Lucis Pro 5.0 requires Windows 2000, XP or Vista.

Lucis will run on computers with less than 500 MB RAM but with much slower processing speeds, which could make using Lucis frustrating. Lucis is very computationally intensive. Although the Lucis program uses less than 1 MB of disk space, Lucis requires RAM equal to seven times the image size in pixels for black-and-white images and five times the image size in pixels for 24-bit color images. The recommendations above are minimum specifications that should provide acceptable performance for most applications.

Processing hard copy images (transparencies or prints) requires their conversion to digital files.

Lucis Pro Supports: 8-bit raw data RAW/BIF, 8-bit and 24-bit Windows Bitmap BMP, 8-bit and 24-bit PC Paintbrush PCX, 8-bit grayscale and 24-bit color Portable Network Graphics PNG, 8-bit to 16-bit grayscale and 8-bit/24-bit color Tagged Information Format TIFF, 8-bit and 24-bit Joint Photographic Experts Group JPEG, 16-bit ASCII

To fully utilize the power of Lucis, we recommend using a 12-bit scanner. The image must be scanned with no enhancement of the image. Many scanners have automatic image enhancement methods that remove information that Lucis could otherwise reveal.

If the image acquisition equipment outputs a digital image directly, care must be taken to ensure that the image is not being enhanced or processed.

Quality hard copy output of Lucis will require a high-end printer, one with 600 to 1200 dpi. Again, many printers have image enhancement features that will alter the appearance of the hardcopy image relative to the view seen on the computer screen.

Lucis Pro 5.0 allows for image resizing. 

Lucis Pro does not allow the addition of text to images. Therefore we recommend that Lucis Pro 5.0 be used in conjunction with an image-editing program that provides those features, such as Adobe Photoshop.