Pixinsight Desktop

 

 

When you first open Pixinsight you will notice that its look and use is different from other packages !

But don't worry its not difficult and with a little practice and you will wonder what the fuss was about

To start with we will look at the comonley used icon and tool bars

 

Below is the Pixinsight Desktop with the side explorer open together with a image and the histogram Transformation Tool

How to use STD Icons on each processes and panels

The applcation and use of the tools may be different to what you are used to , but it is not difficult and it will soon become second nature

Not all tools have all the Icons and are relative to the process selected

 

A) New instance

This has several uses being

1 ) Drag to your image and the process will applied to that image

2) Drag to desk top and a process Icon will be saved with the cuurent settings, very useful for things like complicated DBE settings

 

B) Std Apply

When clicked upon will apply the process to your selected image

 

C) Real Time Preview

If you select this a new tempoary image showing real time alterations, when happy with your settings close it down and apply to the Image

 

D) Track View

When selected the processl will follow your selected image , handy when you have multiple images open

 

F) reset

As it says resets process to its default settings

 

E) Global Apply

Use this when you need to apply the process to multiple images i.e when using the star alighnment process

 

Open images have several controls as below

Your active image will have a blue top bar

 

G) Image menu

Right click to gain acces to image menu being

1) workspace - send image to different workspace

2) Iconize / shade / maximise / update

3) Stay on top

4) close

H) Image id

Other than image id you can

1) Drag id to desktop to create clone of origanal Image

2) Drag id to another image to use as a mask

3) double click to rename

I) Zoom Controls

 

J) Image display options

These being from left to right

Iconize / shade / maximise / close

When your image is iconised

 

 

LEFT HAND SIDE TOOL BAR

These will open when you hover your mouse above them on the desktop

Please click below for inforamtion on each

1) Processing consol

2) View explorer

3) Process explorer ( open in the above image )

4) Format explorer

5) History explorer

 

 

 

 

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