From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Fri May 2 19:05:37 2014 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 19:05:37 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20140502230538.C1F98940A73@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 4 Patch 20 2. Announcing Loops #1 Animation Plugin for GIF Construction Set and PNG MNG Construction Set (Second Notification) 3. VERY IMPORTANT: Site News 4. 10 Sublime Tweets About Graphic Workshop (Second Notification) 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Want to see your elected officials ripped into bloody scraps of meat? http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html Us too. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. The Ultimate Screen Clock 4 Patch 20 _______________________________________________________________________ This release of The Ultimate Screen Clock 4: - Adds several intense new animated digital clock styles - be sure to experience Quark, Quark Outline and Vapor Lock. These styles are available in two sizes ? the Large size may not be suitable for systems with slower processors or restricted resources. Note that the Quark styles may cause you to become unstuck in the matrix of space-time and coalesce in an altered reality if you look at them for extended periods. Just thought you'd want to know that. - Fine-tunes the metrics for a number of clock styles. - Addresses several issues in the World Time at a Glance window. Middle-click in the Ultimate Screen Clock's application window to experience this feature, should it have hitherto eluded your notice. - Improves the performance of the clock rendering engine. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues. - Addresses some Windows 7 and Windows 8 issues. The Ultimate Screen Clock 4 is available for download at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html ........................................................................ If you'd like to see a gallery of the current clock styles that ship with The Ultimate Screen Clock 4, please visit: http://www.mindworkshop.com/clockstyles.html ........................................................................ As of this writing, if you're still using The Ultimate Screen Clock 2, you can upgrade to the new version 4 software for half price. Please see http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Announcing the Loops #1 Animation Plugin for GIF Construction Set Professional 4 and PNG MNG Construction Set 4 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ 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 plugin?s 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. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. VERY IMPORTANT: Site News _______________________________________________________________________ If you haven't been receiving the postings to the Alchemy Mindworks update mailing list every weekend of late, your e-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. We've undertaken some considerable stealth and treachery to allow this week's posting to sneak around it. If you suspect your mail is being blocked, consider contacting your ISP or mail provider and request that you be allowed to opt out of their anti-spam solution. Should you discover that you've been beset by this issue, we recommend that you check out our blog-posting on the subject: http://www.mindworkshop.info/alchemy-mindworks/about-your-e-mail/ Please refrain from throwing stuff. ........................................................................ This posting has been brought to you by our newly installed mailing-list management software. It has a wealth of new features - in addition to subscribing to the list, it will assist you with: - Unsubscribing from the list - it would be an embarrassingly lame list manager if it couldn't do this. - Changing your e-mail address in the mailing list database. - Reviewing the archive of previous postings. Admittedly, the archive doesn't go back very far as of this writing. If you've missed the last few weeks worth of postings, however, they're still available. You can access the mailing list's page from our web site - click on Support, and then on the E-mail Update List link. You can go directly to the mailing list page with this link, should you be feeling adventurous: https://mindworkshop.com/mailman/listinfo/newsletter We should note that the mailing list page is due for some interior decorating in the near future so it looks like the rest of our web site. Don't be alarmed by the weird furniture or the painting of dogs playing poker. In the event that you encounter any problems with the mailing list, please let us know at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/email-alchemy.html _______________________________________________________________________ 4. 10 Sublime Tweets about Graphic Workshop. (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ 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 or to change your address, please visit our web page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/update-list.html and unsubscribe from the list. ....................................................................... 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