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Krita for Ctrl+Paint Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

A cheatsheet to follow along with Ctrl+Paint using Krita 4.2.9 instead of Photoshop. If you have a better suggestions for certain tools and shortcuts let me know.

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Getting Started

Tool
Ps
Krita
Fullscreen modes
F
CTRL+S­HIFT+F (fulls­creen)
Hand / Pan Tool
Spacebar
Space + click + drag
Hide / Reveal the interface
TAB
TAB (canva­s-only)
Krita behaves slightly different and has no default shortcuts for some of these tools. I've chosen their best altern­ative.

Color

Tool
Ps
Krita
Matching / Sampling colors
Alt with Brush tool active
Ctrl with any drawing tool active
Color Picker Window
no default
Shift+I (*)
Toggle Foreground and Background
X
X
(*) In Krita the Color Selector is already visible on the top-right side of the screen.
  

Layers

Tool
Ps
Krita
Move tool
V
T
Auto-s­elect Layer on Canvas
Ctrl+Click
???
Name your layer
Double click on layer name
Double click on layer name
Duplicate layer
Alt+Drag with Move tool active
Ctrl+J with layer selected
Not sure yet how to configure Krita to have the Auto-s­elect Layer on Canvas behaviour.

Blending Paint

How do I change the brush flow?
Click on the small down arrow next to the "­Opa­cit­y" dropdown in the toolbar.
 

Brush & Eraser

Tool
Ps
Krita
Brush tool
B
B
Eraser tool
E
E (toggles)
Drawling line segments
Click, Shift+­Click
Hold V (*)
Drawing horizontal and vertical lines
Hold Shift while using Brush tool
Hold V+Shift
Brush Diameter Slider
Alt+Righ Click
Shift+­Click
(*) Does not apply dynamics