From alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com Sat Aug 5 09:17:13 2017 From: alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 09:17:13 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20170805091713.04a4aa40@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 7 Revision 5 2. Presentation Wizard 7 Revision 4 (Second Notification) 3. 10 Existential Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 7 (Additional Notification) 4. Darkmatter Is Now In Print!!! - Take Two (Additional Notification) 5. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ Martinis neither shaken nor stirred... http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/darkmatter.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Screen Saver Construction Set 7 Revision 5 _______________________________________________________________________ Screen Saver Construction Set 7 has been updated. This release: - It has come to our attention that earlier builds of Screen Saver Construction Set could crash and potentially destabilize Windows or other software running under it. This problem is a serious concern for users of Windows 10, and can theoretically appear under earlier releases of Windows. The update addresses this issue. If you're running Screen Saver Construction Set 7, we urge you to download and install this upgrade immediately. If you're running an earlier version, this would be a REALLY good time to consider upgrading. Please note that we've extended the half-price upgrade path to Screen Saver Construction Set 7 for users of version 4, 5 and 6 software this week. If you see a message at our upgrade page to the effect that the reduced-price upgrades are only available to users of version 6 and 7, you can safely ignore it. The upgrade link appears below. You can download Screen Saver Construction Set 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/scspro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES As of this writing, if you have previously registered or upgraded to Screen Saver Construction Set 4, 5 or 6, you can upgrade to Screen Saver Construction Set 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please visit: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. Presentation Wizard 7 Revision 4 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Presentation Wizard 7 has been updated. This release: - It has come to our attention that earlier builds of Presentation Wizard could crash and potentially destabilize Windows or other software running under it. This problem is a serious concern for users of Windows 10, and can theoretically appear under earlier releases of Windows. The update addresses this issue. If you're running Presentation Wizard 7, we urge you to download and install this upgrade immediately. If you're running an earlier version, this would be a REALLY good time to consider upgrading. Please note that we've extended the half-price upgrade path to Presentation Wizard 7 for users of version 4, 5 and 6 software this week. If you see a message at our upgrade page to the effect that the reduced-price upgrades are only available to users of version 6 and 7, you can safely ignore it. The upgrade link appears below. You can download Presentation Wizard 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/prspro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES As of this writing, if you have previously registered or upgraded to Presentation Wizard 4, 5 or 6, you can upgrade to Presentation Wizard 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please visit: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. 10 Existential Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 7 (Additional Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ 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 7'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: - The Face Detection filter - redact your photos in seconds. - e-Paint UltraLight - complete digital darkroom, learning curve of a potted plant. - The Black Threshold filter - turn anyone into a vampire in under ten clicks. - Create the smallest possible JPEGs with the MOZ plugin. - The Canvas Downpour filter - be the rain. - The Scrapbook - a Windows clipboard that never forgets. - The Halftone filter - ink rules! - Weary of this world? Create one of your own with Fractals and textures. - The Adjust window - refine your photos effortlessly, never leave the sofa. - Interactively batch-crop your photos in seconds. You can download a copy of Graphic Workshop Professional 7 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download ........................................................................ If you're still using Graphic Workshop 6, 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. _______________________________________________________________________ 4. Darkmatter Is Now In Print!!! - Take Two (Additional Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Well... this is embarrassing... It has come to our attention that due to some issues with Amazon's print-on-demand book facilities, Steve's novels haven't actually been available in print for the past two weeks or so. This situation has now been addressed. We'd like to extend our apology to everyone who went looking for books and found nothing but crickets and error messages. ....................................................................... Steven William Rimmer's classic espionage thriller Darkmatter is now available in paperback, through the thaumaturgy of Amazon's print-on- demand books. The Amazon print edition is unabridged and undoes all manner of iniquities wrought upon the earlier small-press versions of Darkmatter. Should you not have encountered this technology previously, print-on- demand does pretty much what it says on the box. When you order a copy of Darkmatter through Amazon, a digital press prints one book, just for you. Remarkably, the production quality of print-on-demand books is if anything better than that of commercial mass-market fiction. In addition, your book will have been manufactured a few days before you receive it, rather than having been stored for months in a warehouse in Duluth. The production costs of print-on-demand books being relatively low, we've been able to use really nice paper, large trade-size pages and big, readable type. Because these books are sold trough Amazon, you can enjoy free shipping with a Prime account, or if you buy enough other stuff to reach their free shipping threshold. Finally, print-on-demand means pretty much zero waste. Every copy of Darkmatter that gets printed will actually be sold. By comparison, traditional publishing could see three quarters of the books that were manufactured ultimately being "remaindered" and destroyed. Please see: http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/darkmatter.html to enjoy Darkmatter in print... and learn some conversational Russian not suitable for polite company. _______________________________________________________________________ 5. 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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