Brush cursor preferences


By default, when you paint, the drawing cursor appears as an icon; when you hover over the canvas, the Enhanced brush ghost shows a representation of the brush variant onscreen and gives information about the tilt, bearing, and rotation of your pen.

The Enhanced brush ghost gives visual feedback about your pen in relation to the tablet. The outer ring indicates the brush size, and the line indicates the tilt and bearing of the pen. If you have a flat-tip Intuos Art Pen that supports 360-degree rotation, a dot appears along the outer ring to indicate the pen rotation.

Corel Painter provides a range of options to customize the appearance of the drawing cursor. You can change the cursor type; for example, you can choose a brush ghost that shows the brush shape and size, or you can use a single pixel when painting with brushes from the Pen and Pencils category.

The Brush ghost (left) gives you information about the size of your brush variant. The Enhanced brush ghost (right) gives you information about the tilt, bearing, and rotation of your pen.

You can also specify a number of icon settings, such as the icon shape, color, and orientation.

To set drawing cursor options

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1 Choose Corel Painter 2023 menu Preferences Brush Cursor (macOS) or Edit Preferences Brush Cursor (Windows).
2 In the Cursor Type area, choose a cursor type:
Enhanced brush ghost — provides visual feedback about the brush shape and size as well as the tilt, bearing, and rotation of the pen. If you want to see the Enhanced brush ghost when painting, disable the Show icon when painting check box.
Brush ghost — When you paint, the cursor appears as an icon; when you hover over the canvas, it provides visual feedback about the shape and size of the selected brush.
Icon — displays the drawing cursor as an icon both when you paint and when you hover over the canvas
Single pixel — displays the drawing cursor as a single pixel both when you paint and when you hover over the canvas

 

You can also
Choose a drawing cursor icon
Choose an icon from the Shape list box:
Default
Brush
Cross
Small cross
Torus
Triangle
Hollow triangle
Gray triangle
Change the icon color
Click the Color button, and click a color in the Colors dialog box.
Change the icon orientation
Drag the Angle slider.

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