IBM INTRODUCES ULTIMEDIA BUILDER/2, ULTIMEDIA PERFECT IMAGE/2, AND
ULTIMEDIA WORKPLACE/2

NEW YORK, June 29, 1993 . . . IBM's Personal Software Products (PSP)
division has introduced three new software products for its OS/2 2.1
operating system that, taken together, provide business professionals with
a powerful set of tools for creating multimedia presentations, modifying
or enhancing images and organizing multimedia information.

These new products are: Ultimedia Builder/2, an easy-to-use multimedia
presentation development package; Ultimedia Perfect Image/2 image
processing and enhancement software; and Ultimedia Workplace/2, which
links multimedia information and databases. With these three new members
of the Ultimedia Tools Series, PSP continues to establish OS/2 as a
premier environment for the creation and delivery of multimedia.

"These new multimedia tools work together to offer customers an easy way to
use multimedia as a communications tool," said PSP Marketing Director
Wally Casey. "With Ultimedia Builder/2, Ultimedia Perfect Image/2 and
Ultimedia Workplace/2, anyone can quickly create exciting multimedia
presentations using simple techniques such as drag and drop. They can also
modify and custom-tailor images to suit their needs by using cut, copy,
and paste commands. In addition, they can more effectively manage their
growing library of multimedia information."

Ultimedia Builder/2 -- Easy-To-Use Presentation Development Package

Ultimedia Builder/2 allows users to quickly and easily create multimedia
presentations that can be shown as is or embedded into everyday business
letters, reports, spreadsheets, and training materials. It provides a
filmstrip-like work area where end users can simply drag and drop audio,
video, graphics and animation files to create their "story" or
presentation. Presentations can be reorganized and edited with cut, copy
and paste. Users can even add a wide range of special effects to bring
their presentations to

While the filmstrip interface is ideal for the casual user, Ultimedia
Builder/2 also enables more advanced users to take advantage of the
REXX-based multimedia scripting language, AVA/2 (Audio Visual Authoring).
With a single click, they can switch from the filmstrip interface to
AVA/2, then rely on AVA/2's English-like syntax to create sophisticated
multimedia applications such as interactive kiosks, training materials, or
sound and image-rich marketing demos.

Perfect Image/2 -- Image Capture. Processing and Enhancement

Ultimedia Perfect Image/2 enables users to capture images from a variety of
sources, then modify and enhance them. With Ultimedia Perfect Image/2,
they can resize, copy, paste, crop, or rotate digitized images.

Perfect Image/2 also provides a number of powerful image enhancement tools.
An easy-to-use color wheel lets business professionals choose a color
range or shift the overall color tone either toward or away from a
specific color. A Mask feature allows them to manually or automatically
select areas of an image. The surrounding image can then be enhanced or
edited (changing colors or contrast, for example) while the masked area
remains unaffected. A Grayscale feature also replaces colors with black,
white, and gray for additional special effects.

Ultimedia Perfect Image/2 can also be used to convert images between
various file formats. The product supports images in the following file
formats: Audio Visual Connection (AVC), TIFF/Fax compressed, OS/2 bitmap,
Windows 3.x bitmap, PCX, and TARGA. With a Video Capture Adapter card
installed, users can also capture still image frames from a variety of
video sources such as videotape and laser disc. Images can be printed on
any OS/2-supported printer.

Ultimedia Workplace/2 Offers Thumbnails, Database Linking

Ultimedia Workplace/2 is a new OS/2 tool that allows end users to organize
and manage multimedia files and objects. Ultimedia Workplace/2 adds
powerful multimedia features to the OS/2 desktop and provides powerful
database capabilities.

Light Table folders are extensions of OS/2 folders that enable users to see
and work with miniature pictures of the contents of multimedia files
called "thumbnails" Thumbnails are enhanced icons consisting of
high-quality, 256-color representations of the multimedia files. They come
with 'media browsers' which let users view or play the multimedia files.
The Light Table folders can be enhanced with extended data by attaching
descriptive information to multimedia files. The extended data can be
stored in the multimedia file, or in a database.

Ultimedia Workplace/2 users can link multimedia files to a range of popular
relational databases. Ultimedia Workplace/2 can access, display, associate
and join information from the following products with its own database
extensions and text descriptions: dBase IV, Oracle, OS/2 Database Manager,
and DB2/2. Users can also query Workplace/2 using Standard Query Language
(SQL) queries. 

Ultimedia Tools Tutorials

Provided with each of these new Ultimedia Tools products is an interactive
multimedia tutorial created with Ultimedia Builder/2. It provides
demonstrations and step-by-step practice sessions giving the user a choice
of learning modes to help them quickly become productive and successful in
using multimedia in their everyday business applications.

System Requirements and Availability

Ultimedia Builder/2, Ultimedia Perfect Image/2, and Ultimedia Workplace/2
all require a personal computer running OS/2 2.1 with MMPM/2 (Multimedia
extensions for Presentation Manager) and a CD-ROM drive or one 3.5"
diskette drive for installation.

All three products will begin shipping July 15 at a suggested list price of
$345 for Ultimedia Builder/2 and Ultimedia Workplace/2 and $175 for
Ultimedia Perfect Image/2. Ultimedia Builder/2 and Ultimedia Perfect
Image/2 are also available as a promotional bundle for $99 and Ultimedia
Workplace/2 will be available for $99 through September 30. The products
are available from IBM and local software dealers, or can be ordered by
calling 800-228-ULTI.

International Business Machines Corp
IBM United States
1133 Westchester Ave, White Plains, NY 10604

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