Hemera's signature product line grows again with 50,000 all-new, pre-masked royalty-free digital images

Hull, Quebec - February 19, 2003 - Hemera®, a world-leading provider of wholly owned, royalty-free digital image content, today announced the launch of a new image collection for Windows®: Hemera Photo-Objects™ 50,000 Volume III on CD is now available in stores in North America and online at www.hemera.com. This is the company's third collection of award-winning Photo-Objects images, bringing Hemera's total Photo-Objects image collection to over 150,000 images in three volumes.

This all-new collection of over 50,000 pre-masked royalty-free images delivers fresh content in a timesaving format because the images have already been masked, and come with their own alpha channel. High-quality Photo-Objects images are ideal for print, multimedia and Web use (32-bit true-color images with base resolution of 600X600 pixels at 300 DPI). Volume III for Windows allows users to create their own personal collections, view and subscribe to additional online image collections, and use all their Hemera image collections from within a single browser.

"We're very pleased to be offering another 50,000 Photo-Objects images to creative professionals and graphics enthusiasts," said Marc-Antoine Benglia, President and Chief Product Architect of Hemera Technologies Inc. "The customer demand has been strong for these premium collections since the launch of Volume l in April 2000. Volume lll is an excellent addition to the product family with all-new content, and our continued commitment to delivering great value."

Hemera Photo-Objects Volume lll provides royalty-free digital content in over 80 different themes and works with all professional graphics applications.

Hemera Photo-Objects 50,000 Volume III for Windows CD version has a suggested retail price of $99.99 USD.

Volume lll for Macintosh® on CD will be available in April 2003 and DVD versions for both Windows and Macintosh will be available in May 2003.