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Let's take a look at how you can open up the hood of Corel Painter 11 and tweak and modify the Preferences to suit the way you'd like to work with the application. Now on a Macintosh the Preferences will be found under the name of the application as you can see here. So it'll be under Corel Painter 11, Preferences. On a Windows PC Platform you'll find that generally under the Edit Menu so let's go ahead and get started. We'll just go ahead and start with General. Now don't worry by the way about having to go back to that Menu, once you're inside of the Preference Dialog Box you can access the rest of those options right here. So as you can see we have General and the rest of the Menus that we can access from here as well. The first thing you're going to want to deal with is of course is the Brush Tip as you're working. So do you want to see the Brush Type as a brush, a single pixel or ghosting? Let me go ahead and show you what it looks like as just the brush. So as you can see here this is the icon that's by default but you can change it to whatever you like, I'll go ahead and grab this little Black Triangle and I'll click OK. Notice that my mouse is now the Triangle Icon. Now what Ghosting is and I'm going to put that on right now is a way to really get a great amount of feedback on your Stylus. Not only will you be able to see the area that the paint is going to take up when you start to paint and make marks on the paper and canvas, but you'll be able to see feedback as to the orientation of your Stylus. Whether it's straight up and down or its tilted a little bit or even if it's upside down. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to Enable Brush Ghosting and Enhanced Brush Ghost, I'm also going to put this back here. OK so I'm going to hit OK and I'll bring my mouse out once again and to make things a little easier to see I'll change this whole thing into a Blank Document. And now you can see as I increase the size brush that we can see the Ghosting. So this will represent the actual brush size and as I tilt my Stylus notice that Ghost will move and tell me exactly where my hand is. So it's a really cool feature that you might want to have on, especially if you have a Wacom tablet. Let's go back to our Preferences. You can also determine the Brush Size increment and pixels and the units of measure that you like to work with. Whether pixels, inches, centimeters or anything else in this list. As a rule of thumb pixels are for things that are web based and something that you'll deal with on a television screen. When you go to print something out you'll be dealing with inches. So I just want to give you the basis on just these two and what these guys do as well. So some of them are for the web, some of them are for just working with the screen and some of them are for printing. Alright so generally pixels points also for working on the computer, for your font sizes. OK, now, what we can also do by the way is we can create a backup of our file on Save and we can also do things like draw zoomed out views using Area Averaging and Show Commit Dialog when Converting to Layer. So when you're resizing something and you want to commit that change it will give you a Dialog Box. Let's try something different. Let's go to Brush Tracking, I just want to show you where it is because I'm going to come back here later on, but I briefly want to tell you that this is a way to set-up Painter so that it will give you the feedback based on how you feel like drawing that day. So if you're really angry, you feel like drawing like a maniac you'll tell Painter that this is the mood you're in and this is the stroke that it should expect from you that day as opposed to a nice soft mellow, I had such a nice night with the tea and the baths and all that good stuff. So now you're calm. So that's what Brush Tracking will do. Customize Keys we'll talk about later on as well so you can Customize the Interface to suit your needs. You can also determine the amount of Undo's you like to have so that you can have the ability to go backwards in time to fix mistakes. You can also determine how you work with shapes inside of the application. So you can determine the fill with current color and the Stroke Color and all that kinds of good stuff and whether you want to see big handles when you're manipulating those shapes. You can also tell the Painter how you want to deal with Snapping. So if you want Snapping to handle corners, edges or staggered and the Tolerance. How close to an edge pixel wise you have to be before the Snapping occurs and memory and scratch. So you pretty much telling Painter that if you run out of memory to use a selected Scratch Disk as backup to perform calculations. So this is my main hard drive and this is my backup. So this is the Scratch Disk and that is how you can set your Preferences for Painter 11.