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Pretty much all applications allow you to tweak how the application works by letting you manipulate the preferences. On a Macintosh computer you'll find the preferences listed under the name of the application. In this case Corel Painter 9, on a Windows PC chances are good you'll find it under the edit menu. Let's go ahead and get started and looking at the most commonly used preferences that you'll use in Painter. First of all I'm gonna go over to general and the cool thing about this by the way is that all I have to do is really choose any one of these and I'll have access to all of them anyway once I get to the Painter preferences. And as I promised there they are again so you don't have to pick one at time, just choose any one of them and their all available to you. The first option we have is general and as you see here we can change the drawing cursor so when your drawing you can change what your looking at on the screen. So I currently have this little guy here but if I wanted to see this one I click that one and I'm gonna go ahead and turn off the enable ghosting. I'll come back to that in a second. And look my nib now looks like the option that I selected. I'm gonna go back to the preferences and I'm going to put it back on the little triangle and I'm going to enable brush ghosting. What this does is it let's you see exactly the area that you'll be painting. So I'll click OK, and you'll see that my brush will now show me how much of that brush is going to be actual coverage when I'm painting. So I can see the widest that, that brush is gonna be. As you see here if I put my brush right there. This doesn't really matter because I'm using a digital tablet so I am able to lightly press and get a very thin stroke but the thickest will be the width of this little ghosting here so let's go back to preferences. I can also manipulate some other things here such as the units I'm working with from pixels to inches, points, picas and so on, centimeters. And I can also change how the brush increments will grow when I increase the size of the brush. So I'm currently in one pixel and the increment that the magnifier tool will zoom in when I zoom with something. It will go 25 percent at a time. Let's move on to the next area. Brush tracking, this is handy, before you paint anything, and I'm gonna cover this a little bit later on, it's good to open up brush tracking and just draw a quick stroke so a Painter can analyze how you feel like drawing that particular day. So we'll come back to this a little later on. We can customize keys and we're gonna spend a lot of time here as well so that I can change the way I interact with Painter, based on the keyboard combinations. I can also set up the number of undo levels. As you see here I have a maximum of 32. Now if you have a slower machine, 32 might be too much because every time you have an undo the program has us save a snapshot of the current state and it has to go back to that previous snapshot. So I currently have it at 32 and I like to leave it there because I like to have a lot of control. I can go backwards as much as I need to, up to 32 times at least. Shapes, I can change how the colors will appear when I draw shapes, such as the outline, the green color, to select a point. Tolerance, or that kinds of stuff, we'll come back to this guy a little later. I may tell Painter how I want the file to be appended, for example, never, which means I can simply add my own extension like whatever I want to at the end of that file, riff. Or I can have Painter always append the dot whatever the name of the file is. For example .tif blah, blah, let's go now to palettes and UI. I can change the behavior of snapping so that when I'm drawing I can have things snapping to the edges and corners and I can change the tolerance, so that the tolerance is more forgiving with 16 pixels and really accurate with 8 pixels and memory and scratch. I can tell Painter how much of my available memory to use but of course it can't go past that because it would then interfere with operating system and we don't want that because the computer would potentially crash. I can also choose a scratch disk. Just in case I did run out of RAM memory, Painter would say ok, now use the hard drive for memory, this is a little bit slower of course but if you have a small hard drive or not too much memory this option will pretty much not really help you out so try to max out your RAM so you don't have to use a scratch disk when you're working. So those are some of the preferences that you'll be using when you're using Painter.