From alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com Sat Dec 30 09:49:03 2017 From: alchemyreply0991 at mindworkshop.com (Alchemy Mindworks) Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 09:49:03 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20171230094903.027e61c8@localhost> _______________________________________________________________________ THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC POSTING FROM THE ALCHEMY MINDWORKS UPDATE MAILING LIST UNSUBSCRIBE: http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter _______________________________________________________________________ Contents: 1. PNG MNG Construction Set 8 Revision 2 2. GIF Construction Set Professional 8 Revision 3 (Second Notification) 3. Announcing Voice Manager 8 (Second Notification) 4. 10 Monumental Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 8 (Second Notification) 5. Are You Running Graphic Workshop 6, GIF Construction Set 6, e-Paint 6 or The Ultimate Screen Clock 6? 6. Replying to this Message and List Removal _______________________________________________________________________ That new Kindle you got for Christmas wants to misbehave now. http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/lizardland.html _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 1. PNG MNG Construction Set 8 Revision 2 _______________________________________________________________________ PNG MNG Construction Set 8 has been updated. This release: - Improves the solid color selection buttons throughout the application with a quick palette selection window - just hold down the Shift key on your keyboard when you click to select a color to see it. There's a complete discussion of this window and how it interacts with the primary Colors window in the section of the Reference document that deals with Color Selection. The enhanced color selection features will also apply to the color buttons in any animation plugins hosted by PNG MNG Construction Set. - Implements a number of performance improvements in Animation Wizard. - Fixes a bug in the PNG transparency reader. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download PNG MNG Construction Set 8 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG Construction Set 7 , you can upgrade to PNG MNG Construction Set 8 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please visit: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 2. GIF Construction Set Professional 8 Revision 3 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ GIF Construction Set Professional 8 has been updated. This release: - Improves the solid color selection buttons throughout the application with a quick palette selection window - just hold down the Shift key on your keyboard when you click to select a color to see it. There's a complete discussion of this window and how it interacts with the primary Colors window in the section of the Reference document that deals with Color Selection. The enhanced color selection features will also apply to the color buttons in any animation plugins hosted by GIF Construction Set. - Implements a number of performance improvements in Animation Wizard. - Fixes a bug in the PNG transparency reader. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. - Updates the documentation. You can download GIF Construction Set Professional 8 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html#download ........................................................................ UPGRADES If you registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction Set Professional 7 , you can upgrade to GIF Construction Set Professional 8 for half the cost of a new single-user license. Please visit: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade. _______________________________________________________________________ 3. Announcing Voice Manager 8 (Second Notification) _______________________________________________________________________ Voice Manager 8 has been released. We've refined the internal architecture of Voice Manager 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 Voice Manager 8 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. The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to Voice Manager that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 7. ........................................................................ The Yamaha reface DX synthesizer is amazingly cool... among other things because its voices can be reprogrammed to make it sound like pretty much anything you can imagine. In the event that you're not feeling very imaginative, there's also a voice-sharing community from which to download buckets of fresh sounds for it. Alchemy Mindworks' Voice Manager will keep track of banks of synthesizer voices, allowing them to be saved as permanent disk files. It also embodies an intuitive voice editor, and numerous other tools to make this instrument totally rock. If you play keyboards, we invite you to check out Voice Manager. ........................................................................ WHAT'S NEW The changes in version 8 include: - Hardens the library interface underlying Voice Manager to make it more resistant to tampering. Sadly, the tampering in question appears to originate with some third-party security applications... which our lawyers would really prefer we didn't name. - Updates a number of user-interface issues throughout the application. - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. You can download Voice Manager 8 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/voxman.html#download _______________________________________________________________________ 4. 10 Monumental Tweets about Graphic Workshop Professional 8 (Second 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 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. - e-Paint UltraLight - complete digital darkroom, learning curve of a potted plant. - The Scrapbook - a Windows clipboard that never forgets. - Weary of this world? Create one of your own with Fractals and Textures. - The Adjust window - refine your photos effortlessly, never leave the sofa. - The Sepia and Vignette filters - olde-tyme photos in ten clicks or less. - Light up anything with the Neon filter. - Convert pretty much anything to a JPEG file. You can download a copy of Graphic Workshop Professional 8 from: http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download ........................................................................ If you're still using Graphic Workshop 7, 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. Are You Running Graphic Workshop 6, GIF Construction Set 6, e-Paint 6 or The Ultimate Screen Clock 6? _______________________________________________________________________ The half-price upgrade path from version 6 Alchemy Mindworks software will be closing in a few days. At present, you can still upgrade your version 6 applications to their vastly cooler version 8 progeny for half price. Among other things, you'll enjoy: - Graphic Workshop's enhanced Filter window and Archive Manager. - e-Paint's equally enhanced Filter window. - GIF Construction Set's batch processor. - The Ultimate Screen Clock's amazing animated Tubes and Flip styles. Please visit: http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html to upgrade to version 8 and save some cash. _______________________________________________________________________ 6. 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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