From alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com Sat Sep 24 09:10:13 2016 From: alchemy8147 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 09:10:13 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20160924091013.03f06128@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Announcing e-Paint 7 2. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 7 (Second Notification) 3. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Click here to devour this book before it devours you. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Announcing e-Paint 7 _______________________________________________________________________ e-Paint 7 has been released. We've refined the internal architecture of e-Paint 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 e-Paint 6 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will notice that it's noticeably quicker, especially for functions that call for significant system resources, such as filtering images. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to e-Paint that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 6. ........................................................................ WHAT'S NEW The changes in version 7 include: - Adds an Adjust window to let you quickly... and interactively... fine-tune your photographs. It's in the Image menu. - Adds a Photography Workshop window to assist you with refining your pictures... or portions thereof... using e-Paint's enviable library of filters without having to understand a single adjustment or control. Click on the tiles for the effect you want and you're done. It's also in the Image menu. - e-Paint 7 uses an altered installation structure that's way more resistant to being broken by malfunctioning and overly-paranoid third-party security software. We're reasonably certain that the "Can't create specified file" error is history. - The Image menu Filters window will now optimize itself to use most of your desktop area, allowing for much larger sample panes. This behavior can be disabled in Setup, should you prefer the classic Filters interface. - Fixes a bug that prevented documents added to e-Paint through the Filter window's Apply to Duplicate option from appearing in the Window menu. - Fixes a resource leak in the drawing engine that could slow down e-Paint over time when it was asked to work with large images under some builds of Windows. - Improves the file menu thumbnail management for quicker start-ups. - Improves the performance of the rendering engine. - Updates UpToDate. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download e-Paint 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 6 on or after March 1, 2016, you?re welcome to a free upgrade to e-Paint 7. If you registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 6 prior to March 1, 2016, you can upgrade to e-Paint 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run e-Paint 7, it will check to see if you have a registration for e-Paint 6 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 e-Paint 7's menu bar. You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pntkey.html and the upgrade order page at: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 7 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 7 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 7 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 6. ........................................................................ WHAT'S NEW The changes in version 7 include: - Graphic Workshop now includes Scrapbook, a stand-alone clipboard manager that will automatically store items pasted to the Windows clipboard from any application, and allow you to browse and recall them when you want to use them again. - Adds an Adjust window to let you quickly... and interactively... fine-tune your photographs. Right-click on any picture and select Adjust from the menu that appears. - Graphic Workshop Professional 7 uses an altered installation structure that's way more resistant to being broken by malfunctioning and overly-paranoid third-party security software. We're reasonably certain that the "Can't create specified file" error is history. - The GIF Construction Set UltraLight animation software that installs with Graphic Workshop Professional 7 has been completely rewritten, and is now a simplified version of our GIF Construction Set Professional application. - The View mode Filters window will now optimize itself to use most of your desktop area, allowing for much larger sample panes. This behavior can be disabled in Setup, should you prefer the classic Filters interface. - The Save As window now includes the Graphic Workshop format selection tiles, for quicker file saves. - Adds a history stack to the View window. Hold down the Shift key and right-click to step back through your zoom and view events. See the View section of the Reference document of the Manual for a compete discussion of this feature. - Graphic Workshop Professional 7 now includes a stand-alone Archive Manager to create, manage, extract and modify ZIP archives... really, really quickly. - Fixes a bug in the EMF reader that could cause some metafiles to appear distorted. - Fixes a bug in the View window that prevented alpha-enabled images from displaying transparency correctly after the Filter window was invoked and Undo was activated. - Fixes a bug in the Watermark function N macro that caused it to expand incorrectly under some builds of Windows. - Updates the View mode Configuration window with additional options. - Addresses several issues with the Photography Workshop window. - Fixes a bug that could crash Graphic Workshop if documents were written to formats supported by plugins. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can Graphic Workshop Professional 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 6 on or after March 1, 2016, you?re welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 7. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 6 prior to March 1, 2016, you can upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 7, it will check to see if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 6 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 7's menu bar. The Graphic Workshop Professional no-cost upgrade key offer ends on November 30, 2016. 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 7. 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 7 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 6 and you plan to uninstall Graphic Workshop 6 to replace it with the new Graphic Workshop Professional 7, please be sure uninstall all your version 6 plugins, and then uninstall Graphic Workshop 6. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. 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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