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LumaPix Announces Immediate Availability of FotoFusion 2.0

--Tool produces stunning, photo-real collages from digital images in seconds--

Montreal, Quebec – 27th August 2003 – LumaPix™ today announced the immediate availability of version 2.0 of FotoFusion™, a unique tool enabling the swift creation of image collages by photography enthusiasts and professionals alike. The new version adds one-click "Autocollage" functionality, drop shadows and frame borders, color correction, final resolution preview, photo swapping, improved printing and a revamped UI. Recent LumaPix customers can access the dramatic enhancements in this version at no cost by downloading the new version from www.lumapix.com.

Single-click simplicity
LumaPix FotoFusion produces collages - dramatic arrangements of multiple images within a larger image. While the user has complete freedom to arrange images manually or work with a wide variety of supplied template layouts, the true power of FotoFusion comes from the "AutoCollage" feature. The user simply picks a canvas size, selects a set of images and presses a button - FotoFusion arranges and sizes the images to tile neatly and with interesting variations in size. The user can repeat the process instantly, or 'jumble' the images to randomly rotate the frames. The resulting compositions are breathtaking, and can always be edited by hand.

Photoreal collages
Depending upon the options selected, FotoFusion collages look like a contact sheet, a scrapbook, a jumble of real photographs, or a carefully-laid-out photo album. Drop shadows, image borders, and other effects produce a strikingly realistic image that seems to leap out of the page. High-quality image processing ensures that the results are absolutely faithful to original images, with no loss of 'native' resolution and exceptionally crisp edges.

Amazing power
High-performance control over image gamma, brightness, contrast and transparency all encourage interactive tweaking of individual frames in the collage. The user interface is tuned for cropping, splitting, resizing, panning, and rotating the frames at amazing speed even for casual users.

Most importantly, the system is completely resolution-independent - the collage retains links to the original images and produces the highest-possible quality output when exporting to files or prints. Professional printers can easily produce 15,000-pixel-across prints for large-format printing without losing any resolution from their original image.

Output to Print, File, Web Album or E-mail Gallery
LumaPix FotoFusion offers several output options:
• Printing. Produce contact sheets, photo albums, and poster-size prints on home or large-format printers with FotoFusion's innovative print region management. The quality of the printing is staggering: the original photograph is resampled with bicubic filtering just before output at up to 450 DPI.
• Web Album. FotoFusion produces a set of hyperlinked pages with the collage as a unique, clickable table of contents. Albums can be published directly to websites by FTP or to a local folder for additional editing.
• E-Mail Gallery. Users can share their entire photo collections by email - choosing to send just the collages, or appending the original images. The images appear embedded directly in the e-mail body.
• File. Users can output collages at any resolution to JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIF and PNG (with support for transparency)

What's new in this version
One-click AutoCollage - Produce amazing results effortlessly
Drop Shadows and Frame borders - Set the thickness, color and transparency for borders
Interactive Color Correction - Fix gamma, brightness and contrast problems smoothly and intuitively
Final Resolution Preview - Preview of the final results at full resolution at any time
Fast Photo Swapping - Switch pairs of images fast!
Completely Revamped UI - Gorgeous new look
Previewing tool - Zoom in on pictures instantly
Pixel-dimension collages - Web Designers can work 'natively' at the final resolution

Availability and Pricing
LumaPix FotoFusion is available immediately for Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP for $29.95 including three months of free upgrades. Visit www.lumapix.com for a free trial or online purchase.

Existing LumaPix customers who purchased CollageFactory or FotoFusion on or after May 23rd 2003 may upgrade to FotoFusion 2.0 at no charge.

About LumaPix
LumaPix is a private partnership based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Our mission is to provide powerful, easy-to-use media tools that enable casual users to achieve results which amaze and delight their family, friends and customers. FotoFusion is an exceptionally powerful yet easy to use tool enabling users to share and publish images as a unique, photo-realistic collage. For more information about LumaPix and FotoFusion visit www.LumaPix.com.

©2003 LumaPix. All rights reserved. Product specifications and availability are subject to change without notice. LumaPix and FotoFusion are trademarks of LumaPix in Canada, the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.