Hi there, Im somewhat new to painter. I’ve been usin photoshop for years and am trying to swich over to painter for most of my painting work since the rushes are great.
I cant seem to find a shortcut for flipping my forground an background colours though. In Photoshop its just “D”. is there a similar shortcut in painter I just dont know about, or can you not do this?
Thanks!
Forground/background swatch flipping shortcut?
Acceler8
#1
dbisme
#2
All the default Painter shortcuts can be found in Edit\Preferences\Customize Keys You can custimize the shortcuts yourself and save them as shortcut sets (or keysets as they call them). Not sure how to set up the swap colours, but if it’s possible, here is where you do it.
Even if you go to the Painter Help and search for ‘colour swatch’, it just says to use the double ended curved arrow to swap foreground and background.
Cheers
Doug
Fes
#3
Painters help menu is the worst for trying to find something if you don’t know what exactly what they’ve called the action (which is often something you wouldn’t guess). In the help menu they called what you want to do “Toggle Between Main and Additional Colors”… like you’d guess that! Painter doesn’t call that the background colour (the background is the paper colour) they call it ‘Additional colour’ just to be different. 
Admittedly it might not be exactly what you want as it actually swaps the colour positions, from front to back.
Anyway to ‘Toggle’ from foreground to additional colour the keyboard shortcut is Shift + X (it’s same on both Mac and PC). They’ve also assigned the same action (but called it Swap colours) to Shift + S. Dunno why.
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