• Overview
• New Features
• Unique Hybrid Interface
• Data Access
• Data Storage
• Creating Graphics
• Image Processing
• Data Analysis
• Data Manipulation and Math
• Analysis of Functions
• Data Exploration
• Programming
• Custom Interfaces
• Notebooks
• On-line Help
• Manual
• Video Tutorials
• Platform Support
• Gallery
• Attributions

Video Tutorials

Igor Pro Guided Tour

The Igor Pro Guided Tour is available in booklet form, as an Igor help file, in the Igor Pro PDF manual, and in the videos listed on this page.

To go through the tour by yourself, choose Help -> Getting Started in Igor or choose Help -> Manual to open the PDF manual.

To take the video tour, click the links below.

Guided Tour 1 - General Tour

• Introduction to Igor Pro

• Part 1

  • Launching Igor Pro
  • Entering Data
  • Making and Touching Up a Graph
  • Adding a Legend
  • Adding a Tag
  • Using Igor Preferences
  • Making a Page Layout
  • Saving Your Work

• Part 2

  • Loading Data
  • Appending to a Graph
  • Offsetting and Un-offsetting a Trace
  • Drawing in a Graph
  • Saving and Recreating a Graph

• Part 3

  • Using Igor Documentation
  • Graphically Editing Data
  • Making a Category Plot
  • Category Plot Options
  • The Command Window
  • Synthesizing Data
  • Zooming and Panning Graphs
  • Graphing With Multiple Axes
  • Using Cursors
  • Creating a Graph with Stacked Axes
  • Appending to a Layout
  • Creating Controls Part I
  • Creating Controls Part II
  • Creating a Dependency

Guided Tour 2 - Data Analysis

• Creating Synthetic Data
• Quick Curve Fit to a Gaussian
• More Curve Fitting to a Gaussian
• Sorting
• Fitting to a Subrange
• Appending a Fit

Guided Tour 3 - Histograms and Curve Fitting

• Histogram of White Noise
• Histogram of Gaussian Noise

3D Plotting Tutorials

Igor's 3D plotter is named "Gizmo". The following video tutorials demonstrate elementary and advanced features of Gizmo.

Macintosh users should click on the .mov links, Windows users on the .wmv links.

• Introduction

  • Gizmo Graphs .mov .wmv
  • Getting Acquainted with Gizmo .mov .wmv

• Techniques

  • Creating a Surface Plot from Scatter Data .mov .wmv
  • Creating a Parametric Surface .mov .wmv
  • Using Clipping .mov .wmv
  • Adding Transparency .mov .wmv
  • Lights and Shading .mov .wmv

• Advanced

  • Using Textures and Group Objects .mov .wmv

Last updated: Wednesday, May 25, 2011