Paint Shop Pro's palettes contain the tools, tool options, command history, colors and materials, layers, and other features and properties you use to do your work. Display or hide palettes, or arrange them on the workspace. Dock a palette to snap it into place at an edge of a workspace, or to float it to move it anywhere on the screen.
Paint Shop Pro contains these palettes:
Materials palette Select colors and materials for painting, drawing, filling, and retouching. See Using the Materials Palette.
Tool Options palette Modify options for the currently selected tool. See Setting Tool Options.
Layers palette View, organize, and edit image layers. See About Layers.
History palette Lists the actions taken on the current image, allows you to undo and redo adjacent or non-adjacent actions, and allows you to create Quickscripts. See About the History Palette.
Mixer palette Place and mix pigments for use with the Art Media tools, allowing you to create realistic oil paint strokes, as well as chalk, colored pencil, and marker strokes. See Using the Mixer Palette.
Learning Center palette Displays tutorials for common tasks. See Using the Quick Guides to Learn Common Tasks.
Histogram palette Displays a graph of the distribution of red, green, blue, greyscale, hue, saturation, and lightness values in an image. Analyze the distribution of detail in the shadows, midtones, and highlights to decide how to make corrections. See Using the Histogram to Analyze Images.
Overview palette Displays a thumbnail view of the active image, as well as information about the image. See Using the Overview Palette.
Script Output palette Displays actions you take and the results of running scripts. See About the Script Output Window.
Brush Variance palette Sets additional brush options. This palette is particularly useful if you have a 4D mouse or a pressure-sensitive tablet. For example, you can vary the opacity of a brush stroke by applying pressure with the stylus. You can use some options with a mouse.
To display or hide a palette:
Do one of the following:
Choose View > Palette and choose the palette name.
Type the palette’s shortcut key (listed to the right of the name).
Right-click any palette and choose the palette name from the context menu.
To set a palette's roll up options:
On the palette:
To allow the palette to roll
up when the cursor moves off it, click the Auto Hide pushpin button so
that it points to the left 
.
To keep the palette open
even when the cursor moves off it, click the Auto Hide pushpin button
so that it points down 
.
For information about setting palette locking preferences, see Palettes Preferences.
To set the docking preference of palettes:
Access the Palettes tab of the Preferences dialog by doing one of the following:
Choose View > Docking Options; or
Choose File > Preferences > General Program Preferences, and click the Palettes tab of the dialog.
In the Allow docking of area, mark the check boxes of the palettes you want to dock automatically when you drag them to the edge of the workspace.
To resize a palette:
Click and drag a corner or an edge, or use the Minimize and Maximize buttons in the upper right corner.