Jasc Paint Shop Pro Celebrates 10th Anniversary with New Release; Anniversary Edition Offers Consumers $100 Worth of Bonus Tools and Resources Free

Business Wire, August 27, 2001

Business Editors & Technology Writers

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2001

Jasc Software today announced the release of new Jasc(R) Paint Shop Pro(TM) 7 Anniversary Edition. This new edition of award-winning Paint Shop Pro celebrates ten years of providing digital photographers, Web designers, and home and business users with the most powerful, easiest-to-use tools at an affordable price.

"To thank our millions of loyal users worldwide for their decade of support, we wanted to give them an anniversary gift from Jasc," said Kris Tufto, president and CEO of Jasc Software. "We've packed $100 worth of free tools and resources into Paint Shop Pro 7 Anniversary Edition, which is very much in keeping with our policy of going above and beyond to give our users more than they expect. On this tenth anniversary, we salute our users and thank them not only for providing the valuable feedback which helps make Paint Shop Pro great, but also for making Paint Shop Pro the world's most complete, most popular, most award-winning image editor in its class."

Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 Anniversary Edition includes:

-- Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7.04, filled with powerful, easy-to-use tools for
editing and enhancing digital photos, creating and optimizing Web graphics,
drawing, illustrating, and painting.

-- Jasc(R) Media Center Plus(TM) 3.1 for organizing photos into albums. It's
the easy way to file and find digital photos, clip art, scanned images, and Web
files - on a hard drive, or on CD-ROMs or Zip disks. Supports over 50 file
formats, including MP3 sound files, and MPEG and AVI video files.

-- Jasc(R) Animation Shop(TM) 3.04 for animating Web and presentation graphics.
Easily animate Web graphics, buttons, banners, and more with cool transitions
and funky effects.

-- Special effects filters from Alien Skin Eye Candy, Virtual Painter, and
Flaming Pear Essentials for adding extra impact to digital photos, Web
graphics, and virtually any type of image or project.

-- A new Product Tour that explores common projects in a fun, in-depth way,
making it even easier for those new to digital imaging to dive in right away.

-- Bonus hands-on tutorials from Paint Shop Pro experts.

-- 30 new Picture Tubes, picture frames, and fun shapes for extra creative
power.

Availability

Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7 Anniversary Edition is available at a suggested list price of $109.00 from Jasc Software, or through popular retail, Internet and mail-order sales channels. An ESD version is available for $99 from Jasc Software. Upgrades for registered users of previous versions and version 7 are available through Jasc Software. Free, unlimited technical support is available to registered users directly from Jasc Software.

About Jasc Software, Inc.

Jasc Software provides Web designers and advanced users with leading, Windows-based digital imaging and management solutions that are powerful, easy-to-use, and affordable. The company is committed to using customer feedback to develop tools for Web site and digital image enhancement that provide advanced functionality at a low price. Jasc Software distributes its products in electronic and traditional forms via the Internet, software retailers and catalogers, and provides try-before-you-buy versions of its software via the Internet.

Jasc Software has been ranked by the Inc. 500, Deloitte & Touche's Minnesota Technology Fast 50, and Deloitte & Touche's Technology Fast 500. Its products have won numerous awards including: American Photo Editor's Choice Award; PC Magazine Reader's Choice Award, Web Techniques Web Tools Reader's Choice Award, PC World World Class Award; PC World Best Buy; PC Photo Editor's Choice; c/net Editor's Choice; PC Magazine Program of the Year; and Home Office Computing 100 Gold Award. For more information, Jasc Software can be reached at (800) 622-2793 or on the Web at www.jasc.com.

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