From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Aug 23 09:28:00 2014 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 09:28:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20140823150311.A603A940B0D@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 2 2. RAW Digital Camera Plugin Revision 3 for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 (Second Notification) 3. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ An International Bestseller!!! http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/darkmatter.html (...as soon as you and about a million of your closest friends read it.) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 2 _______________________________________________________________________ Animation Workshop 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds thumbnails to the File menu history, so you can remind yourself what your files looked like before you open them. See the discussion of File Menu Thumbnails Files in the Creating Documents section of the Reference document of the Animation Workshop Manual for assistance with configuring this feature... or disabling it, should you ultimately decide that it's a tool of unclean spirits or liberal politicians. - Improves a number of aspects of the aforementioned File menu history feature. - Improves the Windows shell interface, so files created by Animation Workshop will appear in Explorer with less delay. - Fixes a problem that caused the Windows task bar to refuse to unhide if Animation Workshop was the active application and it was maximized, under some builds of Windows, if there was a unicorn or other mythical quadruped in the immediate proximity... some of the time. This problem also prevented the Show Desktop button in the task bar from operating correctly, as well as several additional task bar- related functions. It's history now. - Addresses several user interface issues throughout the application. - Implements our work-around for the Microsoft installer limitation that hitherto required each previous release of Animation Workshop to be uninstalled before an update could be installed. This release of Animation Workshop 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 Animation 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 Animation Workshop 5 to handle validating it. Assuming that you allowed Animation Workshop to save your key to disk last time, this will involve clicking on Next several times and then closing the "thank you" window. - Fixes a bug in the PNG import library that could crash the File Open window if a grey-scale PNG file were selected. - Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to version 5. You can download Animation Workshop 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html#download ........................................................................ 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 5's menu bar. 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 _______________________________________________________________________ 2. RAW Digital Camera Plugin Revision 3 for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ The RAW plugin for Graphic Workshop Professional has been updated to support a number of new cameras, and to improve its image processing speed. The RAW Digital Camera Plugin currently supports 547 digital cameras. This release also implements our work-around for the Microsoft installer limitation that hitherto required each previous release of the RAW Digital Camera Plugin to be uninstalled before an update could be installed. This release can be installed right over the previous one - it will in fact automatically uninstall the previous software as part of the install. We recommend that users of the RAW plugin download and install the current release. ....................................................................... View and convert the native raw image files from many contemporary Canon, Casio, Hasselblad, Kodak, Konica, Nikon, Leica, Minolta, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Sigma, Fuji and Sony high-end digital cameras, plus Adobe Digital Negative files, to access the highest possible image quality for your digital photography. The improved detail resolution and color fidelity available with the Graphic Workshop Professional RAW plugin compared to the default JPEG configuration for most cameras is breathtaking. This plugin costs $34.99. If you own a supported digital camera - or if you're just thinking about buying one - you and your immediate descendants will thank you for downloading this plugin. See the download link, below, for a complete list of the cameras the plugin supports. ....................................................................... You can download the plugin at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gwsplugins.html#RAW ....................................................................... IMPORTANT: You must be running Graphic Workshop Professional 5 to install this plugin. If you're running Graphic Workshop 4, you can still upgrade to the current Graphic Workshop Professional 5 software for half price. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. Registration keys bought for earlier versions of the RAW Digital Camera plugin are still valid for the version 5 release of the plugin. ....................................................................... (Alchemy Mindworks is not affiliated with Sony Corporation, Pentax Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, Konica Minolta Holdings Inc., Eastman Kodak Company, Canon Inc., Hasselblad AB, Nikon Corporation or Olympus Corporation, Casio Computer Company, Sigma Corporation of America, Fuji Photo Film Company Ltd. or any of their affiliates, subsidiaries or holdings.) _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. 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 Removal requests will be processed instantly. ....................................................................... 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