On top of the control window you will find the ROI selection icon. Simply switch it on to enable the ROI selector window inside the image window. You can adjust the ROI by placing the mouse cursor on the white dots and dragging it to the desired spot or simply make another selection using the mouse and keeping the mouse button pressed. The ROI selection will cause the filters to be applied exclusively to the selected region, while leaving the rest of the image unprocessed. This can benefit the performance of the application and will be noticeable on large images or when applying computation intensive filters (such as deconvolution). The size of the selected ROI is indicated on top of the image window in the metadata panel. Cropping will be applied to the saved image or when running a batch. Cropping is not stored along with the object profile, it is a corrections that is applied only when selected.
The night mode switch will transform the application colors to a darker and red layout that may be better to reduce eyestrain when worker in the dark. It will also help to prevent blinding the eyes during nightly observations of the sky. Night mode can be switched on or off by clicking the moon icon on top of the control panel.
As of version 6 there is a new metadata panel on top of the image window. It consists of 3 tabs: Histogram, Object and Image.
The RGB histogram graphic is shown on the top left corner of the image window, showing the individual graph for red, green and blue. When the RGB channel is selecte it will show the overlapping R, G & B graphics while switching to red will only show the red graphic etc. In addition the maximum histogram percentage value per channel is shown. These percentage values represent the saturation percentage of the brightest pixels per channel. This is very useful because it can be hard to see from the displayed color image alone when clipping effects start to appear on the individual channels. As soon as the max. saturation value of a significant amount of pixels reach 100% the color will change from green to red.
This is the metadata of the target object that is derived from the Winjupos formatted name of the image stack, which corresponds to the selected profile. Besides the name also the time and UTC time are being shown (also taken from the Winjupos formatted filename). In case these values are missing from the name they will be derived from the date and time when the file was saved. The last indicator on this tab shows the currently selected channel (RGB, Red, Green of Blue).
Image metadata states information about the image itself, such as the original dimensions (width x height), the current dimensions as shown, the zoom factor and the crop region dimensions when cropping is enabled.
There is an icon on top of the control panel window indicating the currently shown channel. By default it is set to RGB for showing the color image. When clicking that icon you can switch to each individual channel and the image window will show the corresponding mono channel. This can be very useful to see the image quality result on a single channel, which may vary a lot depending on the seeing conditions.
By clicking this icon on top of the control panel (containing a maximize icon image) you can switch top the 100% scale of the image. Clicking it once more will show the image window at the original zoom scale that was selected.
By clicking the revert changes icon all the slider modifications will be reverted to 0 or neutral, so the image will be reverted back to a completely unprocessed image again.
Clicking the floppy icon on the bottom right of the button panel will open the save dialog to save the currently opened image stack (also refered to as the reference stack). You can either save the image as a 16-bit TIFF file or as a 100% quality JPEG image. TIFF format is the default. By adding the ".jpg" or ".jpeg" extension to the filename of the image it will be saved as a JPEG.
Pressing the button in the top middle (the torch) will reveal the areas in the image that have reached the maximum saturation and thereby it is clearly visible which feature of the image are blow out / clipped. It does so by blinking these areas red. By switching the button off again the clipped areas will no longer blink.