October 8, 2001 For Immediate Release Contact: Roland Lee Vice President, Marketing Shapiro Consulting Group, Inc. (888) 800-5508 SCGI to Offer Asiva® Photo At Special Student Rate. Shapiro Consulting Group, Inc., (SCGI), of Austin, Texas announced today that it is offering it's patented Asiva® Photo application to the student community at $189, 50% off it's suggested retail price of $378. This discount is part of an effort to allow students and educators an opportunity to try their new and innovative color correction and image enhancement application. Asiva® Photo - currently available on Mac OS, allows photographers and graphic artists to make color corrections that are almost impossible using other software. "We're urging potential buyers to visit the website - www.asiva.com, and see for themselves the kind of results they can achieve with Asiva Photo," says Roland Lee, vice president, marketing, for SCGI. "Once they see it, we know they'll want it." "When I first saw what this product can do, I was totally blown away," says Austin graphic designer Frank Mendez. "You can do stuff with Asiva that I didn't think was possible. The results are so good that most people can't tell which is the original image and which is the corrected image. Plus, you can do it really fast. It's become an essential tool for our studio." "Asiva Photo approaches color correction in a whole new way, without the use of masks," says SCGI chief technology officer Kevin Gordon. "By not using masks, you never have to worry about unnatural edges and their inherent problems. Sometimes even creating a mask would take many hours, and the result still wouldn't be acceptable looking. With Asiva, no masks are needed and the result is a photo that looks completely natural." Asiva also lets the artist soften and sharpen objects, increase saturation, brighten or darken areas and create special effects. Students who wish to purchase Asiva® Photo may do so by e-mailing a copy their valid student ID to sales@asiva.com. For further information, visit www.asiva.com.