From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jul 23 10:01:28 2016 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 10:01:28 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20160723100128.003ee728@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Screen Saver Construction Set 6 Revision 5 2. Presentation Wizard 6 Revision 5 (Second Notification) 3. Text Effects 5 Animation Plugin for GIF Construction Set and PNG MNG Construction Set Revision 3 (Second Notification) 4. 10 Superb Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 6 5. Windows 10 6. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Click below to see what Alchemists did long, long before we wrote software... http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Screen Saver Construction Set 6 Revision 5 _______________________________________________________________________ Screen Saver Construction Set is the ultimate platform to build distributable multimedia Windows screen savers. Fast, flexible and easy to use, it will let you assemble screen savers of your own design out of pictures, animations, text and sounds. This release: - Adds a Favorites window. Pin your favorite Screen Saver Construction Set documents and you'll be able to access them with a few clicks no matter where they reside. If you're particularly well organized, note that it allows for as many galleries of favorites as you can think of a use for. See the discussion of Favorites in the Reference document of the Screen Saver Construction Set manual for more. - Improves a number of user-interface issues throughout the application. - Fixes a few lingering bugs in the upgraded Photo Album Wizard. - Deals with a wider range of weird-beard icon formats when Screen Saver Construction Set applies a custom icon to your documents. - Addresses a potential security issue - if you're using Screen Saver Construction Set, we urge you to upgrade to this release pretty much immediately. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download Screen Saver Construction Set 6 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/scspro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES As of this writing, if you have previously registered Screen Saver Construction Set 2, you can upgrade to Screen Saver Construction Set 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. Note that Screen Saver Construction Set 6 will not open screen savers created by Screen Saver Construction Set 2. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Presentation Wizard 6 Revision 5 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Presentation Wizard 6 has been updated. This release: - Adds a Favorites window. Pin your favorite Presentation Wizard documents and you'll be able to access them with a few clicks no matter where they reside. If you're particularly well organized, note that it allows for as many galleries of favorites as you can think of a use for. See the discussion of Favorites in the Reference document of the Presentation Wizard manual for more. - Improves a number of user-interface issues throughout the application. - Fixes a few lingering bugs in the upgraded Photo Album Wizard. - Deals with a wider range of weird-beard icon formats when Presentation Wizard applies a custom icon to your documents. - Addresses a potential security issue - if you're using Presentation Wizard, we urge you to upgrade to this release pretty much immediately. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download Presentation Wizard 6 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/prspro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you have previously registered or upgraded to Presentation Wizard 5, you can upgrade to Presentation Wizard 6 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please see: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Text Effects 5 Animation Plugin for GIF Construction Set and PNG MNG Construction Set Revision 3 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ The Text Effects 5 plugin for GIF Construction Set Professional 6 and PNG MNG Construction 6 has been updated. This release: - Fixes a bug in the material button logic that could cause a memory error... and its attendant message window... if the Tile material option was selected. - Addresses several user-interface issues. You can download the Text Effects #5 plugin from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-tx5.html _______________________________________________________________________ 4. 10 Superb Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 6 _______________________________________________________________________ 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 Professional 6'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: - Preview TrueType fonts. - View, convert & process photos from within ZIP archives. - See honking big pixels - apply the Halftone filter. - Create instant photo-montages and export them to JPGs. - Weed your hard drive of duplicates with Find Similar. - Put any photo in a virtual blender with the Swirl filter. - Use Search to process photos over multiple folders. - Give your photos an edge with the Matt & Frame feature. - Own the night with the Neon filter. - Paint in the rain with the Canvas Downpour filter. You can download a copy of Graphic Workshop Professional 6 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download If you're still using Graphic Workshop 5, 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. _______________________________________________________________________ 5. Windows 10 _______________________________________________________________________ If you're considering installing or upgrading to Windows 10 in the near future... Alchemy Mindworks applications earlier than version 6.0 don't run under Windows 10. Depending on the specific software in question and your operating system configuration, all sorts of really unfortunate things would happen in this environment. The current version 6.0 Alchemy Mindworks applications have been rewritten and thoroughly tested to get along with Windows 10. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all the users of earlier versions of our software to consider upgrading to version 6.0. You'll enjoy: - Ongoing enhancements and new functionality. - Bug fixes and security upgrades. - No nasty surprises at such time as you install Windows 10. NOTE: While the half-price upgrade path from the now somewhat ancient version 4.0 software has officially ended, we have extended the 4.0 half-price window for the immediate future. If you update your 4.0 Alchemy Mindworks products, just ignore the message at our update e-commerce page about the updates only being available for version 5. Please see http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 6. 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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