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Canto Software, Inc.
330 Townsend St., Suite 212
San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone: 415/905-0300
Fax: 415/703-0315

Canto Software GmbH
Flensburger Strasse 5
10557 Berlin
Germany
Phone: 49-30-393-0021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Live Picture and Canto Software Announce Partnership to Provide Solutions for the Publishing Industry

Cumulus Network Image Database Provides Advanced Image Search and Retrieval to Live Picture Network Users


Boston, Mass.-- February 28, 1996 -- Live Picture, Inc. and Canto Software today announced a partnership to provide image networking solutions to advertising agencies, catalog companies, publishers and other organizations that work with high resolution images. Canto's Cumulus Network Image Database has been integrated with Live Picture application software and will be offered as an optional software module with Live Picture Network solutions.

Live Picture Network is a networked client/server solution designed to speed image editing, image based document creation, review and approval, and image and document production within and between organizations. Live Picture Network provides a solution for centralized image processing, image/document database management, and an integrated collaborative workflow between creative, production, and pre-press professionals.

Cumulus is a powerful image database management system that provides real-time image searches across multiple platforms over networks. It has been adapted to allow Live Picture Network users
to efficiently sort and locate image files from a networked database, and insert images directly from
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Cumulus into the Live Picture application. They can also open Cumulus files in Live Picture, or merge Cumulus files with a Live Picture file.

"Live Picture Network users must have the ability to quickly search for and retrieve high resolution images from a variety of sources," said Cheryl Snyder, vice president of Network Solutions at Live Picture, Inc. "Combined, Live Picture Network and Cumulus provide users with unparalleled access to and manipulation of high resolution images and will significantly impact the image-based document publishing process and the creative and production workflow."

"Canto is committed to supporting applications that demonstrate the real-time capabilities of our image database management system," said Steve Goodman, president and COO of Canto Software. "The real-time nature of Live Picture for image editing, as well as the recently announced Live Picture Network product, makes it an excellent complement to Canto's Cumulus which provides powerful, real-time search and retrieval capabilities."


About Canto Software
Canto Cumulus Network Image Database is the leading professional solution for image cataloging and management, and allows customers to intelligently manage their valuable digital image assets, including all popular graphic file formats, digital sounds, QuickTime movies and Quick Draw 3D file format. Cumulus can be used in multi-user (networked) and single-user (desktop) environments. Founded in 1990, Canto Software has offices in Berlin, Germany and San Francisco, CA. Canto products include Cirrus, a powerful scanning application and Cumulus, the high performance client/server image database. Canto's product line is distributed worldwide. The company can be reached at
(415) 905-0300.


About Live Picture, Inc.
Live Picture, Inc. provides imaging software to dramatically expand the creative range and productivity of today's top photographers, designers and production professionals. The company was founded in 1993 and is privately held. Corporate headquarters are located at 2425 Porter St., Soquel, CA, 95073. Toll Free: 1-800-724-7900. Tel: 408-464-4200. Fax: 408-464-4202. Internet: livepicture.com.

Canto and the Canto logo are registered trademarks of Canto Software Inc. Cumulus and the Cumulus logo are trademarks of Canto Software Inc. Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. Other third-party product and company names mentioned in this document may be trademarks or registered trademarks and belong to their respective holders.

Live Picture, FITS and IVUE are trademarks of FITS Imaging. All other names are either registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies.

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