Working with PhotoLine 32
 
PhotoLine 32 is a well desinged 32 bit Windows95/98/NT program. 
It looks like every Windows application should look like, Menus on the top, Tool Bar with icons below, a Tool Bar (Tool Box) on the left side and a Status Bar at the bottom. 
 
PhotoLine has additionally: 
- The Color Field, where you can select one of all available colors 
- The Tool Options dialog, where you can setup the Tools from the Tool Bar. It differs, 
depending on the selected tool 
- The Picture Info Box, it gives informations about the current mouse position 
- The Color List Field, where you can save your prefered color palette 
- The Brush List Field, where you can save your prefered brushes 
- The Layer Panel, where you can see and change the actual layers of your image 
- The Map, where you can see the whole image and where you can place the actual view and set the actual zoom 
- The Action Panel, where you can save your prefered actions. 

Since sometimes people need very much working area, PhotoLine 32 can hide all additional dialog with View/Hide Panel (or simply click Tab). 

Some of the panels are dockable (Tool Bar, Color Field, Tool Options, Picture Info, Color List Field, Brush List Field). The advantage of this is, that they stay on their place, even if you move or size the main window of PhotoLine 32 and they do not need a title bar. If you don't like this, you can click on the small border of the dialogs and drag them where ever you want, they will become normal dialogs if you leave the borders of the PhotoLine 32 main window. 

Some of the panels are sizeable (Layer Panel, Map, Action Panel). You can scale them to the size you want. 

Some tools of the Tool Bar have a red button in the lower right edge. This tools have several functions. You can click on them and keep pressing the mouse button, after a second a popup apears with all selectable functions. 

 
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