Paint.NET keyboard shortcuts

Paint.NET combines canvas navigation with image zoom, selection controls, tool windows, and keyboard access to its drawing tools. Its official list also documents repeated key presses for tool groups, so those bindings stay explicit instead of being collapsed into one generic tool shortcut.

Windows · 26 shortcuts

Canvas and zoom

Pan, scroll, zoom, and center the image while working on the canvas. Some commands use a mouse gesture as part of the documented action.

ActionWindows
Pan the imageSpaceLeft Mouse Button
Scroll up or downPage UpPage DownorMouse Wheel
Scroll leftShiftPage UporHome
Scroll rightShiftPage DownorEnd
Scroll the image to the top leftShiftHomeorHomeHome
Scroll the image to the bottom rightShiftEndorEndEnd
Center the image in the windowPress Ctrl+B twice to zoom to the window and then restore the previous zoom level.CtrlB
Zoom in or outCtrlMouse WheelorCtrl+orCtrl-
Set the image to actual sizeCtrl0

View and tool windows

Show or hide Paint.NET panels, access menu hotkeys, and move the active tool by one or ten pixels.

ActionWindows
Show or hide the Tools windowF5
Show or hide the History windowF6
Show or hide the Layers windowF7
Show or hide the Colors windowF8
Use an underlined menu letterAltUnderlined letter
Move the active tool one pixelArrow keys
Move the active tool ten pixelsCtrlArrow keys

Selection and editing

Clear selections and return to the common selection, undo, and redo operations used by Paint.NET tools.

ActionWindows
Deselect the active selectionCtrlDorEnter
UndoCtrlZ
RedoCtrlY
Copy the selectionCtrlC
Cut the selectionCtrlX
PasteCtrlV
Save the current imageCtrlS
Open an imageCtrlO
Create a new imageCtrlN

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