image stacking

[lamah]

hope some of you are image experts here

i have a set of TIFF images that i need to analyze. but the software i need to use only open image stack files of the format .xdce, .xml, .dce, and .run

how do i create a image stack file?

thanks

[Gruthar]

There's a bunch of freeware apps that'll let you stack images. A lot of amateur astronomers use that kind of software. Here's one example:

http://www.astronomie.be/registax/index.html

Edit: Hang on, what software are you using? Those stack formats look like something that would be created by professional software. That's going to be harder to find.

[sir_digalot]

is the xml one actually xml? in that case should you not be able to create a plain xml file with the image names in it..just a thought...

anyway try this wiki page

http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Stacking_Software

it mentions the gimp thoguh not sure how easy it is to do it in there

[lamah]

i'm using a program called InCell Investigator. It is interfaced with high resolution camera used to image structures within cells.

there's a feature that will quantify the ratio of certain proteins between nucleus and cytoplasm side. i need to use this! however, the fluorescence images i took were taken from some other microscope.

i want to import these images, but it seems this software will only open those 4 file extensions of stack format (the images taken with this software creates TIFF files and a stack file listing those TIFF files it seems). i looked into one of the xml files, it appears to organize/order the images within a folder (so it appears the analysis of images is directed by the stack file). the format of the xml looks like standard xml file, tho it's complicated enough that i don't think i can manually create one

that registax program doesn't seem to read the tiff files i have

the wiki page, i'll have to go thru it and see which one will open the tiff files i have and make a stack from them

thanks guys