Corel UK Press Release

London, UK - 1 June 2005 - Corel, a leading technology company specialising in graphics and office productivity software, today announced its summer 2005 offer - receive a FREE Lynda.com training CD worth £35 with every purchase of the award-winning Corel Painter IX.

From 1st June 2005 until stocks last, anyone who buys the standard full edition of Corel Painter IX will receive the training CD - ‘Getting Started with Corel Painter IX’ - (worth £35) for free. The CD, produced by Lynda.com, has a total running time of 11 hours and features over 50 movie-based tutorials designed to help new users get up to speed on the product quickly and to enable experienced users to extend their knowledge.

“With this great offer, learning and developing with Corel Painter IX has never been easier,” says Dan Weisbeck, marketing director, international - Corel. “Whether you are new to Painter or an old hand, there are so many amazing things that our customers can do and create with this product. You can learn new techniques as well as develop your knowledge further with the Lynda.com training CD, which demonstrates some of the highlights and the additional features that customers will discover in version 9.”

To take advantage of this great offer, readers should visit any of Corel’s leading Resellers - including Jigsaw, Cancom, Macwarehouse and Amazon - to order a copy of Painter IX. For more information on this offer and Corel’s preferred Resellers visit www.corel.co.uk.

Corel Painter* IX - the most recent instalment of the award-winning Natural-Media painting and illustration software, launched in October 2004. With Painter IX, users can create impressive works of digital art, edit photos or turn photos into paintings with just a few clicks. Painter is also used in film making, game development and illustration. It is priced at £249 SRP (excl VAT).