From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Oct 11 09:06:00 2014 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 09:06:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <20141011144735.4B6FE940CDB@mindworkshop.com> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 3 2. GIF Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 3 3. 10 Breathtaking Tweets about Graphic Workshop 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Read this book and lose 20 pounds in 20 days!!! http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html How you lose the 20 pounds is up to you, of course... click on the above link for the book. _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 3 _______________________________________________________________________ PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 has been updated. This release: - Improves a number of aspects of the File menu history feature. - Optionally prevents very large source graphics from appearing as thumbnails in the File menu - they'll show up as check marks. Really big pictures can make the PNG MNG Construction Set File menu a bit slow to wake up the when the application first boots. You can configure this option through the Maximum Preview Dimension field of the Setup window. - Addresses a number of performance issues in Animation Wizard to make it quicker and to improve its color management, which will result in more attractive finished animations in many cases. - Fixes a very subtle and potentially nasty resource leak in the Animation Wizard's folder tree, which could crash PNG MNG Construction Set and potentially destabilize Windows. IMPORTANT: If you're still using PNG MNG Construction Set 4, we urge you to consider upgrading to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5. Doing so will resolve the aforementioned resource leak, and prevent it from biting you somewhere impolite when you least expect it. - Fixes a bug in the PNG import library that could crash the Animation Wizard window and several File Open windows if a grey-scale PNG file were selected. - Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to version 5. You can download PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5. If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 4 prior to May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5, it will check to see if you have a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 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 PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5's menu bar. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 2. GIF Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 3 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ GIF Construction Set Professional 5 has been updated. This release: - Adds thumbnails to the File menu history, so you can remind yourself what your animations looked like before you open them. See the discussion of Opening and Saving Files in the Reference document of the GIF Construction Set 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. - Addresses a number of performance issues in Animation Wizard to make it quicker and to improve its color management, which will result in more attractive finished animations in many cases. - Fixes a very subtle and potentially nasty resource leak in the Animation Wizard's folder tree, which could crash GIF Construction Set and potentially destabilize Windows. IMPORTANT: If you're still using GIF Construction Set 4, we urge you to consider upgrading to GIF Construction Set Professional 5. Doing so will resolve the aforementioned resource leak, and prevent it from biting you somewhere impolite when you least expect it. - Fixes a bug in the PNG import library that could crash the Animation Wizard window and several File Open windows if a grey-scale PNG file were selected. - Fixes a number of issues that appeared during the upgrade to version 5. You can download GIF Construction Set Professional 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 5. If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 4 prior to May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run GIF Construction Set Professional 5, it will check to see if you have a registration for GIF Construction Set 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 GIF Construction Set Professional 5's menu bar. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gcskey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 3. 10 Breathtaking Tweets about Graphic Workshop _______________________________________________________________________ Yes, it probably does depend a lot on what takes your breath away... 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: - Avail your photos of texture with the Canvas filter. - Now includes e-Paint UltraLight - like Photoshop without the financing. - Transmute anything into light & color with the Neon filter. - Refine your photos with Photography Workshop. - Be a star with the Shape Mask filter... or a sun, or a cube... - Transform PDFs into graphics with the Postscript plugin. - See the world through a downpour with Water Drops filter. - When reality just doesn't cut it, try some fractals from the Texture and Fractals feature. - Build instant distributable photo montages with Montage UltraLight. - Manage duplicated files with the Keep Both option of the Overwrite Files prompt. 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. _______________________________________________________________________ 4. 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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