From newsletter at mindworkshop.com Fri Mar 14 10:01:57 2014 From: newsletter at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 10:01:57 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Posting Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20140425100157.01bf0342@localhost> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This message was sent to: RECIPIENT: %%EMAIL%% on %%TIMESTAMP%% Contents: 1. Graphic Workshop Professional 4 Patch 40 2. Announcing the Amazing MOZ JPEG Plugin for Graphic Workshop 4 3. e-Paint 4 Patch 17 (Second Notification) 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If this book were any more evil, it could run for elected office. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Graphic Workshop Professional 4 Patch 40 _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 4 has been updated. This release: - Rewrites the Crop function. It now supports a fully interactive selection rectangle and an Apply to Batch option, to allow it to crop multiple images to the same dimensions in a single operation. It's also somewhat quicker. - Fixes a bug in the Supercompressor that prevented it from properly analyzing JPG files under some builds of Windows. - Adds JPG subsampling to the Supercompressor. - Adds a Shape Mask filter, to frame the subjects of your pictures with stars, octagons, star bursts and other geometric shapes. - Adds an Alpha Shadow filter to apply soft shadows to irregularly- shaped objects with alpha transparency. - Adds support for the MOZ JPEG plugin, discussed in the next section of this posting. - Updates the EXIF decoder to format a number of its fields more intuitively. - Adds EXIF field support to the titles printed by the Print, Watermark and Contact Sheet functions. - Adds drop down lists to remember the contents of fields typed into a number of Graphic Workshop's user interface windows... and hopefully to save some keystrokes. - Fixes a bug in the SWF Flash writer. - Performs some cosmetic housekeeping on a number of Graphic Workshop's internal windows. - Improves the usual GDI and performance things that programmers just can't resist noodling with. - Includes the usual library maintenance and security trolls and demons. - Updates the documentation. The world's most popular Windows image management package supports over seventy graphic formats, batch processing, a rich library of filters, thumbnails, an intuitive user interface, lucid documentation and almost enough sunflowers to cheer up an economist. You can download a copy from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download If you're still using Graphic Workshop Professional 3, we invite you to enjoy all the new functionality, enhanced performance and cool things to click on - for half the new-user registration price. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. Should you be curious about what these updates are really up to, we invite you to check out a posting about this matter at our blog. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/a-word-about-updates/ _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Announcing the Amazing MOZ JPEG Plugin for Graphic Workshop 4 _______________________________________________________________________ The MOZ JPEG plugin will allow Graphic Workshop to write the smallest possible JPG files. The functionality that drives the MOZ JPEG plugin was developed by Mozilla, the creators of the exemplary Firefox web browser. It uses sophisticated enhancements to conventional JPEG logic to create JPG files that are typically about ten percent smaller than files written by Graphic Workshop's internal JPG processor, with no loss of image quality. This plugin is available at no cost for users of Graphic Workshop Professional 4. You'll need the latest release of Graphic Workshop, above, to support it. Please see the discussion of JPG files in the Formats document of the Graphic Workshop manual for more about the MOZ JPEG processor. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html#MOZ to download this plugin. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. e-Paint 4 Patch 17 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Quick, easy to master, intuitive and full of moose, e-Paint 4 is the ultimate application for refining your photographs, drawing animation cells, unleashing your inner artist or attaching the head of your least favorite politician to the body of a small dog. Completely re-written, updated and polished until it can be seen from space, e-Paint 4 rocks. It's cool enough to shatter penguins. This update: - Adds a shape drawing function. Select the Ellipse tool and use the Shape combo in the lower right corner of its Tool Palette window to have it draw stars, arrows, star bursts and other geometric shapes. Don't miss this one - it's fun. - Adds a Shape Mask filter to the Filter window. Apply geometric shapes as masks to your graphics. Any similarity to the shapes available in the shape drawing function, above, are purely... okay, yes, we used the same library for both. Our development people melted their own brains trying to remember all the high school geometry involved in these things - we intend to get some serious mileage out of it. - Fixes a windowing bug that could cause the horizontal scroll bar in e-Paint's document window to become hidden under some builds of Windows. - Fixes a number of cosmetic issues in the Tool Palette window. - Improves the shadow rendering. - Speeds up several additional aspects of the rendering engine. - Updates the documentation. - Improves the usual GDI and performance things that programmers just can't resist noodling with. e-Paint 4 is available for download at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html ........................................................................ If you're still using e-Paint 2, we invite you to enjoy all the new functionality, enhanced performance and cool things to click on - for half the new-user registration price. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Do not reply to this message -- all returned or replied messages from this posting will be ignored by the server. To remove your address from this mailing list, please visit our web page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/update-list.html and unsubscribe from the list. To change your e-mail address in the mailing list, use the mailing list page, above, to unsubscribe your old address and subscribe your new address. If you have received more than one copy of this posting, your e-mail address has been added to the list more than once. 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