Tutorial: Loading data and viewing a GIWAXS image¶

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Use this tutorial as the first run-through when you have local TIFF data.

1) Open EWALD¶

bash ewald

2) Create a project¶

File → New Project (or open an existing .ewld).

3) Import one image¶

Choose Import Data File and select one .tif/.tiff.

4) Review metadata¶

Select filename or header parsing strategy.
Confirm tokenized metadata entries.

5) Apply correction inputs¶

Load or create a MASK.
Load a PONI calibrant.
Confirm and unlock data viewer.

6) Open Data Viewer¶

Use q<sub>xy</sub> / q<sub>z</sub> plotting to inspect corrected features.
Tune contrast and colormap for visibility.

EWALD main window tutorial screen capture

7) Missing example assets¶

Sample datasets can be kept under a local ignored example/ folder for single-image checks. For folder-scale tutorials, use project-local datasets and document names in your lab storage.