Corel® Painter™ 6.1 Debuts at Macworld!

Corel® Painter™ 6.1: A graphic odyssey for 2001

Macworld, San Francisco, CA – Jan 9, 2001

Corel Corporation (NASDAQ: CORL, TSE: COR) invites you to download Corel® Painter™ 6.1. Starting today, users of the popular Corel Painter 6 Natural-Media® creation tool can download a free version of the latest update complete with new and enhanced features.

"With the release of Corel Painter 6.1, we are demonstrating the fact that Corel products are for creative professionals," said Ian LeGrow, executive vice-president, creative products for Corel Corporation. "We are committed to ensuring that Corel Painter 6.1 is the most advanced painting application graphics specialists can have at their disposal."

"It's great having the opportunity to continue to refine Corel Painter … It's like polishing an apple! We received a lot of valuable input from our loyal users and applied it to make Corel Painter even better," said John Derry, co-creator of Corel Painter. "Plus, we got to add the Woodcut filter, a unique new creative effect. We're intent on keeping Corel Painter as The Ultimate Natural-Media Painting Tool and this release should help to do it," added Mark Zimmer, the other creator of Corel Painter.

The free Corel Painter 6.1 update for current Corel Painter 6 and MetaCreations Painter 6 users will include an interesting palette of new features, enhancements and fixes. In addition to the enhancements made to the Soften, Sharpen and Highpass features, the new Woodcut effect lets users convert a photo into what appears to be a hand-rendered woodblock print of the photo. It will give artists a more comprehensive array of tools.

Corel Painter 6 is a graphics application that lets users simulate natural media in a digital setting. It gives users an unprecedented level of texture and realism so they can create digital artistic works very similar in appearance to those created by media, such as watercolors, charcoal, and chalk.

Corel Painter inventors John Derry and Mark Zimmer will be at Macworld demonstrating the awesome power and unique capabilities of the new Corel Painter 6.1. Get "The Inside Story" demonstration from Mark and John at Macworld on the morning of January 9th only. Also Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, artist and author of the "Painter Wow!" book will be there to give demonstrations of Corel Painter 6.1 from Tuesday, Jan. 9 to Friday, Jan. 12.

The North American and international English version of this free download can be found at www.corel.com/patches/painter.

Corel Corporation

Corel Corporation provides its customers with the creative tools they need to unleash their imaginations. With its heritage of software innovation and a solid franchise of loyal customers worldwide, Corel has earned its reputation as an internationally recognized developer of award-winning graphics and business productivity applications on the Windows®, Macintosh®, Linux® and UNIX® platforms. In 2001, Corel will continue to expand its support of the Web, delivering the Internet's versatility to customers through exciting Web-based applications, content and services. Corel will also be developing applications for Microsoft's .NET platform as part of its commitment to provide customers with a full range of applications and services over the Internet. With its headquarters in Ottawa, Canada, Corel continues to be one of Silicon Valley North's most exciting and influential software companies. Corel's common stock trades on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol CORL and on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol COR. For more information on Corel Corporation, please visit www.corel.com.

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