Keyboard shortcuts

Pick up a tool

B

Pencil

E

Eraser

G

Bucket

I

EyedropperAlt+click does the same thing without leaving the tool you are in.

L

Line

O

Contour

R

Healing BrushPaint over something; on release it is filled in from the artwork around it.

U

Rectangle, then Ellipse

M

Marquee

Q

Lasso, then Magic Lasso

P

Polygonal Lasso

W

Magic Wand

V

Move

F

Spray

J

Gradient

H

Pan

Hold Spacebar

Quick Pan

Aim a stroke

Modifiers held while you drag, with any paint tool.

Left drag

Paint with the primary coloron the canvas

Right drag

Paint with the secondary coloron the canvas

Alt+Left click

Pick the color under the cursorWorks from any paint tool without leaving it.on the canvas

Shift+Left drag

Snap a line to 0/45/90 degrees, or a shape to a square or circleon the canvas

Left drag

Move a mirror axisBy its handle, which sits outside the sprite - so this can never steal a stroke aimed at a pixel.on the canvas

Left double-click

Put a mirror axis back in the middleOn its handle.on the canvas

Select and move pixels

Ctrl+A

Select everything

Ctrl+D

Deselect

DeleteBackspace

Erase the selected pixels

Esc

Cancel or Deselect

Shift+Left drag

Add to the selectionLocked in when the drag starts, so letting go of Shift halfway cannot flip it.on the canvas

Alt+Left drag

Subtract from the selectionon the canvas

Shift+Alt+Left drag

Intersect with the selectionon the canvas

Choose a color

X

Next color in the group

Z

Previous color in the groupX and Z walk the palette GROUP the active swatch belongs to, which is the strip already on screen.

Esc

Cancel picking a slot to followin the palette

Move around the canvas

Hold Spacebar + Left drag

Pan the viewWorks under every tool and every mode.on the canvas

Middle drag

Pan the viewon the canvas

Wheel

Zoom in and outThe pixel under the cursor stays put.on the canvas

K

Light modePress to enter, and drag anywhere on the drawing to place the light: the middle is straight overhead and the edge is grazing, so one gesture sets both the direction and the height. The panel that appears carries the rest of its properties, and says whether you are editing the drawing's light or this frame's own. Only while Effects is on.on the canvas

Esc

Leave light modeThe key that entered it works too. Escape is here because a mode you can forget you are in needs an exit that nobody has to remember.on the canvas

Esc

Leave Adjust modein the References window

Choose a layer

Hold Ctrl

Quick-Outline Layeron the canvas

Hold Ctrl + Left click

Select Layer Outlineon the canvas

Ctrl+Alt+Wheel

Cycle through layerson the canvas

Animate

Enter

Drop the floating paste, or play the animationEnter commits floating pixels where they stand when there are any; otherwise it starts and stops playback.

←→↑↓

Step frames, or nudge the selectionWith the Move tool and a selection, all four arrows nudge by one pixel. Otherwise Left and Right step frames.

Ctrl+C

Copy the selected framesWith a frame header focused - clicking one both selects and focuses it. The editor's own Ctrl+C copies the SELECTION, and the header stops the key before it gets there.in the timeline

Ctrl+V

Paste framesin the timeline

DeleteBackspace

Delete the selected framesin the timeline

Shift+Left click

Select a run of framesShift-drag sweeps one out.in the timeline

Ctrl+Left click

Add one frame to the selectionin the timeline

Left drag

Reorder frames and layersin the timeline

Esc

Abandon a dragin the timeline

Undo, copy and paste

Ctrl+Z

Undo

Ctrl+Shift+ZCtrl+Y

Redo

Ctrl+C

Copy the selection

Ctrl+X

Cut the selection

Ctrl+V

PastePasted pixels FLOAT until you drop them - see Enter and Escape.

The document

Ctrl+N

New document

Ctrl+S

Save

Ctrl+E

Export againRepeats the last export without asking anything.

C

Resize Canvas

T

Tiled mode

Left click

Open a folder on the Files pageAnywhere from the folder glyph rightwards. On the chevron - or the indent left of it - the same click expands the folder where it is instead, which is what the arrow keys do from the keyboard.in the File Catalog

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