Press Release

February, 7, 2000
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

On-line Photo Effect e-Service powered by web 
enabled Adobe Photoshop™ compatible plug-ins.

Westlake Village, CA - Andromeda Softwar, Inc. today announced the release of www.eFXservices.com, an online Photo Effects site that enables Adobe Photoshop plug-ins for free demonstration and evaluation. You are invited to use the services to see how the Net can be your computer for photo manipulation instead of your desktop. The technology allows running hundreds of Photoshop compatible filters on the web using a standard browser.

The site offers:

  • Extensive batch and individual image uploading and downloading service. These services are workflow friendly for customers using the Net as a resource for images.
  • Production strength Job, Album and User Profile management using SQL compatible relational data base manager.
  • Convenient browser based Light table for viewing Albums.
  • Configurable Change Image page containing simple one click photo corrections and enhancements.
  • Configurable Advanced Changes page containing advanced photo corrections, enhancements and effects.
  • High quality photo manipulation e-service that is currently the most comprehensive selection on the Net.
  • Configurable cascading workflow using latest standard browser, with no image editing programs or plug-ins to download.

"With Photoshop plug-ins the bells and whistles we engineer in are discovered during the creative design experience. However, the home consumer market and production environments are about convenience and getting the job done. The e-service epitomizes this philosophy with one click, targeted, photo manipulations that get the job done while using the Net as the computer", according to Sumeet Pasricha, President, Andromeda Software Inc.

The e-service is available for licensing to businesses that store photos on the Net and need to provide their customers with additional imaging services such as management, quality control, corrections, enhancements and effects. The e-service can be customized to include image management only, photo manipulations only or an integrated version. Custom photo manipulations maybe added, existing functions maybe enhanced, added or deleted to accommodate business direction.

About Andromeda:
Andromeda products are multi-platform, quality engineering, distinctive and beneficial. The company located in Westlake Village, CA,  is a graphics software engineering company in business since 1990. The founders and senior engineering staff are digital imaging industry veterans having developed graphics imaging related software for handwriting recognition, pre-press magazine & newspaper advertising production and related image management software. Since 1990, the company has worked closely with Adobe Systems Inc., to develop, maintain, and license digital imaging technology. The company also publishes under the company name an extensive multi-platform line of desktop based Adobe Photoshop compatible plug-ins (
www.andromeda.com) and on-line technology for page building and photo manipulation (www.eFXservices.com)

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CONTACT:
Andromeda Software Inc.
Phone: 805-379-4109
E-mail:
market@andromeda.com