To give you the freedom to work in your own style, Corel® Painter™ lets you create custom palettes that contain exactly the features you want. Because the features on a custom palette are immediately available, you can choose them with a single click. You can place items from the Brush Selector bar, any of the six content selectors (papers, patterns, looks, weaves, nozzles, or gradients), Library palettes, or Script palette on a custom palette. You can also add any menu command, such as File menu > New, to a custom palette.

You may want to create special palettes for a particular project or workflow that you use frequently. You can create a whole series of palettes and switch between them as you change projects or workflows. There is no limit to the number of custom palettes you can create. Corel Painter saves them from session to session, so you can access the necessary tools immediately whenever you sit down to work.

Items that appear on a custom palette are references (aliases or shortcuts) to the original. This means that if you change the original—for example, by modifying and saving a brush variant—the custom palette button loads the newest version. However, if you delete the original, Corel Painter won't be able to find the item again to load on the custom palette.

If the item you want is represented in a palette with an icon, you can create a new palette just by dragging the icon out of the palette. This works for brush variants, art materials (gradients, paper textures, patterns, and weaves), nozzles, looks, and scripts. For menu items, the process is different. You cannot add tools from the main toolbox to custom palettes.

To create a custom palette

•	Drag an icon or button out of its palette or out of the Brush Selector bar. Corel Painter creates a custom palette that contains an icon for the item you dragged. In this case, an Artists' Oils brush was dragged from the Brush Selector bar.

To add items to a custom palette

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Drag icons or buttons onto the custom palette. Notice that there can be more than one brush with the same icon. The icon visually represents the brush category, even though it activates a specific variant. When you point to the icon, a screen tip tells you which specific variant the icon represents.

To create a custom palette from a menu command

1.	Choose Window menu > Custom Palette > Add Command.
2.	In the Add Command dialog box, from the Add To pop-up menu, choose New.
3.	With the Add Command dialog box open, choose the menu item you want.
4.	Click OK.

To add menu commands to a custom palette

1.	Choose Window menu > Custom Palette > Add Command.
2.	In the Add Command dialog box, from the Add To pop-up menu, choose the custom palette to which you want to add a menu command.
3.	With the Add Command dialog box open, choose the menu item you want.
4.	Click OK.

To rearrange the layout in a custom palette

To delete an item from a custom palette

To rename a custom palette

1.	Choose Window menu > Custom Palette > Organizer.
2.	In the Custom Palette Organizer, select a palette in the Custom Palette list.
3.	Click Rename.
4.	Type a new name in the Palette Name dialog box.