[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Contents:
1. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 8
2. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 8
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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.
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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
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 7 on or after March 1, 2017, youre 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
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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.
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