User Guide

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Keyboard Shortcuts
Many features in Corel Painter have
keyboard shortcuts. These allow the
user to access a variety of tools quickly
and easily using the keyboard, rather
than selecting them from a menu or
palette.
The four modifier keys on a Mac-compatible
keyboard are Command, Option, Shift, and the
Spacebar.
The four modifier keys on the Windows
keyboard are Ctrl, Alt, Shift, and the Spacebar.
The keyboard shortcuts rely on four
modifier keys on Mac-compatible and
Windows keyboards: Command,
Option, Shift, and the Spacebar on the
Mac OS; and Ctrl, Alt, Shift, and the
Spacebar on Windows.
Some of the same key combinations
are reused to provide different actions
depending on which tool is currently
selected. For example, holding down