Oct 1, 2001 For Immediate Release Contact: Roland Lee Vice President, Marketing Shapiro Consulting Group, Inc. (888) 800-5508 SCGI's Asiva Color Correction Technology Awarded US Patent Shapiro Consulting Group, Inc., (SCGI), of Austin, Texas announced today that its color enhancement and correction Asiva® technology has been awarded a US Patent. The technology - for a multi-dimensional color image mapping apparatus and method, was issued on Sept 25th 2001. SCGI has since released it's first publicly available color correction and image enhancement software application - Asiva® Photo. Asiva® Photo - currently available on Mac OS, allows photographers and graphic artists to make color corrections that are almost impossible using other software. "We are 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 will 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 didnpt 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. SCGI also has addressed an important productivity issue in Asiva Photo: the time it takes to render each change or correction. Asiva Photo does this by using a low-resolution working image that let's the artist see changes almost immediately. "With Asiva Photo, you can work with very large image files very, quickly even on an older iMac with as little as 32MB of free RAM," says Kevin Gordon. Asiva uses Apple ColorSync to ensure that image colors remain consistent from input device to monitor and from monitor to output device. That means that, if the device parameters are in the ColorSync system, what you see on the screen is what you see in the output. For further information, please contact Roland Lee at 1-888-800-5508.