The Big Box of Art 615,000 Enables Customers to Take Advantage of Innovative Windows® XP Graphics and Photo Technologies

Hull, Canada - April 18, 2002 - Hemera Technologies Inc., a world leader in wholly owned, royalty-free digital image content, today announced that The Big Box of Art™ 615,000 for Windows® will be available through many popular retail outlets, mail-order and online resellers in North America by early May 2002.

The Big Box of Art 615,000 is a digital image collection of the highest quality and greatest variety that includes more vector clip art images than you'll find in any other retail clip art package, along with Hemera™ Photo-Objects™, illustrations, professional stock photos, Web graphics and more.

"The Big Box of Art 615,000 follows on the tremendous success we've had with The Big Box of Art 350,000. We want to offer home graphics enthusiasts an even greater selection of digital images for their graphics projects," said Marc-Antoine Benglia, President of Hemera. "The Big Box of Art 615,000 is also Windows XP certified, allowing our customers to take advantage of the innovative graphics and photo technologies inherent in the Windows XP operating system."

Launched in October 2001, The Big Box of Art 350,000 has achieved rapid market acceptance, rising to the number five spot in the clip art category according to February retail data compiled by NPD Techworld. NPD Techworld is a leading provider of consumer and point of sale market information for the consumer electronics, home appliance, information technology and imaging industries.

The Big Box of Art 615,000 stands apart from other packages thanks to the inclusion of two bonus applications: T-Shirt Creator and Greeting Card Creator, along with 200 templates for use with these applications. A third bonus application, CD Designs Creator, is also available as a free download.*

The Big Box of Art 615,000 also features Hemera GraphicsDesk™, a powerful, plain-English search engine that lets you find and use images quickly and easily. GraphicsDesk eliminates the need to search through individual CDs one by one, and lets you drag and drop or copy/paste the perfect image into your project in seconds. You can also use GraphicsDesk to organize and keyword your own images, and view both The Big Box of Art 615,000 images and your personal image collections in a single search. Finally, GraphicsDesk lets you get to your collection wherever you have Internet access with optional online access to The Big Box of Art 615,000 images.

The Big Box of Art 615,000 has a suggested retail price of $69.95 USD** and contains:

· 10,100 Hemera™ Photo-Objects™
· 241,300 vector clip art
· 50,000 raster illustrations
· 35,200 professional color photos
· 15,000 professional B/W photos
· 260,200 Web graphics
· 2,000 textured photos
· 500 animations
· 500 PhotoFont textures

A $20.00 mail-in rebate is being offered to registered owners of The Big Box of Art 350,000 who wish to upgrade to The Big Box of Art 615,000. You can visit www.hemera.com for more details about the rebate.

*Internet connection required. Internet service provider fees, telecommunications and other charges may apply. Terms and conditions apply.

**Prices before applicable taxes and charges. Dealer may sell for less.