Patent ID: 8239424

Claim:
A method of manipulating a series of thermographic image files, comprising: storing a plurality of thermographic image files that include: at least one tooled thermographic image file that includes a thermographic tool; and at least one non-tooled thermographic image file that does not include said thermographic tool; wherein said plurality of thermographic image files have a corresponding respective plurality of file identifiers associated therewith; displaying said plurality of file identifiers on an electronic display to a user; copying said thermographic tool from said at least one tooled thermographic image file to said at least one non-tooled thermographic image file, wherein the one of said plurality of file identifiers corresponding to said at least one tooled thermographic image file is present in an electronic folder, the step of copying being performed automatically in response to the one of said plurality of file identifiers corresponding to said at least one non-tooled thermographic being added to said electronic folder; and following said step of copying, automatically updating a trend-plot having data from each of said at least one tooled thermographic image file and said at least one non-tooled thermographic image file corresponding to said thermographic tool.