Photo Explosion® 2.0 and Photo Explosion® Deluxe 2.0 Deliver the Most Advanced Consumer Digital Photography Solutions Now Available

CALABASAS, Calif., Nov. 8, 2004 — Nova Development, a leader in consumer digital imaging software, today introduced brand new editions of its best-selling consumer photo editing software. Photo Explosion 2.0 and Photo Explosion Deluxe 2.0, with an expected street price of $29.95 and $49.95 respectively, are now available in computer software retailers nationwide. Both are ideal for anyone who wants to do more with their digital camera or scanner.

The original Photo Explosion and Photo Explosion Deluxe introduced the concept of the “complete digital photo studio” and combined unique functionality intended to appeal to a diverse range of users. Now Photo Explosion 2.0 and Photo Explosion Deluxe 2.0 make digital photography even easier and more powerful. Both are packed with exciting new features, all designed to let users get the most out of their digital cameras.

Here is a sampling of the new, state-of-the-art software features that set these next-generation editions of Photo Explosion and Photo Explosion Deluxe apart from all other consumer photo editors:

NEW EDITING FEATURES

• Brand New Special Effects
• Stamping Tool
• Enhanced Crop Command and Red-Eye Controls
• Improved Lighting Controls
• New Beautify Skin Filter

NEW PROJECTS & GRAPHICS

• Hundreds of New Photo Projects
• Hundreds of New Props

NEW WAYS TO SHARE

• Screensaver Creator
• Brand New Photo Gifts including photo blankets, photo neckties, and photo handbags (sold separately through exclusive relationships with selected third-party affiliates)
• Advanced Photo CD Slide Show Features (Deluxe edition only)
• Photo Montages that enable users to create stunning compositions made up of thumbnail photographs from their photo library (Deluxe edition only)
• Morphing capability enabling users to transform one photo seamlessly into another (Deluxe edition only)

Professional Results with Advanced Photo Editing Features
As with the original editions, these all-new versions enable users to capture photos from their digital camera or scanner, photo CDs, online processing services or the Internet, as well as capture stills from DV camcorders and web cams. Both Photo Explosion products provide features that make it easy to organize photos into on-screen albums, sort photos and search photos.

Both products also include advanced color manipulation features, including one-click SmartEnhance™, enhanced red-eye removal and a full array of easy-to-use photo editing tools. These options make it easy to resize, rotate, crop and cut out any photo, as well as fix wrinkles and blemishes and repair old photos. Users can even fix multiple photos at once with Photo Explosion Deluxe’s Batch Enhance feature.

Enhance Photos with Millions of Creative Combinations
Both Photo Explosion products allow users to enhance photographs with millions of creative combinations*. They can choose from hundreds special effect options for both photos and text, plus hundreds of frames and borders and props ranging from text balloons to a host of disguises.

Photo Explosion Deluxe also gives users the ability to transform a series of photographs into 360° or wide-angle panoramas. Cool 360™, included with Photo Explosion Deluxe, makes photo stitching easy with automatic alignment and color blending. Users can post panoramas online or e-mail them and allow the viewer to ‘walk through” the scene. Photo Explosion Deluxe also includes tools to create montages from several photos, and even morph one photo into another.

Palm, Pocket PC and Mobile Phone Technology
Photo Explosion and Photo Explosion Deluxe both include slideshow software for Palm™ and Pocket PC handheld computers and the ability to share photos and animations on supported mobile phones.

Share Photos with Family and Friends – in Print, on the Web or on TV
Photo Explosion and Photo Explosion Deluxe include 8,000 and 4,500 projects and photos, respectively. Projects include ready-made templates for photo calendars, greeting cards, albums and scrapbooks, flyers, CD labels and jewel cases, crafts and more. Both products can also print multiple photos per page with hundreds of layouts including wallet-size, 3x5, 4x6, 5x7 and 8x10 sizes, along with the ability to create photo gifts like photo neckties, blankets, and handbags.

Both Photo Explosion and Photo Explosion Deluxe let users email photos, as well as create web albums, which can include music, video and animations.

Photo Explosion Deluxe adds features that burn slide shows onto CD media that can be played on most DVD players. Background music can be included, as well. Bloxberg continued, “The CD slide show features in Photo Explosion Deluxe 2.0 makes it easy to share photos with family and friends – even those that don’t have a computer.”

90-Day Money Back Guarantee Ensures Satisfaction
Users can purchase Photo Explosion 2.0 and Photo Explosion Deluxe 2.0 with complete confidence due to a 90-day money back guarantee. Under the plan, any user who is not satisfied is eligible to receive a full refund of the product purchase price within the first 90 days.

Pricing and Availability
Photo Explosion Deluxe 2.0 is available now at computer, software specialty, consumer electronics and office supply chains for an estimated street price of just $49.95. Photo Explosion 2.0 is available at similar outlets for an estimated street price of $29.95.

System Requirements
Both products can be used on any PC with a Pentium® processor 300 Mhz or faster and 64 MB RAM running Windows 98, 2000 Me or XP. A CD or DVD drive and a sound card are also required. A recordable or rewritable CD Drive is required to burn CD slideshows with Photo Explosion Deluxe.

The software is compatible with virtually all digital cameras, including Agfa, Canon, Casio, Epson, Fuji, HP, JVC, Kodak, Konica, Kyocera, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Ricoh, Samsung Sony, Toshiba and more.

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CONTACT:
Teri Bruno, 714/536-8407
teribruno@aol.com

or

Michele Kennedy
208-552-5661
michelekennedy@cableone.net

Explosion is a registered trademark and Photo Explosion is a trademark of Nova Development Corporation. Other product names are the trademarks of registered trademarks of their respective owners.

*Calculated by multiplying the number of projects, special effects and photo props.