Richard Thrift wrote:
>
> I haven't seen any comments on the list regarding the updated plugins, so
> I'll mention it.  This works great!  Very helpful for .pic files.  Thank you,
> Todd!
>
> Richard
>
> >>> Todd Clark Brelje <[log in to unmask]> 05/12/97 11:57am
> >>>
> BioRad Confocal Users:
>
> I have new versions of the plug-ins for the reading and writing of BioRad
> PIC files in Adobe Photoshop for Windows.  The following major bugs are
> corrected in version 2.1:
>
> - Non-square images saved incorrectly (Oops!).
>
> - The first time a plug-in was run, the first image was always read from
> a multiple-image BioRad PIC file regardless of the actual value chosen.
>
> - Dialog boxes not positioned properly in some cases.
>
> - Depending on whether you have installed other programs written with
> Microsoft Visual C++, you may also need the run-time library files
> (Msvcrt.dll and Msvcirt.dll) to run these plug-ins.  These files are now
> included.
>
> In addition, I have included the following plug-ins and programs that you
> may find useful.
>
> - An import plug-in for the merging of up to three images from files in the
> BioRad PIC format into a RGB image.  This is much easier than manually
> having to open the grayscale images and then using the Apply command
> to merge the images.
>
> - A filter plug-in for the "mixing" of the color channels in RGB images.
> This filter allows the color of the merged images to be changed (for
> example, from red\green\blue to red\green\white).  And more importanly,
> to improve the appearance of color images so they look better when
> printed.
> The basic idea is to switch the color combination from red\green\blue to
> light red\light green\light "baby" blue instead of the pure primary colors.
>  This combination looks much brighter on a black background than the
> pure primary colors.  Example images of the widely published 3-color
> pancreatic islet are included to help explain this concept.
>
> - A program to convert BioRad lookup table (LUT) files to Photoshop
> Color
> Table (ACT) files.  This allows the pseudo-color of grayscale images in
> Photoshop to match those in the BioRad confocal microscope operating
> software.
>
> - Import plug-ins for the automatic reading or merging of multiple images
> from BioRad PIC files.
>
> I will automatically send these new plug-ins to the individuals who have
> already e-mailed a request to me.
>
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>
> If you have comments or reports of problems with these plug-ins, please
> contact me at the same e-mail address.
>
> Todd Clark Brelje
> Minnesota, USA
TODD - I second the thank you from Richard!
ANDREA ELBERGER