July 28

Today was another frustrating day working with IDL. I spent much of the morning participating in Visual Perception experiments. After that I went to lunch and started actually working around two. I managed to erode the images in IDL, which allowed me to save them as JPEGs. Although this was significant progress from last week, I had a new problem. Apparently my images need to be saved in TIFF format, which cannot be converted from JPEG. So I needed to go back to my hastromed FITS files and put them back together. Then I needed to figure out how to save as TIFF files, which was also complicated. The problem I have now is that I cannot open the files, so I cannot run the eroding process, so I am stuck again. Hopefully tomorrow I will learn a little bit better how to manipulate TIFF files because right now everything I try to do is failing because it is all different from JPEGs and FITS files.