Search TipsQuick Palettes and Pie Menu
While painting, you can instantly access the Shelf, Colors, Paint Target, and Image Manager quick palettes, as well as the Pie menu. You can open these quick palettes by pressing and holding the keys listed below. The quick palettes display under your mouse cursor. As soon as you release the keys, the quick palettes disappear for you to resume painting. This allows you to have easy access to brushes, images, and so on. It also gives you the ability to select, among others, your objects, channels, and paint targets.
Mari contains the following quick palettes:
• The Pie menu - a configurable on-screen menu that selects common brush tips or color settings. By default, the Pie menu only contains the Paint Buffer Eraser tool.
For more information, see Using the Pie Selection Control.
• The Shelf quick palette - stores customized shelves of brushes, colors, and images. You can also share them with others.
For more information,
Video: Watch the demo.
• The Image Manager quick palette - stores and works with images in your project, including using them for brushes and painting through them onto your model.
For more information,
• The Colors quick palette - lets you view and change colors. The bar on the right shows the selected color (without a border - so you can compare directly with what's already painted). You can also select a color and fill your selection(s) by dragging-and-dropping any color swatch on the canvas. The Colors quick palette contains four tabs: Picker, Sliders, Values, and Gray.
For more information,
• The Paint Target quick palette - quickly selects objects, channels and their paint targets including layers and individual layer masks.
For more information, see Using the Paint Target Quick Palette.
Displaying the Quick Palettes
To display the quick palettes while painting, use the following shortcuts:
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To display the following ... |
... With the mouse over the canvas, press and hold |
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Pie menu |
F9 |
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Shelf quick palette |
K |
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Image Manager quick palette |
L |
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Colors quick palette |
J |
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Paint target quick palette |
I |
