Tecnai on-line help manual -- Options - UT Southwestern

<strong>Tecnai</strong> on-line help Options 32Options Software version 23 TEM Photomontage (FP5456/00)3.1 IntroductionA photomontage consists of a series of images that together make one large image. The advantage of amontage over a lower-magnification image is the fact that the individual images of the montage arerecorded at higher magnification and thus allow resolving finer details. By photomontage it is possible,for example, to record detailed images and still allow an overview of the whole specimen areainvestigated. A photomontage can in principle be executed by hand. It is, however, difficult to ensure thatsufficient overlap exists between the images to avoid gaps in the montage and at the same timeminimize the number of images needed. The TEM Photomontage option makes it possible to define andautomatically execute recording of a complete photomontage.3.2 Getting startedThe TEM Photomontage option consists of two parts:• The Photomontage Control Panel.• The Photomontage Display window.To use the TEM Photomontage first use the <strong>Tecnai</strong> Workspace layout to drag the Photomontage ControlPanel into a workset. Go to the tab of the workset and press the Display button in the PhotomontageControl Panel. The Photomontage Display window will be loaded and its functionality become available.You can leave the Photomontage Control Panel in your workset for future use. The Display window willonly be loaded when the Display button is pressed.The major part of the Photomontage functionality is present only in the Display window. The ControlPanel also provides rapid access to the more often-used functions.3.3 Photomontage Control PanelPhotomontage ontrolpanels for Plate (left) andCCD (right) as recordingmedium.The Photomontage Control Panel contains two sets of functions for photomontage:• Functions that load the Photomontage Display window (a separate window that is typicallypositioned in the data space of the <strong>Tecnai</strong> User Interface) or determine its size.• Functions that give rapid access to often-used photomontage functions.