Rearranging panels and palettes

You can rearrange the display of panels to better match your workflow. For example, you can group task-related panels together in one palette. At any time, you can further customize these palettes by adding or removing a panel, repositioning a panel, or moving a panel to another palette.

You can easily display a panel when you need it, and you can quickly close a panel when you’re done. If you want to save screen space, but keep the panels and palettes displayed (in the application window), you can collapse or resize them.

Palettes and panels float in the workspace. Docking attaches the panel or palette to the vertical edge of the application window. Undocking detaches them from other parts of the workspace, so you can move them. To perform docking, you need to grab a panel’s tab or a palette’s header bar.

Most panels in Corel Painter contain option menus from which you can access a series of related commands. For example, you can use the options menu in the Paper controls panel to capture, make, and invert paper textures.

A typical palette features a header bar (1), panel tabs (2), and a Panel options button (3).

By default, the Color panel is open and is grouped in a palette with the Mixer and Color Set Libraries panels.

You can save the arrangement of palettes as a custom workspace layout for later use, and you can delete this custom workspace layout when you no longer need it.

To group panels into palettes

To hide or show a panel or palette

To	Do the following
Hide or show a panel from a menu	Choose Window [Panel name].
Hide an open panel	Click the Close button on the panel tab.
Hide an open palette	Click the Close button on the header bar.

When you choose Window Show Panels, only the panels that were open when you chose Hide Panels are displayed.

You can restore a previously hidden palette by choosing Window, and choosing the name of a panel that is contained in the palette.

To expand or collapse a panel

To resize a panel or palette

To dock or undock a palette

If there’s not enough space along the vertical edge of the application window (for example, if you have a lot of expanded palettes), you may not be able to dock a panel or a palette. Collapse one or multiple panels to create sufficient space for docking.

You cannot dock panels or palettes with toolbars.

To access additional panel options

•	In the panel, click the Panel options button , and choose an option.

To save an arrangement of palettes as a workspace layout

1	Choose Window Arrange Palettes Save Layout.

The workspace layout appears as a menu item under Window Arrange Palettes.

You can display a saved arrangement of palettes by choosing Window Arrange Palettes [Name of Layout].

You can restore the default palette arrangement at any time by choosing Window Arrange Palettes Default.

To delete a workspace layout

1	Choose Window Arrange Palettes Delete Layout.

	Some features described in the Help are available only in Corel Painter 2015, and are not included in Painter Essentials 5. For more information about Corel Painter 2015, visit http://www.painterartist.com/.
	To get started with Painter Essentials 5, see the Painter Essentials 5 Quick Start Guide.

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