FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

(July 22, 1999)

Studio Artist Wins Best of Show at

MacWorld NY 1999

New York, NY, July 22, 1999-- Studio Artist, the world's first Graphics Synthesizer, wins Best of Show at MacWorld NY today.

Since Studio Artist's announcement here on Tuesday the response has been tremendous. Studio Artist, a completely new graphics software technology, has wowed MacWorld attendees and press for the past two days.

Developed by Synthetik Software Inc., Studio Artist is an innovative new full featured program for computer artists and creative professionals. The program combines dynamic user-configurable painting and drawing tools along with a complete image processing and video effects suite. A unique hybrid imaging model allows individual paint strokes to have the visual richness of raster paint with the editability of vector paths. Dynamic expressive paint tools or custom art processes can easily be constructed and applied to still images or motion sequences. Users can either paint and draw manually or direct Studio Artist's automatic Intelligent-Assisted painting actions.

About Synthetik Software, Inc.

Synthetik's mission is to develop innovative, smart and creative software tools for computer artists and creative professionals.

Synthetik Software's president John Dalton is two-time Mac-Eddy award winner for best music software with Deck, the first multi-channel hard disk audio recording software for the Macintosh. John has spoken nationally and internationally on the subject of cognitive neuroscience and human visual perception. He is a well-respected researcher in the image processing engineering community and has presented numerous papers on the subject.