User Guide

Corel Painter 51
Use the General Preferences dialog box to
customize your application.
General Preferences
To access General preferences:
• Do one of the following:
• (Mac OS) Choose Corel
Painter 8 menu > Preferences
> General.
• (Windows) Choose Edit menu
> Preferences > General.
Tip
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To make changes to other preferences
before closing the Preferences dialog box,
choose another preference type from the
pop-up menu.
Cursor Setup
Corel Painter gives you several choices
for the appearance of your cursor.
• To choose whether the cursor will
be a brush or a single pixel, check
an option in the Drawing Cursor
area.
• To determine the direction the
cursor will point (depending on
your design and your preferences),
click the appropriate option in the
Orientation area. This option is
only available with the Brush
cursor type.
• To set the cursor to show the brush
size and shape, enable the Brush
Ghosting option. Brush Ghosting
gives you immediate visual
feedback on the cursor, showing
you the shape and size of the
selected brush.
When you use a brush with “Enable Brush
Ghosting” enabled, the cursor shows the shape
of the brush.
Setting the Default Libraries
Corel Painter provides standard
libraries that contain brushes, paper
grains, selections, layers, and color
sets. The Libraries section of the
General Preferences dialog box lets
you designate which libraries appear
by default.
To set default libraries:
• Enter library file names in the
Brushes, Papers, Selections,
Layers, and Color Set text fields.