User Guide

Corel Painter 85
3 In the Open Mixer Pad dialog box,
choose the Mixer Pads (MXS) file
you want to open.
4 Click Open.
Creating Color Swatches
If you have mixed colors that you are
particularly happy with, you can save
them as color swatches and add them
to color sets. For more information
about color sets, see “Using Color
Sets” on page 85.
Color swatches that you create on the Mixer
palette can be saved.
To add a color swatch to the color
set
1 On the Mixer palette, click the
Eyedropper tool , and choose
the color you want to save as a
color swatch.
2 Click the palette menu arrow, and
choose Add Swatch to Color Set.
The selected color is added to the
current color set.
To create a color set from the
Mixer Pad
1 Choose Window menu > Show
Mixer to display the Mixer palette.
2 Click the palette menu arrow, and
choose New Color Set from Mixer
Pad.
Using Color Sets
Corel Painter uses color sets to
organize groups of colors. Some color
sets are organized by both name and
color relationship.
Corel Painter provides several color
sets—Corel Painter Colors, Mac OS
and Windows system palettes, and the
PANTONE MATCHING
SYSTEM® are a few. Only one color
set can be open at a time, but you can
easily load a different set.
The Color Sets palette.
To display the Color Sets palette:
• Choose Window menu > Show
Color Sets.
To choose a color from a color set:
• On the Color Sets palette, click a
color.
To open a different color set:
1 On the Color Sets palette, click the
palette menu arrow or the Library
Access button , and choose
Open Color Set.
2 In the Select Color dialog box,
choose a color set and click Open.