== Exporting images to an image manipulation program ==
== Exporting images to an image manipulation program ==
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You can send an image to the journal and later open it with an image manipulation program. The images are exported in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format. The RGB colors and the alpha channel is included. In the population view all images are painted on a black background. If the image is partial transparent you see this black background shining through. After loading an exported image to an image manipulation program it my look different. Depending on your image manipulation program a white background or a checkerboard is looking through. Internally Kandid stores the parameters for recreating an image not an pixel per pixel representation. Bitmaps are only used for post processing the images.
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You can send an image to the journal and later open it with an image manipulation program. The images are exported in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format. The RGB colors and the alpha channel is included. In the population view all images are painted on a black background. If the image is partial transparent you see this black background shining through. After loading an exported image to an image manipulation program it may look different. Depending on your image manipulation program a white background or a checkerboard is looking through. Internally Kandid stores the parameters for recreating an image not an pixel per pixel representation. Bitmaps are only used for post processing the images.