Corel's Paint Shop Photo Album Shipping With Intel Desktop Boards Digital Home/Digital Office Software Bundle

Business Wire, Feb 28, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO -- INTEL DEVELOPER'S FORUM, MOSCONE CENTER

Corel's Paint Shop Photo Album Will Be Demonstrated At The Intel Developers Forum's Digital Office Community, Booth #442

Corel Corporation today announced that Paint Shop Photo Album SE will be shipping with Intel Desktop Boards new Digital Home/Digital Office integrated software bundle available exclusively on Intel's 945 and 955 Express(R) Chipset-based platforms. The award-winning Paint Shop Photo Album SE digital camera software allows businesses and home users to easily organize, fix, share and protect digital photos in the fastest and safest way possible.

The new digital home/digital office software bundle integrates four popular applications - digital photography management, navigation, connectivity and video editing - to meet the needs of businesses and home office users.

The new software bundle targets system builders who wish to create feature rich, easy-to-use and affordable high-performance Intel-based desktop solutions for small-and-medium sized businesses, government agencies and consumers. The bundle will allow system builders to provide these four compelling applications free of charge to customers seeking greater value from their desktop computing investments.

The award-winning Paint Shop Photo Album SE -- one of the industry's best-selling digital photo software solutions - pioneered the standards by which all other photo albums are measured. From beginners to advanced users, Paint Shop Photo Album SE allows users to organize their photos like they do their computers, utilizing the familiar Windows file folder system. Highly intuitive menus allow users to minimize the number of steps required to edit their creations into perfect photos. In addition, the software provides the easiest means to share photos via email, the Internet or popular online photo printing services. Lastly, a unique "vaulting" system allows users to back up their photos for safekeeping with no thought or technique required.

"Corel's Paint Shop Photo Album SE is a great addition to our industry leading software suite," said Joel Christensen, Director of Marketing, Intel Desktop Board Operations. "It offers a simple application to organize, fix, share and protect digital photos. Photo Album delivers the range of functionality, ease of use and protection to meet the needs of businesses and home users."

Paint Shop Photo Album is used by millions of user around the world, ranging from novices to professional photographers. Millions of consumers and businesses around the world rely on Photo Album for its ease of use, reliability, unparalleled functionality and unique PhotoSafe Archiving System.

The PhotoSafe Archiving System ensures that users will never lose another photo. According to InfoTrends, there are more than 25 billion photos taken each year, and 78 percent of digital camera owners have no plans for storing these photos. That leaves almost 20 billion photos vulnerable to computer crashes or viruses which destroy photo files. The PhotoSafe Archiving System takes the worry and planning out of keeping digital photos secure by tracking which photos have already been backed-up to CD, which have been added to the photo collection since then, and altering users as to when its time to back-up again.

"We are delighted to be part of the Intel's digital home/digital office software bundle," said Amish Mehta, CEO of Corel Corporation. "There is an increasing demand for simple, one-step software that helps users view, fix, create and share photos with safe and secure back-up, protection and archiving options. As an increasing number of users demand more efficient and secure digital photo management, we believe that Paint Shop Photo Album will be ubiquitous on desktops solutions worldwide."

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 the CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, the WordPerfect Office Suite, the Corel Painter Natural-Media painting and illustration software and the Paint Shop 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 re-established growth for its flagship product lines and achieved multiple consecutive quarters of profitability. Founded in 1985, Corel is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. For more information, please visit www.corel.com.

(C) 2005 Corel Corporation. All rights reserved. Corel, WordPerfect, CorelDRAW, Painter, Natural-Media and the Corel logo are trademarks for registered trademarks of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries. Paint Shop Pro, Paint Shop Pro Studio and Paint Shop Photo Album are trademarks or registered trademarks of Jasc Software, Inc.