From alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com Sat Sep 16 09:43:00 2017 From: alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 09:43:00 -0400 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20170916094300.02d53810@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 8 2. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ THE EVIL EMPIRE STRIKES BACK!!! http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/darkmatter.html (Lots of spy cameras and handguns... sorry, no light sabers.) _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 8 _______________________________________________________________________ Graphic Workshop Professional 8 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 8 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 7. ........................................................................ WHAT'S NEW The changes in version 8 include: - The View mode Filters window has been completely rewritten. It features numeric as well as interactive controls; a full-screen preview window (hold down Shift when you click on the Preview button); Save and Open for the parameters of individual filters; and a new architecture that will allow us to add further functionality to the Filters window going forward. - The Adjust window now features numeric as well as interactive controls, and smoother filter functions. - Graphic Workshop Professional 8 is now supported by a professional printed book, available through Amazon. You'll see a window about it the first time the software boots up, and you can find out more by selecting Printed Reference from Graphic Workshop's Help menu, or by clicking on he red book cover at the Graphic Workshop web page. - Presentation Wizard UltraLight is now bundled with Graphic Workshop. Build complete distributable Windows applications with your pictures and text in this simplified edition of our popular Presentation Wizard software. - Archive Manager has been enhanced to support AES encryption and decryption, and to support ZIP archives larger than four gigabytes. It's notably quicker, and a number of software issues have been addressed. Archive Manager offers a wider range of configuration items to allow it to be customized to your needs. - GIF Construction Set UltraLight has been updated to manage color reduction more effectively, improving the performance of its Animation Wizard. - The prompt before overwrite issue in Graphic Workshop that caused incorrect preview images to be displayed in some circumstances has been nailed. - CMYK TIFF files with alpha transparency now read and display correctly. - The Graphic Workshop View window is faster and smoother to work with. - Several issues with Montage Builder UltraLight have been addressed, including a problem that could crash the application if a previous file was selected from the File menu, under some builds of Windows. - Graphic Workshop Professional 8 will optionally import most of the configuration items of an existing Graphic Workshop 7 installation, if there's one on your system, eliminating the need to restore your browsers and preferences by hand. - Bags of lesser issues have been addressed in Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications. - Updates the documentation. We'd like to take this opportunity to express our sincere regrets for the minor bump in the price of Graphic Workshop. In our defense, it's been about a decade and a half since it last changed. Bookkeepers may not be the most irresistible force in the universe, but they are the most relentless. You can Graphic Workshop Professional 8 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 7 on or after March 1, 2017, you?re welcome to a no-cost upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 8. If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 7 prior to March 1, 2017, you can upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 8 for half the cost of a new single-user license. When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 8, it will check to see if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 7 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 8's menu bar. The Graphic Workshop Professional no-cost upgrade key offer ends on November 30, 2017. 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 8. 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 8 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 7 and you plan to uninstall Graphic Workshop 7 to replace it with the new Graphic Workshop Professional 8, please be sure uninstall all your version 7 plugins, and then uninstall Graphic Workshop 7. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. 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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