Club Photo Extends its Integrated Online Photo Sharing with new Digital Online Prints and Gift Center, Providing A Simplified and Wide-ranging Solution for Digital Photo Processing

Business Wire, Nov 10, 1999

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 1999--

New Service Offers Convenient Photo Finishing Experience

Allowing Anyone With Internet Access to Order Prints,

Personalized Gifts and Photo Keepsakes Using Any Digital Image

Club Photo Inc., the industry's leader in making photo sharing a simple and meaningful experience, today announced it has launched an online Prints & Gifts Center to provide comprehensive one-stop digital photo finishing services.

Club Photo's Prints & Gifts Center, on the Web at www.clubphoto.com, now offers a full range of services that provide high-quality prints and personalized gifts from any digital source (JPEG) including digital cameras, scanners, and Photo CDs.

This new service makes it convenient and easy for customers to order items from the convenience of their own home or business and have the items delivered to their doorstep without ever visiting a photo lab. Users simply choose the desired product, attach the digital image and complete the order.

With the addition of the Prints & Gifts Center, users who have digital images, or visitors who may have not already shared their pictures in the Club Photo community, can now order photo quality prints directly online.

The digital images can also be transferred onto personalized photo gifts and seasonal mementos including Christmas ornaments, tee shirts, mugs, mouse pads, elegant jewelry and even image-bearing cookies and chocolates. The gift will be delivered to the customer's doorstep within days.

"Club Photo members and guests have always enjoyed the great quality and service offered through our integrated sharing and finishing services. With the new Prints and Gift Center, we offer solutions for anyone who has a special digital image," said Andrew Wei, president and CEO of Club Photo.

"It is a service that continues Club Photo's mission to redefine the role of photography in people's lives."

Club Photo Makes Sharing Simple

Club Photo provides a complete and free photo sharing solution supported by fully integrated online photo finishing services. Instead of storing photos away, never to be seen, or having to reprint individual pictures and send them by "snail mail," Club Photo members can create albums and share them over the Internet within minutes.

Club Photo's powerful Living Album software provides a simple to use, digital photo album that enables everyday users to quickly and easily organize, manage, archive and electronically share their pictures on the Internet or the desktop with a few clicks of the mouse.

The free Club Photo membership includes a personal photo Web site where members share their memories and special occasions with friends and family around the world. Club Photo's Album To Go, for Palm connected organizers, enables portable photo sharing with anyone, anywhere, at any time.

Club Photo recently introduced i.Share, a free plug-in for Adobe PhotoShop and Adobe PhotoDeluxe, further extending the sharing process by enabling image editors, artists and graphic designers to upload images directly to their Internet photo albums as they are editing the pictures.

About Club Photo

Club Photo Inc provides a simple and meaningful photo sharing and finishing experience. The company's innovative model is redefining the traditional business of photography while simplifying the entire process for sharing life's precious moments.

Club Photo delivers award-winning digital photo organizing, sharing and personalized finishing solutions for everyday and professional photographers. The company provides a variety of free software tools including album organizing and creation software for the desktop and Palm(R) Connected Organizers, and Internet sharing plug-ins for Adobe PhotoShop(R), Adobe PhotoDeluxe(R).

The company's Prints & Gifts Center further extends the sharing and finishing model by providing the ability to order prints and keepsakes by submitting one or several pictures through the Internet.

Club Photo is located at 650 Saratoga Avenue, San Jose, Calif. and can be reached at 408/557-6743 or www.clubphoto.com.