Huygens Software User Preferences

Under Edit -> Preferences in Huygens Essential and Professional you find a Preferences window, in which Huygens can be configured to your needs. For example, settings for performance and monitor display, and use of image thumbnails, python modules and the image feeder can be adjusted here. It is also possible here to select default directories for the File Open and File Save dialogs: the last used one, or always the same.

Display scaling (4k)

Scaling

Huygens is able to scale fonts, buttons, windows and icons which is useful when using Huygens on a high resolution monitor. Huygens scales independently from operating system display settings. Settings regarding scaling can be found in the Preferences window, under the Display menu. With the entry box, you can manually select the scaling value. Change for example the value under "Interface scaling" to 2.0 for the best results on 4K monitors. Click "Apply" then close and restart Huygens for it to take full effect. For advise on what hardware to use with Huygens, you can have a look at HardwareSolutions.

GUI color theme

Huygens can be used in in light and dark theme, which are named as Day and Night theme, respectively. See picture below.

Global colors in renderers

All renderers offer the option to select Global Colors as the color scheme displaying channel colors. Here, you can define what color scheme is used. For example, you can select here a colorblind friendly color scheme. The button "Edit global colors" can be used to open the Color picker tool, which allows you to alter the colors for the different image channels. The color of a particular channel can be edited by clicking the corresponding button. This opens a color editor that is different for the different supported platforms. To use these colors in a renderer, don't forget to specify the global color mode in that window if it is possible.

GUI color theme

In the preferences window you can change the color theme of the Huygens Software. You can chose between the day and night theme depending on what you like most to work with.

Image Feeder

The Image Feeder settings, allow you specify the location of image directories for automated image processing by Huygens. For example, you can define here the image folder tree for automated deconvolution with Huygens Batch Feeder. Also, an image folder can be specified which is linked to the Abberior acquisition software, and which can be constantly watched for newly saved image which are then automatically processed by Huygens. For more information, see Huygens-for-Abberior.