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Customizing Your Workspace in Paint Shop Pro X - Part Two

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Overview of Toolbars, Palettes, Keyboard Shortcuts

All toolbars and palettes open
The image here shows PSP X with alltoolbars and palettes shown. As you can see, this leaves a very small image area. Not good! To solve that problem, visibility for most toolbars and palettes can toggled on or off (hidden) as needed. Most toolbars and palettes can also be moved, resized, docked or floated. Buttons can be added or deleted.

There are 8 toolbars in PSP X: Menu, Standard, Status, Tool, Effects, Photo, Script and Web. You can selectively choose which ones to display or keep hidden. See Part One of Customizing Your Workspace for more about toolbars.

PSP X contains 11 palettes. Some new, some redesigned. To choose which palettes to display or keep hidden, you can…

  • Select View > Palettes from the main menu. Select-check the palette you wish to be visible; or
  • right click any toolbar, select Palettes from menu; or
  • select F10 on the keyboard to toggle visibility on-off.
  • You can also add a Palette button to any toolbar with a drop down palette list.

Keyboard shortcuts: If a shortcut is available for a command, it will be displayed in the right column of all text menus. You can find a list of all keyboard shortcuts under Help > Keyboard Map. You can also create your own keyboard shortcuts. Right click any toolbar, the title bar of any palette or left click the View menu and select Customize. The Keyboard tab is where you assign new shortcut keys.

Tip: A list of keyboard shortcut keys can be printed using the Print button of the Keyboard Map for each category.
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