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Hemera Technologies Ships Photo-Objects 10,000 Premium Image Collection

Hull, Quebec - June 15, 1998 –   Hemera Technologies Inc. ships Photo-Objects Premium Image Collection, the first all-purpose collection of photo-objects. Ideal for the desktop publishing, graphic and web design, SOHO and corporate markets, Hemera's Photo-Objects Premium Image Collection includes over 10,000 professional-quality Photo-Object images, plus PhotoFont Maker, a revolutionary application that allows the creation of photographic quality textured fonts within seconds. Hemera's Photo-Objects Premium Image Collection operates under Windows® 95 and Windows NT® 4.0 and retails for a suggested list price of $59.95 US.

"Photo-Objects' unique technology combines the quality of photographs with the versatility of clip art. Its ease-of-use and advanced drag-and-drop capabilities, makes it the ideal companion for all word processor, presentation and desktop publishing users," said David Hood, chief executive officer of Hemera Technologies. "Now users can take advantage of photographs of real objects rather than simplistic drawings when illustrating their documents."

The Hemera Photo-Objects Premium Image Collection is a collection of over 10,000 professional-quality, royalty-free cropped photo-objects accessible through a revolutionary new classification and search engine that allows users to search for and find the images they need in a rapid and intuitive fashion. Hemera Photo-Objects Premium Image Collection also includes PhotoFont Maker that enables the easy creation of photo-realistic text.

With Photo-Objects Express Image Collection
users can:

  • View a thumbnail of every Photo-Objects image;

  • Search interactively, using plain English commands, by name, by attribute, by category, etc. As the user types keywords, the corresponding thumbnails appear on the screen;

  • Create high-impact photo-realistic drop caps and words by simply entering text, choosing a font, and then applying a texture;

  • Resize and drag-and drop Photo-Objects images and PhotoFonts with transparent, colored or textured backgrounds into word processors, spreadsheets, presentations, Web pages or desktop publishing programs.

    Photo-Objects and PhotoFonts - the next generation
    of clip art

    The Hemera Photo-Objects Premium Image Collection enables users to replace standard clip art images with full-color, high quality Photo-Objects and PhotoFonts to give their projects a unique and professional look. Whereas a clip art is a drawing used to represent an object, a Photo-Object is an actual photo of that particular object that contains a transparent background. Transparent backgrounds allow users to seemlesly integrate Photo-Objects and PhotoFonts with any document background.

    Unlike standard photo CD-ROM collections, Photo-Objects are not restricted to a rectuangular shape. There's no need to « crop » the object of interest from a photo in order to create professional-looking brochures, presentations, advertisements or even Web pages. The object representations have already been professionally extracted. The product's unique file format (.hpi) preserves each photo as individual object while keeping file size small.

    PhotoFonts are photo-realistic drop caps and words that are created on the fly by simply entering text, choosing a font, and then applying a texture right within the Photo-Objects Premium Image Collection interface. As with Photo-Objects, PhotoFonts come with a transparent background and can be inserted into any word processor document, spreadsheet, electronic presentation or graphics document as a floating object. The Export wizard also allows the user the resize the original Photo-Object or PhotoFont, merge it with any background, and/or save it as a professional graphics file with a transparency mask.

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    Hemera (founded 1997) creates and sells royalty-free digital images to the consumer, business and creative professional markets. Hemera's image products are available directly via the Company's Web sites - www.hemera.com and www.ablestock.com. Hemera images and image collections are also available worldwide through sales channels that include retailers, licensors and software republishers. Hemera possesses one of the world's largest collections of wholly owned, royalty-free digital images, and a growing family of award-winning and best-selling image collections. For more information, visit www.hemera.com.


    Hemera, PhotoCraft and Photo-Objects are trademarks of Hemera Technologies Inc. Windows and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

    Media Contact:
    Mats Lindeberg
    Tel: (819) 772-8200 ext. 284
    Email: media@hemera.com

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