Making slides from modeling images

This is the SGI version. For the SUN Openwindows equivalent, click here

1. In the Desktop Icon under Find, bring down the Icon Catalog and choose Desktop Tools
2. Choose the icon Snapshot
   • Alternatively, use the find an Icon from the Desktop tool and type in snapshot
3. Position the icon for Snapshot some where on the desktop (your choice), out of the way of the image you want to snap
4. Use the right mouse button to bring down the menu for Snapshot

   Filename

   The default name for the snapshot is snap.rgb. Snapshot will overwrite this file every time you snap a shot so be careful!

   Snapping a picture

   • Place the mouse on the Snapshot Icon (NOTICE how the mouse turned into a little camera?) Together, Press the CONTROL KEY and POSITION the mouse in an upper corner of the area you want to snap. (The mouse should change into an angle bracket)
   • While STILL pressing the CONTROL KEY, PRESS the LEFT mouse button to draw the box around the image you want to snap
   • Under the menu for snapshot, click on save as (your filename)
   
   
5. Start the application XV -- A UNIX imaging program (You can run this from the UNIX command line -- just type "xv") or use the Find an Icon uutility

   NOTE: Only XV version 3.0 can read an SGI RGB format image!

6. Now open the image in XV
   • Use the RIGHT mouse button anywhere on the XV window that popped up to bring up the XV Controls menu
   
   
7. Save the image in a format that your application can read and name it some unique name other than snap.rgb!

   GIF

   A GIF is the smallest with the good resolution. Some Macintosh programs won't read a GIFF (like Adobe Photoshop)

   TIFF

   A TIFF file is also good resolution, but much bigger. Adobe photoshop will read a TIFF file.

   JPEG

   A JPEG file is highly compressed, but you might lose some resolution

8. Now you can FTP your image using the Fetch program on your Macintosh.