User Guide

Basics42
5 Click inside the rectangle to
perform the cropping operation.
Using Rulers
Corel Painter lets you show or hide
rulers along the top and left sides of
the document window. Each mark on
a ruler is known as a tick and
represents the unit of measurement.
You can set the unit of measurement
to pixels, inches, centimeters, points,
or picas.
As you drag an image around the
document window, the rulers scroll to
show the position of the Canvas in the
document window. The origin of the
document is the intersection of the
zero (0) ticks on each ruler. By
default, the origin is the upper left
corner of the Canvas. Changing the
origin resets the location of the 0 ticks
on the rulers.
To display or hide rulers:
• Choose Canvas menu > Rulers >
Show Rulers or Hide Rulers.
To set the ruler units:
1 Choose Canvas menu > Rulers >
Ruler Options, or hold down
Option (Mac OS) or Alt
(Windows) and click in the ruler.
2 In the Ruler Options dialog box,
choose a unit of measurement
from the Ruler Unit pop-up menu.
To change the origin:
1 Click the box at the intersection of
the rulers (upper left corner of the
document window).
2 Drag diagonally into the
document window.
Crosshairs display to mark the new
origin point.
3 Position the crosshairs and release
the mouse button.
The ruler numbers update to show
the new origin as 0, 0.
To restore the origin:
• Double-click the box at the
intersection of the rulers (upper
left corner of the document
window).
Using Guides
Guides are non-printing lines that
appear over the image in the
document window. They are very
helpful in aligning image elements.
You can place guides at any position in
the document window and easily
reposition and remove them.
The Snap to Ruler Ticks option
enables the guides you create to land
precisely on the tick marks.
Each guide also has options that let
you change its color and lock it so that
it can’t be dragged.
To display or hide guides:
• Choose Canvas menu > Guides
> Show Guides or Hide Guides.
To create a guide:
1 Show the rulers and the guides.
2 Click in a ruler at the position
where you want to place the guide.
A guide appears in the document
window and a triangular marker
appears in the ruler.