Using individual color channels (3D)
Overview
In multi-channel images, selecting a single color channel using the Channel panel in the 3D Environment window displays the selected channel and enables you to assign traced structures to a particular color channel.
You may find this useful for:
- Differentiating co-localized structures based on color-channel specific labeling
- Reducing the visual complexity of images
- Segregating structures by label
Single-color images have a single color-channel
The Channel panel occupies the left side of the 3D
Channel panel functions
Channel controls in the 3D environment enable you to view all color channels in your image or quickly select/deselect individual color channels for display.
- All button: Click to show all color channels present in the image
- Color buttons:
- Click any color button to display that channel and select it as the associated color channel for structures traced or detected.
- To change the color-channel, click to select a different one.
- If more than one color channel or All channels are selected, (this can be done in the Image Adjustment window, but not in the Channel panel in the 3D Environment window) structures traced are not assigned to a channel.
Trace Opacity slider
- Controls the visibility of structures traced in other channels.
- Does not affect the appearance of structures traced in the currently selected channel.