From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jun 13 08:22:00 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 08:22:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20150613082200.01b5d110@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 6 2. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 7 (Second Notification) 3. RAW Digital Camera Plugin Revision 8 for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 (Second Notification) 4. MOZ JPEG Plugin for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Updated (Second Notification) 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ All these monsters are CGI. (Pity not the monsters seem to know that.) http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Animation Workshop 5 Revision 6 _______________________________________________________________________ Animation Workshop 5 has been updated. This release: - Fixes a problem that prevented the Open and Save As windows in Animation Workshop from correctly setting the keyboard focus in the file name field. Users who like to open one of these windows and type blindly into them have found this a bit irksome... and this included a few of us. - Fixes a bug in the Paint function that could cause it to create spurious temporary files, or, under some circumstances, to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to do so. - Improves the timing of the View window. - Improves the rendering engine. - Addresses some text metric issues in Text objects when they're confronted with weird-beard fonts. - Improves the Watermark function. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download Animation Workshop 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you're still using Animation Workshop 4, we invite you to upgrade to the current software and enjoy all the new and enhanced functionality it offers. As of this writing, upgrades to Animation Workshop 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $14.99. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 Revision 7 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 has been updated. This release: - Fixes a problem that prevented the Open and Save As windows in PNG MNG Construction Set from correctly setting the keyboard focus in the file name field. Users who like to open one of these windows and type blindly into them have found this a bit irksome... and this included a few of us. - Fixes a bug in the Paint function that could cause it to create spurious temporary files, or, under some circumstances, to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to do so. - Improves the timing of the View window. - Improves the Banners function. - Improves the color management of the Text Overlay function. - Updates a number of minor metrics issues in the Status Panel generator. - Improves the Watermark function. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download PNG MNG Construction Set Professional 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you're still using PNG MNG Construction Set 4, we invite you to upgrade to the current software and enjoy all the new and enhanced functionality it offers. As of this writing, upgrades to PNG MNG Construction Set 5 are still available for half the single-user registration cost - $12.49. Please visit http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. RAW Digital Camera Plugin Revision 8 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 574 digital cameras. 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.) _______________________________________________________________________ 4. MOZ JPEG Plugin for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 Updated (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ The MOZ JPEG plugin will allow Graphic Workshop to write the smallest possible JPG files. It has been updated to address a memory management issue that could crash Graphic Workshop in some albeit fairly obscure situations. The functionality that drives the MOZ JPEG plugin was developed by Mozilla, the creators of the exemplary Firefox web browser. It uses sophisticated enhancements to conventional JPEG logic to create JPG files that are typically about ten percent smaller than files written by Graphic Workshop's internal JPG processor, with no loss of image quality. This plugin is available at no cost for users of Graphic Workshop Professional 5. See the discussion of JPG files in the Formats document of the Graphic Workshop manual for more about the MOZ JPEG processor. We urge all current users of the MOZ JPEG plugin to install this update. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html#MOZ to download this plugin. _______________________________________________________________________ 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. 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