User Guide

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the features on a custom palette are
immediately available, you can choose
them with a single click.
Custom palettes help you organize material for
specific needs.
You can put items from any of the six
content palettes—papers, patterns,
looks, weaves, nozzles, or gradients—
on a custom palette. You can also add
any Menu command, such as File >
New, to a custom palette.
You might want to create special
palettes for a particular project or
method of working that you use
frequently. You can create a whole
series of palettes and switch between
them as you change projects or work
methods.
You might create a Water Color palette with
the brush variants you use often and your
favorite paper textures.
You can create as many custom
palettes as you like. Corel Painter
saves them from session to session, so
it’s easy to get right to work.
Items that appear on a custom palette
are references (aliases) to the original.
This means that if you change the
original—for example, by modifying
and saving a brush variant—the
custom palette button loads the
newest version. On the other hand, if
you delete the original, Corel Painter
won't be able to find it to load it again.
Creating Custom Palettes
Tearing Off to Create a New
Palette
If the item you want is represented in
a palette with an icon, you can create a
new palette by just dragging the icon
out of the palette. This works for art
materials (Paper Textures, Gradients,
Patterns, and Weaves), nozzles, and
looks.
To create a custom palette by
dragging:
1 Drag an icon or button out of its
palette.
When you release the mouse
button, Corel Painter creates the
custom palette. It contains an icon
for the item you dragged out.
Drag a tool out of a palette to create a custom
palette.
To enable Tool Tips for a custom
palette:
• Enable Tool Tips by choosing
Help menu> Show Tool Tips. All
you have to do is move your mouse
over a feature and the tip appears.