The helical particle procedure

1. File → Import → Image Sequence
2. Select the folder of your images
3. Type the file ending into “File name contains:” (e.g .mrc, .tif)
4. Check “Use virtual stack”
5. Press OK Now you have read in your data as an image stack.

For the sake of memory consumption and speed your should reduce the size / image depth of your image data.

1. Image → Adjust → Size
2. Set the width to 1024. The height is calculated automatically.
3. Press OK.
4. Image → Type → 8 Bit Wait until the processing is finished.

File → Save As → Tiff…