Window Layout of Jim

When Jim starts, you are presented with an image display window that is used to display and manipulate images.

The appearance of the main Jim window on startup

The main control groups are:

  • Menus. Load, import and save images. Change the colour mapping of images. Free zoom control. Image analysis toolkits.
  • Image display area. Shows the currently loaded image.
  • Image contrast controls. Alters the brightness and contrast of the displayed image.
  • Display layout controls. Sets how many image slices are shown in the display area.
  • Slice paging controls. Step through the image slices.
  • Image magnification controls. Zoom and pan the image.
  • Status bar. Displays helpful messages from Jim.
  • Exit button. Quits Jim.

Your first task will be to load an image into Jim.