ImagePro>Re: copy pseudo-color window??

Since I started using the Measure|Surface Plot function with the rotation and elevation angles set to zero for pseudocolor, I haven't used the Process|Pseudo-Color functionvery often. With the Surface Plot, you don't have the ability to set the number of gray levels quantitatively, but I find it much easier to select colors, and by being able to switch to the "Shaded" style, I can get a visual enhancement that's sometimes useful, or by increasing the number of "spins" I can enhance low contrast areas. If it seems useful, I can tweak the elevation and rotation for the 3D look, including sometimes using an elevation angle of 0-deg to get a sort of profile representation that at times is useful - especially when also shaded. I can do it all interactively, so it's easy to try different tweaks to get a representation that emphasizes what I want to emphasize. Finally, under the "Output" tab, you can output to the printer, to the clipboard, or to a new image in IPWin.

Not being able to set the number of graylevels quantitatively hasn't been a problem for my needs, but I can do so subjectively using the sliders in the "Surface" tab. In the one or two cases where I wanted to adjust the pseudocolor image to leave the image in grayscale over part of the range and pseudocolored over a specific numerically determined range, I've used the Process|Pseudo-Color function. When I do that, I use a shareware third party screen grabber called SnagIt that lets me just capture to the clipboard. In fact, that's how I document my work in my lab book - I screen capture steps in my process from IPWin using SnagIt - usually in the "capture window contents" mode - and paste into an open PowerPoint document which I save as an electronic archive, and also then print to paste into my lab book. I can adjust the size or resolution of the capture by zooming in IPWin - unfortuantely only in discrete 2X steps. Works for me, and lets me thus capture any element in IPWin - histograms, profiles, measurement windows, menus, etc.

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