PhotoPlus X2 User Guide - Serif

32 Understanding the Workspace
Working with PhotoPlus windows
PhotoPlus provides a multiple-document interface (MDI) that lets you open more
than one image at a time. Each image appears in its own image window with the
file name displayed in the window's title bar. The image windows are surrounded
by the PhotoPlus main window, which includes the toolbars, Context toolbar and
tab windows and whose title bar displays the name of the active image—the image
in the currently selected image window.
The Window menu lets you arrange the open image windows in various ways:
• Click Cascade to arrange the windows as overlapping tiles.
• Click Tile to arrange the windows as non-overlapping tiles. This is a useful
mode when you need to make side-by-side comparisons of two images.
• Click Arrange Icons to arrange any minimized windows along the bottom of
the workspace.
The Window menu also lists the names of open windows, with the current window
checked. Click a window's name to switch to it.
Working with toolbars and tabs
The toolbars and tab windows (tabs for short) group together related controls and
settings, and are essential features of the PhotoPlus environment.
When you first launch PhotoPlus, it opens with
the toolbars and tabs all visible in default
positions, with certain tabs "docked" or joined
together. You can hide, show, or move them
individually as needed, and dock or undock the
tabs. Your tab positions, sizes and docking
settings can be stored using tab workspace
management.
Chances are you'll want to keep the Tools toolbar and Standard toolbar visible, but
if your display area is large enough you might consider moving the Tools toolbar
to a horizontal position alongside the Standard toolbar—or "floating" it as a