Corel's Paint Shop Pro 9 Named PC Magazine's 'Best of the Year' : Flagship Digital Image Editing Software Takes Top Honors

Business Wire, Dec 22, 2004

OTTAWA -- Corel Corporation today announced that PC Magazine will name its Paint Shop(TM) Pro(R) 9 "Best of the Year" in the Image Editing-Serious Hobbyist category in its upcoming December 28 issue. Paint Shop Pro 9 was lauded among products that, according to PC Magazine editors, "... wowed us, simply by being the best."

According to the editors, "Paint Shop Pro 9 goes beyond simple image editing, with impressive new tools and capabilities," and calls the product "excellent for digital photo editing."

Paint Shop Pro 9 is the flagship of the Jasc family of Paint Shop products, recently acquired by Corel to create the industry's broadest offering of high-quality digital photography, graphics and productivity software for value-conscious customers. This latest version of the award-winning photo and graphics editor advances the standard for affordable, professional photo editing through advanced tools for avid and professional digital photographers, graphics hobbyists, and business professionals. The software integrates digital camera noise removal, a chromatic aberration removal filter, fill flash, Raw image support, and other high-end functionality often sold individually for hundreds of dollars.

The honor from PC Magazine caps a highly positive year for Corel. Previously, the Paint Shop family has been lauded with dozens of positive reviews and multiple awards, including Presentation Magazine's Standing Ovation Award, CNET Editors' Choice Award, PC World 'Best Buy', and PC Photo Editors' Choice Award.

"Having a trusted industry resource, like PC Magazine, give Paint Shop Pro top honors for digital image editing provides a level of confidence that consumers can trust when considering their software purchase," said Brett Denly, executive vice president of global marketing. "And, it validates that as a company, our product strategy is right on track to keep us positioned as innovation leaders in the digital photography market."

Pricing and Availability

Paint Shop Pro 9 is available at www.jasc.com , www.corel.com and at selected retailers worldwide. MSRP is $129 USD.For a free trial of Paint Shop Pro 9, please visitwww.jasc.com/products/.> About PC Magazine

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PC Magazine defines technology for e-business and is the only magazine with in-depth reviews and accurate, repeatable testing from PC Magazine Labs placed in the unique context of today's business technology landscape.

To meet its readers' needs for buying information that is as current as it is comprehensive, PC Magazine publishes 22 times a year in print and continuously on the Web.

About Corel Corporation

Corel Corporation provides innovative software solutions that help millions of value-conscious businesses and consumers in over 75 countries improve their productivity. The Company is renowned for its powerful software portfolio that combines innovative photo editing and graphics creation, vector-illustration and technical-graphics applications along with office and personal productivity solutions. Corel's flagship products include CorelDRAW(R) Graphics Suite, the WordPerfect(R) Office Suite, the Corel Painter Natural-Media(R) painting and illustration software and the Paint Shop(TM) Family of digital photography and image-editing software. Corel was acquired by San Francisco-based Vector Capital in August 2003 and, since that time has achieved record levels of profitability and growth across all product lines. Founded in 1985, Corel is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. For more information or to download a trial version of the software, please visit www.jasc.com/newpr2.> (C) 2004 Corel Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners.

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