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 2023 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:
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Assign the shortcut to the selected command while deleting the shortcut key from the conflicting command |
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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
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Revert the last keyboard shortcut you created or modified |
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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)
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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. |
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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 |
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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)
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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. |
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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.