Jasc Paint Shop Pro Wins American Photo Editor's Choice Award as Top Photo-Editing Tool

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 16, 2001-- Jasc Software, Inc. today announced that its flagship digital imaging program, Jasc(R) Paint Shop Pro(TM), Version 7, has been selected by the editors of American Photo magazine to receive an Editor's Choice Award in the software category. The Editor's Choice Awards celebrate the best and most innovative products in traditional and digital photography. Winners were announced recently at an awards ceremony in Los Angeles, California.

"[Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7] is very popular, and for a very good reason: It offers advanced imaging tools at a reasonable price," wrote the editors of American Photo. "With Paint Shop Pro 7, you can work in RGB, CMYK, grayscale, and even HSL color spaces; create custom graphics and text; create multiple raster and vector layers; use alpha channels to make selection masks; optimize pictures for the Web; adjust color profiles for offset printing; and event open RAW-format digital camera files. Useful retouching tools help fix red-eye, scratches and creases, JPEG compression artifacts, and even more patterns from scans of halftones. The program features 75 filters, and you can organize your pictures with the built-in image browser."

"We're proud to receive the Editor's Choice award from American Photo magazine for Paint Shop Pro," said Kris Tufto, president and CEO of Jasc Software, Inc. "More and more digital photographers, from novices to professionals, are discovering that Paint Shop Pro offers advanced digital darkroom tools that are extremely powerful, yet easy to use. This award is a testament to the increasing popularity of both digital photography and Paint Shop Pro."

Jasc Paint Shop Pro is the complete graphics and photo editor for home and business. It combines easy-to-use photographic enhancement and graphic design tools with a simple, intuitive interface and an affordable price to meet the image editing demands of professionals and novices alike.