wellThumbs

Make .png thumbnails from .TIF files in the raw_images directory. Making thumbs from .TIFs requires ImageMagick to be installed on your system. To install imagemagick with Homebrew, enter:
brew install imagemagick
into the terminal.

Usage

wellThumbs(project_dir, plates = "all", max_dim = 512)

Arguments

project_dir

The full path to the project directory containing the raw_images subdirectory.

plates

a vector with plate numbers to make thumbs for. This vector is used to match plate patterns in the filelist.
"all" will make thumbs for wells in all plates.
13:72 will make thumbs for wells in plates p13 - p72.
c(1, 3, 106) will make thumbs for wells in plates p01, p03, and p106.

max_dim

The maximum dimension of the resized images in pixels. The default value is 512, which scales a 2048 pixel image to 6.25 percent of its original resolution.

Value

A folder named raw_image_thumbs under the directory specified by

project_dir.