User Guide

Welcome to Corel Painter 82
the primary and secondary colors, and
provides easy access to the Paper,
Pattern, Gradient, Nozzle, Weave,
and Brush Look libraries.
The toolbox can be undocked and
moved anywhere inside the
application window, or it can be
turned off.
Property Bar
The property bar replaces the
Controls palette. The property bar is
context-sensitive depending on which
tool is selected, providing commonly
used controls for each tool.
The property bar is docked below the
menu bar by default, but it can be
undocked and moved to any location
in the document window, or turned
off.
Brush Selector
The Brush Selector lets you choose a
brush category, using the Brush
Category picker, and a brush variant,
using the Brush Variant picker. The
name of the selected brush category
and variant is displayed on the right
side of the Brush Selector. You have
the option to view the categories and
variants by a thumbnail or list view.
The Brush Selector is docked, by
default, to the top-right corner of the
document window, beside the
property bar. It can be undocked and
moved to any location in the
document window, or it can be turned
off.
Palettes
The palettes have been redesigned for
this version of Corel Painter, and they
include the following new features:
• Group/Ungroup — Yo u c a n g r o u p
and ungroup palettes by dragging
them together or apart to create
any combination of palettes.
• Resizeable — You can increase or
decrease the size of list palettes,
such as the Layers, Channels, and
Scripts palettes.
Info Palette
The new Info palette provides access
to the following information:
•Image size preview
• Document information, such as
width and height
• X and Y coordinates and the
cursor position
• Context-sensitive information
based on the selected tool. For
example, if the Eyedropper tool is
selected, the HSV and RGB
information is displayed.
• Unit information, such as pixels,
inches, and resolution
Mixer Palette
The new Mixer palette lets you mix
colors interactively. The Mixer palette
contains a Brush tool and a Palette
Knife tool for applying and mixing
colors, mimicking the traditional
experience of mixing two or more
colors on a palette.