The Big Box of Art® 800,000 for Macintosh® delivers over
30 GB of royalty-free images on 8 DVDs.

Hull, Quebec - June 18, 2003 - Hemera®, a world-leading provider of wholly owned, royalty-free digital image content, today announced the launch of a new image collection for Macintosh®: The Big Box of Art® 800,000 on DVD is now available in stores and online in North America. This is the company's sixth collection for the popular The Big Box of Art product family, and it's the world's largest Macintosh image collection on DVD.

This incredible collection of over 800,000 royalty-free images contains over 30 GB of images on 8 DVDs and the most scalable vector clip art found in any image collection - over 300,000. It also includes over 25,000 premium, pre-masked Hemera Photo-Objects™ images, plus stock photographs, raster illustrations, Web graphics and textured photos. The award-winning Hemera Image Browser features an easy-to-use search engine that lets users find the perfect image through keyword search, and drag and drop that image to popular graphics applications in seconds.

"We're pleased to be able to provide customers with a product packed with such value and usability," said Kim Dixon, President and CEO of Hemera Technologies Inc. "The Big Box of Art 800,000 is the most complete image collection we've ever produced, and an excellent product for image hungry Macintosh users who are eager to ramp up their output with more selection and quicker DVD access."

The Big Box of Art 800,000 also features 50 bonus high-resolution (28 MB) professional stock photos from AbleStock™, included inside the package. Additionally, registered users are offered up to 150 more AbleStock images through a 30-day free trial subscription to www.ablestock.com.

The Big Box of Art 800,000 has a suggested retail price of $149.99 USD.