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## Keyboard Shortcuts

If you often find your self using your mouse to change the current tool you are using, you might be able to speed up your process by memorizing some key keyboard shortcuts. Here's a few of them:

- 0,1–9: Pressing the number keys will cycle the current layer through various levels of transparency.
- x: Swap the fill and stroke colors.
- v: Select the Move tool.
- c: Select the Crop tool.
- f: Toggle between full screen mode.
- <tab>: Hide / show the palette.
- ]: Increase brush size.
- [: Decrease brush size.
- m or s: Select the Select tool. Pressing m multiple times will cycle through the rect, oval, and lasso selection tools.
- b: Select the Pencil tool.
- k: Select the Fill tool.
- l: Select the Lasso tool.
- g: Select the Gradient tool.
- i: Use the Eyedropper tool, to pickup a color on the canvas.
- e: Select the Eraser tool.
- z: Select the Zoom tool.
- o: Select the Oval Shape tool.
- r: Select the Rectangle Shape tool.
- t: Select the Text tool.
- spacebar: Switch to the hand tool momentarily, to move the canvas around if you are zoomed in.
- option-delete: Fill the current selection or canvas.
- control-]: Select next layer
- control-[: Select previous layer

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