Right-Clicking on the Color Bar

Right-clicking on the color bar along the right side of the image (see Figure 1) will produce a Color Scale button.

Figure 1: A NanoScope Real-time Scan Window

Clicking on this Color Scale button will open the Color Adjust menu, shown in Figure 1, where you can perform the following image adjustments:

• Contrast—Number (-10 to +10) designates contrast of colors in displayed image (e.g., -10 shows little change while 10 shows highest contrast)
• Offset—Number (-128 to +128) designates offset colors in the displayed image (e.g., 120 shows illuminated background on image). Offset effectively changes the color value around which the color scale is mapped.
• Table—Number (0 to 24) designates which color table will be used.
• Color Reset—changes the current readings to the default settings.

Table 1 displays a list of the 26 NanoScope color tables with Contrast = 0 and Offset = 0.

Color Table ID	Colors
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Table 1: NanoScope Color Tables

To change the color table, position the mouse over the color bar on the right side of the image. Click and hold the left mouse button, then drag the mouse from left to right to scroll through the different color tables or set the table number in the Color Adjust window.

Both Contrast and Offset, adjustable in the Color Scale window, have a major effect on displayed colors. An example is shown for Color Table 12 in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Effect of Contrast and Offset on displayed color for Color Table 12

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