3. Basics of PhotoLine
3.8 The Parts of a Typical Dialog
3.8.1 Basics
In PhotoLine all dialogs allowing editing of images have a common
structure. They usually look like this:

It
contains the following parts:
- the management of the presets (see chapter 3.8.2)
- the settings of the given dialog
- the preview (see chapter 3.8.3)
- the button for shrinking the dialog

- Modern
computers are very fast, so often a small preview in a dialog is
often no longer needed, because the full preview in the document
window is fast enough. Therefore the shrink-button allows to hide the
dialog preview making the whole dialog smaller.
- the switch for the full preview

- If
the switch for the full preview is turned on, the result of the current
dialog settings are Āshown in the document window immediately after a
setting is modified.
- Sometimes beside the full preview switch there is a button Proof. This
button is used with functions, that perform rather long operations which
may lead to a unacceptable slow recalculation of the full preview. In this
case Proof can be used to manually create a preview after all settings
have been made.
- the reset button

- Pushing
the reset button will replace the current settings with the
standard values of the active function. Holding the Shift-key while
pushing Reset will enter the values, that were set when calling the
function.
- the button "Create Adjustment Layer"

- Pushing
Create Adjustment Layer doesn't modify the current image
directly. Instead a adjustment layer (see chapter 2.9) is created
equivalent to the active function. By holding Shift while pressing the
button, the new adjustment layer will be grouped with the active image
layer.
- Not every function can be used as a adjustment layer, too.