J-AST Help

Manual annotations

At any point you can apply manual corrections to annotated plates, DDA disks, E-Test strips, and E-Test ZOI shapes by selecting the image and clicking the Edit button within the annotation control.

Example of opening the editor

This will open an interactive editor where you can draw and erase the mask (highlighted as red color) over the image.

Screenshot of the interactive editor

Navigation

Use your mouse to navigate around the editor:

Drag using left mouse button

Pan image (only if ✋ tool is enabled)

Drag using middle mouse button

Pan image

Mouse scroll

Zoom in and out

Tools

Available tools

➊ Color selection

Allows you to select the color that will be drawn by either selecting the FOREGROUND or BACKGROUND option.

➋ Pan

Allows you to pan the image with the left mouse button.

➌ Pen tool

The pen tool allows you to draw/erase the mask just like in any drawing application. On selecting the tool as Brush size control will appear on the left-hand side.

❹ Polygon tool

The polygon tool allows you to draw/erase [filled] polygon outlines, which are useful for annotating E-Test strips.

❺ Line tool

The line tool allows you to draw/erase a line with an adjustable thickness.

❻ Mirror tool

The mirror tool is useful for creating symmetric annotations. Just draw the symmetry axis and the editor will mirror the other parts of the image according to the axis.

❼ Fill tool

Allows you to flood-fill the foreground or background color on the selected pixel.

Additional functions

Tools | Reset view

Resets the default zoom and pan if you lost your image

Tools | Clear

Erases the mask

Tools | Restore saved state

Restores the mask to the last saved state, discarding all changes

Saving annotations

When you are finished, click the SAVE ANNOTATION button to upload the results.

Annotation save button
02 December 2025