As mentioned in the introduction, it is best, where possible, to generate the MIPs at the point of image capture. 

If we want to use images in a batch analysis it may be preferable to save the MIPs as new documents to facilitate the batch configuration since different pipeline parameters will most likely be required to process MIPs as to process stacks.

For simple snapshots to be added to presentations or publications, using the copying the viewer content to the clipboard, at the resolution currently displayed on the screen, is the fastest way to export the results, and in most cases produces images of an acceptable quality. Creating MIPs as described here is only necessary if we want to have the full native resolution of the dataset and if we want to be able to use it in image analysis pipelines.

For publication it is also worth considering whether a 3D snapshot or video could be a better output.