The Plot Controls allow you to craft your illustration.

If you can't see the Plot Control options, click on the little right arrow to the left of "Plot Controls" to make it point down; that will open the Plot Controls panel.

Use the drop-down menus to select plot type, color scheme, size, whether or not your data is compensated, what to display on your X and Y axes, and whether or not to show gates and percentages.

Click on "edit" next to "Compensation" to create a new compensation matrix and apply it to your illustration. You can also get to compensation matrices through the populations dimension.

If the X and Y axis drop-down menus are grayed out, that means that you need to annotate your staining panels. Click on edit in the channels dimension to annotate your panels.

Some comments on plot types:

• Density Dot Plot: dots are shaded by colors representing how many events fell into that bin
• Density Plot: just like the Shaded Dot Plot, but smoothing can (and is, by default) applied, so you get density regions shaded by colors for how many events were in that area using a a tri-weight density kernel.
• Contour Plot: black and white topographical like plot that shows how many events are in an area using a tri-weight density kernel
• Shaded Contour Plot: exactly the same as a contour plot, but the levels are shaded by colors
• Dot Plot: just black dots. No density / event number information in the plot. If events pile up, you still see a black dot.