LUNA IMAGING, INC. AND SASKIA LTD. INTRODUCE POWERFUL TEACHING TOOL

Insight® Software Allows Unprecedented Online access to Visual Collections

NEW YORK CITY - February 24, 2000
Traditional slide lectures are moving into the future with the release today of a powerful new art history teaching tool that provides access to important visual collections over the Internet.

Saskia Online uses Luna Imaging, Inc.'s Insight® software to offer unprecedented online access to high-resolution digital images from Saskia Ltd.'s premier survey collections, which have been the standard for art history educators for decades. Using the insight interface, subscribers can draw on more than 2,000 Saskia images, including works represented in several major textbooks such as the Expanded Gardner Set, the Expanded Stokstad Set and images from Saskia's Italian Renaissance Set.

"Together, Saskia images and Insight software give instructors the quality, selection and instructional versatility they want for teaching," said Michael Ester, president and founder of Luna Imaging. "Insight also provides the opportunity for students to work with these same resources using a rich set of tools for comparing and viewing images."

Recognizing that more and more visual collections are becoming available in digital form, Luna and Saskia collaborated to develop tools that empower professors and students to view and work with images dynamically.

Instructors can prepare image lectures in the office and display insight presentations in the classroom with digital projectors or monitors. Presentations can be as simple as choosing and ordering full screen images, or they can incorporate several images shown at once to show details and side-by-side comparisons. insight offers searching and display of text information with an equally rich set of tools for viewing, comparing, and organizing images.

"Our traditional slide users group has been asking for just this type of tool for teaching," said Carmen Garcia Wiedenhoeft, (title) Saskia Ltd. "Online access in insight® allows us to retain the same high image standards institutions have come to expect from us. At the new subscription pricing that would have been impossible with slides, our images are within reach of any university or college where art history is taught."

The new teaching tool was released today at the College Art Association conference in New York City. In addition to Saskia, other prominent resource providers will soon be releasing their collections in insight. For more information about the Saskia Online collection call 1-800-452-LUNA or visit www.luna-imaging.com/saskia.

Based in Venice, CA, Luna Imaging, Inc. enables museums, libraries and archives to build and distribute high-quality visual collections in digital form and provides sophisticated software to manage, access and use image collections over the Internet.

Since its founding in 1966, Saskia Ltd. slides have been recognized for their exceptional quality, and are used at major art history departments throughout the United States and worldwide.

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