Getting help

Although Ultra Fractal has been carefully designed to be as easy to use as possible, you will probably 

need to refer to this help file from time to time, especially while you are learning to use the program.

Click the Help button in the toolbar, click Help on the Help menu, or press F1, to get help on 

  the currently active document window.

The Help menu also provides links to other major chapters in the help file that you might want to 

explore. The help file is divided into three major sections:

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Tutorials

If you are new to Ultra Fractal, or to its animation features, you should take some time to do 

the included 

tutorials

. This is the easiest and most enjoyable way to get to know Ultra 

Fractal.

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Reference chapters

After you have finished the tutorials, or any time you want to know something, the reference 

chapters provide in depth information on any of Ultra Fractal s features, such as the 

workspace

, 

fractal windows

, 

gradients

, 

formulas

, and 

layers

. You can access any of these 

from the table of contents in the help window.

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Writing formulas

In case you are interested in writing your own fractal formulas, the Writing formulas chapter 

contains a short tutorial and a complete reference for the formula language used by Ultra 

Fractal. See 

Help for formula authors

 for more information. 

Next: 

Context sensitive help

See Also

Tutorials

Workspace

Support

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