Tools[edit]
These tools are available by default in toolbox.
Icon Name Shortcut Description
Selection tools
Rectangle R Select square or rectangular regions (axis-aligned).
Select circular or horizontal / vertical elliptic regions. Notice that
Ellipse E
there's no ellipse drawing tool as such, only selecting.
Free (Lasso) F Free-form selecting.
Fuzzy (Magic
U Select by colour in continuous regions.
Wand)
By Colour Shift + O Select by colour without any limit to continuous regions.
Scissors I Create paths to select shapes.
Foreground (none) Select a region containing foreground objects.
Brush tools
Bucket Fill Shift + B Fills areas with a colour or pattern.
Blend
L Fill an area with a gradient.
(Gradient)
Pencil N Draw exact pixel-edged lines; that is, not anti-aliased.
Paints soft- or fuzzy-edged lines; that is, the pixels are anti-
Paintbrush P
aliased and/or feathered.
Eraser Shift + E Erase pixels from a layer.
Airbrush A Paint tool with a softer pressure.
Ink K Paint anti-aliased with a simulation of a nib.
Clone C Copy pixels from one part of an image to another.
Heal H Heal image irregularities.
Perspective Clone from an image source after applying perspective
(none)
Clone transformation.
Convolve
Shift + U Blur or sharpen an image.
(Blur/Sharpen)
Smudge S Mix adjacent pixels; with a direction.
Dodge/Burn Shift + D Lighten or darken an image's shadows, mid tones or highlights.
Transform tools
Move M Move selections and layers.
Align Q Align or arrange layers and/or other objects.
Crop Shift + C Crop or clip all the image.
Rotate Shift + R Rotate the active layer, selection or path.
Scale Shift + T Scale the active layer, selection or path.
Shear Shift + S Tilt part of the image to some direction.
Perspective Shift + P Imitate 3-dimensional shift of an image.
Flip Shift + F Flip selections and layers.
Other tools
Path B Allows selecting and modifying paths.
Select the colour from anywhere in open images for further
Colour Picker O
drawing.
Magnify
Z Alter the zoom level in the program.
(Zoom)
Measure Shift + M Shows distances and angles.
Text T Place text layers into your image.
There are also some other tools, hidden by default. These tools are accessed from
the "Tools" menu, or by showing them in toolbox.
Icon Name Shortcut Description
Colour tools
Colour
(none) Modifies the colour balance of current selection or layer.
Balance
Hue-
(none) Adjusts hue, saturation and lightness.
Saturation
Colourize (none) Renders into a grey scale seen through coloured glass.
Adjusts brightness and contrast. This brightness is alike to the
Brightness-
(none) Color/Hue/Saturation's Lightness, but from other algorithmic point of
Contrast
view.
Threshold (none) Transforms the current layer or selection into black and white.
Changes the intensity range of the active layer or selection in every
Levels (none)
channel.
Changes the colour, brightness, contrast or transparency by means
Curves (none)
of diagrams.
Posterize (none) Reduces the number of colours.
Desaturate (none) Converts all colour to shades of grey.
Other tools
GEGL
(none) Executes a GEGL operation.
operation
