Silver Spring, Maryland - July 22, 1996 - Media Cybernetics announces the release of Image-Pro Plus for the Power Macintosh. The development of Image-Pro for the Macintosh demonstrates the Company's commitment of responding to the needs of researchers and scientists who are working on the Macintosh platform.

Analytical image processing has been dominated by PC software packages, including Image-Pro Plus for Windows, leaving Macintosh users with limited options for high-powered image processing and analysis software. To fill this void and to satisfy the needs of the many laboratory professionals who do not operate in the Windows world, Media has made their flagship analytical imaging software product available for the Power Macintosh. Unlike public domain software, Image-Pro Plus for the Mac is built on top of 15 years of imaging expertise and is backed by a company committed to providing unparalleled technical support and customer service.

Image-Pro Plus provides users with fast and accurate image processing and analysis solutions. It contains image processing capabilities for black and white, gray scale, and 24-bit color images. It includes a full range of counting, sizing, statistical, and image enhancement tools. Image-Pro Plus is suitable for any research or industrial application where analysis of an image can help the user to understand processes, make comparisons, or identify objects.

In addition, Image-Pro Plus provides users with easy software installation, improved and easier to use Draw, Text, and Fill tools, and an image gallery for image storage. A highly interactive screen painting allows for visual adjustments in Brightness, Contrast, Gamma, and Psuedocolor.

Image-Pro Plus reduces the costs and cycle time of research, design, and product development in the areas of quality assurance, nondestructive testing, forensics, agriculture, electron microscopy, metallurgy, astronomy, and the vast life science areas of genetics, pathology, pharmacology, and microscopy.