Teledyne CETAC has released HDIP Software for HDF-based image processing for laser ablation systems. HDIP software was developed in close collaboration with Professor Vanhaecke and Dr Van Malderen at the University of Ghent and is now exclusively available through Teledyne CETAC. The HDIP image processing software offers fully automated image optimisation for highest resolution; several “autopilot” functions that automate data reduction and building of publication-ready 2D and 3D multi-element images; automated optimisation function to suggest optimum analytical parameters (spot size, rep rate, dwell times etc.) based on the user’s analytical needs; and it allows data manipulation including full quantitation, drift correction, interrogation of datasets acquired to output region of interest data.