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Essential Affinity Designer shortcuts

Updated: Aug 28

I made a quick overview of the most essential Affinity Designer shortcuts. It is part of my series of productivity enhancement keyboard shortcuts for creative software. They work on both windows and mac.

Affinity Designer shortcuts






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General Shortcuts

  • New Document: Ctrl + N (Windows) or Cmd + N (Mac)

  • Open Document: Ctrl + O (Windows) or Cmd + O (Mac)

  • Save Document: Ctrl + S (Windows) or Cmd + S (Mac)

  • Undo: Ctrl + Z (Windows) or Cmd + Z (Mac)

  • Redo: Ctrl + Shift + Z (Windows) or Cmd + Shift + Z (Mac)

  • Copy: Ctrl + C (Windows) or Cmd + C (Mac)

  • Paste: Ctrl + V (Windows) or Cmd + V (Mac)

  • Export: Ctrl + Shift + S (Windows) or Cmd + Shift + S (Mac)


Tool Selection

  • Move Tool: V

  • Node Tool: A

  • Pen Tool: P

  • Text Tool: T

  • Rectangle Tool: M

  • Ellipse Tool: L

  • Fill Tool: G

  • Artboard Tool: Shift + O


Navigation

  • Zoom In: Ctrl + + (Windows) or Cmd + + (Mac)

  • Zoom Out: Ctrl + - (Windows) or Cmd + - (Mac)

  • Fit to Screen: Ctrl + 0 (Windows) or Cmd + 0 (Mac)

  • Actual Size: Ctrl + 1 (Windows) or Cmd + 1 (Mac)

  • Pan (Hand Tool): Spacebar


Layer Management

  • New Layer: Ctrl + Shift + N (Windows) or Cmd + Shift + N (Mac)

  • Duplicate Layer: Ctrl + J (Windows) or Cmd + J (Mac)

  • Group Layers: Ctrl + G (Windows) or Cmd + G (Mac)

  • Ungroup Layers: Ctrl + Shift + G (Windows) or Cmd + Shift + G (Mac)

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