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Make sure that you have set the images attributes in the panel on the left side:
- Image Type: Select Section HalfImaging for split cores or Whole Round 360 Imaging for whole round cores. When you select Whole Round 360 Imaging, the Rotation 360 Imaging control will become available where you will select the angle of rotation. See 360° Imaging Section.
- Wet / Dry: This is for the hard rock folks who like to take images of the outer surface either wet Wet or dry Dry (set accordingly). For everything else, just select Soft Sediment or Not Applicable.
- Condition: Select Pristine for cores just split or select Not Pristine Sampled-Altered if you have sampled and/or otherwise mucked around with the core.
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No scanner or label? Select the tab marked LIMS and select you section's ID from the list boxes or use the MANUAL tab and enter the values by hand (not recommended).
Confirm Label, LIMS and physical length are within 2 cm of each other. If not, ask WHY?
Maybe there was some section expansion, whole round sample taken, or a mistake??
By default the instrument is set for imaging the archive half and will not allow you to scan a working label. If you want to take a picture of a working half you need to go to the MANUAL tag and select W (working) into the Section Half label (See the picture bellowFigure 4). Once you have selected the W (working), you will not be able to scan an archive half; in order to do that you need to go back into the MANUAL tag and re-select A (archive). 
Figure 4. SHIL MANUAL Section Information window
If a whole round sample was taken (IW or MBIO), place whole round spacer where this sample was taken.
Click or touch the TAKE A PICTURE (Figure 5) button to start imaging the section. 
Figure 5. TAKE A PICTURE button
During the imaging process the Image DAQ screen (Figure 6) will display. If everything is going right, there is nothing for you to do. Only use the ABORT to stop the imaging process for non-emergencies. If a body part has been caught in the track and you face imminent personal injury, use the EMERGENCY STOP button just above the track.
Figure 6. Image DAQ window
The window at the top shows the current image frame and the construction of the full image, and the graph at the bottom displays the RGB data taken from a stripe down the middle of the image.
If the DROP LINES indicator is lit (orange), notify the technical staff. The Acquisition Error indicator usually lights just at the end of the image and that’s OK but if it lights before then, we have a problem. Again, notify the technical staff.
Crop and Save
When the imaging process is done, the lights will go off and the track will return to the start position, so stand back.
The Image CROP widow (Figure 7) will open and you will have some work to do.
Figure 7. Image CROP window
Check the position of the GREEN crop lines by clicking the Show Top of Image and then Show Bottom of Image buttons. If you used the RED stops and the crop parameters have been set correctly, then the image should be perfectly boxed by the GREEN lines. If not, then use the mouse (or finger) and touch the GREEN line or corner and drag the lines into position. The goal is to create an image of just the core as one of three images that will be created (the other images are un-cropped). The cropped image is used in LimSpeak and for printing the VCD scratch sheets.
When happy with the crop box location, click/touch CROP Image (Figure 8). The display will change to show the cropped image and the Save Image button will be enabled. 
Figure 8. Crop Image button
Click Save Image and you are finished! The Sample Information window will be displayed to repeat the process for the next section. 
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