User Guide

Corel Painter 23
Docking Palettes
If you need some room on your
screen, but don’t want to collapse or
group palettes, you can save valuable
screen real estate by docking palettes.
This handy feature of Corel Painter
lets them be docked into place when
they get close to the top or bottom
edge of another palette. In addition to
tidying up your workspace, this
feature can help keep a palette from
being covered up by another palette.
To dock palettes:
1 Place the cursor over the title bar of
the palette you want to dock.
2 Drag the palette to the top or
bottom of a second palette.
3 When the first palette lines up
with the second palette, release the
mouse button.
The palette will snap into place.
4 Repeat steps 1 to 3 for each set of
palettes you want to dock.
To undock palettes:
1 Place the cursor over the title bar of
the palette you want to undock.
2 Drag the palette to another
location in the workspace.
3 Repeat steps 1 and 2 for each
palette you want to undock.
Libraries and Movers
What are Libraries?
A library is a saved collection of
similar items that can be loaded into a
selector. For example, the built-in
brushes (and their variants) are
contained in the default brushes
library, which is loaded when you
open Corel Painter. You can find more
brush libraries in the Corel Painter
folder. As you customize brushes and
other resources, you can save them
into your own libraries.
Libraries are available for paper
textures, patterns, gradients, weaves,
brushes, looks, nozzles, layers,
selections, lighting, and scripts. You
can have any number of libraries, but
only one of each type can be open at a
time.
When you want other items, you can
load alternate libraries. Libraries allow
you to extend the Corel Painter tools
and resources, without overloading a
selector.
The methods for working with all
libraries are the same, except for
brushes. You can create new libraries,
add items, or move items between
libraries.
The methods for working with the
libraries for Brushes, their categories,
and variants are different. Brushes are
loaded into memory when you open
Corel Painter, so adding brushes to
the default brush library increases the
need for RAM. If you’re working close
to the memory threshold, you’ll want
to organize new brushes into
secondary libraries. When you want a
different brush set, just switch
libraries. This helps Corel Painter be
more efficient with memory usage.
See “Using Brush Libraries” on
page 26 for more information.
It is a good idea to limit the number of
resources in each library. This makes
it easier to find a particular tool and
helps Corel Painter manage memory.