Affinity Designer keyboard shortcuts

Resize Document

Resize Canvas

Select multiple

Select overlapping layer content

Reset Selection Box

Toggle Snapping

Erase with Pixel Tool

Switch between Stroke/Fill (or Color 1/Color 2) color selectors (Color and Swatches panels)

Swap Stroke/Fill (or Color 1/Color 2) color selectors

Set No fill on Stroke/Fill (or Color 1/Color 2) color selectors

Toggle between Crop Tool overlays (Crop Tool enabled)

Flip golden spiral overlay (Crop Tool enabled)

(drag attribute text label) Modify attribute listed on a panel or dialog

Move with horizontal, vertical or diagonal constraint

(drag rotation / corner handle) Rotate in 15° intervals

(drag corner handle then hold down right mouse button) Rotate around opposite corner

Cancel a sizing, moving, or creating operation

(drag from a corner handle) Resize from center

Mirror shearing

Nudging

Nudging (10x measurement units)

(drag from a corner handle) Resize maintaining aspect ratio

Edit curves as you draw

(drag control handle) Creates cusp node (sharp corner)

(drag control handle) Snap a curve's control handle to 45° intervals

Convert to Curves

New Document

New From Clipboard

Open Document

Close Document/Close App (when no documents open)

Switch Document/View

Save

Save As

Export

Print

Flood Fill Tool / Gradient cycle

View Tool

Move Tool

Color Picker Tool

Crop Tool

Selection Tools cycle

Pen and Node Tool cycle

Zoom Tool

Clone Tool

Shape Tools cycle

Text Tools cycle

Dodge, Burn and Sponge Brush Tool cycle

Retouch Tools cycle

Painting Tools cycle

Erase Tools cycle

Marquee Selection Tools cycle

Free hand Selection Tool

Liquify Push Forward Tool

Liquify Push Left Tool

Liquify Twirl Tool

Liquify Pinch Tool

Liquify Turbulence Tool

Liquify Mesh Clone Tool

Liquify Reconstruct Tool

Liquify Freeze Tool

Liquify Thaw Tool

Liquify Zoom Tool

Liquify View Tool

White Balance Tool

Red Eye Removal Tool

Blemish Removal Tool

Overlay Paint Tool

Overlay Erase Tool

Overlay Gradient Tool

Crop Tool

Zoom Tool

View Tool

Slice Tool

Layer Select Tool

Transform Source Image Tool

Add To Source Image Mask Tool

Erase From Source Image Mask Tool

Undo

Redo

Copy Merged

Paste Style

Paste FX

Paste Inside

Paste without Format

Fill

Inpaint

Select All Layers

Group

Ungroup

Duplicate

Invert

Move to Front

Move Forward One

Move to Back

Move Back One

Show All

Unlock All

New Layer

Merge Down

Merge Selected

Merge Visible

Toggle between Frequency Separation layers

Edit Live Projection

Picks up a new brush color

Change selected layer content/brush tool's opacity

Increase/decrease brush width

(drag left / right) Decrease/increase brush width with on-screen readout

(drag up / down) Decrease/increase brush hardness with on-screen readout

Paint a brush stroke along a straight line

Bigger text

Smaller text

Precise bigger text

Precise smaller text

Tighten

Loosen

Tighten More

Loosen More

Bold

Italic

Underline

Show Character

Show Typography

Superscript

Subscript

Align Left

Align Center

Align Right

Justify Left

Increase Paragraph Leading

Decrease Paragraph Leading

Precise Increase Paragraph Leading

Precise Decrease Paragraph Leading

Raise Baseline

Lower Baseline

Precise Raise Baseline

Precise Lower Baseline

Spelling Options

Line Break

Non Breaking Space

En Dash

Em Dash

Zoom In

Zoom Out

Zoom to Fit

(double click on Zoom Tool icon) Zoom to Fit

(double click on Zoom Tool icon) (Zoom to) 100%

(Zoom to) 200%

(Zoom to) 400%

(Zoom to) 800%

(Zoom to) Actual Size

(Zoom to) Pixel Size

Hot key zoom in

Hot key zoom out

View Tool

Hot key panning

Scroll vertically up/down

Scroll horizontally left/right

Switch between views

Show Rulers

Show Guides

Show Grid

Grid Plane cycle

Split View cycle (not Photo Persona)

Select All

Deselect

Invert Pixel Selection

(drag down) Add to selection (Marquee/Free hand selection tools only)

Remove from selection

Grow/Shrink

Feather

Refine Edges

Move selection in 1-pixel increments

Move selection in 10-pixel increments

(click layer thumbnail) Selection from layer

Selection from layer

(click layer thumbnail) Selection from layer luminance

(click on page) Polygon selection (Freehand Selection Tool only)

Quick Mask

Show/Hide Studio (panels)

Show/Hide Toolbar

Toggle UI

Hide Workspace

Levels (Adjustment)

HSL (Adjustment)

Invert (Adjustment)

Curves (Adjustment)

Black and White (Adjustment)

Repeat Filter

Mask All

Clear Mask

Invert Mask

Preferences