MetaTools Ships KPT Power Photos III

Drum Scanned Images and Clipping Paths Give Users Superior, Easy to Use
Images

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., JAN. 9, 1996 (MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO)--MetaTools,
Inc. (NASDAQ: MTLS), formerly HSC Software, today announced it is shipping
KPT Power Photos III, a five CD-ROM collection featuring 375 royalty-free,
high-resolution drum-scanned images for only $199. These 375 hand-selected
images are pre-press ready and were specifically photographed for this
series to meet the demanding needs of today's digital artist.

"KPT Power Photos III offers users a wide range of high-quality images at
an extremely affordable price," said John Wilczak, Founder and CEO of
MetaTools, Inc. "The collection contains a unique blend of captivating
textures, backgrounds and objects that can be used for advertising
layouts, brochures, multimedia presentations, and World Wide Web page
designs by professionals, small home offices and consumers."

KPT Power Photos III includes the following themes: Retro Toys, Tropical
Paradise, Junkyards, Frames, and Spring and Summer Holidays. All images
are Macintosh, Windows, Win 95/NT, Sun and Silicon Graphics platform
flexible.

KPT Power Photos III images were drum scanned to provide maximum color
depth and tonal range for superior quality and output. Convenient built-in
channels and clipping paths allow users to quickly use the images with
such leading products as Micrografx's Picture Publisher and Adobe
Photoshop, by simply selecting and pasting them onto backgrounds to obtain
a clean silhouette. In addition, transcflectance channels allow users to
paste objects onto backgrounds while maintaining the natural
transparencies of the image.

KPT Power Photos III is available through MetaTools' dealers and
distributors worldwide. The suggested North America retail price is $199.

For Macintosh users, KPT Power Photos III requires Mac II or greater,
System 6.0.7 or greater, 4 Mb of RAM and 1.5 Mb of storage. A 24- bit
monitor is recommended. Thirty megabytes of free disk space are required
to view images in KPT Power Photos III if images are to be stored on a
hard drive. Users can also selectively view images from KPT Power Photos
CDs.

For Windows users, KPT Power Photos III requires a 386 IBM PC or compatible
running DOS 3.3 or greater or Windows 3.1 or greater, 4 Mb of RAM, 1.5 Mb
of storage space and 30 Mb of swapfile space for full-resolution viewing.
A 24-bit monitor is recommended.

MetaTools, Inc., designs, develops, publishes, markets and supports
software tools for the creation, editing and manipulation of computer
graphic images, digital art and Internet/online content for Windows,
Macintosh and other operating systems. The Company is located in Santa
Barbara County at 6303 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, CA 93013; Tel:
805-566-6200; Fax: 805-566-6385; World Wide Web server:
http://www.metatools.com.
 
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