Cheat sheet with keyboard shortcuts for The GIMP

[jana]

When I saw this cheat sheet for Photoshop keyboard shortcuts a few weeks ago, I thought it would be neat if we'd have something similar for The GIMP. The closest thing is probably the hotkey list over at gimpusers.com, but it's just that - a list (one that came in very handy when I made this cheat sheet, I might add ^^)

The cheat sheet is vector-based so that you can re-size it without any quality loss. This means no GIMP was used for the GIMP cheat sheet ;) Or any other (vector) graphic software. I used LaTeX and TikZ to create it.

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It's possible that not all shortcuts work on Windows and OS X since I used the list mentioned above, but maybe the differences are not so great. That said, I'm more than happy to make a cheat sheet for Windows and OS X if you tell me what's different from the Linux version.

The cheat sheet should be pretty self-explanatory, but I included an explanation in the lower right corner just in case. It looks like this:



To give you an example: Key C - you have to press "Ctrl+C" to "Copy Selection", "Shift+C" to "Crop & Resize", "C" to "Clone", and "Ctrl+Shift+C" to "Copy Visible".



At first, I wanted to include small graphics from GIMP, for instance, a pencil for, well, "Pencil", but I didn't have the time (and most likely not the skills...) to create vector-based drawings with Inkscape or any other vector application. I also tried to keep colors to a minimum because printing costs can be very high. And a blue/orange/other fancy background gradient might look nice on the screen, but doesn't translate well into print... And speaking of printing: I printed it out in A4 and A3 size and I didn't have any problems reading it. The original size is A2, but since it's vector-based you could print it any size you want...


I hope you find it useful, and all feedback - even what doesn't work for you - is very much appreciated!

Comments

[wishfulclicking]

Thanks for this. I'm just getting into GIMP again and I'm sure this will be helpful.

[jana]

I hope it will be helpful to you :)

[blnchflr]

That seems very clever - and also overwhelming, *g*! Thanks for making and sharing!

[jana]

Overwhelming in the sense of "Oh God, I don't even know what all those shortcuts mean..."? Yeah, I'm with you here ;)

[litotease]

This is so awesome! Thank you for making and sharing.

[jana]

I hope it will be helpful to you :)

[baggyeyes]

I couldn't download your cheatsheet just yet - I have a slow connection. But I wanted to add to that list, just in case some people don't know this.

To resize your brush/pencil or eraser cursor, [ makes it smaller while ] makes it larger. That's your square brackets. Works in Photoshop and the Gimp.

[jana]

It shouldn't be too difficult to include these shortcuts as well, I think they're quite useful. Thanks for the tip!

[dragonwolf]

As far as I know, at least the common ones map the same on all three platforms. There might be some weird ones that don't map (to my knowledge, they all map, but I'm not a huge shortcut user).

Gimp in OSX, last I knew, was sort of sandboxed in X11 and not integrated into the Mac interface, so everything maps like a non-Mac computer (and you have to use CTRL instead of CMD). I think they're working on changing that, so I don't know how long this will be the case. I suspect that once it's fully integrated, it'll be the usual CTRL-CMD conversion.

[jana]

As far as I know, at least the common ones map the same on all three platforms.

That makes it a lot easier :) And it's easy to replace ctrl with cmd when they done with the ctrl-cmd conversion.

[(Anonymous)]

the link to source files at filehosting is gone. Could you post it once again or somewhere else please?

[jana]

Thanks for the heads up, I'll fix it tonight! You should be able to download both files now.

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[(Anonymous)]

The .tex and .pdf are not downloadable: a server error is occurring.