out Zoom 1:1 Shrink wrap Fit image in window Zoom Scroll canvas Scroll canvas

Zoom
Rect Select Ellipse Select Free Select Fuzzy Select Select By Color Scissors Paths Color Picker Move Crop and Resize Rotate Scale Shear Perspective Flip T ext Bucket Fill Blend Pencil Paintbrush Eraser Airbrush Ink Clone Blur/Sharpen Smudge Dodge/Burn Swap Colors Default Colors
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Ctrl Shift Ctrl Shift

E E
wheel

O I B O M C R T S P F T B L N P E A K C U S D

This ts the windows to the image size.

Scrolling (panning)
Ctrl
arrows drag Scrolling by keys is accelerated, i.e. it speeds up when you press Shift+arrows, or jumps to the borders with Ctrl+arrows. wheel

Shift Shift Shift Shift Shift Shift

Scroll canvas vertically Scroll canvas horizontally

Ctrl

wheel

Rulers and Guides

drag drag

Shift

Shift

Drag o a ruler to create guide Drag o the horizontal or vertical ruler to create a new guide line. Drag aCtrl line onto the ruler to sample point out guide Drag a delete it. of the rulers Shift Ctrl R T oggle rulers Shift Ctrl T T oggle guides

Shift

Edit
Undo/redo
Ctrl Ctrl

Shift

Double click on the tool buttons opens the Tool Options dialog.

Z Y

Context
X D

Undo Redo Copy selection Cut selection Paste clipboard Clears selection Named copy selection Named cut selection Named paste clipboard Erase selection Fill with FG Color Fill with BG Color Fill with Pattern

Clipboard
Ctrl Ctrl

C X

Click on the colors to change the colors.

This places a copy of the selection to the GIMP clipboard.

File
Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Alt Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Shift Ctrl Ctrl Shift Ctrl Ctrl

This works the same as "copy selection" followed by deleting Ctrl V the selection. This places the clipboard objects as a oating selection

Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl

N O O D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 S S E E Q

New image Open image Open image as new layer Duplicate image Open recent image 01 Open recent image 02 Open recent image 03 Open recent image 04 Open recent image 05 Open recent image 06 Open recent image 07 Open recent image 08 Open recent image 09 Open recent image 10 Save image Save under a new name Export to Export ... Quit

Shift Shift Shift

C X V

Fill
Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl

D D D

Layers
PgUp PgDn Shift

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Ctrl Ctrl

T ab T ab Home End

Ctrl Ctrl

M H

Select the layer above Select the layer below Select the rst layer Select the last layer Merge visible layers Anchor layer

Dialogs
Ctrl Shift Shift Ctrl Ctrl Ctrl Shift Ctrl Ctrl Shift Shift Ctrl Ctrl

Selections
Ctrl Ctrl Shift Ctrl Ctrl Shift Ctrl Shift

L B P G T P I N

Layers Brushes Patterns Gradients T ool-Options Palettes Info window Navigation window

T A A I L V

T oggle selections Select all Select none Invert selection Float selection Path to selection

These open a new dialog window if it wasn't open yet, otherwise the corresponding dialog gets focus.

Within a Dialog
Ctrl

Filters
Ctrl Shift Ctrl

Ctrl

Close the window Jump to next widget T ab Shift Jump to previous Enter Set thewidget new value This Space accepts the new value you typed in a text eld and Enter returns focus to canvas. , Activate current button or Alt PgUp , Ctrl PgDn In a multi-tab dialog, switch list tabs Within a File Dialog
Alt
F4

T ab

F F

Repeat last lter Reshow last lter

Zoom tool
click

Shift Alt

L
up

Alt
down

Open Location Up-Folder Down-Folder

Zoom in Zoom out

Shift

click

drag