SPOT 4.1 Basic and Advanced Software Manual for SPOT Insight ...

Ch. 8 – Viewing, Editing, and Annotating Images1. Position the magnifying glass in the center of the area that you want to zoom in on.2. Zoom to either 8x or 16x. If you are using the Zoom Level option, select a percentage of 800 orgreater.3. From the View menu, select the Show Grid Lines option. Grid lines appear around each pixel.Show Pan WindowShow Pan Window enables you to navigate around an image while zoomed in at highmagnifications. When you select the Show Pan Window option, the program highlights your location inrelation to the whole image. A “color negative” area represents the zoomed-in area of the image over thesmaller version of the image in the Pan Window. By moving the highlighted area around the pan window,you can explore the image, piece by piece.Without the Show Pan Window option, the process of moving to a new point while in high magnificationwould involve several steps:1. Zooming in to the first area of interest.2. Zooming out to determine where you are.3. Determining a new area of interest.4. Re-zooming in to the new area of interest.To use the pan window, follow these steps:1. From the View menu, select Show Pan Window:Note: The pan window can be opened at any level of magnification; however, the obvious value ofpan is only evident at higher levels of image magnification.The pan window appears,superimposed upon theimage. The illustration tothe right shows the panwindow as it is used whenzoomed in on an image.2. Position the cursor on theimage in the pan window: itchanges from a magnifyingglass to a four arrow pointer.3. To move to a different areaof the image, either left clickon the rectangle and drag itto the new location, or leftclick on the new location.Show Sequence ControlsThe Show Sequence Controls option displays the play controls for image sequences. This option appearsonly when an image sequence is open. Using the Image Sequence dialog you can:• Play all or part of an image sequence in forward or reverse order.• Set the display interval between images.• Set the action that takes when the image sequence finishes playing – i.e., stop, restart, or reverse.Refer to the Working With Image Sequences section for details.134 User Guide to the SPOT Insight Camera