Being proficient at using ImageJ is essential for most image processing and analysis. Download it, search through the plugins to see what’s available and test them out. ImageJ should be the first program you become familiar with when looking for image analysis software. Here are my Top 5 favorite time/life savers:
It took me years (actually!) to find some of them, so I thought I would pay-it-forward by sharing them with you! Kudos to everyone who takes the time to create these free open source programs.
Out of sheer necessity to analyze a massive image set before I turned grey, I scrounged around for free open source software programs to help analyze my confocal microscopy image stacks. If your lab was like mine was, you struggle to afford new antibodies, let alone expensive image analysis software programs like Neurolucida to analyze your data.
This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from graphics editors without restrictions.
Open TIFFs, GIFs, JPEGs, DICOMs and raw data using a URL. Open and save GIF, JPEG, BMP, PNG, PGM, FITS and ASCII.
Automatically generate macro code using the command recorder