Hull, Canada - April 19, 2000 - Hemera Technologies announced today that Hemera Photo-Objects 50,000 Premium Image Collection, the largest retail collection of Photo-Objects in the world, is now available. This latest royalty-free product offering from Hemera is ideal for the consumer/professional and corporate markets that create presentations, graphic or web designs and perform desktop publishing.

Hemera Photo-Objects 50,000 Premium Image Collection includes over 50,000 professional-quality Photo-Object images, plus PhotoFont Maker, a revolutionary application that allows for the creation of photographic quality textured fonts within seconds. Hemera's Photo-Objects 50,000 Premium Image Collection operates under Windows® 95, 98, 2000 and Windows NT® 4.0 and will have an estimated street price of $79.99 U.S.

"The consumer-professional and business market has embraced the concept of Photo-Objects, which has resulted in Hemera experiencing great retail success with our previous collections," said David Hood, CEO of Hemera. "This market segment recognizes the value and quality of Hemera Photo-Objects and as such we continue to gain market share in the highly competitive image content market."

"Hemera is recognized worldwide as a provider of high quality image content," added Marc- Antoine Benglia, President of Hemera. "We have won many industry awards with Photo-Objects and this new product offering will provide users with a tremendous number of professional quality images that they can use to add tremendous impact to any project."

Hemera Photo-Objects 50,000 Premium Image Collection contains professional-quality, royalty-free photo-objects that have been cut out or "cropped" from their original background. This means that they can be utilized anywhere that traditional vector clip art would be used because there is no constricting rectangular background. The innovative plain-English search engine gives instant feedback to users, allowing them to quickly access any of the 50,000 Photo-Objects. Hemera Photo-Objects and Photo-Fonts can be easily dragged and dropped into most popular applications and the user can control the DPI (Dots per square Inch) making them perfect for a broad range of consumers

Pricing and availability

Hemera Photo-Objects 50,000 Premium Image Collection is now available from many popular retail outlets, mailorder and online resellers for an estimated street price of $79.99 U.S.

System Requirements

Windows® 95/98/2000 & Windows NT 4.0
PC 486/66 (Pentium recommended)
16 MB of RAM (32 MB recommended)
10 MB of hard disk space CD-ROM drive
(4x or faster recommended)
256 colour display or higher recommended