Macnification

Today, we are releasing Macnification 1.5. It has become a major update, with the following new and enhanced features:

- Support for 16-bit images
- Non-destructive Lookup Tables (LUTs)
- Improved ROI auto-detection speed and functionality
- Added channel support: RGB channels can be extracted or merged
- dm3 files are now fully supported
- Images can now be exported to a number of formats, including tiff, jpeg, ...
- It's now possible to add batch comments to images
- Added option to define custom metadata fields
- Calibrations can now be copied and then pasted onto multiple images
- Improved collage workflow
- Dragging images to MS Word now works
- Keywords are now sorted automatically and can be rearranged

In addition, we fixed many bugs and made improvements throughout. We hope you will like the new version. To install it, simply launch your current Macnification copy and choose Check for Updates from the Macnification menu. If you haven't already installed Macnification, you can grab it from our download page.

Together with this new update, we also setup a new pricing scheme. The most important addition here is that we introduce a $79 student license, giving PhD students the opportunity to experience the many advantages of Macnification's workflow.

In our previous post we announced that we would skip the 1.1 update altogether and directly move to the 1.5 update. We also promised to release Macnification 1.5 in November. When looking at the iCal icon in your dock, you'll notice that we did not meet the November deadline. We are really close, however. We need a couple more days to perform final testing with existing 1.0 databases. As Macnification is a mission-critical application for most of our users, we want to make sure our users don't experience any 'migration' issues. We hope you'll understand this delay and we are confident that you'll love Macnification 1.5!