With Macnification, you can...
Organize all your images
All your microscopic images, conveniently organized into projects, (smart) folders, light tables and stacks. View screencast
Manage metadata
With its unique metadata view, Macnification makes it a snap to view, edit and organize microscope data. View screencast
Track experiments
Enter your experiments into Macnification and then simply link images to experiments.
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Easily find images
Macnification integrates with Spotlight and Quick Look to help you quickly find images you want to work with. View screencast
Measure
Length, area, perimeter, circularity or color contents: Macnification measures it all. On one image, or on an entire stack. View screencast
Calibrate
With the innovative double-click calibration feature, calibrating an image is easier than ever.
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Export to Numbers or Excel
With a single click, you can export measurement data and ROI properties to Numbers or Microsoft Excel for further analysis. View screencast
Auto-analyze
Macnification can automatically detect ROIs on a thresholded image to make analyses even faster. View screencast
Adjust images
Macnification offers non-destructive image management, preserving original data throughout the entire process. View screencast
Add scale bars
Adding scale bars can be tedious. With Macnification, you simply pick the color, size, font and position and you are done. View screencast
Create a montage
Need to quickly print images or create a PDF file that combines images with image metadata? Montages are the answer. View screencast
Visualize stacks
Leveraging the power of Core Animation, Macnification offers probably the most stunning view of your stacks on any platform. View screencast
Create time-lapse movies
Creating a QuickTime movie of a time-lapse stack? With Macnification, the movie is even better.
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Extended focal imaging
Take advantage of the fastest EFI implementation on any platform to combine the sharpest areas of an image stack into one sharp image. View screencast
Compare images
Light tables make it a snap to freely arrange and compare images. You can even resize images based on their magnification. View screencast
Stitch images
For objects that don't fit onto one image, Macnification provides powerful stitching functionality. View screencast
Easily export images
With the Mini Browser, images can be dragged from Macnification to virtually any other application. View screencast
Create a z-slice
Create a virtual cut through any stack and drag the slicing line to get a stunning live preview.
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Macnification leverages Leopard
These are just some of the technologies used by Macnification.
Core Animation
Throughout Macnification, Core Animation provides subtle and helpful hints on what is happening within the application.
Quick Look
When searching with Spotlight, previews of Macnification images are shown using Quick Look, for an optimal search experience.
Spotlight
Use the power of Spotlight to search microscopic images and their metadata. It's simply amazing.
Time Machine
Time Machine provides automatic and reliable backups for your entire library of microscopic images. Never again risk losing hours of microscopy work.
Core Image
From non-destructive image adjustments to custom made Image Units that provide state of the art EFI functionality, Core Image takes center stage.
Top-notch integration with Apple Mail makes it a snap to email images to other scientists around the world.
QTKit
Building on QTKit, Macnification allows the creation of time-lapse movies from image stacks, featuring a live preview.
Multi-core
Macnification takes full advantage of multiple processor cores, leveraging NSOperation for optimal workload management.
Numbers
Macnification allows scientists to open measurement results in Numbers with a single click, leveraging this innovative spreadsheet app.
ImageKit
Macnification is a poster child for ImageKit adoption, providing high performance, hardware accelerated image handling.
Core Data
Searching, editing and saving tens of thousands of images is only possible thanks to Core Data, the reliable persistence framework from Apple.
Objective-C 2.0
Development of Macnification has been helped tremendously by leveraging time-saving functionality in Objective-C 2.0 such as fast enumeration and properties.