My Mac has 128MB of RAM but the NIH Image About Box shows only 2500K free. Why is that?
You need to allocate more memory to NIH Image. Click (once) on the NIH Image icon (a microscope), select the Finder’s Get Info command, and increase “Preferred size”. Why does the desktop change color when I run NIH Image? NIH Image uses all but two of the 256 available screen colors when the monitor is set to 256 colors. The two “colors” that Image never changes are white (0) and black (255). Objects on the screen that are not black and white are likely to change color when NIH Image is being used. You can avoid this problem by selecting “Desktop Friendly” in Preferences, but this reduces the number of grays displayed to 16. If your hardware supports it, you can also avoid this problem by switching the monitor to “thousands” or “millions” of colors. Why does text look ragged when I print an image on a laser printer? NIH Image treats text as if it were part of the bitmapped image. To create high quality text for laser printer output and slide makers you need to export the image to a mu
