Corel Painter Help | Creating and modifying custom palettes

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Quick links to procedures on this page:

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To quickly create a custom palette

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To add menu commands, controls, or tools to a custom palette

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To rearrange controls on a custom palette

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To open or close a custom palette

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To change the appearance of items on a custom palette

Creating and modifying custom palettes

You can create custom palettes to speed up your work and quickly access the brushes, papers, flow maps, media, menu commands, and tools that you use most often. For example, you can place items from the Brush library panel or any of the Media panels in a custom palette. You can also add commands from the main menus or panel options to custom palettes.

Items that appear on a custom palette are references (aliases or shortcuts) to the original. This means that if you change the original — for example, by modifying and saving a brush variant — the custom panel button loads the newest version. However, if you delete the original, Corel Painter won’t be able to find the item again to load in the custom palette.

You can change how items on a custom palette are displayed. For example, you can display them as text, icons, or wide icons.

Custom palettes behave like the standard panels. For more information about working with panels, see Rearranging panels and palettes.

To quickly create a custom palette

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Press Shift, and do any of the following:

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Drag a brush variant from the Brush Selector panel to the document window.

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Drag a paper, flow map, or media library thumbnail from the Paper libraries (Window

Media Panels

Papers), Flow Map libraries (Window

Media Panels

Flow Maps), or the other Media panels (Window

Media Panels

[Textures, Patterns, Gradients, Nozzles, Looks, Weaves Library Panel]) to the document window.

To add menu commands, controls, or tools to a custom palette

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Choose Window

Custom Palette

Add Command.

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From the Select Custom Palette list box, choose New to create a new palette or select an existing custom palette.

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With the Create Palette/Add Command dialog box open, perform a task from the following table:

To add	Do the following
A menu item	Choose a menu item from a default Corel Painter menu.
Additional controls	Choose a menu item from the Other menu.
A panel, or any item included in a panel’s options flyout menu	Choose a menu item from the Panel Menus menu.
A toolbox tool	Choose a menu item from the Tools menu.
An item from an open palette	Click the item.

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In the Create Palette/Add Command dialog box, click Add, and then click OK.

You can add brush variants that are stored in different brush libraries to the same custom palette. When you choose a brush variant from the custom palette, the brush library in which the brush variant is stored is automatically loaded in the Brush library panel. This allows you to quickly switch between brush libraries.

To rearrange controls on a custom palette

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Hold down Shift and drag a control on a custom palette to a new position.

To open or close a custom palette

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Perform a task from the following table.

To	Do the following
Open a custom palette	Choose Window Custom Palette [Custom Panel Name].
Close a custom palette	On the custom panel header bar, click the Close button.

To change the appearance of items on a custom palette

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Do one of the following:

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(macOS) Holding down Control, click an item.

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(Windows) Right-click an item.

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Perform a task from the following table.

To	Do the following
Use a custom icon	Choose Set Custom Icon, and locate the image you want.
Display a text label for each item	Choose Text View.
Display an icon for each item	Choose Icon View or Wide Icon View.

To change the size of the icons, click the Options button in the custom palette, and choose Small Icons or Large Icons.

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