From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jul 18 08:15:00 2015 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 08:15:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20150718081500.05272338@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Announcing GIF Construction Set Professional 6 2. Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 6 3. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 6 (Second Notification) 4. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ If you ever find yourself in the nineteenth century, trapped in a dark, brooding castle struggling to prevent its inhabitants from being brutally murdered, you'll thank yourself for having read this book. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Announcing GIF Construction Set Professional 6 _______________________________________________________________________ GIF Construction Set Professional 6 has been released. We've refined the internal architecture of GIF Construction Set Professional to make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able to take advantage of the functionality of Windows 7, 8 and 10. While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in GIF Construction Set Professional 6 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will notice that it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that call for significant system resources, such as building animations. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to GIF Construction Set that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 5. - GIF Construction Set Professional 6 is fully compatible with Windows 10. - Improves the application's memory management, which will speed up a number of resource-hungry functions, such as the Supercompressor and Animation Wizard. - Improves the color matching in the Trim function. - Improves the color management in Animation Wizard and Combine. - Speeds up and generally improves the antialiasing engine that drives the text Overlay and Watermark features. - Improve the plugin interface, which will allow plugins to load in less time and operate faster. - Fixes a number of minor issues in the plugins themselves. - Addresses an installer issue that prevented the application from installing correctly in a user-selected folder under some builds of Windows. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. 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 5 on or after January 1, 2015, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 6. If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 5 prior to January 1, 2015, you can upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run GIF Construction Set Professional 6, it will check to see if you have a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 5 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 6'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 ........................................................................ PLUGINS All the animation plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional have been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 6. If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of GIF Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid. You'll just need to download the version 6 installers for your plugins. All the animation plugins are at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 5 or PNG MNG Construction Set 5 and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction Set 5 or PNG MNG Construction Set 5 to replace them with the new version 6 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 5 plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 5 and PNG MNG Construction Set. If you have a number of animation plugins installed on your system, you'll probably find them quicker to uninstall through the Windows Control Panel's Programs and Features applet. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 6 _______________________________________________________________________ PNG MNG Construction Set 6 has been released. We've refined the internal architecture of PNG MNG Construction Set to make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able to take advantage of the functionality of Windows 7, 8 and 10. While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in PNG MNG Construction Set 6 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will notice that it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that call for significant system resources, such as building animations. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to PNG MNG Construction Set that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 5. - PNG MNG Construction Set 6 is fully compatible with Windows 10. - Improves the application's memory management, which will speed up a number of resource-hungry functions, such as the Supercompressor and Animation Wizard. - Improves the color matching in the Trim function. - Improves the color management in Animation Wizard and Combine. - Speeds up and generally improves the antialiasing engine that drives the text Overlay and Watermark features. - Improve the plugin interface, which will allow plugins to load in less time and operate faster. - Fixes a number of minor issues in the plugins themselves. - Addresses an installer issue that prevented the application from installing correctly in a user-selected folder under some builds of Windows. - 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 5 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 5 on or after January 1, 2015, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 6. If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 5 prior to January 1, 2015, you can upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run PNG MNG Construction Set 6, it will check to see if you have a registration for PNG MNG Construction 5 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 6'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 ........................................................................ PLUGINS All the animation plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional have been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 6. If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of GIF Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid. You'll just need to download the version 6 installers for your plugins. All the animation plugins are at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 5 or PNG MNG Construction Set 5 and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction Set 5 or PNG MNG Construction Set 5 to replace them with the new version 6 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 5 plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 5 and PNG MNG Construction Set. If you have a number of animation plugins installed on your system, you'll probably find them quicker to uninstall through the Windows Control Panel's Programs and Features applet. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 6 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 6 has been released. We've refined the internal architecture of Graphic Workshop Professional to make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able to take advantage of the functionality of Windows 7, 8 and 10. While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in Graphic Workshop Professional 6 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will notice that it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that call for significant system resources, such as thumbnail management. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to Graphic Workshop that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 5. ........................................................................ WHAT'S NEW The changes in version 6 include: - Graphic Workshop Professional 6 is fully compatible with Windows 10. - Graphic Workshop Professional 6 features a comprehensive EXIF editor to allow anyone with a digital camera - or a cell phone or a tablet - to view, modify and expand upon the hidden metadata stored in JPEG files. - The ancillary EXIF functions in Graphic Workshop have been rewritten to make them compliant with the current EXIF specification. - The browser thumbnail interface has been rewritten to make it quicker and more intuitive. The most obvious manifestation of this will be the items in a browser visibly disabling when Graphic Workshop is busy. - The right-click-to-exit function in the View window has been refined to prevent it from summoning the browser right-click menu under some builds of Windows. - Items can be removed from the History panes in the Destination, Move Copy and Search windows. Hold down the Alt key and select the item to be removed. - A somewhat insidious resource leak in the browser user interface has been addressed. - The Black Threshold and White Threshold filters now include an optional antialias mode for better image quality when you process your subjects to look like ghosts and vampires. - The middle-click zoom toggle in View mode has been updated to prevent if from initiating multiple zoom changes in a single click under some builds of Windows. - A resource leak that turned up in the quick rename function and the Favorites window has been addressed. - The thumbnail manager for Graphic Workshop's browser windows is considerably quicker. - Addresses an installer issue that prevented the application from installing correctly in a user-selected folder under some builds of Windows. - Most of the graphic file format readers are significantly faster. - Graphic Workshop requires less memory to run, which will make it and anything else running under Windows quite a bit speedier, especially on systems with limited system resources. Please see the discussion of the version 6 enhancements at: http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v6-upgrades/ You can Graphic Workshop Professional 6 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 on or after January 1, 2015, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 6. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 prior to January 1, 2015, you can upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 6, it will check to see if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 5 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 Graphic Workshop Professional 6's menu bar. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html ........................................................................ PLUGINS All the format plugins for Graphic Workshop Professional have been upgraded to run with Graphic Workshop Professional 6. If you have registered the RAW Digital Camera plugin for a previous release of Graphic Workshop, your existing registration key is still valid. You'll just need to download the version 5 installer for this plugin. All the Graphic Workshop plugins are at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under Graphic Workshop 5 and you plan to uninstall Graphic Workshop 5 to replace it with the new Graphic Workshop Professional 6, please be sure uninstall all your version 5 plugins, and then uninstall Graphic Workshop 5. _______________________________________________________________________ 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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