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Welcome to this lesson on a Palettes Review in Paint Shop Pro Photo. I've intentionally left my screen disorganized here to cover initially how to get back to the default setup for Paint Shop Pro. Simply choose File, Preferences, Reset Preferences. Now you can choose to reset the workspace to the default location and configuration. I can also do other things like make everything visible on screen and just make your decision and click OK. That reset the interface to the default setup with all the palettes in their default configuration turned on or off and located where they're going to be. Currently you can see there are only three visible: Learning Center, which is on the left side of the screen; the Organizer, which is down at the bottom; my Tool Options Palette, which is this area here. To turn off a palette, you can choose the Palettes Menu and then select it and it turns that off. Turn it back on the same way. You can also click the X to close the palette and turn it back on. You can also turn palettes on from the View Menu. A lot of different ways to do things. You can also drag palettes around the screen. Most of them are drag and drop locations. Here I'm going to open up a photo so you can see it just covers that over. If I want to move the Learning Center to the right, I can even dock it on the right-hand side by just dragging it over until it bumps up into and fits itself into this palette area. Now, when it's over here, I can minimize my different palettes. I can also maximize them. That's nice. If you've got several palettes open and you don't want to work with one, you don't have the room to work the others at the moment, I can restore the Materials Palette and minimize the Layers Palette and then I've got a larger Materials Palette. I can drag the Learning Center; I can not drag it down to the bottom but it can go back to its left-hand side. Sometimes when you try to drag and drop it back up where it belongs, you push the Tool Options Palette out of the way and just drag it down if you can or drag the Tool Options over if you can. Sometimes it's pretty finicky. There we go. And I leave that in just so you know that, you know, I've been working this for years and sometimes crazy things like that happen and you drag a palette out of the way and you can't get it back. What I would do in extreme cases is just go back to my Preferences and reset that and start over. I tend to work with the Learning Center off, my Toolbar on the left, my Tool Options above. I also don't usually work with the Organizer open but you may. You may also like to have the Photo Trays open. And let's just turn them on and see; Brush Variance. Brush Variance is a palette which when you select a brush, you can change its settings: Jitter, different kind of settings here. You can alter the Fade Rate, Position Jitter, Impressions per Step. You, really some crazy effects can be achieved through that. Histogram shows you different data about the photo or image you have loaded up. You can display different channels and information. You can see where the bumps are where the information is predominately located. You can select different areas and see how much is in range, below or above. That's your Histogram. History Palette; I haven't actually done anything so when I do things here, you can see those show up in the History Palette and I can use the History Palette to undo selectively and backtrack. Layers we've seen here on the right-hand side. And I'll bring that back up so you can see the layers in the photo. Learning Center we've seen. Materials is up here where we access all the colors, Swatches, Textures, Patterns, Gradients, all in Materials Palette. Mixer is for art, let me select None here; is for art media things. I'm going to just create a new layer there by selecting the Oil Brush and here, the Mixer, I can load, load colors in and use those in my Oil Brush. Select that and then I'm off to paint. The Mixer is not available for normal raster layers. It's just for the art media. Overview gives you an overview of the picture, magnification levels and information. Organizer, which is down in the bottom, you can see the folders under Watch. Put any pictures in there and they'll show up here and you can also do things like rotate them, quick review, warp them in the Express Lab, print them and print contact sheets and so forth. Photo Tray is good to add and delete photo trays. Where you have a workflow, you want to put photos in there that you might want to print and it's a good construct to help you stay organized. Script Output Window, if you've got a script running and you've got errors or you want to see what happens, that's where it shows up. And then Tool Options, which is shown here. So there are quite a few palettes and they're based on what you're doing. Layers for layers, Mixer for colors are in the art media layers and materials for your colors and swatches and things like that for normal raster and vector layers. So I think we can wrap this lesson up. That is an overview, a quick overview of the palettes in Paint Shop Pro Photo X2.