Thunder Lizard Productions to Hold Second Conference on Adobe Illustrator
in New Orleans

Sessions to Feature Expert Tips on Adobe Illustrator 6.0 for Macintosh and
Power Macintosh

MACWORLD EXPO, San Francisco, Calif. (January 9, 1996) (Nasdaq: ADBE) --
Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that Thunder Lizard
Productions, based in Seattle, Wash., will hold its second conference on
the Adobe Illustrator program February 14-18, 1996, at the New Orleans
Marriott. The spring conference will focus on the newly released Version
6.0 of Adobe Illustrator for Macintosh and highlight its new features and
functions, including integration with other leading applications from
Adobe such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe PageMaker software.

Sessions will be conducted by expert users of the world's leading
illustration and design program, all convening in one location to offer
in-depth courses on a broad range of topics. Attendees will be able to
design their own curriculum, based on their expertise and interest, by
choosing from seminars on advanced text-handling techniques, fundamentals
in color and separations scanning. Conferees will have breakfast with
experts from Adobe one day and with, the plug-in developers Cytopia
Software the next. They can also learn creative techniques from
award-winning artist Ron Chan.

Sean McKenna, Adobe's senior product marketing manager for Adobe
Illustrator will deliver the keynote address on the future of Adobe
Illustrator. His presentation will be followed by a session on Essential
Illustrator Tips and Tricks. Other sessions will be given by Deke
McClelland, host of television's Digital Gurus; Ted Alspach, author of the
Macworld Illustrator Bible and Illustrator Filter Finesse, Brad and Tom
Neal,founders of Thomas-Bradley Illustration & Design, and Sharon Steuer,
painter and illustrator and author of The Illustrator Wow! Book.

"In preparing The Illustrator Wow! Book, I discovered that every
professional artist using Adobe Illustrator has developed unique ways of
working and discovered dozens of time-saving tips," said Sharon Steuer,
painter and illustrator, and contibuting editor to Computer Artist, of
Bethany, Conn.

"Now with the second Adobe Illustrator conference, conferees will be able
to learn many of these techniques, while learning about the new features
of Version 6.0. This conference is not only agolden opportunity for
participants, but is destined to be a masters' class for the instructors!"
"After the great response to our first-ever Illustrator ConferenceSan
Diego last October, we are excited about bringing the same level of talent
to our New Orleans event," said Steve Roth, cofounder of Thunder Lizard.
"This conference promises to deliver the same expertise to even more users
of Adobe Illustrator."

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is the industry's leading illustration and page design
tool, offering users unlimited creative options and unsurpassed precision.
Users can create, manipulate and refine artwork with advanced features for
editing, text handling, color support and more. Version 6.0 for Macintosh
offers a slew of new features and functions, including enhanced
image-handling capabilities such as TIFF import, built-in production
features, Drag & Drop to Adobe Photoshop and Adobe PageMill and much, much
more.

Thunder Lizard's Adobe Illustrator Conference, New Orleans For more
information about Thunder Lizard Production's Adobe Illustrator Conference
in New Orleans, please contact Thunder Lizard Productions by phone at
(206) 285-0305 or (800) 221-3806 or by fax at (206) 285-0308.

Adobe Systems Incorporated, founded in 1982, is headquartered in Mountain
View, California. Adobe develops, markets and supports computer software
products and technologies that enable users to create, display, print and
communicate electronic documents. The company licenses its technology to
major computer, printing and publishing suppliers, and markets a line of
applications software and type products for authoring visually rich
documents. Additionally, the company markets a line of powerful, but easy
to use, products for home and small business users. Adobe has subsidiaries
in Europe and the Pacific Rim serving a worldwide network of dealers and
distributors. Adobe's 1994 revenue was approximately $598 million.
 
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