Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

New Adobe Stock Photos Service Now Available

Search and Purchase From More Than 230,000 Royalty-Free Images From Top Stock Photography Libraries Directly Within Adobe Creative Suite 2 Software Products

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 27, 2005. Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe(R) Stock Photos, a new stock photography service that offers designers one-stop shopping for high-quality, royalty-free images for layout and design. Adobe Stock Photos is available in Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium and Standard Editions (see separate press release), Adobe Photoshop(R) CS2 (see separate press release), Adobe InDesign(R) CS2, Adobe Illustrator(R) CS2 and Adobe GoLive(R) CS2. Adobe Stock Photos provides a single destination point to access hundreds of thousands of images from some of the world's leading stock photography providers, including: Photodisc(R) by Getty Images; Comstock Images(R) by Jupitermedia(R); Digital Vision(R); imageshop(TM) royalty free by zefaimages(TM) and amana.

PicScout and Digimarc Partner to Enhance Image Tracking

Combined Offering to Deliver Dramatic Improvements in Image Monitoring on the Internet

HERZELIYA, ISRAEL and BEAVERTON, OR, Apr 27, 2005. PicScout Ltd. and Digimarc Corp. (NasdaqNM:DMRCE - News) announced today a new partnership combining image recognition and watermarking for online image protection and monitoring. As part of the partnership, Digimarc will begin using the PicScout Internet crawling technology to power the Digimarc ImageBridge MarcSpider search. The companies have also started a joint development project that is expected to be completed in the next six months to enhance Digimarc ImageBridge with PicScout's image recognition technology. The joint development will be funded in part by the BIRD foundation (www.birdf.com), which is an Israel - U.S. government foundation whose mission is to promote and support industrial R&D between Israeli and U.S. companies.

EMPICS lands deal with The Associated Press for commercial photo sales in UK & Ireland

April 26, 2005. EMPICS, a Press Association Group company, today announced that it will be handling commercial sales in the UK and Ireland for the photos of The Associated Press (AP), one of the world's leading international news agencies.

Digimarc Enhances Tracking and Monitoring of Images on the Internet

ImageBridge 2005 Facilitates Online Marketing Programs and Protects Copyrights for Ecommerce Initiatives

BEAVERTON, Ore. April 25, 2005--Digimarc Corporation (Nasdaq:DMRCE) today announced the launch of Digimarc ImageBridge 2005. This new product release introduces advanced image identification and search capabilities delivering Digimarc enterprise customers dramatic improvements in image tracking on the Internet.

"As the world's preeminent visual solutions provider, Corbis relies on Digimarc to defend our photographers' copyrights against infringement," said David Weiskopf, Corporate Counsel at Corbis. "We are excited about the enhanced image tracking capabilities offered in ImageBridge 2005. Digimarc continues to help Corbis lead the industry down the path of protection."

STOCK AGENCY AMBIENT IMAGES CHOOSES DIGITAL RAILROAD

April 25, 2005, Los Angeles, California. Digital Railroad, Inc., today announced that Ambient Images, a stock agency that specializes in images of New York and California, has chosen Digital Railroad technology and services to power their online photo archive.

OpenRAW Web Site Launched; Confronts Issues Crucial to Quality Digital Photography and Archiving of Photographic Images

April 25, 2005. The OpenRAW Working Group launched a website today at http://www.OpenRAW.org designed to solve issues crucial to the future of photography.

Digital technology is revolutionizing the photography industry, and an emerging part of that technology is the set of RAW camera file formats. Most professional photographers prefer using RAW image capture because it offers the highest quality and the greatest creative control.

The grass roots OpenRAW group arose out of photographers' frustration with camera manufacturers' refusal to openly document their proprietary RAW file formats. That lack of file format information inhibits innovation, limits image processing choices, and endangers the long-term accessibility of millions of photographs. The goal of the new website is to obtain complete documentation by manufacturers of their RAW file formats.

Workbook Stock Expands Distribution through Getty Images

Los Angeles, California, April 2005. Workbook Stock, a premier resource of high-end, tightly edited stock images for the advertising and communications industry announced today that it has become an Image Partner with Getty Images, the world's leading imagery company.

Getty Images Reports Record Financial Results for the First Quarter of 2005

Record Revenue and Powerful Business Model Drive 30 Percent Operating Margin; Announces Immediately Accretive Acquisition of Digital Vision

SEATTLE --April 20, 2005 -- Getty Images, Inc. (NYSE:GYI), the world's leading imagery company, today reported results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2005. The company also announced today the all-cash acquisition of Digital Vision for $165 million.

For the first quarter, revenue grew 13.8 percent to $178.1 million, compared to $156.5 million in the first quarter of 2004. Excluding the effects of changes in currency exchange rates, revenue grew 11.1 percent. Operating income for the first quarter of 2005 grew 24.7 percent to $53.5 million, or 30.1 percent of revenue, compared to $42.9 million, or 27.4 percent of revenue, in the same quarter last year.

Net income grew 30.8 percent to $34.1 million from $26.1 million the prior year. Earnings per diluted share grew 25.6 percent to $0.54 from $0.43 the prior year.

Getty Images Acquires Digital Vision

Significantly Expands Imagery Market Leadership Worldwide; Acquisition Primes Company for Emerging Platforms and Licensing Models

SEATTLE, April 20, 2005. Getty Images, Inc. (NYSE:GYI), the world's leading imagery company, announced today that it has acquired London-based Digital Vision, one of the world's leading royalty-free photography businesses, for $165 million in cash. This acquisition, the largest Getty Images has made in five years, unequivocally confirms the company as the leading creator and provider of royalty-free imagery worldwide. Combined with Getty Images' Photodisc, which pioneered the royalty-free licensing model and remains the world's largest royalty-free imagery business, Digital Vision will provide more choice for customers and additional opportunities for photographers.

JASTEC Acquires LTU Technologies

LTU Technologies confirms its ambitions to dominate the "image mining" market worldwide

PARIS and WASHINGTON and NEW YORK and TOKYO, April 19 -- JASTEC Co., Ltd. (TSE: 9717 - News), a leading Japanese custom software development and systems integration company, announced on March 28, 2005 that its 100% U.S. subsidiary, JASTEC International Inc., had acquired 100% of the stocks of LTU Technologies, the leading image mining software platform (http://www.LTUtech.com). LTU Technologies is the world's most deployed visual search engine software. LTU Technologies will continue to operate as an independent company, with the management team, vertical markets and product development roadmap unchanged.