IMSI Announces Release of MasterClips Corporate Pack: Volume 1; Premium Image Collections Designed Specifically For Corporate Sites.

SAN RAFAEL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 1997--IMSI (NASDAQ:IMSI), a leading developer and publisher of premium productivity software for the business and home markets today announced plans to ship a new addition to their desktop publishing software line, MasterClips 35,000 Corporate Pack: Volume 1 Premium Image Collection.

MasterClips 35,000 Corporate Pack will be available from retailers on March 28, 1997, at an estimated street price of $399.00. The MasterClips 35,000 Corporate Pack includes twenty-five user modules and breaks down to $16.00 per module. MasterClips 35,000 Corporate Pack contains the same high quality images that has earned the MasterClips line recognition and a Codie nomination.

"We are committed to providing not only the individual consumer, but also corporate users at every level of the organization with a comprehensive, electronic art solution," said Martin Sacks, President and CEO. "The MasterClips 35,000 Corporate Pack is designed to provide work groups within corporations an easily distributed premium image solution to standardize upon."

MasterClips 35,000 Corporate Pack contains twenty-five sets of CD ROM's and five manuals. The content is geared towards corporations, supplying numerous images for the creation of newsletters, brochures, documents, web pages, presentations and other business documentation.

Each MasterClips 35,000 Corporate Pack module contains 33,000 images which are organized into over 100 categories. The images are all first generation and fully scaleable to enable the user to edit the size, color and shape of the image easily and without danger of pixelation or image distortion. This feature gives the user the freedom to completely customize any document using MasterClips images. Image categories include people engaged in business activity, financial symbols and objects, regional symbols, maps, calendars, office objects, science, military, politics and many more. Each image is designed to print at the highest quality level available on both black and white and color printers.

In addition to the images, each user module also includes the following:

-1,000 hand-picked photos organized in over 25 categories and which are fully scaleable. The photo collection includes political figures, technology & education, structures, transportation, background objects, military, people, and many other images.

-1,000 True-Type fonts that range from the traditional to the hard to find and all scaleable to almost any size. Each font was chosen specifically either for its broad-based functionality or its uniqueness.

-150 Sound Effects that can be attached to Web pages, multimedia presentations or functions on a personal computer. Also included are 20 animation and video clips.

-MasterClips Sound Controller and MasterClips Font Utility allow for quick sampling and previewing. All sound effects and video clips are compatible with top presentation applications including Microsoft PowerPoint and Macromedia Director.

-MasterClips MediaPaq Browser is a superior browser utility to facilitate easy searches of clip art, photos and video clips in seconds, searching by key words, category or description. Exclusive to the MasterClips MediaPaq Browser is the ability to import up to 36 different file formats, convert images from 1 bit to 24 bits, and breakdown vector-based images. Also, only found in the MasterClips MediaPaq Browser is image dilation, edge detection, image sharpening and smoothing to ease the customizing of images.

"The MasterClips 35,000 Corporate Pack is our response to our corporate customer's request for a company wide electronic art solution," said Rob Halligan, Vice President of Marketing. "This is all part of our strategy of providing the market with flexible alternatives for premium images depending on their needs. Organizations such as Frito-Lay and JCPenney have already responded by purchasing large numbers of MasterClips Premium Image Collections."

Founded in 1983, IMSI is a leader in developing and publishing quality consumer software for home and small business. The Company offers a range of high quality, affordably priced products including TurboCAD 2D/3D, MasterClips Premium Image Collections, FloorPlan Plus 3D, and WinDelete. IMSI is headquarters in San Rafael, California, with wholly owned subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia and South Africa. For more information, contact Victoria Rierdan at IMSI, 1895 Francisco Boulevard East, San Rafael, CA 94901-5506. Telephone: [phone], Fax: [phone], E-Mail: [e-mail] or visit IMSI's Web Site at www.imsisoft.com . -0-

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Victoria Rierdan, 415/257-3000

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