Shortcuts
Pixel Art Studio’s shortcuts live inside the tool you have armed. They are not registered in Blender’s keymap, they only answer while a Pixel Art Studio tool is active.
Warning
The first tool has to be activated by clicking its button in the sidebar. Until you click one of the tool buttons (like the Brush), there is no Pixel Art Studio tool listening and Blender keeps catching every key. After you manually activate a tool, all shortcuts below work.
Warning
To get Blender’s shortcuts back, you have to manually deactivate the tool. Click the armed tool’s button again to de-activate it (or press ESC over the viewport). While a tool is armed it owns the keys below, so for example, Blender’s G and B does not work.
Note
On macOS every Ctrl shortcut below maps to Cmd.
Tools
Action |
Keybinding |
|---|---|
Brush |
B |
Eraser |
E |
Line |
L |
Rectangle |
U |
Ellipse |
O |
Bucket fill |
G |
Gradient |
D |
Blur |
H |
Eyedropper |
I |
Move |
V |
Marquee select |
M |
Ellipse select |
Shift+M |
Lasso select |
Q |
Magic Wand |
no key, click the button |
Pressing the key of the tool currently in use, de-activates it, the same as clicking its button again.
Brush and colors
Action |
Keybinding |
|---|---|
Increase brush size |
] |
Decrease brush size |
[ |
Swap primary and secondary color |
X |
Walk to the next swatch |
Shift+X |
Pixel Perfect on / off |
P |
Selection
Action |
Keybinding |
|---|---|
Select all |
Ctrl+A |
Deselect |
Alt+A |
Invert selection |
Ctrl+I |
Add to the selection |
Shift while dragging |
Remove from the selection |
Alt while dragging |
Duplicate the selection |
Ctrl while dragging |
Copy the selected pixels |
Ctrl+C |
Cut the selected pixels |
Ctrl+X |
Paste |
Ctrl+V |
Delete the selected pixels (or the whole layer when nothing is selected) |
Backspace or Delete |
Paste writes into whatever layer is active, which is how you move pixels from one layer to another: select on one layer, cut, pick another layer, paste.
View and canvas
Action |
Keybinding |
|---|---|
Pixel grid overlay on / off |
\ or Shift+3 |
Floating tools and settings popup on the viewports |
F |
Undo |
Ctrl+Z |
Redo |
Ctrl+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Y |
Cancel the stroke you are drawing, then de-activate the tool |
ESC |
Mouse
Action |
Mouse |
|---|---|
Paint, draw the shape, drag out the selection |
Left click and drag |
Temporary eyedropper (from any paint tool) |
Alt + left click |
Move the selected pixels |
Drag from inside the selection |
Duplicate the selected pixels instead of moving them |
Ctrl + drag from inside the selection |
Constrain: 45 degrees for the line, square for the rectangle, circle for the ellipse |
Shift while dragging |
Drag a symmetry ruler (Image Editor) |
Left click and drag the ruler |
Remove a swatch |
Ctrl + click the swatch |
Orbit, pan and zoom the viewport |
Middle mouse and the wheel, as always |
Custom shortcuts and quick access
Pixel Art Studio does not have bindable and configurable shortcuts. Shortcuts are handled inside the add-on’s own modal operators, which is what keeps them out of Blender’s way.
Everything can be quickly accessed with F, to open the tools and settings popup over the viewports (again, just make sure a tool is armed first by clicking its button, then the F shortcut works):
