[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat Oct 11 09:06:00 EDT 2014
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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
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1. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 3
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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
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction
Set Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, youre 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
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2. GIF Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 3 (Second Notification)
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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
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set
Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, youre 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
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3. 10 Breathtaking Tweets about Graphic Workshop
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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.
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