Keyboard Shortcuts for Piskel

Piskel is without a doubt one of the most widely used pixel art editors today. Its ships with dozens of features for creating beautiful pixel sprites and comes with a dedicated set of tools for drawing pixel art images. However, to get the best results with Piskel its key to learn the keyboard commands and shortcuts for switching between tools and different options. Below is a list of all the keyboard commands in Piskel:

General Shortcuts

Key(s) for Mac	Key(s) for Windows	Description
CMD + S	CTRL + S	Save Sprite
CMD + SHIFT + S	CTRL + SHIFT + S	Save Sprite As...
CMD + O	CTRL + O	Open Sprite
CMD + Z	CTRL + Z	Undo
Shift + CMD + Z	Shift + CTRL + Z	Redo
CMD + X	CTRL + X	Cut
CMD + C	CTRL + C	Copy
CMD + V	CTRL + V	Paste
CMD + A	CTRL + A	Select All

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Tools Shortcuts

Key(s)	Description
V	Vertical Mirror Pen
B	Paint Bucket
A	Paint Bucket all Pixels of Same Color
E	Eraser
L	Stroke Tool
R	Rectangle Tool
C	Circle Tool
R	Rectangle Tool
C	Circle Tool

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Selection Shortcuts

Key(s) for Mac	Key(s) for Windows	Description
S	S	Rectangle Selection Tool
H	H	Lasso Selection Tool
CMD + A	CTRL + A	Select All