Working with Blender Compositor - Blender Compositing and Post Processing - page 18

Handy shortcuts for Blender

Compositor

Blender, by default, is equipped with shortcuts for most of the commonly used oper-
ations. The following list highlights shortcuts that will come in handy when working in
Compositor:

• Shift + A : This displays the Add menu at the pointer's location.
• Ctrl + Shift + left mouse button: Applying this on any node connects its first
output socket to the viewer node. Repeating this multiple times will cycle the
connections on all the available output sockets.
• Ctrl + left mouse button: This is used to cut the noodle connections.
• X : This deletes the selected node.
• Ctrl + X : This deletes the current node and connects the previous node to the
next node.
• Alt + middle mouse button: This pans the backdrop image.
• Shift + D : This duplicates the selected node or noodle network.
• Ctrl + left mouse button: This toggles between layout presets.
• H : This collapses the node.
• Shift + H : This hides/unhides the node preview.
• Ctrl + H : This hides/unhides the unconnected sockets of a selected node.
• A : This selects all the nodes.
• B : This is used to drag the selected nodes.
• G : This grabs the node.
• F : This connects the selected nodes.
• M : This mutes the selected node.
• S or R : These can be used to scale or rotate the selected nodes. This is useful
to rearrange the node flow.
• Shift + Space bar: This maximizes/minimizes the panel.