FotoCanvas from ACD Named "Best of the Best" in American Photo Editor's Choice Awards

July 17, 2001 VICTORIA, British Columbia, July 16 /PRNewswire/ via NewsEdge Corporation - ACD Systems International Inc. (Toronto: ASA), the digital imaging company, is pleased to announce that its photo touch-up editor, FotoCanvas(TM), has won the prestigious 2001 Editor's Choice Award for software from American Photo magazine.

In its assessment of FotoCanvas, the judging team led by American Photo Executive Editor Russell Hart described FotoCanvas as an "unusually well-conceived image editor (that) is just right for mid-level photographers."

At .95, FotoCanvas was the lowest priced finalist in the software category.

FotoCanvas allows digital imaging enthusiasts to express their creativity with fun and flexible drawing tools, selection tools, color and light blending modes, cropping tools, red-eye reduction, and special effects filters like sepia and emboss. Plus, users get a fast picture editor that has a customizable interface and many other user-friendly features.

"American Photo provides digital imaging users with an objective professionalism that sets a media standard for our industry," said President and CEO of ACD Systems Doug Vandekerkhove. "Winning the Editor's Choice Awards for software not once but twice -- for FotoCanvas in 2001 and for ACDSee 3.0 in 2000 -- is a tremendous endorsement for our design and development teams at ACD."