Edit > Undo

Displays current image as it looked like before the most recent transformation.

Edit > Redo

Returns to the image, that was displayed before calling the Undo command.

Edit > Undo Swap

This command is designed for comparing images before and after the last performed adjustment. If you call this command twice, it behaves like invoking Undo , followed by Redo, so you see the newest image of the command history.

Calling this command, all undo history items except the current one and the original will be taken back.

There is a list of performed image operation in the submenu. Selecting one, you roll back through the command history to the image version after the operation selected. Calling this command, all newer versions than the one you are returning to will be discarded.

This command restores original appearance of the image (as it was acquired or opened) but keeps the other layers (binaries, ROIs, ...) intact.

Edit > Copy

Copies the content of the current image window to the clipboard. The current image can contain several layers (e.g. binary layer, interactive length measurement results...). All these additional elements are copied along with the color image. The actual zoom settings do not affect the clipboard content, it is always the entire image copied.

Allows you to select a rectangle within the picture window and then copies it to clipboard. The cross-style cursor appears.

Figure 1681. 

First, a copy-rectangle cursor appears. You should select a rectangle you want to copy: position the cursor to the upper-left corner and then press and hold down the primary mouse button while moving the cursor to the bottom-right corner of the rectangle. Then, release the mouse button. If you are in Overlay mode, it copies the binary image too. Confirm the selection with right click or by pressing Enter.

Allows you to select the most recently used rectangle selection within the picture window and then copies it to clipboard. A copy-rectangle cursor appears with dimensions of the most recently used rectangle. Adjust the rectangle dimensions and position when needed and confirm the selection by one secondary mouse button click or by pressing Enter.

Edit > Paste As New Image

This command creates a new image, and inserts the clipboard content into it. The new image is called 'New Image 1, 2, ...'.

This command takes clipboard content and appends it to the current image as a new channel/channels. The behaviour of this command depends on the type of images used:

This command takes clipboard content and appends it to the current image as the Brightfield channel. The bright field channel can contain monochromatic or RGB images.

This command pastes clipboard content into a selected channel. The original channel contents is replaced by the pasted.

Enables positioning of the upper-left corner followed by pasting from clipboard. The paste-origin cursor appears. You can not modify the rectangle selection. Confirm the position with the secondary mouse button.

Enables positioning and resizing of a rectangle that keeps the aspect of an image to be pasted from clipboard. After positioning and resizing, press the secondary mouse button to paste the image.

Enables rectangle selection of current image followed by pasting from clipboard. If the selection area does not match the clipboard image dimensions, the image will be stretched to fit the selection. You are able to modify the rectangle selection.

Performs a freehand cut operation on the current image. To finish region definition, press the secondary mouse button. The region will be cut out.

This command cuts out a circle shaped area from the current image.

This command enables you to cut an automatically detected area and store it to clipboard.

Performs a freehand copy operation on the current color image. To finish region definition, press the secondary mouse button. The region will be copied to clipboard.

This command enables you to copy a circle-shaped area to clipboard.

This command enables you to copy an automatically detected area to clipboard.

Pastes the previously copied region to the image. You can freely change the image position and rotation.

Allows to modify the current cut fill color and enables the user to draw a freehand region from the current image.

Figure 1682. 

After you press the Draw Region button, mouse cursor changes. Draw a region boundary and confirm it with the mouse right-click. To draw multiple regions, press and hold Ctrl and draw regions. To close them use the mouse right-click. Release Ctrl before closing the last region to finish the drawing.

Figure 1683. 

The image outside the selected region is deleted and filled with color specified by the Edit > Region > Region Settings command.

This command opens the Region Settings dialog window enabling to set the color filling the background of the binary layer. A specific color value can be entered into the edit box - Red, Green and Blue (for RGB images) or Gray values (for gray images). Average color (average value calculated from the background pixels) can also be used to fill the binary background (Use average background).

Figure 1684. 

Allows to modify the current cut fill color and the mode of the paste operation (normal / smooth). The rest of data that wasn't selected by the Edit > Region > Accepted Region command and so are outside the defined border are deleted and filled with the cut filling color.

Figure 1685. 

You can either use the neutral predefined background color, or define your own background color. Fill in the Red, Green, and Blue (for RGB images), or Gray values of the desired color. If one or more values exceeds the value range (255 in 8bit pictures), it is automatically reset to the highest value (255) after the OK button is pressed.

The Smooth paste option smooths the borders of the pasted regions.

Replaces current color image with an overlay image. This command can be used if you want to insert measurement annotations or binary layer into the current color image.

This command inserts scale into the current color image so that the scale becomes part of it. A dialog box appears.

Figure 1686. 

Inserts a spectral scale bar into the current spectral image so that it becomes part of the image. Click on the center of the spectral bar to move it around or click on its edges and drag to adjust the scale size.

This command converts the image to 8-bit RGB image.

This command changes dimensions of an opened image.

Figure 1687. 

This command creates a new color image of “what you see”. A new image window is opened and the new image is called “View Snapshot”.

The snapshot includes even the magnifier glass tool when the X shortcut is used:

Figure 1688. 

When you are working with ND2 files, select the frames to which the function is applied in the window that appears.

A snapshot of a rectangular area can be created by this command.

Figure 1689. 

Selecting the command invokes the Crop cursor. Frame the area you want to include in the snapshot with a red rectangle. Use the white squares on the rectangle edges to adjust its size, and drag it with the primary mouse button to set its position. Finish the command with the right click or by pressing Enter. A new image called View Snapshot will be created. All objects will be merged down to one color image.

Figure 1690. 

This command creates a snapshot of the whole image, no matter if its fully visible or not. However the image is zoomed in, it creates a new image with the current (zoomed) image resolution. Had you an image 250x250 pixels zoomed to 300%, the Create Full View Snapshot command creates a new image of the size 750x750 pixels.

(requires: N-STORM Analysis)

Opens the Create raster document from molecules dialog used for creating a custom raster from the currently opened molecule image. For more information please see Create raster document from molecules.

This tool can be used to make screenshots within NIS-Elements. After execution a red rectangular is displayed, dynamically changing with the mouse cursor position. Select the desired area for the capture and click the primary mouse button to copy the selection to clipboard. Then you can paste it into a new document.

This command displays the sequence of images as a 3D model using perspective projection. Please see Volume Viewer.

This command creates a new image from the current ND / EDF Focused view. It maintains resolution and channel structure of the original image (unlike the Create View Snapshot commands). The command is applicable to the following views:

This command creates an image montage. The montage can contain: opened image, another currently opened images, and different control panel screen shots. The following window appears:

Figure 1691. 

Define the layout appearance by setting the number of rows and columns. The layout is divided into cells. Position of the border between the cells can be adjusted by dragging the border line. To join/split two adjacent cells, click on the white square. Each cell can contain image data of one of the opened images (Images) or a snapshot of a control window or control panel (Controls). Choose the cell content by pressing Click to select in the middle of an empty cell and select the content from the contextual menu:

You can edit the cell size by moving the lines - press the white square button placed on the border cell to merge or separate adjacent cells. After you press the OK button, the dialog is closed and a montage image is created.

Pastes text into the current color image. The Insert Text dialog box appears:

Figure 1692. 

Inserts an arrow into the current annotation layer of the image. The Insert Arrow dialog box appears.

Figure 1693. 

Edit > Options

When you double click the caption of the main NIS-Elements window or run the Edit > Options command, a window with options for the software appears. For description, please see General.