Rearranging panels and palettes

Whether you are new to digital painting software or a long-time user, Corel Painter makes it easy to adapt your design space to your needs. The interactive panels in Corel Painter are single tabbed containers that let you access content libraries, commands, controls, and settings. Panels are stored in palettes.

A typical palette features a header bar (1), a Palette Drawer button that lets you turn a palette into a palette drawer (2), panel tabs (3), and a Panel options button that allows you to access a series of related commands (4).

You can increase your efficiency by arranging task-related or frequently used panels into palettes. For example, you can display all color-specific panels in one color palette, or display panels individually. A palette can contain one or more panels.

This palette includes three color-related panels: Color, Mixer, and Color Set Libraries. You can access a panel’s content by clicking its tabs.

Corel Painter includes the Brush controls palette, which is a preset palette that groups all panels that contain brush-related settings.

You can add panels to and remove panels from a palette. You can also reposition a panel within a palette group or move a panel to another palette group. You can turn a palette into a palette drawer, so you can quickly collapse it to save screen space. At any time, you can turn a palette drawer back into a regular palette. You can resize and reposition a palette drawer like any other palette group.

You can display and hide a panel or palette. When you hide a panel or palette, they are no longer displayed in the application window. If you want to keep the panel or palette at hand, but save screen space, you can resize or collapse them.

You can also arrange panels and palettes in the application window to quickly access the tools and controls that you use most often or to maximize screen space. 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.

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 create a palette drawer

• Click the Palette Drawer toggle button on the palette header bar, and click Palette Drawer.

To rename a palette drawer, click the Palette Drawer toggle button on the palette header bar, click Rename, and type a new name.

To turn a drawer into a regular palette, click the Palette Drawer toggle button on the drawer header bar, and then click Palette Drawer.

To hide or show a panel, palette, or palette drawer

To	Do the following
Hide a panel	Click the Close button on the panel tab.
Hide a palette or palette group	Click the Close button on the header bar.
Show a panel	Choose Window [Panel name].
Show a palette drawer	Choose Window Palette Drawers [Palette Drawer name].

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 or a palette drawer

To resize a panel or palette

To dock or undock a palette

To	Do the following
Dock a palette	Drag the palette header bar to the vertical edge of the application window. The palette snaps into place when it lines up with the edge.
Undock a palette	Drag the blank area to the right of the panel tabs away from the edge of the application window.
Dock a palette drawer	Before you dock the palettes in a palette drawer, save your arrangement of palettes as a custom layout so you can return to it at any time. Choose the palette drawer that you want to dock. Click the Palette Drawer toggle button on the palette header bar, and disable Palette drawer. Grab the header bar, and drag the entire group of palettes towards the vertical edge of the application window. Ensure the cursor goes all the way to the edge of the application window. When a blue highlight appears, release the mouse button or lift the stylus. The palettes snap into place. After you dock the drawers that you want, save your layout. Tips: • You can undock the palettes, but only one at a time. • You can quickly return to the arrangement of palettes that you saved in the first step by choosing Window Layout [Layout name], where Layout name is the name of your custom layout.
Dock a panel	Drag the panel tab to the vertical edge of the application window. The panel snaps into place when it lines up with the edge.
Undock a panel	Drag the panel tab away from the application window.

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 Layout Save Layout.

The workspace layout appears as a menu item under Window Layout.

You can display a saved arrangement of palettes by choosing Window Layout [Layout name].

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

To delete a workspace layout

1 Choose Window Layout Delete Layout.