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Viewing Images Overview

There are several concepts you need to understand in order to get the most out of viewing your images, which will be explained in this section.

• Drop images are organized into inspections.
• The main image viewing area is divided into Canvas, Well, Drop and Compare sub-tabs.
• The Image Navigator is a tool at the bottom of the screen that will help you move through your images.
• You can annotate, zoom in, and set regions of interest on your images via Images Tools.
• There are two ways to score images; the easiest is to press a number on your keyboard while viewing an image.
• Image scheduling, imaging settings and management tasks are easily accessed from the Imaging node on the Explorer tree.

Getting Started

To open the Images view, in the Experiment contextual tab set, click the View tab, and click the Image View button in the Canvas Mode group.

Image View button on Experiment contextual tab set

OR

Click the Image View button on the View bar.

View Bar -- Image View Button Highlighted

When Rock Maker is in Images view, the Canvas tab will display one drop image for every well. For multi-drop plates, you can view use the Well tab while you move around your plate. These images are thumbnails of the original well images that give you a quick glimpse at the contents of the wells.

You can save the thumbnail view by right-clicking a well and selecting Save Thumbnail.

Note: When you switch to the Images view and the plate has an imaging setting associated with it, Rock Maker will show that imaging setting by default.

Related Topics

• Well, Drop, and Compare Tabs
• Images Tools
• Image Tuning
• Inspections
• Navigators
• Scoring