Net Painter Palette Layout - Example
Saving a Custom Palette Arrangement
written for Painter 6.0.3 by Jinny Brown

In Painter 6.0.3, you can arrange your palettes any way you like, then save the arrangement with an appropriate name. The example shown below is the one I use when doing a Net Painter collaborative painting session. However, these steps can be used to create any palette arrangement:

1. Click the bar at the top of each palette (Tools, Brushes, Art Materials, Objects, Controls, Color Set, and Brush Controls) and drag it to the position on the screen that best suits the work you're going to do in Painter. 

2. From the Windows menu, choose Arrange Palettes then, from the flyout menu, choose  Save Layout.

3. Type an appropriate name for your Custom Palette Arrangement and click the OK button.
 
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JINNY'S NET PAINTER PALETTE LAYOUT

This screen shot shows the Painter window maximized on a 17" monitor with resolution set at  1024 x 758. The palette arrangement allows a 500 x 500 pixel Canvas to be centered on the screen at 100% with room to open its window enough
to see the Canvas' edges. It's important to be able to arrange the Canvas this way since the Painter interface is "frozen" while another Net Painter participant controls Painter, and you'll want to see what's happening in the palettes. For instance, when
the other participant creates a Layer, changes Brushes or Colors, you'll want to watch. (Although you won't see the Art Materials palette's Color Picker when it's covered by
the Objects palette, you'll see the color change in the Controls palette, positioned below the Canvas.)

Since I don't use the Color Set, it's not shown in the screen shot. Instead, I use the Color Picker, found in the Art Materials palette. Notice that the Objects palette is covering the Art Materials palette. This doesn't create a problem since we can use keystroke combinations to show/hide (toggle) the palettes while we have control of Painter during a Net Painter session (as well as in non-session use). Here are the keystrokes to show/hide each palette:

Tools - Ctrl-1 • Brushes - Ctrl-2 • Art Materials - Ctrl-3 • Objects - Ctrl-4
Controls - Ctrl-5 •Color Set • Ctrl-6, Brush Controls - Ctrl-7

To help you remember things like the keystroke combinations, print this page and have it available while you're in your first Net Painter session, and practice the keystrokes a bit before beginning the session if you're not already used to them. 

Have fun! :o)

 
Jinny Brown September 10, 2000
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