From alchemyreply8750 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jan 5 11:22:46 2019 From: alchemyreply8750 at mindworkshop.com (alchemyreply8750 at mindworkshop.com) Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 11:22:46 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: Click here to UNSUBSCRIBE . ( http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter ) Contents: 1. *?Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 4 * 2. *?Pagan Daybook 9 *(second notification) 3. *?The Order is Back in Print* 4. *?Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details * * Back in print ? it's only been a couple of decades.* ** *(Newly revised, dangerous as ever.)* *Click on the book, or see Item 3, below. * Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 4 Graphic Workshop Professional 9 has been updated. This release: * Adds a *Photo Fine-tune* filter. Adjust your pictures to enjoy flawless exposure and lighting... even if you took them under adverse circumstances that would have sent photographers of an earlier epoch into a permanent coma. * Adds a *Shards* filter. Apply some profoundly weird special effects to your graphics using this leading-edge bit of CGI. Channel your inner extraterrestrial. * Adds a *Lens Correction* filter to unbend the walls, roads and other straight lines in wide-angle photographs. * Adds an optimized view mode for the *Crop* window to better size your pictures for the available screen real-estate. Please see the discussion of display modes in the section of the Reference document for Graphic Workshop that deals with Crop. Note that you can revert to the earlier Exact display mode if you turn out to prefer it. * Adds an option in Graphic Workshop's browser windows to display the *file type* of each graphic therein in their thumbnails. This can be helpful if you like long file names and you store your pictures in various formats. Select Thumbnails ? Show File Extensions from the browser right-click menu to toggle this feature. * Adds a 12-percent zoom option to the *Filters* window, to allow even honking big mega-pixel images to be viewed in their entirety. * Updates the *JPG and PNG* image libraries for Graphic Workshop to address several potential security issues. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 8, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 9 for *half the current new-user price*. Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page. Announcing Pagan Daybook 9 (second notification) Pagan Daybook 9 has been released. We've further refined its architecture to make it more memory-efficient, and to better utilize the resources available under Windows 10. (We hasten to add that it still performs admirably under earlier builds of Windows, all the way back to Windows XP, if you're feeling retro.) Among the new features and enhancements to Pagan Daybook 9, you'll find that it: * Adds a *Transitions* mode to the screen saver background selections. Transitions serves to keep Pagan Daybook's screen savers from getting old by changing their backgrounds every few minutes. You can configure which backgrounds are included in its rotation, and how long it should sleep between switches. See the Select Screen Savers item of the right-click menu. * Adds a selection of new screen saver background graphics, including the graphics from The Ultimate Screen Clock. This being the case, you'll find a few unexpected ones, such as the redoubtable Steampunk random plumbing background. Use the ones that work for you... just don't let yourself follow the aforementioned plumbing. * Updates all the*image import libraries* to improve their performance and to deal with more weird-beard PNG and JPG files. They're out there, lurking... * Adjusts the *memory footprint* of Pagan Daybook. This allows it to better get along with Windows' memory management logic, load a bit quicker and run more effectively and reliably, especially if it finds itself on a system that's a bit short of memory. * Enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to further reduce the likelihood of Pagan Daybook un-registering itself and thereafter deciding that its key is already in use because Windows 10 has silently updated something. Hopefully this one nails the problem until the end of time. * Improves the*texture engine*. It's a ceaseless quest... * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * Updates the documentation. As in years past, when you run Pagan Daybook 9 for the first time, it will look for a previous installation of Pagan Daybook8 and optionally *copy your existing configuration*, so you won't have to set everything up by hand. Click on the blue button to download Pagan Daybook9. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 8 on or after May 1, 2018, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to Pagan Daybook9. If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Pagan Daybook 8 prior to May 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade to Pagan Daybook9 for *half the current new-user price*. The first time you run Pagan Daybook9, it will determine which upgrade option applies to your license. Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page. You can access the no-cost upgrade page directly by clicking on the foregoing link. The Order by Steven William Rimmer is Back in Print Steven William Rimmer's legendary novel of power, madness, secret societies and weird bits of alchemy is now available through Amazon's print-on-demand book service. Newly revised and printed on high-end paper with eye-friendly large type, The Order is ready to outage readers who'd scarcely been born when it was originally written. The Amazon print edition is unabridged and undoes all manner of iniquities wrought upon the earlier small-press versions of The Order. It also has a really cool cover that the thumbnail graphic here doesn't begin to do justice to. 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 The Order through Amazon, a digital press will print 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. Because these books are sold through Amazon, you can enjoy free shipping with a Prime account, or if you buy enough other stuff to reach your free shipping threshold. Finally, print-on-demand means pretty much zero waste. Every copy of The Order 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 click on this big blue button: The Order is also available in a newly-revised Amazon Kindle e-book edition ? same big blue button. Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details This message has been sent from an unmonitored address - please do not reply to it. 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