Even though the ImageWorks control panel provides direct magnification, the Cursor Zoom window allows the user to have a separate window that contains a magnified image.
The Cursor Zoom panel can be accessed via the View pull down menu. The Cursor Zoom panel contains several controls at the top of the window followed by a region where the zoomed image is displayed.
The first left control is a toggle push button labelled "Hold". When the button is depressed, the user can move the cursor from the ImageWorks main display window without affecting the view inside the Cursor Zoom window. If this button is not pressed in, the position and region under the cursor in the main ImageWorks display window is also displayed in the zoom window.
There is an option menu that displays different index values where the user can pick a value to have the image magnified.
The other option menu provides a list of enhancement operations that can be applied to the image displayed in the zoomed window. In addition to the standard enhancement technique, there are two special options called "Hold" and "Slave" under this option menu. The "Hold" option is used to "Hold" the zoomed image enhancement. While the "Slave" option is used such that whenever a new enhancement is applied to the main ImageWorks display window, the enhancement is also applied to the Cursor Zoom imagery.
The user can have several Cursor Zoom windows displayed. Each of the cursor zoom panels can be used to display a zoom image region; each of these image regions can be enhanced independently using the controls available from the Cursor Zoom window.