Big Canvas, Inc. Launches PhotoCanvas, A Premier Visual Enrichment Tool for the iPhone.

New iPhone Application Provides Robust Digital-Editing Tools to Enhance "Visual Conversations"

BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Big Canvas, Inc., an innovator within social networking, today announced the availability of PhotoCanvas, an application that provides tools to enrich images on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Images can be altered and personalized to share with family and friends through "visual conversations," the next-generation of social networking that enables users to participate in instant, casual conversations facilitated by sharing snapshots taken on the iPhone.

Available for download in the Apple App Store, PhotoCanvas allows users to manipulate and edit photos with intuitive tools such as frames, stamps, text boxes, clip art and image-filters to express themselves in new and creative ways and deepen their in-the-moment communication with family and friends.

"Think of PhotoCanvas like a digital photo booth that you would find at an arcade or on the boardwalk. When you step into that photo booth you have the option of customizing your photo to convey your emotions and personality," said Satoshi Nakajima, CEO of Big Canvas, Inc. "We observed the behavior of thousands of iPhone users who communicate visually using PhotoShare and then created PhotoCanvas to bring the photo booth experience into their lives on a daily basis."

PhotoCanvas, Big Canvas' second flagship application, is strategically aligned with the company's existing portfolio of iPhone and iPod Touch applications that are transforming how people interact on a daily basis. Encouraging an always-connected lifestyle with a variety of photo-sharing and editing tools, Big Canvas applications enable people to engage in visual conversations on their iPhone and iPod Touch devices.

Nakajima added, "We continue to see the evolution of conversations on the mobile device go from voice to text to visual communications and there was a clear need for a photo editing application that went beyond manipulating photos and helped users express themselves through fun add-ons like frames, clip art and text boxes. This combination of visual enhancement and sharing in visual conversations is really what sets PhotoCanvas apart from other static photo editing tools."

In addition, the application is user friendly and allows people to instantly share edited pictures through Big Canvas' PhotoShare social networking platform, e-mail or any other online photo-sharing service such as Flickr, Facebook and Picasa.

"As an iPhone photography enthusiast, I was thrilled to use PhotoCanvas to personalize both my personal and professional images before sharing them with friends, family and colleagues," said Lisa Dominy, PhotoCanvas beta user. "PhotoCanvas is extremely intuitive and allows me to manipulate photos and images to further convey my emotions with a couple of clicks. Rather than uploading my mobile pictures to my home computer at a later date, I can now capture pictures and distribute them within minutes."

PhotoCanvas is available immediately for purchase from the Apple App Store and will cost $1.99 for a limited time as a special promotional price for PhotoShare users and early adopters. Following the promotion, the application price will cost $2.99.

About Big Canvas, Inc.

Big Canvas is an innovator within social networking for the iPhone and iTouch. The company's first application, PhotoShare, allows users to instantly and seamlessly share, manage and store photos online. Big Canvas was founded by Satoshi Nakajima, Adam Goldblatt, and Yuichiro Masui. Nakajima is the creator of the world's first CAD application for the personal computer, and a defining force behind the architecture for Microsoft Windows 95 and the creation of Internet Explorer 3.0. Nakajima previously founded UIEvolution[R] and co-founded venture firm Ignition, LLC. The company is based in Bellevue, Wash. For more information, please visit www.bigcanvasinc.com.