August 25, 2003 For Immediate Release Contact: Roland Lee Vice President, Marketing Shapiro Consulting Group, Inc. (888) 800-5508 Second Asiva® Plug-In for Adobe® Photoshop® to be Released Shapiro Consulting Group, Inc., (SCGI), Austin, Texas, has completed development of a second plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. The plug-in, called Asiva Correct+Apply Color, is currently under final testing and its release is expected in mid-September. The Asiva Correct+Apply Color plug-in is based on SCGI's patented image enhancement technology, allowing for users to perform color changes without time-consuming masks. It features all 16-bit per component internal processing, even on 8-bit images. This provides 256 times the bandwidth and precision of 8-bit processing. Asiva Correct+Apply Color runs under Mac® OS 9.x, Mac® OS X®, Windows® 2000, and Windows® XP®. It has been tested with Photoshop® 5.5 through 7.0. Within Photoshop®, the plug-in supports 8 or 16-bit, RGB or CMYK files. Asiva Correct+Apply Color utilizes adjustable curves on the Hue, Saturation and Luminance components to select the source colors to be affected. These curves allow for filter roll-offs so all effects appear completely natural and a built in Color Sampler Tool provides a good starting-point for setting the three curves. Luminance and Saturation 'fuzziness' sliders allow for extended control of the Correct Color Operation and users can save or load plug-in settings for both Correct and Apply Color. Asiva's patented technology has been used extensively in broadcast video editing work in the past six years and is embodied in the company's 16-bit per component Asiva® Photo color correction and image enhancement application. Asiva® Photo has been very popular with high-end digital photographers, graphics artists and visual information specialists in the government, military and medical sectors.