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    Default switching main to additional color with keystroke

    Is there a way to switch from the main color to the additional or secondary color with a keystroke....?
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    Default Re: switching main to additional color with keystroke

    Hi Hone, welcome to TalkGraphics.

    If you are talking about the color nodes for a fill, use the Tab Key to move between them.
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    Default Re: switching main to additional color with keystroke

    Quote Originally Posted by Soquili View Post
    Hi Hone, welcome to TalkGraphics.

    If you are talking about the color nodes for a fill, use the Tab Key to move between them.
    I'm referring to the two colors at the bottom of the tool bar... the main and additional color... used for gradations, etc. I draw with white and black on a Cintiq and would like to be able to switch the pencil point from black to white with a click of the stylus button. Possible in Photoshop, but I can't seem to figure it out in Painter. Is there a way... a keystroke or keystroke combination that switches the two colors?
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    Default Re: switching main to additional color with keystroke

    Hi

    go to edit >preferences > customise keys

    in the dropdown box for 'shortcuts' select 'other'

    click on 'swap colors' in the 'application commands list'

    enter the keystroke you want to use - there will be a message at the bottom if this is already in use

    [in my painter IX there appears to be a bug whereby the default keystroke for swap colors is set to shift+s but this does not work because it is also used for save - however changing it to an unused keystroke [eg shift+k] does work]
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    Default Re: switching main to additional color with keystroke

    Thanks so much! Shift S does work in the trial version I'm trying out. Beautiful...!!!

    I tried Cntrl and Alt with all the keys... Should of continued with the shift key... but it is good to know about the function assignment menu...
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    Default Re: switching main to additional color with keystroke

    glad you got it working

    EDIT: - looking at it again I don't think its a bug I think I have reassigned in the past and forgotten about it, as the defaults for 'save' and 'save as' are of course ctrl+s and cntrl+shift+s
    Last edited by handrawn; 22 February 2012 at 05:30 PM.
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