Hull, Canada - January 23, 2002 - Hemera Technologies Inc., a world leader in wholly owned, royalty-free digital image content, announced today that it has launched AbleStock.com™, a Web site that brings royalty-free digital photography to creative professionals seeking high-quality images at lower prices.

Images are available in a variety of subjects-from business to conceptual-and can be purchased in several formats: 25MB ($99.99 USD), 10MB ($49.99 USD) and 1.5MB ($19.99 USD). Creative professionals, including graphic and Web designers, art directors, creative directors and publishers will benefit from these high-quality yet low cost images.

"AbleStock images are original digital photographs, which can be searched, purchased and downloaded directly from www.ablestock.com," said Marc-Antoine Benglia, President of Hemera Technologies Inc. "Our unique digital-to-digital production process eliminates traditional scanning costs and results in lower prices for our customers."

AbleStock™ provides both stock photography and Photo-Objects™, which are photographic images of people, animals and objects that have been isolated from their original background, and pre-masked so they can be dropped into any design.