Fractal Design Collaborates with Artbeats to Produce New "Really Cool
Textures" Library

Aptos, CA--April 17, 1995 -- Digital imaging leaders Fractal Design
Corporation today announced "The Sensational Surfaces CD-ROM," the first
in Fractal Design's series of Really Cool Textures to be delivered on
CD-ROM. Based on the "Seamless Textures Collection" by Artbeats Software,
Inc. (Myrtle Creek, OR), "Sensational Surfaces" contains five libraries of
20 natural-media textures each, including wood, paper, stone, stone tiles
and other surfaces. This add-on CD-ROM contains both the Macintosh and
Windows versions of the textures, which are designed for use with Fractal
Design Painter and Fractal Design Sketcher.

"This co-branded CD-ROM is a marriage of companies with a singular
dedication to graphic arts. We're pleased to be collaborating with
Artbeats to create versions of their products specifically aimed towards
Painter and Sketcher users," said Steve Guttman, vice president of
marketing at Fractal Design Corporation. "High quality creation tools
coupled with high quality content is what our users crave. Thus, the
combination of Painter and 'Sensational Surfaces' is especially
satisfying."

The "Sensational Surfaces" collection is derived from "Seamless Textures
Collection, Volume 1," a set of seamlessly tilable surfaces from Artbeats
Software, Inc., a premier supplier of textures for computer art and
multimedia. Most of these new textures are photographic in origin and
bring a further sense of reality to the natural-media capabilities of
Painter and Sketcher. The Wood library includes Oak, Pine, Walnut, Cork
and Wafer Board. The Paper library contains fiber textures such as
Parchment and Papyrus. The Stone library contains natural marble and
granite stone textures such as Sierra White and Emperador. The Stone Tiles
library contains marble and granite textures arranged in 4 by 4
"floor-tile"-type grids. The Surfaces library features realistic and
abstract geometric designs such as Bevels and Diamonds, patterns named
Floorboards and Droplets, and surfaces such as Stucco and Leather.

Like the other Really Cool Textures, the surfaces on this CD-ROM can be
used for a multiplicity of creative effects, including adding texture to
Painter or Sketcher natural-media brushes, creating or adding smooth
patterns to images, and creating or adding 3D surface texture or glass
distortion to images.

The "Sensational Surfaces CD-ROM" is available now for $ 79.95 and requires
Fractal Design Painter or Sketcher. Because the Sensational Surfaces
textures can be opened directly off CD-ROM, no hard disk space is needed
to store the libraries. The "Sensational Surfaces CD-ROM" complements
Fractal Design's earlier Really Cool Textures collections, "Miles of
Tiles," "Walls and Reliefs," "Grains & Weaves," and "Patterns & Nature."
For more information or to place orders, customers can call (800)
297-COOL.

About Artbeats Software, Inc.

Artbeats Software, Inc. is a leading developer and publisher of background
images for prepress and multimedia users. Headquartered in Myrtle Creek,
OR, Artbeats was founded in 1989 to develop and publish digitized images
for use on the Macintosh, IBM and compatible personal computers. Artbeats
products include "Prelude," "Seamless Textures Collection Volume I,"
"Marble & Granite," "Wood & Paper," "Marbled Paper Textures," "Backgrounds
for Multimedia Bundle" (Volumes 1 and 2), and "Full Page Images EPSF
Library." Customers include Disney, Pacific Bell, Sears, IBM, NASA, First
Interstate Bank, Xerox and Johnson & Johnson. The company distributes its
products in the United States, Canada, Europe and the Pacific Rim.
Artbeats Software is located at 2611 S. Myrtle Rd., Myrtle Creek, OR,
97457. Telephone: 503 863-4429. Fax: 503 863-4547.

About Fractal Design Corporation Fractal Design Corporation is a major
force in multiple-platform graphics software, creating and marketing
next-generation paint, photo-design and image-retouching software for
Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows computers. Additionally, all Fractal
Design products will be written to support the new Power Macintosh
computers. Fractal Design develops and markets the award-winning
natural-media paint and image-processing applications Fractal Design
Painter, Dabbler, ColorStudio & Shapes, and Fractal Design Sketcher.
Fractal Design products are available through distributors including
Ingram, Merisel and Tech Data, as well as superstores, major resellers and
mail order. The company is headquartered at 335 Spreckels Drive, Aptos, CA
95003. Telephone: 408 688-5300. Fax: 408 688-8836.

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