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Hi Douglas,
GIMP is free and similar to Photoshop so I can't see a problem running that
with the confocal LMS 510 software if that's what they wish to do. We have
both GIMP and Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 installed on our 510 MetaHead
confocal system.
However for just adding text and arrows and moveable scalable boxes why not
use the LMS 510 software itself to annotate the images, after all it has
text, arrows, boxes, freedraw ROIs, change colours options etc.. It's all
there in the image window via the Overlay button. You can import any
standard photo image via LMS 510's File, Import option as well as directly
capture confocal images and annotate them as well. So you can have your
whole brain annoted images within the same software as the image capture. I
find LMS 510 easier (quicker) than GIMP or Photoshop for this sort of thing
(plus you can add a scale bar, and all this available for free offline on
the Office PC as well via Zeiss LMS Browser - Windows PCs only).
Hope this helps.
Regards
Keith
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I have a user here who has requested that I install GIMP on our LSM510
confocal. He has some low-mag images of brain (acquired elsewhere) that he
wants to annotate as he jumps up in mag to capture his confocal images from
specific areas. I have had Infranview on the system as a file viewer, but
it doesn't allow him to add boxes or move them around with text. Nothing
against GIMP, but it's overkill for what he needs to do. Is there a Windows
XP compatible freeware that you could recommend?
Doug
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