Painter 8 Power Tip:
Making the Most of Custom Palettes
Jeremy Sutton
Corel Painter 8.1, the free upgrade to Painter 8 that you can download from http://www.corel.com/painter8 , reintroduces the handy custom palette feature from earlier versions of Painter. Now you can make buttons of your commonly used menu commands and tear off your favorite brushes for convenient access. In this tutorial I focus on making a custom palette of useful menu command shortcuts.
- Choose Window > Custom Palette > Add Command.
- Choose File > Save As. This menu command is going to be the first
one loaded into the custom palette.
- Click OK. You now see a Save As button in a custom palette on your
desktop called “Custom 1”.
- Choose Window > Custom Palette > Organizer.
- The Custom 1 palette is highlighted in the Custom Palette Organizer.
Click Rename. This Custom Palette Organizer is where you will also be
able to edit and delete unwanted custom palettes which are easy to create
accidentally once you start tearing off brushes (see step 10).
- Rename Custom 1 as Shortcuts or what ever you wish. You're now ready
to add more commands.
- Choose Window > Custom Palette > Add Command.
- Choose the second command you wish to add, I suggest File > Clone.
- Select the Shortcuts custom palette in the Add Command window.
- To add brush shortcuts to your custom palette just select the brush
Category and Variant in the brush selector and then drag the category
icon into the custom palette (or anywhere on your desktop to make a
separate custom palette). Since the brush icons do not indicate which
variant is associated with the icon I suggest just tearing off one brush
shortcut per category. Here is an example of the "Jeremy's Shortcuts"
custom palette I have placed in the lower right of my Painter desktop.
- To move the individual icons and buttons of a custom palette around hold the Shift key down and click and drag on the icons. If you wish to delete a command button or icon altogether, first drag it out of the custom palette, then go to Windows > Custom Palette > Organizer and select the name of the custom palette that corresponds to the newly dragged out icon and then hit the Delete button in the Custom Palette Organizer.
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