From alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com Sat Jun 1 08:27:37 2019 From: alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com (alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2019 08:27:37 -0400 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 12 *****(new this weekend******)*** 2. *?Animation Workshop 9 Revision 2 *******(second notification)***** * 3. *?Alpha Paint 9 Revision 7 ******(additional notification)*** * * 4. *Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details * *** They weren't called the Dark Ages because of lighting issues... Click on the book.*** Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 12 ***(new this weekend)*** Graphic Workshop Professional 9 has been updated. This release: * Adds *WebP support* ? Graphic Workshop can now open and write to .webp graphics. Should you be unfamiliar with WebP, it's a graphic and animation document format developed by Google. It supplants JPEG, PNG and GIF on the web, enjoying better image quality, compression, color depth and timing accuracy. It's supported by the current releases of all the major web browsers. It looks amazing in on-line content, such as web pages and social media. There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our blog . This one's cool enough to shatter penguins. There's an overview of WebP in the Formats document of Graphic Workshop's manual. WebP is available in all the functionality of Graphic Workshop that opens, views, writes and processes graphic files. * Adds *WebP support* to the *e-Paint UltraLight*, *Presentation Wizard UltraLight*, *GWS Camera* screen capture and *Montage* applications that install with Graphic Workshop. * Adds *optional paint applications* to the browser right-click Paint and Paint and Save As items, and to the Paint item in the File menu of the View window. Hold down the Ctrl key when you select one of these options to have your graphic opened in Alpha Paint if it has alpha transparency, or in e-Paint or e-Paint UltraLight if it doesn't. See the discussion of Paint in the Reference document of Graphic Workshop's manual for more about this feature. It's all in the first blue box. We hasten to add that Alpha Paint may misbehave in this capacity under some versions of Windows ? it's fixed in the next release of Alpha Paint. * Updates the *Save As* window for Graphic Workshop's *View *mode to handle file type changes more intuitively. * Fixes a bug in the file history list of the *GWS Camera* screen capture. * Addresses a number of issues in the Archive Manager associations window. * Fixes several bugs in *Icon Editor UltraLight* Transform filters ? Flip, Rotate and Resize ? that could make selected elements disappear under some builds of Windows. Needless to say, we frown on them doing this. * Adds an option to the Icon Editor UltraLight Rectangle Selection tool to allow it to copy selected areas, rather than cutting them. Hold down the Shift key when you click to dismiss the tool. * Fixes a bug in the Icon Editor UltraLight Paste menu item that caused it to enable and disable at inappropriate moments. * Fixes a bug in the Icon Editor UltraLight Paste function that saw it pasting paletted images with wildly incorrect colors under some builds of Windows. * Fixes a bug in the Graphic Workshop *animated GIF* view window that caused the application to vanish momentarily when the window closed... under some builds of Windows or in a room with one or more large flightless birds. Mostly the former. * Updates the documentation. * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. 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. Animation Workshop 9 Revision 2***(second notification)*** Animation Workshop 9 has been updated. This release: * Adds *WebP support* ? Animation Workshop can now export to .webp animations. Should you be unfamiliar with .webp, it's a graphic and animation document format developed by Google. It supplants GIF animations, enjoying better compression, color depth and timing accuracy. It's supported by the current releases of all the major web browsers. It looks amazing in web pages. There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our blog . This one's cool enough to shatter penguins. * Updates the *JPEG functionality* in Animation Workshop to be blindingly, shockingly *fast*... and possibly violate a few laws of physics. The new JPEG reader also addresses a number of potential *security holes* which could have allowed a maliciously-crafted JPG file to execute arbitrary code and compromise a computer running previous releases of Animation Workshop. We urge everyone running Animation Workshop to update to this release really, really soon ? some time yesterday would be ideal. If you're running a version of Animation Workshop *older than version 9*, please see the *Upgrades***section, below. * Updates the Animation Workshop *image handling libraries* with our new anti-tampering logic to make them more secure and resistant to cyber-cretins. * Updates the rendering engine. * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * Updates the documentation. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 8, we invite you to upgrade to Animation Workshop 9 for *half the current new-user price*. *Older software: *If you're running a registered older version of Animation Workshop ? Animation Workshop 4 or better ? we'd like to urge you in strongest possible terms to upgrade to version 9, so the security holes in the old JPEG reader don't risk letting the slime of the Internet access your computer. For the duration of this update cycle ? for the next week, at least ? we invite you to*upgrade to Animation Workshop 9* for *half price*, even if the reduced-price upgrade window is no longer valid for your version. Just ignore the warning about upgrades only being applicable to version 8 and 9 at our e-commerce page ? your Animation Workshop upgrade order will be accepted. Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page. Alpha Paint 9 Revision 7 ***(additional notification)*** Alpha Paint 9 has been updated. This release: * Adds Alpha Shadows ? have your graphics cast realistic soft shadows as alpha objects that blend with whatever your pictures appear over. See the discussion of alpha shadows in the Alpha Paint Reference document for more about how they work. * Fixes several bugs in the Transform filters ? Flip, Rotate and Resize ? that could make selected elements disappear under some builds of Windows. Needless to say, we frown on them doing this. * Adds an option to the Rectangle Selection tool to allow it to copy selected areas, rather than cutting them. Hold down the Shift key when you click to dismiss the tool. * Fixes a bug in the Paste menu item that caused it to enable and disable at inappropriate moments. * Fixes a bug in the Paste function that saw it pasting paletted images with wildly incorrect colors under some builds of Windows. * Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software developers never really stop meddling with. * Updates the documentation. Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details 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 or click on the Unsubscribe button: Removal requests will be processed instantly. 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