Hull, Canada - November 9, 1999 - Hemera Technologies announced today that Hemera Photo-Objects Holidays & Festivities Collection, the largest specialized collection of Photo-Objects in the world, is now available. This collection of royalty-free Photo-Objects is ideal for anyone who wants to create great looking projects for any festive occasion. Hemera Photo-Objects Holidays & Festivities Collection operates under Windows® 95, 98 or Windows NT® 4.0. It has an estimated street price of $19.95 after a $10.00 mail-in rebate in Canada and the U.S.

Hemera Photo-Objects Holidays & Festivities Collection includes over 12,000 professional-quality Photo-Object images and over 50 festive textures in PhotoFont Maker, a bonus application included with Hemera Photo-Objects. Hemera Photo-Objects, the next generation of clip art, can be used with a wide variety of software applications to enhance the appearance of greeting cards, wrapping paper, invitations and much more. This new and unique collection includes many different themes that make it ideal for year round use. PhotoFont Maker is a revolutionary application that allows for the creation of photographic quality textured fonts within seconds, using preinstalled Windows fonts.

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.

"This is an incredible collection of theme-based Photo-Objects," said Marc-Antoine Benglia, President of Hemera Technologies. "We have created a package that covers a broad range of holiday and other festive occasions which enables the user to create stunning projects using theme specific Photo-Objects."

Hemera Photo-Objects Holidays & Festivities Collection contains professional-quality, royalty-free Photo-Objects that have been cut out or "cropped" from their original background, which means the user is not restricted to a rectangular shape. Hemera Photo-Objects are photographic images and not vector clip art, which means that the user can add a creative, realistic look to all their projects. The innovative plain-English search engine gives the user instant feedback with each word they type, allowing users to quickly preview and access any of the 12,000 Photo-Objects. The Export Wizard helps to quickly place Hemera Photo-Objects and PhotoFonts or they can be easily dragged and dropped into any document.

Pricing and Availability

Hemera Photo-Objects Holidays & Festivities Collection is now available for an estimated street price of $19.99 after a $10.00 mail-in rebate in Canada and the U.S.

System Requirements

Windows® 95/98 or Windows NT® 4.0
PC 486/66 (Pentium recommended)
8 MB of RAM (16 MB recommended)
15 MB of hard disk space
CD-ROM drive (4x or faster recommended)
256 colour display or higher recommended

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.