[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Jun 21 10:28:05 EDT 2014
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Contents:
1. Announcing Animation Workshop 5
2. Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 (Second Notification)
3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 2 (Additional Notification)
4. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. Announcing Animation Workshop 5
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Animation Workshop 5 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of Animation Workshop
to make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able to take
advantage of the functionality of Windows 7 and Windows 8.
While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in Animation
Workshop 5 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will find
that it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that call for
significant system resources.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
Animation Workshop that were impractical or genuinely impossible
under version 4.
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WHAT'S NEW
This release features some visible changes as well:
- Adds Shape objects - include a variety of geometric shapes such as
hexagons, stars, sunbursts, arrows and many others in your animations,
without any recourse to a paint application or any detectable drawing
skills. Shape objects support a rich palette of material fills, and
professional soft shadows.
See the Bob's House of Saxophones banner in the Animation Workshop
tutorial for an example of Shape objects at work... if you can call
this work.
- Enhances the object editors, with better object parameter retention
between sessions.
- Speeds up the rendering engine and improves its final appearance.
- Refines a number of user interface issues.
- Improves the color management for exporting to GIF animations.
- Animation Workshop requires less memory to run, which will
make it and anything else running under Windows quite a bit
speedier, especially on systems with limited system resources.
Please see the discussion of version 5 enhancements at:
http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v5-upgrades/
You can download Animation Workshop 5 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 4
on or after June 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to Animation
Workshop 5.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 4
prior to June 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Animation Workshop 5 for half
the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Animation Workshop 5, it will check to see if you
have a registration for Animation Workshop 4 on your system. If it finds
one, it will display a window to tell you which of the foregoing upgrade
options is applicable. Click on the Upgrade button to visit our web page
and request or order an upgrade.
The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the
Help -> Upgrade Manager -> Upgrade from Previous Version item of
Animation Workshop.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/anmkey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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2. Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 (Second Notification)
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The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of The Ultimate Screen Clock
to make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able to take
advantage of the functionality of Windows 7 and Windows 8.
While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in The Ultimate Screen
Clock 5 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will find that
it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that call for
significant system resources.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
The Ultimate Screen Clock that were impractical or genuinely impossible
under version 4.
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WHAT'S NEW
This release features some visible changes as well:
- New clock style - check out Mirage.
- Copy Time and Date feature - right-click and select Copy Time and Date
from the menu that appears to copy the current time and date - in your
choice of formats - to the Windows clipboard, for inclusion in other
documents. See the discussion of Copy Time and Date in the Manual to
modify the default formats.
- The analog clock rendering logic has been improved.
- Several minor and largely theoretical bugs in the rendering engine have
been mercilessly stomped.
- The screen saver opens in less time.
- The clock definition format has been restructured to make the .clock
files that define The Ultimate Screen Clock's clock styles open
quicker.
- The Ultimate Screen Clock requires less memory to run, which will
make it and anything else running under Windows quite a bit
speedier, especially on systems with limited system resources.
Please see the discussion of version 5 enhancements at:
http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v5-upgrades/
You can download The Ultimate Screen Clock 5 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen
Clock 4 on or after June 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to
The Ultimate Screen Clock 5.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate Screen
Clock 4 prior to June 1, 2013, you can upgrade to The Ultimate Screen
Clock 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run The Ultimate Screen Clock 5, it will check to
see if you have a registration for The Ultimate Screen Clock 4
on your system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you
which of the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the
Upgrade button to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade.
The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Upgrade
Manager -> Upgrade from Previous Version item of the right-click menu
of The Ultimate Screen Clock.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/clkkey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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3. Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Revision 2 (Additional Notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been updated. This release:
- Adds a Find in Browser feature. Select Find In Browser from the
right-click menu of a Graphic Workshop browser window and you'll be
looking at a field to enter a search key. Quickly locate and step
through each file in your current browser that matches your key.
This is first of the (entirely too many) features we wanted to
implement under the version 4 architecture, and couldn't.
- Adds a new filter to the Filter window in View mode. Check out
Light Box. It turns digital photographs into eyecatching color
halftones.
- Fixes a number of minor issues with the initial build of e-Paint
UltraLight - 'specially the ones that made the tool palette lose
its mind under some builds of Windows.
- Addresses an number of user interface and run-time issues in
Graphic Workshop itself... mostly having to do with the step up to
version 5.
- Improves the Properties window in the crop function.
- Improves the GWS Camera screen capture to allow it to snag a
variety of unconventional windows that used to fox it.
- Fixes a minor bug in the Halftone filter.
- Fixes a bug in the toggled zoom feature of the View window.
- Updates the documentation.
- Implements our work-around for the Microsoft installer limitation
that hitherto required each previous release of Graphic Workshop to
be uninstalled before an update could be installed. This release of
Graphic Workshop Professional 5 can be installed right over the
previous one - it will in fact automatically uninstall the previous
software as part of the install.
While we're just tickled with how well this worked in house, we are
aware that some third-party install managers and security
applications meddle with the software installation process, and in
so doing might break our clever innovation. If you encounter any
issues with installing this release of Graphic Workshop, please let
us know what happened.
We hasten to add that you'll still need to click on the Enter Your
Registration Key button in the opening window of the newly updated
Graphic Workshop Professional 5 to handle validating it. Assuming
that you allowed Graphic Workshop to save your key to disk last time,
this will involve clicking on Next several times and then closing the
"thank you" window.
Please visit:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download
to download Graphic Workshop Professional 5.
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 5.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 4 prior to May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 5, it will check to see
if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 4 on your
system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you which of
the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the Upgrade button
to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade.
The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help >
Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of Graphic Workshop
Professional 5's menu bar.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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