Customization / Customize the Interface
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Painter allows you to create a work space that suits the way like to work. As you see here, I have already done a little tweaking with my interface. You'll notice that I have this black background instead of the normal gray one. I'm going to show you how to change that right now, as well as how to create your own palette structure and save that. You can have as many different interfaces as suits your needs although I only recommend creating a few of them. For example, I have one for when my monitor is at full resolution and I also have one for when I am recording these movies, and they're located right here under my window menu, and we'll see that I have arranged palettes and these are the ones I've saved. So hunters jam one is when I am working at full res and hunters small screen is when I'm recording, so that everything fits in this nice little package here and my palettes automatically go to where I want them to based on how I set them up. But, first of all let's talk about how to change this background here. So lets go to our preferences and I am going to choose palettes and U I, and don't forget UI stands user interface. So what do we have here? The first thing we can do of course is we can change how our palettes snap together. We can have the palettes snap together based on corners, edges, staggered, and also to snap intolerance. Okay, so you can have the pixels snap when they're eight pixels apart and sixteen pixels apart. The window background is what we are going to change right now. We're going to choose the custom color and what I can do is choose a color, any color at all. You might want be crazy and have something red. click OKay and there you go. Of course you won't be able to paint and the red color may agitate you and you may wind up being angry all day. So we are going to go nice cooler color. So this is scientific stuff folks the red makes people agitated so we're going to go to nice soft blue and make everybody nice and calm. There we go. Now what you might want to do is go back to something similar to the default and let me go into a gray color and go to right about here. click OKay and that's pretty much how it was when I first launched painter. So one thing about the background color that you want to remember is that you want to be able to paint without the distraction of colors that could throw you off a little bit as far as the colors that you're choosing. And you don't want the colors to clash here when you're trying to paint something here. So a nice neutral gray is always a nice color to use. Now let's talk about over here. Say you want to have certain palttes out at all times and you don't want to keep invoking them from the window menu. You can go to the palettes and you can choose what you want here. So I can choose color sets and they're showing up down here so I have to move my mouse and put them into position. I have one thats way down there, so I am going to leave him there. I'll put color sets right here, and let's say I like this setting. I always want to see the color settings when I'm working the color sets, and I want to see all the stuff here. I can go to window arrange palates and I can save this layout. I can call it whatever I want to, so I'll call it color sets or whatever you want to. Let's call it colors. I put up number two. click OKay and watch what happens. I'll go ahead and close that guy and I'm gonna go to. I'll actually move this over a little bit and I'll go to window arrange palettes and I'll choose colors two and everything shows up. I mean this guy goes back to where it was. The color sets open and you can also rearrange these so if you want colors sets to be here mixtures to be over there and you want to have all you're tools arranged in a certain way just go to window, arrange palettes, and then you can save that layout. If you want to delete a layout all you have to do is choose delete layout and then it's going to ask you which one you want to delete. So you can choose colors two click delete, and now that is gone. So I'll go back to the window menu arrange palettes and that layout is no longer available. So this is a quick way to set up a palette or an arrangement of palettes so that you can have all the tools you need for certain tasks available whenever you need them.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Corel Painter IX |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33688 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-15-1 |
| Release Date: | 2006-03-31 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 129 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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