Corel Painter Help | Setting cloning preferences

Quick links to procedures on this page:

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Setting cloning preferences

You can set various preferences for cloning and for Quick Clone. For example, you can choose to always use the last selected cloner brush variant or enable Tracing Paper.

To customize cloning behavior

Do one of the following:

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(Mac OS) Choose Corel Painter 2015 menu

Preferences

Cloning.

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(Windows) Choose Edit

Preferences

Cloning.

Perform a task from the following table.


To	Do the following
Close the image that was used as the clone source	Enable the Close Source Image check box.
Open the Clone Source panel automatically	Enable the Open Clone Source panel check box.
Start painting in the clone colors on a clear canvas	Enable the Clear Canvas check box.
Activate tracing paper	Enable the Turn On Tracing Paper check box.
Activate the last Cloner brush variant	Enable the Switch To Cloner Brushes check box.
Use the current brush variant to clone the underlying color	Enable the Clone Color check box. To enable the Clone Color check box, you must disable the Switch to Cloner Brushes check box.
Display a dialog box every time you switch to the Source Image window from the clone document window. The dialog box warns you that any source image editing needs to be updated, saved, discarded, or exported.	Enable the Show Edit Source Image Dialog Box check box.

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.