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Adobe Systems announces deluxe CD version of Adobe Art Explorer for the Macintosh; kids' painting and drawing program comes with thousands of colorful images, scenes and stamps now on CD-ROM.


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1995--Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE ADBE Adobe Systems, Inc. (stock symbol) ) today announced Art Explorer(TM) Deluxe CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc.
CD-ROM
 in full compact disc read-only memory

Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser).
 for the Macintosh(R), a painting and drawing software program designed for kids eight years of age and older from the Adobe consumer products group. The new Deluxe CD will now include over 2,000 stamps and characters, additional background scenes and come with Aesop's Fables storybook sto·ry·book  
n.
A book containing a collection of stories, usually for children.

adj.
Occurring in or resembling the style or content of a storybook: storybook characters; a storybook romance.
, available via the Acrobat(TM) Reader. In addition, the Deluxe CD version will have a new estimated street price of $29.99 and is expected to be available in July 1995 from Adobe Resellers or by calling Adobe directly at 1-800-888-6293.

Designed specifically for kids, the Art Explorer product provides a collection of fun and unique graphic images, easy-to-use special effects tools, and fonts and fun sounds designed to spark a child's imagination and encourage artistic experimentation. Kids can explore and experiment with hundreds of colors, special blends, interesting textures, and many artists' techniques such as charcoal, airbrush airbrush

Pneumatic device for developing a fine, small-diameter spray of paint, protective coating, or liquid colour (see aerosol). The airbrush can be a pencil-shaped atomizer used for various highly detailed activities such as shading drawings and retouching
, markers, pencils and calligraphy pens. Users already familiar with the award-winning SuperPaint(TM) program from Adobe will find many of the program's drawing and painting capabilities now made more accessible in Art Explorer.

Deluxe CD Includes a Variety of New Art Worlds, Stamps and Creative Tools

Art Explorer Deluxe CD now comes with more than a dozen new background scenes in the program's Art Worlds -- pre-created, artistic environments from Future World to Nature World to Fashion World. More than 1,800 new stamps of humans, superheroes Superheroes are fictional heroes who possess abilities beyond those of normal human beings.

Superheroes may also refer to:
  • Superheroes (band), a Danish pop/rock band
  • Superheroes (album), by American heavy metal band Racer X
  • Superheroes
, plants, animals, aliens and more have been added, allowing kids to build their own creative adventures with unlimited possibilities. Within each Art World, it's easy to coordinate matching stamp images and characters, and to mix-and-match stamps from different Worlds to design a completely original creation. For example, aspiring artists can add a cowboy to a moonscape moon·scape  
n.
1. A view or picture of the surface of the moon.

2. A desolate landscape.



[moon + (land)scape.
, put a purple armadillo armadillo (är'mədĭl`ō), New World armored mammal of the order Edentata, a group that also includes the sloth and the anteater, characterized by peglike teeth without roots or enamel.  in a submarine, or start with a blank page and let their imaginations go wild.

CONTACT: Adobe Systems

Sonya Schaefer, 415/962-2630

415/962-2930 (fax)

http://www.adobe.com/

sschaefer@adobe.com
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