Hull, Canada - October 3, 2001 - Hemera Technologies Inc., the world leader in wholly owned royalty-free digital image content, today announced that The Big Box of Art, available for both Windows® and Macintosh®, will be available through many popular retail outlets, mail-order and online resellers in North America and Britain by mid October 2001. The Big Box of Art will be available in France and Germany by late October 2001.

The Big Box of Art is a unique digital image collection with the highest quality and the greatest variety of images available, including Hemera™ Photo-Objects™, clip art, illustrations, professional stock photos, Web graphics and more.

"The consumer-professional/business market has embraced our Hemera Photo-Objects collections," says David Hood, CEO of Hemera Technologies Inc. "With the release of The Big Box of Art, we're making Hemera Photo-Objects and other types of images from our extensive digital image collection available to a whole new market of home graphics enthusiasts."

"We're also pleased to announce that The Big Box of Art for Windows is Windows XP certified," adds Marc-Antoine Benglia, President of Hemera Technologies Inc. "This makes The Big Box of Art one of the first graphics packages to be certified for Microsoft's new operating system."

The Big Box of Art stands apart from other packages thanks to Hemera's award-winning search engine that makes finding images quick and easy; users don't have to wade through lots of filler to find a useful image. In just one big box, Hemera provides the best variety of high-quality images, in the right mix of formats. The Big Box of Art is also unique in that it contains Hemera Photo-Objects - photographic images of objects without their surrounding background that maintain the quality of a photo, with the flexibility of clip art. The Big Box of Art also contains PhotoFont Maker, an application that allows users to fill their fonts with photo-realistic textures.

In addition, The Big Box of Art for Windows includes two bonus applications: CD Designs Creator and Greeting Card Creator, along with 200 Templates for use with these applications. The Big Box of Art for Macintosh includes a 750-page image catalog to make finding the perfect image that much easier.

The Big Box of Art for Windows

The Big Box of Art for Windows has an estimated street price of $29.95 USD and contains 350,000 images including:

· 5,000 Hemera™ Photo-Objects™
· 180,000 vector clip art
· 30,000 raster illustrations
· 20,000 professional color photos
· 10,000 professional B/W photos
· 103,000 Web graphics
· 2,000 textured photos
· 500 animations
· 500 PhotoFont textures

The Big Box of Art for Macintosh

The Big Box of Art for Macintoshhas an estimated street price of $69.95 USD and contains 215,000 images including:

· 10,000 Hemera Photo-Objects
· 110,000 vector clip art
· 10,000 raster illustrations
· 20,000 professional color photos
· 10,000 professional B/W photos
· 26,000 Web graphics
· 25,000 Web images
· 2,000 textured photos
· 1,500 animations
· 500 PhotoFont textures