User Guide

26 Corel Painter User Guide
Rotating and Flipping the Canvas
Corel Painter lets you rotate and flip the Canvas layer. When you rotate or flip the
Canvas layer, all other layers move along with it. You can rotate the Canvas layer by a
predefined amount, or you can choose the amount of rotation. If your document has
layers of different varieties, you are prompted to commit all of them to default, pixel-
based layers. The Canvas layer increases in size when necessary, so rotating or flipping
it does not cause the contents of other layers to be cropped.
To rotate the Canvas layer by a predefined amount
1 Choose Canvas menu > Rotate Canvas.
2 Choose one of the following:
• 180 to rotate 180 degrees
• 90 CW to rotate 90 degrees clockwise
• 90 CCW to rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise
To rotate the Canvas layer by a user-defined amount
1 Choose Canvas menu > Rotate Canvas > Arbitrary.
2 In the Rotate Selection dialog box, type the number of degrees of rotation you want
in the Amount box.
To flip the Canvas
1 Choose Canvas menu > Rotate Canvas.
2 Choose one of the following:
• Flip Canvas Horizontal
• Flip Canvas Vertical
Saving Files
You have several options for saving files. You can save a file in its current format or to a
different format. You can also save iterations of the same file. Whenever you perform
an iterative save, a new version of the file is saved with a number added to the file
name, and for each subsequent save, the number added to the file name increments by
1. In addition, Corel Painter remembers the location of the last file you saved.