Digital Microscopy

Resources

Access to the supplemental resources for this session is password-protected and restricted to University of Michigan students. If you are a University of Michigan student enrolled in a histology course at the University of Michigan, please click on the following link and use your Kerberos-password for access to download lecture handouts and the other resources. It is essential that you are using your umich.edu email address to access the Dropbox folder. Otherwise, this link will not work.

Resources in the University of Michigan Histology Dropbox

This Dropbox folder is exclusively reserved for University of Michigan users. If you are not a University of Michigan user, please do NOT ask for Dropbox access. No access will be granted to users outside the University of Michigan.

Introduction

The Zoomify viewer provides an intuitive interface to be able to zoom in on the image selected from the Histology website. 

Example Histology image and associated instructions for zooming in when viewing an image

Instructions

 

Steps  Screenshots 
Step 1.      

Hover over the image to display the toolbar

 Toolbar displayed when hovering over an image
Step 2.      

Select the back button to remove the toolbar

 icon of back arrows allowing removal of toolbar
Step 3.      

Select the plus or minus to zoom in and out function

 icon with plus and minus toolbar allowing zooming in and out
Step 4.      

Select the arrow to scroll in that direction

 icons of arrows allowing scrolling in direction
Step 5.      

Select the home icon to recenter the image

 Icon of a home to allow recentering of image
Step 6.      

Select the expanding arrows for full-screen mode

 Icon of expanding arrows for entering fullscreen mode
Step 7.      

Select the questionmark for a popup of keyboard shortcuts

 Icon of a questionmark to display keyboard shortcuts

Shortcuts:

Alt+Click+Drag to create a Zoom-Rectangle

Alt+Click to zoom fully in

Alt+DoubleClick to zoom fully out

Alt+Click+Reset button to return to the prior view (Alt is Option on Macintosh)

Keyboard shortcuts:

A or Shift to zoom in

Z or Ctrl to zoom out

Arrows change image in sldieshow/animation

Space Bar to toggle fullscreen view

Escape to reset initial view or exits fullscreen

Alt+L to hide/show hotspots or labels

Alt+Click+Minimize button is the same as Alt+L

Page Up/Down change image in a slidestack

< or > to rotate image if rotation buttons visible