Corel Painter Help | Customizing keys

Quick links to procedures on this page:

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To assign commands to keys

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To revert keyboard shortcuts

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To manage key sets (macOS)

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To manage key sets (Windows)

Customizing keys

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

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Do one of the following:

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(macOS) Choose Corel Painter 2018 menu

Preferences

Customize Keys.

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(Windows) Choose Edit

Preferences

Customize Keys.

If you want to modify keyboard shortcuts that you previously stored in a key set, choose the key set from the Key Set list box.

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Choose one of the following options from the Shortcuts list box:

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Application Menus — lets you create or modify menu bar command shortcuts

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Panel Menus — lets you create or modify panel menu command shortcuts

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Tools — lets you create or modify tools shortcuts

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Other — lets you create or modify command shortcuts for items that are not menus, panels, or tools

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Choose a command from the Application Commands list.

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In the Shortcut column next to the command, type the shortcut keys you want to assign.

If you typed a unique shortcut key, you can click OK to exit the Preferences dialog box.

If the shortcut you assigned is already in use, a message appears below the Application Commands list. To proceed, you need to perform a task from the following table:

To	Do the following
Assign the shortcut to the selected command while deleting the shortcut key from the conflicting command	Click Accept.
Assign the shortcut to the new command and then assign another keyboard shortcut to the conflicting command	Click Accept and Go To Conflict.

To revert keyboard shortcuts

To	Do the following
Revert the last keyboard shortcut you created or modified	Click Undo.
Revert to all keyboard shortcuts you created or modified since you opened the Preferences dialog box	Click Reset. In the warning dialog box, click Yes.
Revert all keyboard shortcuts to their default settings	Click Defaults. In the warning dialog box, click Yes.

To manage key sets (macOS)

To	Do the following
Open an existing key set	Click Open. In the Open Key Set dialog box, select a key set, and click Open.
Create a new key set from the existing key set	Click New. In the Save New Key Set dialog box, type a name for the key set in the Save As box, and click Save.
Save the active key set	Click Save. In the Save Key Set dialog box, type a name for the key set in the Save As box, and click Save.
Create an HTML summary of the active key set	Click Export to HTML. In the Save Summary dialog box, type a name in the Save As box, and click Save.
Delete the active key set	Click Delete.

Key set files created on the macOS cannot be imported into Corel Painter on Windows. Likewise, key set files created on Windows cannot be imported into Corel Painter on the macOS.

To manage key sets (Windows)

To	Do the following
Open an existing key set	Click the Open button . In the Open Key Set dialog box, select a key set, and click Open.
Create a new key set from the existing key set	Click the New From Existing button . In the Save New Key Set dialog box, type a name for the key set in the Filename box, and click Save.
Save the active key set	Click the Save Active Set button . In the Save Key Set dialog box, type a name for the key set in the Filename box, and click Save.
Create an HTML summary of the active key set	Click the Create HTML Summary button . In the Save Summary dialog box, type a name in the Filename box, and click Save.
Delete the active key set	Click the Delete button .

Key set files created on the macOS cannot be imported into Corel Painter on Windows. Likewise, key set files created on Windows cannot be imported into Corel Painter on the macOS.

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