To switch between the Main and Additional colors when using the color selector, click the Options menu, and choose Swap Colors. The color is displayed as the current color. Inside the Hue Ring, click the Saturation/Value Triangle to set the exact shade that you want. In the color selector, click a color on the Hue Ring. In the color selector, click the Options menu, and choose Pin.Ī check mark indicates that the color selector is pinned. For information about creating custom palettes, see Creating and modifying custom palettes. To make it available in all layouts, you can add it to a custom palette. To display the color selector in the Simple layout ( Window Layout Simple), you can click the Color Selector button in the toolbox.īy default, the Color Selector tool is available only in the toolbox of the Simple layout. The Main Color and Additional Color swatches in the Color panel

You can also display the temporal color selector by double-clicking the Main or Additional Color swatches in the Color panel. If you are using a Wacom tablet, you can also assign a shortcut to the stylus button. When unpinned, the temporal color selector appears under your cursor. When you display the color selector for the fist time, it appears in the center of the document window every subsequent time, it appears where you last placed it.

In the Customize Keys dialog box, choose Other from the Shortcuts for (macOS) or Shortcuts (Windows) list box, click Toggle Color Selector, and enter a new shortcut key in the Shortcut column and click OK. You can customize the keyboard shortcut for displaying the color selector by choosing Corel Painter 2020 menu Preferences (macOS) or Edit Preferences (Windows), and choosing Customize Keys. Press Command + Option + 1 (macOS) or Ctrl + Alt + 1 (Windows). You can also configure the color selector for left-handed artists. You can easily move the color selector in the document window and resize it to take a closer look at colors. The color selector is available both as a temporal palette that disappears after you pick a color and click in the document window and as a palette that can stay open as long as you need it. You can also enable the Clone Color option from the color selector. When you interact with the Hue Ring or the Saturation/Value triangle in the color selector, the left half of the color swatch displays a preview of the new color and the right half shows the existing color. You can preview a new color before selecting it. The top of the triangle is the highest value (white), and the bottom is the lowest value (black). Dragging or clicking to the left reduces the level of color saturation, producing 'muddier' or grayer colors. Dragging or clicking to the right increases the saturation and produces purer colors within the predominant hue. Saturation levels can be set from left to right. The Options button (4) lets you access useful commands for unpinning the color selector, enabling Clone Color, swapping the main and additional colors, and enabling left-handed mode. The current color (2) is displayed in a round swatch to the left of the Saturation/Value Triangle. The Saturation/Value Triangle (3) lets you specify the intensity of the color as well as, black, white, or shades of gray. The Hue Ring (1) lets you choose a color.

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