From newsletter at mindworkshop.com Fri Apr 25 10:01:57 2014 From: newsletter at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:01:57 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Posting Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20140425100157.01bf0338@localhost> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Contents: 1. Announcing Loops #1 Animation Plugin for GIF Construction Set and PNG MNG Construction Set 2. PNG MNG Construction Set 4 Patch 24 (Second Notification) 3. VERY IMPORTANT: Did You Get Last Week's Posting? 4. 10 Sublime Tweets About Graphic Workshop 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Take Our Survey: "TV are gooder than bookz." Click here to vote NO: http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/darkmatter.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Announcing the Loops #1 Animation Plugin for GIF Construction Set Professional 4 and PNG MNG Construction Set 4 _______________________________________________________________________ Include digital video clips at your web page, in your PowerPoint presentations, with your e-mail messages and in Presentation Wizard documents without the unprofessional jumps and hiccups that appear every time they loop. The Loops #1 plugin will apply your choice of twenty professional special- effect loop transitions to your digital video animations so they repeat smoothly. If it were any cooler, it would violate at least a dozen laws of physics and make every polar bear north of the arctic circle really grouchy. We hasten to add that the Loops #1 plugin can be applied to animations that didn't originate in a video camera as well. The Loops #1 plugins effects include Airlock, Blinds, Blocks, Collapse, Credits, diamonds, Dissolve, Expand, Fade, Fuse, Radar, Sandstorm, Slide, Tiles and Vortex. The Loops #1 Plugin costs $19.99. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-lp1.html to download an evaluation copy. Be sure to click on the Demonstration Window link when you get there to see a few of its effects. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. PNG MNG Construction Set 4 Patch 24 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ This release of PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 4: - Nails several lingering - and malingering - bugs in the new Crop manager. - Improves the document window driver. The recent Patch 23 release: - Rewrites the Crop function, with an adjustable selection rectangle and a more informative and intuitive user interface. It's also somewhat quicker. - Fixes a bug in the Display Panel function. It was obscure and remarkably well disguised, but we found it and... let's just say that things didn't end well for it. - Adds edit lists to several windows around the application, to remember and reuse things typed into them. - Updates the plugin interface with several new features too technical to describe... 'cept they're necessary for the next updates to the plugin library. - Fixes a bug in the Resize function. - Improves the Registration Key window. - Addresses an issue in the driver for the PNG MNG Construction Set document windows, such that the Image chunk thumbnails update way quicker, and with far more modest demand on your system resources. - Fine-tunes the Animation Wizard window. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that the development people couldn't resist meddling with. - Updates the documentation. ........................................................................ PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 4 is available for download at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html ........................................................................ If you're still using PNG MNG Construction Set2, 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. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. VERY IMPORTANT: Did You Get Last Week's Posting? _______________________________________________________________________ If you haven't been receiving the postings to the Alchemy Mindworks update mailing list every weekend of late, your mail is probably being blocked. Chances are that you're missing more than just the latest news about Graphic Workshop - it's hard to know when you're not getting mail. We've become aware that there's a new and unusually aggressive blacklist turning up on a number of large commercial mail servers, and it appears to be pretty indiscriminate about what it blocks. Thus far, we've had questionable success at being removed from it. 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The postings will thereafter arrive from the address: newsletter at mindworkshop.com If you're using a whitelist, please add the above address to it. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. 10 Sublime Tweets about Graphic Workshop. _______________________________________________________________________ If you're among the tens of thousands of Graphic Workshop users who don't follow us on Twitter - we're in no way offended by this - you'll likely have missed the ongoing tweets that deal with often-overlooked features of the known universe's most popular image management software. Graphic Workshop's ability to do practically everything that can be done to pictures makes it relatively easy to use it every day for years and still miss a few of its better tricks. Here are ten more of the finest features you never knew it had, fresh from the Alchemy Mindworks Twitter account: - Create page backgrounds, photo mats and alternate universes with Textures and Fractals. - Uncover duplicates of your photos no matter where they lurk on your hard drive with Find Similar. - Refine the contrast of your photos intuitively with the Sigmoidal Contrast filter. - Adjust the JPEG subsampling setting for flawless color in the JPG files you create. - Secure delete - when it's time to make your photos gone, make sure they stay gone. - Add captions to your photos with the Caption function. - Build distributable montages of your photos with Montage Builder. - Turn your photos into instant clickable web pages with Web Gallery. - Embrace the 19th century with the Sepia filter. - Refine your photos with a few clicks - power up Photography Workshop. You can download a copy of Graphic Workshop 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/alchemy/upgrade.html Please see http://www.twitter.com/alchemymindwork to follow us on Twitter. _______________________________________________________________________ 5. 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. 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