Manual Touchup

introduction to manual paintbrush requires amics 5 2 0 or newer amics 5 2 is currently in beta testing the released version of amics is and can be found with the most recent beta at the software installation docid\ e1faehd1k20uedqhptzlx page manuals for previous versions of the software can be found at the older amics versions docid\ d2biwe sybowhhdww0anz page the manual touchup feature, added in amics 5 2, is designed to give the user the power to add "overrides" to a dataset manually this can be useful to touch up items that may have been missed by the segmentation algorithm but are well known (such as small gold spots) correct the edge where segments may have missed the continuation of a rim or other phase add in porosity manually usage guide step by step instructions activate manual touchup mode with process open make the processing ribbon active select the "manual touchup" item from the tools area select the phase to map the manual touchup will use the brush tool to paint to select the material to paint do one of the following three options (1) select "material" from the material section of the manual touchup \ ribbon this give the options to select to paint background select materials from a list activate the "select from list" command (2) if "select from list enabled" has been selected the user can just click on any item in the results material list (3) use the pipette tool to select from the image set the brush size and shape the brush will color at the pixel resolution of the highest resolution data layer this means that the brush size will color all pixels under the brush regardless of segments, grains, or particles the brush size is in microns, not pixels select the shape as round or square touch up the map use the tools to fill in the map at the desired locations paintbrush will map with the specified brush size fill tools fills features fill feature fills the selected feature layer fill will fill the contagious area selected, even when it's an override and has no underlying object eraser will use the selected brush size to remove overrides finalize use the finalize section to end the session the "exit" will exit the mode without saving the "apply" with save the changes to the database tools move drag the map to reposition paintbrush draw in background or a material definition fill feature will fill the selected layer will replace or partially change override areas based on the underlying layer feature if "segment" is selected in the layer options section the fill feature tool will fill the segment at the point clicked if "grain" is selected in the layer options section, the fill feature tool will fill the grain at the point clicked if "particle" is selected in the layer options section, the fill feature tool will fill the particle at the point clicked fill selection will fill the contagious area for any item on the screen, including overrides another way to think about this is that it will fill the grain layer unless the user clicks on a override, then it fills the override contigious area the grain has an override that covers it, then the fill will fill the contigious area of the override pipette this will activate a selection icon that can be moved over any material on the image, selecting that material, when clicked, as the active option for overriding note background can not be selected using this method to change the active material to background, use the phase selector as per instructions above eraser removes overrides in the brush shape other actions "undo" will remove the previous override places on the screen "redo" will put back a removed override removed with "undo " "clear" clears all overrides turn on and off the overrides and adjust the opacity of the overrides (making them more transparent) "draw on background" will allow the active material to override pixels assigned as background note! care should be taken when using the "draw on background" option, as this can effectively create new particles/grains (i e create data) limitations use caution! this is adding or changing data manually it's not the best approach examples learn more further reading see pixel level touchup docid\ ily8sqivszvsocsrsn07r for applying sub segment touchup in a repeatable way access requirements a valid license with amics offline or amics online reviewer status comments