FSI Viewer

Morphbank uses FSI (Flash-based Single Source Image) Viewer by Neptune Labs (http://www.fsi-viewer.com/) as a vehicle to display and manipulate the stored images. As stated by Neptune Labs, the FSI Viewer is a web-based viewer for high resolution images. It enables internet users to magnify image sections or view objects from different viewing angles or in different states, requiring low bandwidth only. This makes presentations more appealing. FSI Viewer is based on Macromedia Flash^™Plug-in client-side and accesses image data provided by single source imaging servers. These servers provide scaled and compressed image data on-demand based on high resolution source images.

In Morphbank the viewer can be accessed most places the Single Show screen of the object is available by clicking on the Show image. Show can be accessed through the results of a Browse or Search by clicking on the Information icon , or on one of the thumbnail images in the results list. Other paths to show include selecting the Object id where it is listed in blue type i.e. in another Show screen. Lastly, by selecting the No. Annotations: link for a given image in the My Manager, Images tab the Annotation/s for that image are displayed in the My Manager, Annotations tab. Clicking the "I" (info) icon will take the user to the Single Show Annotation Record page. The FSI viewer is also available by clicking on an image in a Collection from the Browse - Collections or from My Manager, Collection tab.



Tag Descriptions for Figure 5 (FSI Viewer located above)

• 1. Click to display viewer information and a link to the FSI Viewer website (http://www.fsi-viewer.com/). By clicking on the Read more button then selecting the Customer Care section on the website, the user can obtain detailed instructional information on the use of the viewer to include tutorials.


• 2. This tiny corner window displays the image that is presently seen on the viewer screen. When only a portion of the original image is currently being viewed, that area is displayed in a red rectangle. The display region can be changed on this small screen by dragging the rectangle or clicking on the desired part of the screen. The Mini Display can be moved in order to see the scale bar. With the mouse, click the bottom bar of the Mini Display and drag to a new location.


• 3. The body of the screen where the selected image is viewed and manipulated.


• 4. Menu bar
  Return to initial view
  Zoom out to decrease magnification
  Zoom in to increase magnification
  Mouse activated menu item. Use to enlarge segments with the mouse. Click on the image and drag to highlight the desired area to enlarge..or click on the image, without marking the segment to enlarge the entire image. The current image segment will then be enlarged in steps. To zoom out in steps, hold down the CTRL-key and click on the image.
  Mouse activated menu item. Use to move the viewable image in the body of the screen. Click to drag the image. CTRL-key and left click will reset the image.
  Mouse activated menu item. Use to rotate the image on the screen Use CTRL to reset the tilt.
  History buttons. Click on the left arrow to revert to previous or the right arrow to again advance the historical settings.
  Magnifying glass. Click to access the magnifying glass. Drag to observe a magnified image through the glass. Click on the button again to hide the magnifying glass.
  Hot spot. Click to show or hide hot spots. This feature is not currently available.
  Color adjust. Click to open a color adjust screen.


• 5. Show or hide the user interface. Click this icon if a full page image void of all menu items is desired.

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