In this lesson video, we are going to continue customizing Krita. We have already tweaked the UI and big favorite brushes in the previous lesson. Now in this lesson, we are going to focus on creating custom keyboard shortcuts. Krita has so many tools, but most of them do not have any shortcuts associated with them. Now, when working with a drawing tablet, if you are a right handed person, mostly your right hand will be in this position and your left hand will be in this position. So basically your left hand are leaning towards the left side of the keyboard.

So that is why when picking key letters for our custom shortcut, it is always a good idea to find the ones that are positioned at the left side of the keyboard needed to position of our left hand. Of course if you are left handed person you might want the other way around. But you understand the concept here. Basically, we are aiming for a speed workflow. First, we want to change the the Select command to culatra key. Why?

Because pressing ctrl shift a is not that convenient, and we will use a lot of selection and the selection in our workflow. To create a custom shortcut, you need to go to Settings menu, configure Krita and then select this keyboard shortcuts tab in here. In the search box up here, type the Select Krita will filter out the shortcut list down here. We can see by default, it is set to Ctrl Shift a. To change the shortcut, just click on it. Then click on this none button down here.

Then hit the cue letter key in the keyboard. Notice we get this warning dialog window. Essentially, this window inform us that there is another tool already using the culatra key shortcut, which is the multi Brush Tool. But honestly, you will rarely use multi brush tool for any real illustration work. So it is way more important that we use the cue letter key shortcut for something that we use more frequently like this election. So to confirm the changes, just click this reassign button in here.

And now we have the cue letter key for clearing selection. Okay, next, find the outline selection tool and assign the letter Z for it. Okay, guys, essentially, that is how you assign custom keyboard shortcuts to Krita. Now, if you already have your own custom shortcuts that you like, you can save the keyboard shortcuts scheme to a file so late You can copy the settings to other computer. To save the setting or the scheme, you can click on this new button in here, the name this to your own name or any name you like. I'll name this weedy just for example.

Now we have it in a schema list in here. To save it to an external file, you can click on this safe LOAD button in here and choose Save custom shortcut. You can save the file to any location and name the file to any name you like. I really don't need to do it now. So I just hit the Cancel button. To load a custom shortcut, you can simply click the safe LOAD button again like before, but then you need to click on this load custom shortcut button in here and find a file.

I'm sure you get the idea. If for some reason you want to revert back all of the keyboard settings To the default, you can press the delete button in here to delete the custom scheme. And then to create our default scheme in here. I won't do that now, as I actually want to use the custom shortcuts.