Reading this Help
All help sections are written in HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language). That means you can displace yourself by following the hyperlinks. A hyperlink is a connection from a World Wide Web page to another file on the World Wide Web. But on this particular help document the links generally lead you to other pages on the same document (The one you're actually reading !).
Everytime you see one or more words that appear in white and that the pointer of your mouse changes appearance into a pointing hand, clicking on the words in white will send you to another page giving you more info about a particular subject. The hyperlinks of the pages you have already visited will appear to you in purple. To remove all the purple links from the history list of the Microsoft Explorer do (in the Internet Explorer naturally) View > Internet Options > Clear History.1
Online help is organize in a way to help you find the info you require by comparing the "place" within Photonyx interface where you had a question. Thus if you want to know how the different options of the many filters influence the rendered special effect you should follow the recursive navigation into Photonx you made to arrive to the filter.
Example : If to open a filter in Photonyx you do ...
Commands Dock > F/X > Add Noise... do exactly the same navigation to find the place where the info relative to a particular item is hidden !
In the online help book follow : Commands > F/X > Add Noise.
You got it? The online help is organized in the same way as the interface.
This help contains a navigation bar to help you surf through this virtual help site easier (on the top layer !)
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simply allow you to navigate as if you were turning page in a book |
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brings you back to the previous page, the one you came from and : |
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takes you forward in your history list. |
 The left-frame features a comprehensive table of contents.
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You know when you
can click on one of the buttons listed above because the pointer of your mouse changes
appearance into a pointing hand.
Each single page of this help is related to a specific topic or subtopic. The information it contains is separated in three different sections.
when available gives you a
short but interesting introduction about the theory related to each subject related to the
tool, command or palette your looking for.
gives you straight
explanation about the program utilization. Providing step by step description, screenshots
of dialog boxes, aso.
Section gathers all tricks to improve your
work efficiency. This section is supposed to grow considerably with implementation of
consumers feedback and software development.
Introduces you an important note so pay close
attention !
In most cases you'll find near the top of the page a small bulletted index that when clicked sends you directly to a specific subtopic on the current page or to another document into this online help. This index will look like the this :
Example of index
- Subtopic 1
- Subtopic 2
- and so on ...
To get the information you want simply click on the subtopic you want or scroll down the text for more (Sometimes the info you want is not on the same page so you have no choice but following hyperlinks !).
To go back to the top of the page,
| click the | |
icon. Anytime ! |
Maybe the most easy way to discover both help files and Photonyx is to navigate this help starting at the page discribing the interface and then follow the image maps links.
But there's another way to have a quick start...
First take a look on the essetials of Photonyx. To get a quick start click
the 
icon on
the top frame.
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