From alchemyreply8750 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jan 19 11:15:59 2019 From: alchemyreply8750 at mindworkshop.com (alchemyreply8750 at mindworkshop.com) Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 11:15:59 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: Click here to UNSUBSCRIBE . ( http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter ) Contents: 1. *?Alpha Paint + Icon Editor Revision 5 * 2. *?Announcing e-Paint 9***(second notification)** 3. *?Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 4 * ?(additional notification) 4. *The Ultimate Screen Clock Extra Styles* 5. *?The Order is Back in Print *(additional notification) 6. *?Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details * *****There's nothing like a hot novel when you can hear polar bears in your yard **complaining about the weather. Click on the book.*** Alpha Paint + Icon Editor 9 Revision 5 Alpha Paint 9 has been updated. This release: * Adds*interactive resizing* ? select an area of a picture open in Alpha Paint using the Rectangle Section tool, and you can grab and drag the edges of the selection marquee to resize it. While most of the interactive resize tools we've encountered have done some serious damage to the images they were confronted with over multiple adjustments, the one in Alpha Paint is diabolically sneaky, and does a superb job of maintaining the quality of resized image fragments. * 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... * Addresses a number of minor issues in the settings pane. * Improves the drawing engine's performance. * Improves support for weird and genuinely incorrectly-formed ICO files. * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * Updates the documentation. __________________________________________________________ *From the first release posting:* Alpha Paint is a sophisticated Windows paint application to draw and manage graphics with full alpha transparency. It will create: * Professional web page images * Eye-catching effects for social media * Killer graphics for PowerPoint presentations * Titles for videos ...and pretty much anything else that requires leading-edge art and transparency. In addition, it can create and edit Windows icons. Alpha Paint is intuitive, easy to use and it won't require that you get involved with complicated mathematics, higher-order spatial dimensions or a manual that requires more than one human lifetime to read. Anyone with sufficient eye-hand coordination to successfully operate a web browser should be able to master Alpha Paint in under an hour. We invite you to download an evaluation copy of Alpha Paint and try it out. Click on the huge blue button. Announcing e-Paint 9 (second notification) e-Paint 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 e-Paint 9, you'll find that it: * Adds*interactive resizing* ? select an area of a picture open in e-Paint using the Rectangle Section tool, and you can grab and drag the edges of the selection marquee to resize it. While most of the interactive resize tools we've encountered have done some serious damage to the images they were confronted with over multiple adjustments, the one in e-Paint is diabolically sneaky, and does a superb job of maintaining the quality of resized image fragments. We hasten to add that e-Paint 9's updated internal architecture has made this one possible. * 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... * 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 extreme 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. * Enhances the copyright of your photography ? adds the option of *watermarking* your photographs with *graphics* as well as text through the filter Watermark function. The graphic watermark functionality supports alpha transparency, so you can arrange for fancy text and logos, translucent watermarks and innumerable other effects. * Improves the logic for the application status bar so e-Paint9doesn't go into vapor lock during long processes. * Adjusts the *memory footprint* of e-Paint9. 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 e-Paint9un-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. * 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 e-Paint 9 for the first time, it will look for a previous installation of e-Paint 8 and optionally *copy your existing configuration*, so you won't have to set everything up by hand. Click on the blue button to download e-Paint9. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint8 on or after June 1, 2018, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to e-Paint9. If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint8 prior to June 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade to e-Paint9 for *half the current new-user price*. The first time you run e-Paint9, 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. Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 4 (additional notification) 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. The Ultimate Screen Clock Extra Styles It has come to our attention that the installer for The Ultimate Screen Clock 9's extra clock styles library was becoming confused by some builds and configurations of Windows. If yours was one of them, it might have refused to allow you to install the extra styles library, being under the misapprehension that The Ultimate Screen Clock 9 either wasn't installed or wasn't registered. Oooops... This issue has been addressed, and the installer has been disabused of its misapprehension. If you were able to install the extra styles library, read no further. If you have in fact encountered one of the foregoing error messages while trying to do so, please accept our apology. We ask that you delete the extra styles installer you currently have ? usually named *UltimateScreenClockExtraStyles.msi* or *tusx90.msi* ? and then download and run the updated one from our web page. The big blue button, below, will get you there. Be sure to click on one of the DOWNLOAD buttons in the second group. 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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