10 Essential Shortcut Keys in GIMP 2.10 Davies Media Design

In this GIMP 2.10 tutorial, I go over 10 essential shortcut keys to help speed up you workflow and make working in GIMP much easier. From zooming to exporting your compositions, drawing in straight line mode to altering your selection tools' functionality, I show you many useful ways to enhance your GIMP experience with shortcut keys.

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1. CerebralAudio: All of the menu navigation shortcuts for things that aren't assigned shortcuts -- like Image Scale (Alt i, s). Another one I use a lot is Ctrl+I for Selection Invert.
2. linux maximus: It's not a shortcut but what you can do, on linux btw, is to remap the Caps Lock key to become another Ctrl key. Then you don't have to stretch your fingers as much. I have used it for years and it really works in productivity apps.
3. Davies Media Design: Thanks for sharing - assigning shortcuts to commonly used adjustments or transformations will definitely save you a lot of time.
4. Davies Media Design: Definitely start with this one: https://youtu.be/2EPIUyFJ4ag
5. Jorge Moreno: Excellent Video, friend I would like you to do a tutorial of the Lucisart effect here on your channel, because it is a technique that I would like to master, I would also like you to do a dodge and burn tutorial with just the computer mouse. Greetings from South America
6. Emmanuel thomas: Davies, I have been watching your videos for the past 3-4 months and learned a lot about gimp. Your videos have helped me much in knowing about topics like layers, masks (which I couldn't understand earlier). Now I have started designing websites using gimp. Thanks a lot for the nice clear-cut explanation about gimp. The problem is gimp can't show the styles used once the design work is complete. Only the text layers shows the font style, size and colors used. But if I click on a particular layer to know its style, say drop-shadow, it show the same value even if different drop-shadow style is used for different layers. So, I can't send design files to my client for development. Please help me in this as I can't afford photoshop.
7. hollow: i hope some of these shortcuts are still the same with me, i have changed some to suit my drawing style, like smudge, erase, ink, made it more easier for me. speaking of the tab to move the layer, it works fine with the mouse, but using the tablet/pen doesnt always work, it gets frustrating sometimes. i hope they fixed the issue with the latest update.
8. Josh Rhoton: +Davies Media Design any time, I so enjoy your videos. Using the Chocolate dip one for creating my logo since I want to open a candy shop now I'm paralyzed and can't cook full speed.
9. MAK9 Marcos: Thanks for the video. I would add the shortcut to increase and decrease the size of the brush. For my keyboard configuration I have put them in point to increase and comma to decrease.
10. Davies Media Design: The purpose of shortcuts is to make your workflow quicker and easier, so if you set your own that works too!
11. Davies Media Design: Thanks for the tip!
12. Davies Media Design: This is a good shortcut as well. I like the left bracket and right bracket default set up, but whatever works for you and your GIMP!
13. Davies Media Design: Hey Emmanual - unfortunately with GIMP you cannot click on a layer and see what effects/styles were used. It will simply display the layer with the effect. Hopefully this will change in the near future. You can export the file to a PSD file if you need to send it to someone using Photoshop. However, some of the data may not directly translate over to Photoshop - though improvements have been made to the compatibility between GIMP and PS.
14. Sneeky Gaming: Hey I'm actually new to designing n gimp n I don't know anything can u suggest me any begginer tutorial thanks:)
15. Brian Dickson: If someone is used to working with Photoshop and therefore different shortcuts, which of GIMPS shortcuts would you change to be the same as Photoshops?
16. Josh Rhoton: You suggest using spacebar for moving the canvas around. Well if you're scrolling in and out with the mouse wheel just do like I do and use the middle mouse button instead. Does the same thing but with only the mouse hand leaving you others hand for something else. 😉

10 Essential Shortcut Keys in GIMP 2.10
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