User Guide

36 Corel Painter User Guide
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 the next
time you open the application.
To set Brush Tracking
1 Do one of the following:
• (Mac OS) Choose Corel Painter IX menu > Preferences > Brush Tracking.
• (Windows) Choose Edit menu > Preferences > Brush Tracking.
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.
Customize Keys Preferences
Corel Painter lets you assign commands to keys on your keyboard. This saves you time
by giving you immediate keyboard access to your favorite commands. Along with
character, numeric, function, and modifier keys, you can also use Tab, Backspace
(Windows), Delete, Insert, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down, Up Arrow, Down
Arrow, Left Arrow, Right Arrow, and Spacebar. You can use keys already used for other
shortcuts.
You can also create a collection of keyboard shortcuts, or key sets, based on changes to
the default key set. For easy reference, you can generate an HTML summary of a key
set.
To assign commands to keys
1 Do one of the following:
• (Mac OS) Choose Corel Painter IX menu > Preferences > Customize Keys.
• (Windows) Choose Edit menu > Preferences > Customize Keys.
2 Choose a key set from the Key Set pop-up menu.
The default key set is named “Default” and is not editable. When you change any
shortcut in the Default key set, another set is created and named “Custom.”
3 Choose one of the following from the Shortcuts menu:
• Application Menus to create or modify menu bar command shortcuts