Drawing

A plugin for drawing canvas forms (overlaid graphics).

Plugin Type: Local

Drawing is a local plugin, which means it is associated with a channel. An instance can be opened for each channel.

Usage

This plugin can be used to draw many different shapes on the image display. When it is in “draw” mode, select a shape from the drop-down menu, adjust the shape’s parameters (if needed), and draw on the image by using left mouse button. You can choose to draw in pixel or WCS space.

To move or edit an existing shape, set the plugin on “edit” or “move” mode, respectively.

To save the drawn shape(s) as mask image, click the “Create Mask” button and you will see a new mask image created in Ginga. Then, use SaveImage plugin to save it out as single-extension FITS. Note that the mask will take the size of the displayed image. Therefore, to create masks for different image dimensions, you need to repeat the steps multiple times.