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As with most every application on the planet earth, Corel Painter also provides you with tons of menus. You can interact with most applications by a combination of menu options, palettes, toolboxes and keyboard shortcuts. Let's go ahead and spend some time talking about just a few of the options contained in some of the menus here. First of all on a Macintosh computer you have a Corel Painter application menu which we'll talk about Corel Painter itself. Give you a little bit of information; we can change the preferences on a Windows machine. Preferences are normally found under the edit menu. We can hide Corel Painter, we can show all and we can also quit the application. Once again on a windows machine you'll be quitting from the file menu. Now let's talk about the file menu, we can create a new document, open a document, place artwork into a document, and close that document. We can also use any of cloning options, and of course we would fully expect to be able to save the document, we can revert to a previously saved state. For example if you added a couple of brush strokes to this artwork here. What I could do is go to file, revert, and that will go back to the previously saved or rather the last saved state of this file. So I'll choose revert and it will remember that this was the last save. Now keep in mind this will only work per save so if you do all kinds of crazy stuff and you save and you choose revert well you already saved so you already got rid of the option to go back to the very beginning. So be very careful, if anything, use iterative save, or save as another version to experiment. You can also get information about the currently open file. You can acquire artwork from illustrator. You can export paths, or shapes from Painter to illustrator. You can change the way you work with your pay set up and you can print a file. You notice down here that these are the last few documents that I opened within Painter. Under our edit menu we can undo, redo, cut, copy and paste. Under our canvas menu we can resize the canvas, rotate the canvas and we can also play around with surface lighting and use tracing paper and access our rulers, guides, grids, and other options here. Under our layers menu we can create a new layer, make a new watercolor layer, and so on. We can also look at the layer attributes and we can move the selected layer to the bottom of the stack, to the top, move it one layer at a time up or down. We can group layers, we can also collapse or drop all the layers or one layer at a time onto another layer. We can create layer masks and so on and we can also make some of our canvases and other stuff go to other places such as watercolor layers. Our select menu allows us to select everything in document, select nothing, invert that selection which means select the opposite of what you had selected or reselect the last thing that you had selected. You can also float a selection to it's own layer, stroke a selection, feather it, and further modify it. Our shapes menu allows us to make compound shapes and release those shapes. We can also duplicate, convert to layers and turn things into selections. For example if you used the pen tool to create a star you can then convert that into a selection. Our effects menu of course has all of our special effects. We'll be playing around with lots of these later on. In our movie menu we can add frames to a movie, delete frames, erase frames and so on. And under our window menu, we can hide and show palettes. For example if we don't want to see palettes choose hide palettes and they go away. And you would choose show palettes for them to come back and you can also zoom in, zoom out, zoom to fit you can hide the toolbox, bring the toolbox back and so on. So you have all kinds of options here and we have our help topics under our help menu, so you can get all the help you need to work with Painter. So these are the menus that you'll be using to interact with Painter.