I made a quick overview of the most essential Affinity Photo shortcuts. It is part of my series of productivity enhancement keyboard shortcuts for creative software. They work on both windows and mac.
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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 + Alt + Shift + S (Windows) or Cmd + Option + Shift + S (Mac)
Tool Selection
Move Tool: V
Brush Tool: B
Clone Tool: S
Eraser Tool: E
Gradient Tool: G
Crop Tool: C
Zoom Tool: Z
Hand Tool: H
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)
Merge Down: Ctrl + E (Windows) or Cmd + E (Mac)
Toggle Layer Visibility: Ctrl + , (Comma) (Windows) or Cmd + , (Mac)
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