December 9, 2003 For Immediate Release Contact: Roland Lee Vice President, Marketing Shapiro Consulting Group, Inc. (888) 800-5508 Asiva Selection Plug-In for Photoshop Now Available Asiva Selection, a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, is now available. A trial version of the software can be downloaded and the software can be purchased from www.asiva.com for $39. This new plug-in, by Shapiro Consulting Group, Inc., (SCGI), Austin, Texas, is based on the patented Asiva technology. It allows users to make selections or masks with its unique curve technology. Users can create precise selections by adjusting the plug-in's Hue, Saturation and Luminance curves. These curves represent the color component values of the desired selection. The Asiva Selection plug-in's curves also allow for selection roll-off so all subsequent adjustments or effects will appear completely natural. A built in Color Sampler Tool provides a good starting-point for setting these three curves. The Asiva Selection plug-in features all 16-bit per component internal processing, even on 8-bit images. For pre-Photoshop CS users working on 16-bit files, the plug-in directly creates a gradient selection without having to create an 8-bit duplicate file and transferring a selection, increasingly saving time with larger files. Other controls allow the plug-in to ignore, add to, or subtract from an existing Photoshop selection, modify the selection by expanding it and controlling the expanded selection's fall-off. This plug-in can provide more precise control over selections than Photoshop's built in Color Range selection. All of the selection plug-in's settings may be saved and loaded, as provided in other Asiva plug-ins. In the Asiva Selection plug-in, SCGI has debuted Snapshot Settings or 'memory dots'. There are five Snapshot Settings buttons, which allow the user to quickly save and recall multiple plug-in settings without having to load or save them via the operating system. The Snapshot Settings buttons can be expected in upgrades to other Asiva plug-ins in the near future. The Asiva Selection plug-in 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'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. For more information and screenshots visit: www.asiva.com.