LumaPix Announces Completion of FotoFusion v3 Rollout

-- Amazing Tools for Pro Photographers and Scrapbookers Alike --

For Immediate Release

Montreal, May 27 2004

LumaPix is pleased to announce the immediate availability of LumaPix::FotoFusion™ version 3.0. This elegant and powerful application for image manipulation sets the price/performance standard and is the latest “must have” tool for image professionals and enthusiasts.

FOTOFUSION PRO

Professional photographers use FotoFusion to assemble image compositions ranging in size from wedding albums to wall portraits. A unique user interface turns tedious image arrangement tasks into a pleasure; users can choose templates or automated layout tools to assemble unique multi-image compositions that increase the value and visual sophistication of their work. The results can be emailed to clients as watermarked proofs, uploaded to online galleries using custom HTML styles to match existing website designs, or printed at extreme resolutions on large-format output devices.

David Ziser, master photographer, comments: “FotoFusion revolutionizes a huge part of the workflow for digital photographers. After testing FotoFusion for a few months I literally ‘stopped the presses’ on our currentPhotoShop-intensiveworkflow, and made a hard right hand turn to a FotoFusion workflow. Staff was"team trained" in a day. Our first wedding project was completed in 1/10ourtypicalproduction time, and album pages are now literally created in a few minutes. Retouching, color adjustments, image edges and page design are performed effortlessly. The results are unbelievably easy to attain and a joy to behold. You absolutely must own FotoFusion Pro v3.0”

FOTOFUSION STANDARD

FotoFusion Standard optimizes the feature set for more price-conscious home photography and scrapbooking enthusiasts. The unique layout mechanism assembles scrapbooks and photo collages in a snap, ready for printing, editing in other packages, sending by email to friends and family, or publishing on web pages with the integrated email and FTP tools.

Stacey Kluczny, a well-known digital artist in the scrapbooking community, comments: “FotoFusion is without a doubtthe most revolutionary program that ever hit the scrapbooking industry; it has an incredibly friendly and forgiving learning curve.You can use graphic page kits, templates and individual elements easily, add text, adjust & resize images, email your creations directly from FotoFusion, and resizeyour layouts without losing quality. This is one program noone should be without!”

NEW IN VERSION 3

Text

  • Amazing interactive text manipulation
  • All truetype fonts supported, rendered at export time (razor-sharp at poster size)
  • Control over blur, edge & fill transparency, rotation, and more
  • EXIF tags for building contact sheets

Frame Enhancements

  • Customizable, vector- or bitmap-based frame mattes for jagged edges
  • Sepiatone and black&white image processing
  • Interactive per-image blur

Canvas Enhancements

  • Tiled background textures with interactive control over scale & blur
  • Bleed and crop lines
  • Interactive canvas resizing

Sharing

  • User templates for html export (CSS styles, new buttons, frames, etc).
  • Customizable banners
  • Customizable watermarks

User Interface

  • Completely new editing mechanism
  • Direct manipulation of important parameters at top level
  • Real-time interactive Editing of all image attributes

Interop

  • Images on the web (such as those in online photo galleries) can be included directly in FotoFusion collages without an import step.
  • Images can be routed through other applications (such as Adobe Photoshop™) for editing; the updated files appear automatically in the collage when done.

LUMAPIX RADIO

LumaPix is hosting a free online audio event, and you are invited!

Come meet the FotoFusion design team and walk through FotoFusion v3 interactively.

Door prizes will be awarded.

It all happens Wednesday June 2nd at 10:00pm EST.

For details visit

PRICING & AVAILABILITY

FotoFusion v3 is available in Standard and PRO variants for $39.95 and $89.95 USD respectively. Existing FotoFusion users are entitled to upgrade for as little as $19.95, or at no charge if they purchased FotoFusion after January 17 2004.

Trial versions of FotoFusion can be downloaded at no charge from

ABOUT LUMAPIX

LumaPix is a private partnership based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Our mission is to provide powerful, easy-to-use media tools that enable casual and professional users to achieve results which amaze and delight their family, friends and customers. FotoFusion is an exceptionally powerful yet easy to use tool enabling users to share and publish images as unique, photo-realistic photocompositions. For more information about LumaPix and FotoFusion visit

©2003 LumaPix. All rights reserved. Product specifications and availability are subject to change without notice. LumaPix and FotoFusion are trademarks of LumaPix in Canada, the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.

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PRESS CONTACTS:

Michael Sheasby

CoFounder, LumaPix

Phone: +1 (877) LUMAPIX

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