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There must be a way, but I'm not aware of it. Can I add a

brief description of the sample to the tiff file, so that the

description will always stay associated with the image?

What software will allow me to read/write the description?

In general, what software is used to edit tiff files other than

editing the image itself?

I'm using a PC.

Thanks

Richard Thrift

Richard_Thrift@depotech.com


Dear Richard,

I know two softwares in PC which can open and annotate in tiff files, one is

PhotoStyler, another is ImageStar.

regards,

Gang REN

ren@image.blem.ac.cn


Hi, Rich:

One of PC software called Mocha 2.1 can open TIFF files and annotate on

the image in form of overlay. The overlay can be merged in image or

saperated. The annotate can be saved as a overlay file. You can open the

overlay file to see the annotate. The software can provide 3

overlaies in different color.

Hopefull it helps.

Zhiyu Wang

Dept. of Biosystem Engineering

University of Hawaii

zhiyu@hawaii.edu


Richard,

Do you really want to annotate the image itself or catalog it for future

reference? If the latter is true, check out Thumbs Plus image database.

It allows annotation, keyword searches, thumbnail creation, and all

sorts of other neat stuff. It translates a handful of image formats and

runs under all Windows GUI/OS. The icing on the cake? It's about

sixty-five dollars.

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Hello everybody,

All major scientific image processing software packages are able to

annotate TIFF files.

I made best experience with Media Cybernetics' Image-Pro Plus !

(....www.mediacy.com)

Dr. Holger G. Adelmann

Leverkusen, Germany

106421.3362@CompuServe.COM


Most image cataloging, and some image analysis, software allow you to do

this. The standard is Adobe Photoshop. A smaller, but very capable image

databasing package with basic image editing capabilities, is Ulead, Inc.'s

Image Pals. Actually Image Pals has been updated and improved, and renamed;

and I can't recall the new name. Any good software shop would have both of

these programs. They allow you to store images with user provided titles,

keywords, and annotations that can be searched. An important feature is

"thumbnails" which allow you to preview small snapshots of many of your

images on screen at one time. Other features of these programs that are

useful are format conversion, file compression, and of course the various

image enhancement (sharpening, contrast control, etc.) features which

require care when used in a scientific environment.

Richard Thrift

Richard_Thrift@depotech.com


Richard, Image Central from Advanced Imaging Concepts is an MS-Windows based

image databse that will let you catalog your images with any type of

information you like then sort and query on that data, also we can associate

a tiff image overlay plane with any image and keep that as a separate file or

merge it into the original for printing only or permanently.

Contact me at : Scott E57@aol.com and I will gladly mail you a packge of

literature and price list for our products.

Scott E. Berman

Advanced Imaging Concepts, inc.

Phone:(609) 921-3629

Fax:(609) 924-3010

e-mail Scott E57@aol.com


If you use the TIFF format there are "fields" in the format

header to allow you to put almost anything ... Photoshop is

the best, and they've adopted the standard in liking with the

newspaper industry. If you are already using Photoshop I can

give you more info ... but almost any image editting software

allows for this capability ...

cheers, shaf

Michael Shaffer - mshaf@oregon.uoregon.edu -

mshaf@darkwing.uoregon.edu


I know that it *is* possible to add text info to TIFF files which

gets stored in the file's header (and so is permanently

associated with the file) using many image browsing

programs. In my (albeit limited) experience, such text is

program-specific, i.e. annotations written by one image

browser probably won't be able to be read using another

browser.

So if it comes down to selecting image browsers, I'd suggest

Graphics Workshop for Windows (no financial interests,

etc). I like this one because it's cheap (shareware), has a

good range of usable features such as rescaling and

conversion (to over a dozen common formats) and, best of

all, *doesn't* require you to construct 'albums' as do many of

the other programs I've seen, explained below;

Many programs require you to create an 'album', a file which

will contain directions to images that you allocate to that

album, and then asks you to add images to that album.

Every time you take more images they need to be added to

an album before they can be viewed.

Graphics Workshop does not use albums, but simply

navigates through the Windows directories, viewing whatever

images it finds in those directories. I'm sure that there are

others that work like this, but GW is as I said before, cheap,

easy to use, easy to find on the Net and is constantly being

upgraded.

Geoff Avern

Manager

Microscopy Laboratories

Australian Museum Email:

geoffa@amsg.austmus.gov.au

6 College St Ph: (61)(2) 9320 6198

Sydney, Australia. 2000 Fax: (61)(2) 9320 6059


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