- Compatible with WindowsÔ 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, and Vista
- Supports any image size to the limit of system memory
- Pan and zoom images, multiple windows
- Document tabs for quick navigation of open images
- Thumbnail and full-image previews for all image processing operations
- User-configurable toolbars and menus
- Full context-sensitive help
- ActiveX scripting support for imaging and processing
- Built-in upgrade checking
- Image stretching and scaling:
- Quick-Stretch real-time contrast/brightness adjustment using the mouse
- Changes to "screen stretch" do not affect contents of file
- Convenient mouse-controlled stretch allows you to adjust min/max value or contrast/brightness
- Stretch using sliders on image histogram with zoom capability
- Automatic stretch settings
- Permanently apply gamma, logarithm or linear stretching to an image
- Advanced histogram specification (equalization)
- Uniform, Straight-line, Exponential, Lognormal, Gaussian, and Rayleigh curves
- User defined curve - paint your own curve with the mouse
- General Image Processing Functions:
- Image calibration with advanced processing groups
- Align multiple images
- Sum, Average, Median, Sigma Combine, SD Mask Combine
- Remove bad pixels
- Add noise
- Remove blooms
- Resize images
- Optimized double size / half size
- Contrast, brightness, and gamma stretch
- Histogram specification
- Curves
- Threshold
- Image Filters:
- Optional range restriction for filters
- Kernel filters including high pass, low pass, dead pixel, hot pixel, dilation, erosion, average, median, Gaussian blur, user kernels
- FFT filters
- Unsharp mask with both kernel and FFT filtered mask
- Digital development filter simulates photographic emulsion
- Rank filter
- Local adaptive filter
- Rotational gradient filter
- Deconvolution
- Gradient removal and background leveling
- Combine multiple filtered CCD images with optional alignment:
- RGB
- LRGB
- CMY
- LCMY
- Assign arbitrary colors to each image
- Image alignment with optional centroid
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- Color processing:
- Fast and easy color balance adjustment
- Pseudo Color
- Sub-pixel color plane realignment
- Adjust Saturation
- Split color image into three monochrome images
- Convert to Mono
- Color Smoothing
- Color Adjust
- Convert Bayer matrix images to color
- Automatic CCD Image Calibration:
- Simple calibration setup procedure
- Removes vignetting and dust spots
- Equalizes color balance
- Image Inspection:
- Blinking and Animation
- Continuous display of cursor coordinates, pixel intensity, and pixel color in status line
- Zoom View shows close-up of area under the mouse
- Line Profiles with export
- Image statistics display
- Full-screen view mode
- Match screen stretch
- Image Annotation:
- Annotate images with lines, boxes circles, ellipses, rulers with scale, text
- Selectable colors
- Edit annotations using mouse
- Make annotations a permanent part of the image
- File Formats:
- TIFF - 16 bit and 8-bit
- BMP - Windows standard format
- JPEG - with controllable quality to allow for optimum compression
- PNG - for high-quality compressed images
- CCD Camera Support:
- Supports popular CCD and CMOS cameras, including Apogee, Finger Lakes, Opus I, Roper (Princeton and Photometrics), SBIG, and DirectShow Video
- Supports CRI Micro*Color, CVI AB-300, Finger Lakes, and SBIG filter wheels
- Floating toolbox control
- Auto exposure
- Auto calibrate
- Exposure series
- Quick calibration setup procedure
- Fast focus mode
- Plug-in camera and filter wheel API available
- Key image parameters stored in TIFF header
- System Requirements:
- WindowsÔ 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP or Vista
- Pentium recommended; minimum 486DX or higher
- 16 MB RAM or higher (24MB for NT)
- 800 X 600 video or higher recommended
- 16-bit video (65535 colors) or higher required
- 10MB disk space required for software installation
- Mouse
- MicroCCD (image processing only) is compatible with Virtual PC or SoftWindows 95 on Macintosh systems
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