One way that users will be able to alter the image temporarily will be to resize it within its frame, blowing it up to study details more closely or shrinking it to take up less of the available screen space. We have separated the image from its frame, to make the tool more flexible by allowing the two to be manipulated independently. This allows the user to increase the size of the image without changing the size of the frame. The frame can be stretched or shrunk by grabbing any corner and dragging to the desired size. A detail is denoted by drawing a rectangle or circle around an area of an image with the mouse or marking it with a point by a mouse click.
Details maintain their size relative to the size of the image as it is expanded or contracted.
The first version of Inote was written in Interviews by Shawn Carnell, graduate student in computer science. Currently, Mark Ratliff, an astronomy graduate student, is working on a version of Inote written in Java, so that Inote can be used by any platform with a Java interpreter. Gifs and jpegs can be viewed on the Java version of Inote , while image annotation using overlays is still in production. For further information on Java, click here .