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<p>Redwood City, CA - March 8, 1999 -- BeatWare, Inc., the leader in<br />
software development for the BeOS(r), today announced e-Picture(tm),<br />
its professional solution for creating dynamic web graphics.</p>
<p>e-Picture is the first professional graphics application to be<br />
developed for the modern Be Operating System. Under development for<br />
the past eighteen months, e-Picture has been created to meet the<br />
specific needs of graphic designers producing content for the Web.</p>
<p>"The heavyweight tools currently used to produce web graphics were<br />
originally designed for the print publishing industry and simply<br />
aren't the right tools to create small, animated, color-safe images<br />
efficiently," said Karen Cassel, VP of Sales and Marketing for<br />
BeatWare, Inc. "Designers waste hours moving files back and forth<br />
between multiple publishing applications in order to achieve the<br />
desired effect in a form suitable for the web. e-Picture cuts<br />
production time in half by bringing together all the elements of web<br />
graphic production, including drawing, painting, text manipulation,<br />
animation and compression into one professional tool."</p>
<p>Seamless Integration of Vectors and Bitmaps Provides Greater Editing<br />
Flexibility The choice between creating original artwork using vector<br />
or bitmap tools has troubled graphic designers for years. Both have<br />
their advantages. Because vector graphics are described to the<br />
computer rather than actually drawn, changing the size, shape,<br />
placement, and color is fairly easy. Bitmaps, while not easily<br />
edited, offer the advantage of being able to receive photographic<br />
type filters.</p>
<p>With e-Picture, BeatWare has achieved something other companies have<br />
failed to attain for years, the seamless integration of bitmaps and<br />
vectors. This modern technology provides users with the ability to<br />
create original artwork with the editable properties of vectors, and<br />
the photographic properties of bitmaps. Users can draw and edit<br />
shapes, objects and text with any one of e- Picture's customizable<br />
brushes or drawing tools, apply a number of built-in filters, and<br />
return to edit the underlying object. No other graphic application<br />
available today has this power.</p>
<p>Broadcast Quality GIF Animation<br />
e-Picture 1.0 includes advanced technology which empowers designers<br />
to quickly and intuitively create broadcast quality GIF animations<br />
from just two original frames. Replacing the tedious frame by frame<br />
approach currently used, e-Picture offers designers the luxury of<br />
creating animations by simply noting an object's initial and final<br />
positions. e-Picture will automatically generate any number of<br />
intermediate frames, depending on the user specifications for final<br />
file size.</p>
<p>"e-Picture takes the tedium out of producing, and updating animated<br />
web graphics. Because e-Picture includes a complete set of both<br />
vector and bitmap tools, designers have the freedom to edit, change<br />
or replace any object in any animation at any time," said John<br />
Barman, BeatWare's Director of Product Marketing. "Before e-Picture,<br />
even a simple text change forced the designer to recreate the<br />
animation from scratch. Now, it can all be done from within e<br />
-Picture in just a few seconds."</p>
<p>Imported 3-D Models Add Perspective and Dimension to Animation A<br />
designer's job is to make their banners and graphics rise above the<br />
noise on the web. One way to grab a viewer's attention is to create<br />
an animation so life-like, the viewer can't help but be drawn in.<br />
e-Picture is the only web graphic application that enables a designer<br />
to import, transform and animate Lightwave 3-D models. The final<br />
output is a compressed animated GIF that can be easily viewed under<br />
any web browser.</p>
<p>Multiple Views and Live Updating Facilitate File Compression One of<br />
the biggest challenges of creating web graphics is finding that<br />
optimal balance between file size and image quality. Since print<br />
publishing is concerned about image quality but not file size, the<br />
existing tools do little to help the designer with this dilemma. The<br />
only option designers have had is to relinquish control of file size<br />
and image quality to a file compression utility. e-Picture uses the<br />
live updating capabilities of the BeOS to enable designers to create<br />
an image and simultaneously view it in various color depths and file<br />
formats. Control of color reduction and dithering are put back into<br />
the designer's hands, at the beginning of the design process.</p>
<p>Automatically Generated JavaScript Enhances Web Pages with Visual<br />
Interactivity Rollover buttons and other visual feedback enhances a<br />
viewer's experience and facilitates site navigation. Before<br />
e-Picture, designers had to create multiple states for each button,<br />
and hand write the JavaScript code to produce the interactivity. With<br />
e-Picture, designers need only create one button, select a<br />
second-state effect such as glow or dim, and drop the automatically<br />
generated code right into their HTML script. The result is an<br />
interactive web page in a fraction of the time.<br />
Short Learning Curve with Customizable User Interface Designers<br />
experienced with other print or web publishing software applications<br />
will immediately be able to transfer their skills to e-Picture,<br />
thanks to a revolutionary gesture recognition technology from<br />
Sensiva, Inc. Integrated with e-Picture, Sensiva(tm) allows designers<br />
to execute commands simply by drawing symbols with their mouse or<br />
graphic tablet. Draw an O to open a document, sketch a Z to zoom,<br />
scrawl an S to save, etc. The immediate results are a very short<br />
learning curve and ultra fast access to e-Picture's features. Users<br />
can also customize Sensiva and easily create their own macros and<br />
symbols.<br />
Pricing and Availability<br />
e-Picture, which requires the BeOS Release 4 or better, will be available in<br />
May, 1999, for an estimated street price of $149. A beta version of e-Picture<br />
will be available for download from the BeatWare website at http://<br />
<a href="http://www.beatware.com" title="www.beatware.com">www.beatware.com</a> in April, 1999.</p>
<p>About BeatWare<br />
BeatWare, Inc. specializes in the design and development of essential<br />
productivity and creativity software applications for the modern Be<br />
Operating<br />
System. Additional information on BeatWare and its products is available on<br />
the company website at <a href="http://www.beatware.com" title="http://www.beatware.com">http://www.beatware.com</a>, via e-mail at<br />
<a href="mailto:info@beatware.com">info@beatware.com</a>, or by calling BeatWare's Redwood City headquarters<br />
at 650-<br />
556-7900.</p>
<p>About Be<br />
Be, Incorporated, founded in 1990 by Jean-Louis Gasse, is a software company<br />
focusing on building new foundations for the next generation of<br />
digital content and media design tools. With a team of<br />
industry-leading engineers and<br />
business executives in the United States and Europe, the company is dedicated<br />
to removing the limitations of existing computer architectures and<br />
delivering a new level of price performance on both personal<br />
computers and internet appliances. In 1997, Be published the first<br />
public release of the Be Operating System (BeOS(r)), the core product<br />
of this strategy. Additional information on Be and the BeOS is<br />
available online at <a href="http://www.be.com/" title="http://www.be.com/">http://www.be.com/</a>. Be, Inc. is headquartered in<br />
Menlo Park, California.<br />
About Sensiva<br />
Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Sensiva, Inc. is a<br />
software company focusing on intuitive control of PCs and intelligent<br />
appliances. Its<br />
mission is to provide the best solutions for enhancing the speed and<br />
the pleasure of controlling PCs and electronic devices. Additional<br />
information on<br />
Sensiva is available on line at <a href="http://www.sensiva.com" title="http://www.sensiva.com">http://www.sensiva.com</a>.</p>
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