The majority of our tips & tutorials (primarily in PDF format) are hosted on the University of Arizona Microscopy Alliance website. Here's a list of what's available:
General resources
- Basic Microscope Alignment
- Light Microscopy Tips
- Formaldehyde Fixatives
- Light Microscope Vendors for Southern Arizona (updated regularly)
- #1.5 Coverslips for Microscopy
Digital Imaging
- Digital Imaging Ethics (this is a quick summary, for more detail see either Avoiding Twisted Pixels: Ethical Guidelines for the Appropriate Use and Manipulation of Scientific Digital Images (Cromey, 2010) or Digital Images Are Data: And Should Be Treated as Such (Cromey, 2012).
- Potentially the most dangerous dialog box in Adobe Photoshop
- Using the Histogram Tool
- Highlighting Letters and Arrows with Adobe Photoshop
- Using guides in Photoshop to line up figure elements
Instrument or Software specific handouts
- Zeiss Elyra S.1 - Sample Preparation Guidelines for Superresolution Structured Illumination (SR-SIM)
- Zeiss Elyra S.1 - Tips covering image acquisition, processing data, and file management
- Zeiss ZEN software - Installing the free Zeiss ZEN software on a Windows PC
- Zeiss ZEN software - Using Zeiss ZEN software to export from CZI files to TIF
- Zeiss ZEN software - Zeiss ZEN – performing a maximum intensity projection of a Z-stack
- Leica DMI6000 - User manual
- Leica DMI6000 - Exporting large image data from the Leica *.LIF format using FIJI