User Guide

The Workspace16
The Stroke view is available for brush variants.
Brush Selector Bar Menu
Commands
The Brush selector bar menu
commands are used for creating and
loading brushes, working with brush
variants, and manipulating brush
strokes. For more information, see
“Managing Brushes” on page 183.
Moving and Docking the
Brush Selector Bar
The Brush selector bar is displayed at
the top-right of the property bar by
default. It can be moved to a new
location in the document window, or
it can be docked to the edge of the
document window or other palettes.
To move the Brush selector bar
• Point to the title bar of the Brush
selector bar, and drag it to its new
location.
To dock the Brush selector bar
1 Point to the title bar of the Brush
selector bar, and drag it to the edge
of the document window or a
palette.
2 When the Brush selector bar is
lined up with the edge of the
document window or palette,
release the mouse button.
The Brush selector bar snaps into
place.
Closing the Brush Selector
Bar
You can close the Brush selector bar to
hide it from view.
To close the Brush selector bar
• Do one of the following:
•Choose Window menu >
Hide Brush Selector Bar.
• If the Brush selector bar is
undocked, click the close but-
ton on the title bar.
The Brush Creator
The Brush Creator is designed to
make the brush variant creation
process easy and fun. You can use the
Randomizer to create random brush
variants, the Transposer to blend two
brush variants, and the Stroke
Designer to adjust the settings of
brush variants. For more information,
see “The Brush Creator” on page 143.
To open the Brush Creator
• Do one of the following:
•Choose Window menu >
Brush Creator.
•Press Command + B (Mac
OS) or Ctrl + B (Windows).
Working with Palettes
The interactive palettes in Corel
Painter let you access the commands,
controls, and settings available when
creating documents.