KODAK DIGITAL SCIENCE ON-DISC SOFTWARE UTILITY MAKES USING PHOTO CD IMAGES
EASIER THAN EVER

NEW YORK CITY, June 20, 1995--PC Expo marks the first public demonstration
of a Kodak Digital Science software utility that will let people add color
pictures to their documents as easily as they cut and paste text today.

Kodak Digital Science photo insert software provides a direct link between
the images on a Photo CD disc and software applications that employ the
Object Linking and Embedding II (OLE II) interface--such as Microsoft
Word, other applications in the Microsoft Works integrated product bundle
and Novell WordPerfect software.

Later this year, Photo CD service providers will begin writing both Windows
and Macintosh versions of the software utility onto Photo CD master discs,
along with their customers' scanned film images.

"This Kodak Digital Science software makes it a snap for anyone to create
high-impact documents with pictures," said Paul H. McAfee, Kodak's
director of worldwide Photo CD marketing. "As a value-added feature on
each disc, we are confident the utility will increase demand for Photo CD
images among a huge base of PC users who would like to work with their
pictures in a very simple way With photo insert software, users don't have
to be digital imaging experts to bring pictures into documents."

Dozens of popular software applications and operating systems already
enable users to display and use Photo CD images, helping to establish the
Kodak Digital Science Photo CD Image Pac file format as a digital imaging
standard. The new software utility makes working with Photo CD images
easier than ever, McAfee said.

How It Works

To use the Kodak Digital Science software, people will simply insert their
Photo CD disc into a CD-ROM drive. The on-disc software utility displays
thumbnail versions of the disc's images on a clipboard, and asks the user
to identify the application they're using (such as Microsoft Word 6.0).

Photo insert software provides a variety of layout templates for "compound
documents" that combine pictures and text. People can use one of the
supplied templates, adjust a template or create their own.

To add pictures to a document, users highlight the area of the document
where they want a picture to appear, select a Photo CD image from the
clipboard and paste it in place with a click of the mouse. Users can crop,
rotate or make other minor adjustments to their pictures just as easily;
they click when the picture looks "right," and the software makes the
adjustments automatically.

The OLE II interface allows "intelligent picture framing," which means the
software utility automatically selects the appropriate level of resolution
from the Photo CD Image Pac file based on the size of the picture and the
usage. A low resolution version of the image would be selected for
on-screen viewing, minimizing demands on the processor, while a
higher-resolution version of the image would be selected for output to a
color laser printer.

For people who want to keep track of images for future use, the software
utility also invites users to create a simple image database by naming
their discs, and individual images, with descriptors of up to 64
characters each.

Availability

Kodak Digital Science photo insert software will become widely available
later this year on Photo CD master discs and Pro Photo CD master discs.
These discs contain high-resolution images scanned from film in the Image
Pac format, and are produced using Kodak Digital Science Photo CD imaging
workstations (PIWs) by photofinishers, professional photo labs and other
service providers. Kodak will provide a software upgrade to PIW owners,
enabling them to write photo insert software along with the images on each
disc.

McAfee said that Kodak also will provide tools for writing the software on
Photo CD portfolio II discs, which can store digitally-originated images
in the Photo CD Image Pac format, and can contain other digital content
such as text or audio.

"Most people will obtain photo insert software automatically when they get
their film images transferred to a Photo CD master disc," McAfee said.
"Our goal is to make this utility widely available, making it easier than
ever for people to produce high-impact documents and presentations using
Photo CD images."

Eastman Kodak Company
343 State Street
Rochester, New York 14650-0405

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