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

Ch. 8 – Viewing, Editing, and Annotating ImagesTextText - Add text to the image.1. Either select Text>Text from the Object menu, or click on the Tools box button.2. Left click at the point where you want to insert the text. The Text window appears.3. Enter the text.4. Click on OK. The text box appears.5. Resize the box as needed to display the text.Current Date - Add the current date to the image. This date defaults to the date set on the computer you areusing.Current Time - Add the current time to the image. This time defaults to the time set on the computer youare using.Image Date - Add a date to the image. This date defaults to the date that the image was captured. Tochange the date, double click on the box, and enter the desired date.Image Time - Add the image capture time to the image. This time defaults to the time that the image wascaptured. To change the time, double click on the box, and enter a new time. The time that appears herevaries according to whether the file was transferred across a network, and whether the file is a SPOTdatabase image. Refer to the Image Date/Time section of this chapter for more details.Image Title - Add a title to the image. The title automatically defaults to the file name and location of theopen image, e.g., C:\images\cells\fluor1. To change the title, double click on the box and enter a new title.Image Memo – Add a previously defined TIFF image memo. Click at the point where you want to insert thetext box. To change the memo, double click on the box and modify the text as needed. Changing the text inthe memo annotation does not affect a memo that is attached to the image file.Image Sequence Index (sequence images) - Add the Sequence Index (number) to the image. This is thenumber of the image within the sequence – i.e., the Sequence Index for the first image in the sequence is“1,” the second image “2,” etc…Image Sequence Size (sequence images) – Add the total number of images in the sequence to the image.Image Sequence Elapsed Time (sequence images) – Add the elapsed time between the image beingannotated and an image that you specify. After selecting Object>Text>Image Sequence Elapsed Time,the program prompts you to enter the Reference Image Index Number. If you specify a number thatcomes after the image being annotated, the elapsed time will be negative. For instance, if you areannotating image number five in a sequence of 10, and you specify a Reference Image… of eight, theelapsed time will be a negative value.User Name – Add the user’s name to the image. This defaults to the user who is logged on the computer.AutoNumber – Adds numbering to the image starting at 1 and incrementing by 1 for each click of themouse. Good for counting and tracking objects in an image. You may elect to change the starting number toa value greater than one by defining Autonumber’s attributes (see section below).166 User Guide to the SPOT Insight Camera