User Guide

Corel Painter 53
Brush Tracking Preferences
When you draw with traditional
media, the amount of pressure you use
with a tool determines how dense and
how wide your strokes are. Using a
pressure-sensitive stylus with Corel
Painter gives you this same kind of
control. Each artist has a different
strength or pressure level in a stroke.
The Brush Tracking preference lets
you adjust Corel Painter to match
your stroke strength. This is
particularly useful for artists with a
light touch. If a light stroke leaves no
color on the Canvas, you should use
Brush Tracking to increase sensitivity.
You might also change brush tracking
between phases of a project. You could
use a light touch when sketching with
a pencil brush variant, then set
tracking for more pressure when you
switch to an oil paint variant.
Corel Painter saves Brush Tracking
between sessions, so whatever tracking
sensitivity you set will be the default
next time you open the application.
To set Brush Tracking:
1 Do one of the following:
• (Mac OS) Choose Corel
Painter 8 menu > Preferences
> Brush Tracking.
• (Windows) Choose Edit menu
> Preferences > Brush Track-
ing.
2 Drag in the scratch pad in a
“normal” stroke.
Use the pressure and speed you
prefer when drawing or painting.
For specific adjustments, you can
move the sliders.
Use the Brush Tracking dialog to customize
how Corel Painter responds to your stylus
pressure and speed.
Customize Keys Preferences
Corel Painter lets you assign
commands to your keyboard function
keys (the F-keys). This saves you time
by giving you immediate keyboard
access to your favorite commands.
Using the Shift key with the function
keys lets you double the number of
commands you can use.
To assign commands to function
keys:
1 Do one of the following:
• (Mac OS) Choose Corel
Painter 8 menu > Preferences
> Customize Keys.
• (Windows) Choose Edit menu
> Preferences > Customize
Keys.
2 Choose the function key you want
to use from the menu.
3 If you want to use the Shift key in
combination, enable the Shift
checkbox.
Current Function shows the
command now assigned to this key.