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Exploring the Palettes
Navigating Palettes
Docking Palettes
As you work with Corel Painter
Essentials, you’ll use the following
palettes:
When a palette is displayed, it must be
expanded for you to access its settings.
You can collapse palettes to save screen
real estate, while keeping them
displayed in the application.
You can save valuable room on your
screen by docking palettes.
The Colors Palette
• The Colors palette lets you choose
primary and secondary colors for
painting in Corel Painter
Essentials documents. You can also
use the Clone Color option on the
Colors palette . For more
information, see “Working with
Color” on page 39.
The Layers Palette
• The Layers palette contains
thumbnail previews of all the
layers in a Corel Painter Essentials
document. You can use the buttons
on the Layers palette to add,
arrange and delete layers. You can
use the slider to adjust the opacity.
To expand or collapse a palette:
• Click the palette arrow in the top
corner of the palette.
When the triangle points down,
the palette is expanded. When it
points to the right, the palette is
collapsed.
To scroll through the Layers
palette:
• Do one of the following:
• Use the scrollbar on the right
side of the palette to scroll
through the palette.
• Press Option + click (Mac OS)
or Alt + click (Windows), and
drag vertically inside the
palette. The cursor changes to a
hand and the palette scrolls as
you drag.
This handy feature of Corel Painter
Essentials lets them be docked into
place when they get close to the top or
bottom edge of another palette. In
addition to tidying up your workspace,
this feature can help keep a palette
from being covered up by another
palette.
To dock palettes:
1 Place the cursor over the title bar of
the palette you want to dock.
2 Drag the palette to the top or
bottom of a second palette.
3 When the first palette lines up
with the second palette, release the
mouse button.
The palette will snap into place.
To undock palettes:
1 Place the cursor over the title bar of
the palette you want to undock.
2 Drag the palette to another
location in the workspace.
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