User guide

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12. Viewing and Editing
Images
This chapter describes the viewing tools for magnifying and optimizing your
images. This chapter also describes the tools for cropping, flipping, and
rotating images, reducing background intensity and filtering noise, and
adding text overlays to images.
These tools are located on the View, Image, and Edit menus.
Note: The following chapters contain instructions for analyzing X-ray films, wet
and dry gels, blots, and photographs. For the sake of simplicity, these are
all referred to as “gels.”
12.1 Magnifying and Positioning Tools
The magnifying and positioning tools are located on the View menu and
Window menu; some of these functions are also found on the main toolbar.
These commands will only change how the image is displayed on your
computer screen. They will not change the underlying data.