MetaTools, Inc. and Live Picture, Inc. Restructure Relationship

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., JAN. 9, 1996 (MACWORLD SAN FRANCISCO)--MetaTools,
Inc. (NASDAQ: MTLS), formerly known as HSC Software, and Live Picture,
Inc., today announced plans to restructure their successful two-year
relationship, returning responsibility for North American sales and
support of the Live Picture professional imaging software product to Live
Picture, Inc. Live Picture, Inc. is the developer of the software and, for
the past two years, MetaTools has been the exclusive North American
publisher.

"MetaTools has done a great job bringing Live Picture to market in North
America," said Mark Kalow, Live Picture's Chief Operating Officer. "Now
that we are established in Silicon Valley, we are restructuring our
working relationship and will take over marketing and customer support for
the product on a worldwide basis, effective immediately."

"This change in our relationship allows us to focus on our own technology
development and marketing," said John Wilczak, Founder and CEO of
MetaTools. "We intend to work with Live Picture, Inc. and to evaluate the
business opportunity and development efforts for products that could
enhance Live Picture, similar to what we've done in the successful
relationships we have established with Adobe, Macromedia and Autodesk for
their products."

MetaTools earned numerous industry awards during 1994 and 1995 for its
Kai's Power Tools, KPT Vector Effects, KPT Convolver and KPT Bryce
products, with Live Picture garnering Publish Magazine's Impact Award,
Byte Magazine's Award of Excellence and a MacUser Eddy Award.

MetaTools 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 the 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.

Live Picture, Inc. provides imaging software to dramatically expand the
creative range and productivity of photography, design and production
professionals. The France-based company was founded in 1993 and is
privately held. U.S. headquarters are located at 2425 Porter St., Suite
#13, Soquel, CA, 95073; Tel: 408-464-4200; Fax: 408- 464-4202; Internet:
livepicture.com.
 
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