2D Image Processing

Single images may be enhanced, cropped, resized, labelled and generally alterred using a number of specialized and off the shelf programs.

• Laser Sharp: pic files only. Advanced processing. Only on OS/2 systems.
• Confocal Assistant: pic, tif or bmp format files. Simply processing.
• LViewPro: good for resizing and cropping and very simple processing. pic, tif or bmp format files, but not Bio-rad pic format.
• Photoshop: great for single image enhancements, color merging and general image processing. Supports bmp, tif and many other commonly used image formats but not bio-rad pic images.
• bmfunctions: command line programs process single bitmaps or bitmap stacks or time lapse bitmap series. These programs bam be used from a DOS Box provided by Windows95 or WindowsNT (32 bit DMPI DOS box) and use command line parameters to perform specific tasks. Note that pic format images must first be converted to bitmap series using Confocal Assistant or pic2bmp.exe and can be converted back into pic format using bmp2pic.exe.

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