Corel Painter Help | General preferences

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General preferences

The general preferences affect various aspects of Corel Painter. For example, you can specify preferences for saving documents, controlling brushes, and saving. The following tables categorize, list, and describe all general preferences.

Brush preference	Description
Align constrained brushstroke to canvas	Matches the brush rotation angle to the canvas rotation angle.
Disable feature scaling when resizing brush	Disables the Scale feature with brush size option in all areas of the application.
Simplified brush resizing control (Legacy-style)	Removes the green highlight from the onscreen brush resizing control
Brush size increment	Lets you set the brush size increment value in pixels. For more information, see Setting basic brush attributes.
Align Brush to Path tolerance	Determines how close the brushstroke must be to the path or shape for automatic alignment to occur. For more information, see Aligning brushstrokes to paths and shapes.
Paint hidden shape	Aligns a brushstroke with a hidden shape or path.
Show Using Audio Expression dialog box	Displays the Using Audio Expression dialog box every time you use Audio Expression. Enable this check box if you previously enabled the Do not show this again check box in the Using Audio Expression dialog box.
Show dialog box when entering Presentation Mode	Displays the Presentation Mode dialog box every time you use Presentation Mode. Enable this check box if you previously enabled the Do not show this again check box in the Presentation Mode dialog box.
Layer preference	Description
Show Commit dialog when converting to layer	Displays a dialog box every time you need to commit content to a layer. Enable this check box if you previously enabled the Commit and don’t ask again check box in the Commit dialog box. For more information, see Grouping layers.
Saving preference	Description
Create backup on Save	Creates a backup file every time you save a document. For more information, see Saving and backing up files.
Auto-record script	Enables the automatic saving of Corel Painter background scripts.
Auto-save scripts for	Controls how long Corel Painter saves background scripts before deleting them. For more information, see Enabling and playing background scripts.
Product update preference	Description
Notify me of available product updates	Notifies you automatically when a product update is available for Corel Painter 2018.
Tooltips preference	Description
Text and images	Displays tooltips with accompanying illustrations (if available).
Text only	Hides illustrations from tooltips, displaying only text.
Thick Paint layer preference	Description
Default amount	Lets you specify the default amount of Thick Paint layers. This amount sets the height of the brushstrokes.

To access the general preferences

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Do one of the following:

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(macOS) Choose Corel Painter 2018 menu

Preferences

General.

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(Windows) Choose Edit

Preferences

General.

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