Bio-Rad EXQuest Spot Cutter - Manual (Page 107)

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Fig. 3-18. Crop box and pop-up Crop dialog.
If you select Crop, your cropped image will be displayed in the image window. If you
select the Copy and Crop button, a dialog box will open in which you can enter the
name of the cropped image, its version number, exposure number, and/or file type.
Click OK, and the image window will display both the original image and the
cropped image in subwindows.
3.13.a Advanced Crop Commands
To ensure that your scans are exactly the same size and shape, you can use the tools
on the Image > Advanced Crop submenu to save the crop box from one scan and
apply it to others. These tools also allow you to crop a gel and calstrip out of the same
scan.
To define and save a crop box and apply it to another scan:
1. Select Define Crop Area from the submenu and drag a crop box on an image.
Position the box as described in Cropping Images.
2. Select Place Crosshair from the submenu and click a landmark inside the box that
is present in all the gels you want to crop. This could be a spot or some other