There's the old Mac trick of making a screen copy. First, make your histogram as large as you can on the screen, then press CMD-Shift-3 simultaneously. You will hear a camera click and an image called "Picture 1" of the entire screen will be saved to your startup disk. This is a 72 dpi PICT image. By making it as large as possible on your screen, you can reduce its size and increase the dpi so that you don't get "jagged" edges. You can open this file in Adobe Photoshop (or any other image editing program, including the freebie NIH Image) and crop it to size. You can also invert the look-up table (LUT) so that your white histograms on black backgrounds become black histograms on white backgrounds. Once saved you can then bring it into Illustrator, Canvas or Freehand and add addtional images and text until you have what you need. Idit Hazan wrote: > hi > does anyone know how to convert the histograms that come off the Cell-Quest > program into something that can be copied and pasted into a graphic > software (such as adobe or canvas), in order to make complicated figures? > i was told cell-quest in not very user friendly and that people print their > histograms, then scan them and use the scans as graphic files. there has to > be a more elegant way... > Idit Hazan > University of California, Irvine -- Tony Schountz, Ph.D. Department of Biological Sciences Mesa State College mailto:tschount@mesastate.edu
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