Specular Announces 3D Web Workshop; Integrated Studio Package with Adobe
PageMill Provides One-Stop Solution for Easy High-Impact 3D Web Page
Design

(Amherst, MA) -- April 15, 1996 -- Specular announced today its development
plans for a 3D Web page design and layout package for the Macintosh
platform, Specular 3D Web Workshop, to be released May 15, 1996. Targeted
at new Web page designers who want to build 3D imagery, animation and
colorful graphic elements into their Web sites, 3D Web Workshop provides
powerful tools and high-quality, web-oriented artwork for creating
high-impact web pages with speed and ease. The package will contain four
primary components: Specular TextureScape, Specular LogoMotion, Specular's
new WebHands, and Adobe PageMill. Users can drag and drop 3D buttons,
bullets, horizontal rules, banners, text, objects and background textures
from TextureScape, LogoMotion or the WebHands collection directly into
PageMill, the industry's premiere WYSIWYG Web publishing tool.

"The relationship between Adobe and Specular is complimentary because we
are both committed to providing mainstream computer users with powerful,
easy-to-use solutions for their desktop graphic needs," said Adam Lavine,
President and CEO of Specular. "By integrating PageMill into our 3D Web
Workshop, we are now able to deliver to the marketplace a completely
integrated professional-quality Web page design environment."

FEATURES

* Over one thousand "live" clip graphic elements: customizable 3D
  buttons, banners, horizontal rules, background textures and
  animations -- each one fully editable, optimized for fast
  download times, and supplied in files for immediate placement
  onto a web page
* Intuitive web page layout -- no HTML knowledge required
* Drag and drop convenience
* Instructive, informative documentation by Specular's knowledgeable
  Web Masters, covering basic and advanced web page design techniques,
  such as how to create animated GIF files for easy 3D animation
  on the web
* Macromedia Shockwave support

INCLUDED IN 3D WEB WORKSHOP

SPECULAR WEBHANDS

WebHands, designed specifically for the Web Workshop by Specular, are
pre-made customizable graphic elements for web page design. Over 1000
WebHands ship on the Web Workshop CD-ROM, and are accessible both as GIF
files in an html browser format, for easy drag-and- drop additions to web
pages, or as editable files, for unique, custom 3D graphic elements
without the need to start from scratch. Among the different classes of
WebHands are: 3D buttons, 3D titles, horizontal rules, tileable background
images, preset camera styles for dramatic 3D text and object viewing, and
animations. All WebHands are organized into style "families" for easy
locating and editing, and include: Awards, Commercial/Office,
Communication, Construction, Glass, Metallic, Renaissance, Tech/Computer,
Transportation, Animated WebHands and much more.

SPECULAR TEXTURESCAPE WEB-EDITION

TextureScape's ability to create tileable images makes it perfect for
background images. The easy shape manipulation, text tool, layering, and
beveling also enable TextureScape to make beautiful buttons, titles,
horizontal rules, and other web-oriented graphics. All TextureScape
WebHands files can easily be edited for instant customization, and dragged
directly into PageMill.

SPECULAR LOGOMOTION WEB-EDITION

LogoMotion's simple and intuitive text editor creates instantaneous 3D text
from any Type 1 or TrueType font. LogoMotion's WebHands provide an
extensive variety of preset camera angles for unlimited possibilities of
text presentation, and the Web-edition Hand Tool allows for drag and drop
precision placement into PageMill. In addition, LogoMotion's extensive
animation capabilities are now tuned for Macromedia" Shockwave. LogoMotion
Web-Edition also includes a selection of non-dithering background colors,
full control over the bit-depth of images, a complete array of rendering
choices, and full drag and drop interactivity with PageMill.

ADOBE PAGEMILL

Adobe PageMill Web publishing software was specifically designed to address
the needs of mainstream computer users who want to create and maintain
graphically righ content on the Web. Adobe PageMill software is
easy-to-use, fast, and includes everything needed to create Web pages.
Adobe PageMill is currently ranked the second-best selling Internet
software product with more than 30,000 units shipped in November 1995, its
first month of availability.

PRICING

The suggested retail price of Specular 3D Web Workshop is $399. A "lite"
version of the package, which does not include PageMill, will be available
for the SRP of $249.

INFORMATION

For more information about Specular and Specular products contact Dorothy
Eckel, Manager of Press Relations at Specular, 7 Pomeroy Lane, Amherst,
MA, 01002. Phone: 413-253-3100; E-Mail: press@specular.com.
 
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