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

Ch. 4 – Advanced Program ModeFile Name PrefixThis prefix appears before the number of each imagecapture in the sequence. To enter the File Name Prefix,you can:• Type only the name (e.g., Cell) in the box. Theprogram automatically saves the image to the lastused directory. If you specify the prefix only, youcannot see exactly where the files are being saved.Thus, to avoid having to search for your files, youshould verify the location of the last save.• Type the full path and file name (e.g.,C:\Spotcam\T-cells) in the box to specify thelocation of the image. When entering the file pathand name, you can also specify a new directorysimply by entering it in the path (e.g.,C:\Spotcam\Cells\T-Cells).• Click on the browse button to select a new filelocation and file name (prefix). All of the image filesare saved with the prefix that you enter. Thus, ifyour Suffix Begin Number (see below) is one, the filename for the image would be T-Cells0001.FormatSuffix BeginNumberJPEG Quality(1-100)Compression(JPEG2000)Select the file format for the sequence of images.• For individual files, there are six options: Windows Bitmap, JPEG, Mac PICT, TIFFUncompressed TIFF JPEG, or JPEG2000.• For image sequences there are two options: TIFF Uncompressed or TIFF JPEG.Select the beginning number for image auto-save.The Begin Number automatically defaults to the first number that follows the previous sequence ofimages. So, if you captured a sequence of 10 images, 11 would appear as the Begin Number whenyou next opened the Get Sequential Images window.The program prefaces numbers with enough zeros to create a four character suffix. For example, ifyou have 35 images, the first image suffix will be 0001 and the last image suffix will be 0035. Thisenables Windows to correctly order images, so that Growth_Sequence0002 appears beforeGrowth_Sequence1000, and not the other way around.JPEG quality is the level of compression for JPEG images: this option is available only when JPEGor TIFF JPEG is selected as the image file format. Enter an integer between 1 and 100 to set theJPEG quality for images. A value of one is the most compressed (and lowest image quality), whilea value of 100 is the least compressed (and highest image quality).When the JPEG2000 file format is selected, the Image Auto-Save Setup dialog displayscompression options:• Lossless – Information is not lost when the image is compressed.• Lossy – Information is lost according to the ratio that you enter: the higher the ratio that youenter, the smaller the file size and the lower the quality of the image.82 User Guide to the SPOT Insight Camera