Bio-Rad Gel Doc™ EZ System - Manual (Page 43)

Software Overview
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• The Colors tab allows you to choose colors for the graphic
elements in your gels, such as Lane Fame, Lane, Band, Band
Attribute and MW Legend. This functionality ensures that these
elements will be visible, whatever colors your gels are.
V IEW
View > Image Overview opens a small window which shows your entire gel
image, and a red rectangle outlining the area visible in the larger main window.
This is useful when you are zoomed into a small section of your image.
View > Image Transform opens a window showing a histogram, where you
can adjust the light and dark values of your gel image.
View > Operations History opens a window showing sequential actions
performed both by the user and the software.
W INDOW
The Window controls allow you to show and hide multiple open results files on
your desktop.
Window > Tile aligns all open results files so that they are all visible at once.
Window > Cascade stacks all open results files and protocols with
overlapping title bars, so that each one can be easily chosen for view.
Window > Next cycles through all open results files from oldest to newest.
Window > Previous cycles through all open results files from newest to
oldest.
H ELP
Help > Image Lab Help displays built-in help which runs on both Windows
and Macintosh systems. You can find answers quickly using the task-based
clickable interface.
Help > User Guide displays this User Guide, available in .pdf form for printing.
Help > About offers Image Lab software version information and release date.
Desktop
The desktop is the gray area in the main window where protocols and results
files are displayed. You can choose between many open Results files and/or
Protocols by clicking on the dark blue bar at the top of the selected Window.
The Tool Box, Analysis Table Lane Profile and Standard Curve screens always
show analysis from your selected Results File or Protocol.