[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Sep 6 09:42:00 EDT 2014
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Contents:
1. e-Paint 5 Revision 2
2. Presentation Wizard 5 Revision 2 (Second Notification)
3. 10 Impeccable Tweets about Graphic Workshop.
4. New Reviews at Storm Gods
5. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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(Assuming the police in 1882 could figure out how to power up a Kindle.)
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1. e-Paint 5 Revision 2
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e-Paint 5 has been updated. This release:
- Adds thumbnails to the File menu history, so you can remind yourself
what your pictures looked like before you open them. See the
discussion of File Menu Thumbnails Files in the Opening and Saving
Documents section of the Reference document of the e-Paint 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.
- Adds user-selectable line caps to the Line tool - draw lines with
arrow heads, diamonds and other terminations.
- Fixes a bug in the Line tool that caused it to position incorrectly
when the snap-to grid was active, under some builds of Windows.
- Improves the Windows shell interface, so files created by
e-Paint will appear in Explorer with less delay.
- Fixes a problem that caused the Windows task bar to refuse to unhide
if e-Paint 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 e-Paint to be
uninstalled before an update could be installed. This release of
e-Paint 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 e-Paint, 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
e-Paint 5 to handle validating it. Assuming that you allowed
e-Paint to save your key to disk last time, this will involve
clicking on Next several times and then closing the "thank you"
window.
- Adds an option to the White Balance filter to have it use the current
Paper color as its white reference.
- 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 e-Paint 5 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 4 on or after
May 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to e-Paint 5.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 4 prior to
May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to e-Paint 5 for half the cost of a new
single-user license.
When you first run e-Paint 5, it will check to see if you have a
registration for e-Paint 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 e-Paint 5's
menu bar.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/pntkey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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2. Presentation Wizard 5 Revision 2 (Second Notification)
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Presentation Wizard 5 has been updated. This release:
- Adds thumbnails to the File menu history, so you can remind yourself
what your presentations looked like before you open them. See the
discussion of File Menu Thumbnails Files in the Opening and Saving
Documents section of the Reference document of the Presentation
Wizard 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
Presentation Wizard will appear in Explorer with less delay.
- Fixes a problem that caused the Windows task bar to refuse to unhide
if Presentation Wizard 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 Presentation Wizard
to be uninstalled before an update could be installed. This release
of Presentation Wizard 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 Presentation Wizard, 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
Presentation Wizard 5 to handle validating it. Assuming that you
allowed Presentation Wizard 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 Presentation Wizard 5 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/prspro.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard 4
on or after June 1, 2013, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to
Presentation Wizard 5.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Presentation Wizard 4
prior to June 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Presentation Wizard 5 for
half the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Presentation Wizard 5, it will check to see if you
have a registration for Presentation Wizard 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 Presentation
Wizard 5's menu bar.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/prskey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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3. 10 Impeccable Tweets about Graphic Workshop (Second Notification)
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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:
- Crop lots of photos in one operation with the Apply to Batch option
of Crop.
- Secure delete - make sure those embarrassing photos NEVER come back.
- Enjoy different Windows wallpaper every day with Rotator.
- Capture all or part of your screen, with or without the cursor, using
GWS Camera.
- Include EXIF details with your printed photos, such as exposure,
location & time.
- Transform any photo into a Windows screen saver.
- Create state-of-the-art Roman mosaics with Canvas filter.
- Browse, convert and extract graphics stored in ZIP files.
- Give your photos an edge with the Raise filter.
- Create instant web pages of your photos with clickable thumbnails;
use Web Gallery.
You can download a copy of Graphic Workshop from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download
If you're still using Graphic Workshop Professional 4, 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
See http://www.twitter.com/alchemymindwork to follow us on Twitter.
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4. New Reviews at Storm Gods
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The Storm Gods product review blog has been updated with new reviews.
Storm Gods - product reviews by the staff of Alchemy Mindworks -
features objective reviews of the things we've bought.
It might betray a significant collective character flaw, but we buy a
lot of stuff. For the most part, we research our purchases carefully.
Storm Gods will share our choices and our experiences with them.
Please visit
http://www.stormgods.com
to check out Storm Gods. Click on Recent Posts for the latest reviews.
Unlike product review pages with larger staff and actual production
budgets, Storm Gods is based exclusively on items we would have bought
anyway. No compensation was provided to us by their manufacturers - not
that we'd necessarily have objected if they'd tried - and as such, all
the reviews at Storm Gods are wholly objective.
Alchemy Mindworks has no affiliation with any of the manufacturers
mentioned at Storm Gods - in most cases, we never even filled in the
warrantee cards.
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