The SPOT Advanced™ software is a comprehensive toolkit for SPOT camera owners who need precision control over their hardware. Image captures can be triggered externally for accurate timing with peripherals. Measurements, reticles, scale bars, and other annotations are available to enhance your image. Images can also be archived into a customizable database, dropped into the SPOT report generator for printing, or saved in several different file formats for journal submission. Repetitive tasks can be simplified with macros, user-defined taskbars and custom dialogs for commonly used functions. Microscopists capturing fluorescence images can merge and palletize images to easily differentiate fluorophores. All user preferences and settings can be permanently saved with password-protected user logins.