Corel Painter Help : Setting preferences : Interface preferences
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Interface preferences

Corel Painter lets you modify a variety of settings that affect the look and feel of your application. You can choose a theme, change the background color of the document, specify the default document view, and set the orientation and layout of the toolbox, command bar, and Media Selector bar, so that the program looks the way you want. Some user interface elements, such as the document window border color and the color of the document title bar are controlled by the theme of your operating system. To change the appearance of these user interface elements, explore the personalization options of your operating system.

The following table describes the Corel Painter preferences for modifying the display of the application interface.

 

Color Theme
Lets you choose a color theme for your workspace. The default color theme is Dark Gray. To make the workspace lighter or darker, you can choose one of the following themes: Medium Gray, Light Gray, Frost, Sepia.
Workspace Options preferences
Description
Units
Lets you choose the unit of measurement used by the application’s various sliders and other measurement options
Background Color
Sets the background color of the document window
Brush Icons in Custom Palettes preference
Description
Stroke (wide icons)
Lets you add wide custom icons that display the brushstrokes to a custom palette
Category
Lets you add regular-width custom icons that display the brush category to a custom palette
Default View Mode preferences
Description
Multi-document View
Sets the default workspace view to display all standard tools in the workspace and all open documents
Single Document View
Sets the default workspace view to hide your computer’s desktop and view the document window without scroll bars
Toolbox Layout
Sets the orientation and layout of the toolbox in the document window
Media Layout
Sets the orientation and layout of the Media Selector bar in the document window
Command Bar Layout
Sets the orientation of the command bar in the document window
Property Bar preferences
Description
Tall (with group labels)
Lets you display group labels
Short (without group labels)
Lets you hide group labels
Brush Selector Bar Height preferences
Description
Same as Property Bar with Group Labels
Sets the height of the Brush Selector bar to match the height of the property bar when group labels are displayed
Same as Property Bar without Group Labels
Sets the height of the Brush Selector bar to match the height of the property bar when group labels are not displayed
Display preference
Description
Area Averaging: Increases performance by using pixel averaging below 50% zoom
Increases the speed at which the screen is drawn when you are viewing an image at less than 50% magnification. Enabling this option may decrease accuracy.
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