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Contents:
1. ***Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 4* (new this weekend)
2. *Announcing e-Paint 11*
3. *Announcing Alpha Paint 11*(second notification)
4. * Windows Speedup: Disable Defender's Real Time Protection
*(additional notification)*
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Graphic Workshop Professional 11 Revision 4
(new this weekend)
A few more first-edition issues in Graphic Workshop Professional 11 have
been addressed:
* Several Windows-specific problems in the Social Media window and the
Social media view mode filter have been resolved.
* A potential security concern in the JPEG reader has been nailed.
* The Up To Date notification agent has been updated.
The complete list of enhancements and bug fixes is available in the
previous posting to this mailing list
<http://doc.mindworkshop.com/977.html> — please click on the foregoing link.
We recommend that everyone who previously installed Graphic Workshop
Professional 11 update to the new release.
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From the initial announcement:
Graphic Workshop Professional 11 has been released.
We've added new functionality to the known universe's most popular image
management application, improved its performance, included several fresh
ancillary applications and generally refined it to better get along with
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 Graphic Workshop Professional
11, you'll find that it:
* *****Adds **Social Media: *Quickly compose your pictures for
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other popular social media
platforms. The Social Media window will automatically resize and
crop your photographs and apply a rich palette of backgrounds to
them. Right-click on any picture in a Graphic Workshop browser and
select Social Media from the menu that appears, or batch-process
multiple graphics through the Image menu.
* *Adds WebP Support to Supercompressor:* Graphic Workshop's
Supercompressor will automatically adjust the compression and
quality parameters of the pictures you store to arrive at the
smallest possible files. Hitherto the province of JPEGs,
Supercompressor can now apply its stealth and cunning to WebP
documents as well, which look way better when you need a tiny
document footprint.
* *Updates Image Libraries:* All the libraries that read and write
graphics for Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications have
been reviewed to ensure that they're secure and totally bulletproof.
There being some really disagreeable people under many of the rocks
of the Internet, we urge all the users of our software to keep its
security elements up to date.
* *Updates Caption: *The Graphic Workshop Caption window will add
captions to your pictures. The Caption editor now allows for rich
text — it's pretty much a small word processor that supports
multiple fonts, typographic effects and text size changes. We hasten
to add that the original Graphic Workshop Caption window is still
available, should you prefer it, and it now features a powerful
macro language to automatically generate captions. Select Classic
Caption Window in Setup to access it.
* ***Adds Absolute Noise: *The Fractals and Textures window now
includes Absolute Noise, a sophisticated, limitless fractal surface
generator. Create surreal photo backgrounds, import flawless
textures into other applications or just lose yourself in an
alternate universe. The animation to your right illustrates a few of
the effects available through the Absolute Noise fractal generator.
* *Adds Screen Capture Annotation:* The GWS Camera screen capture
application can now optionally include captions with the capture
graphics it creates. You can add a standard caption to every
capture, be prompted for a caption for each screen capture or use
the rich macro language of the Caption window to create automatic
captions that include elements such as the time and date of your
capture and the title of the window that was grabbed.
* *Adds Animation Workshop UltraLight:* Graphic Workshop now installs
with a fully functional simplified edition of our popular Animation
Workshop application to build sophisticated, editable banners,
advertisements and other complex objects for your web pages, social
media postings, e-mail messages and PowerPoint presentations.
* *Updates Matt and Frame: *The Matt and Frame window has been
redesigned to make it more intuitive, and to address a few lingering
functionality issues.
* *Adds Web Checker:* Graphic Workshop's Web Checker is an ancillary
application to spider your web site and bring to your attention any
broken links and missing graphics it encounters. It's effortless to
use, and usually a bit surprising the first time you run it and see
what it finds.
* *Updates Watermark: *The Watermark window has also been redesigned
to make it more intuitive.
* *Updates GIF Construction Set UltraLight:* The GIF Construction Set
UltraLight application has been completely rewritten and expanded.
It manages memory more effectively, has a smaller code footprint
than its predecessors and is substantially quicker.
* *Fixes the Crop Window: *The Crop window has been updated to address
an issue which prevented it from correctly respecting the Windows
task bar under some configurations of Windows.
* *Fixes Animated PNG:* An issue that could cause the animated PNG
viewer to display an initial blank frame for some animations has
been addressed.
* *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
The *Graphic
Workshop*<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsprint.html>*Printed Reference*
has been revised for the version 11 software, and it includes sections
for all the new functionality. It's available through Amazon —there's a
link to it at the Graphic Workshop web page, and you can access it
through the Get The Graphic Workshop Printed Reference item of Graphic
Workshop's Help menu. Alternately, just click on the book to your right.
All the *Graphic Workshop plugins* have been upgraded to install in the
version 11 software. Note that if you're currently using an earlier
version of Graphic Workshop and its attendant plugins:
* Be sure to uninstall the version 10 plugins before you install
Graphic Workshop Professional 11. Failing this, Graphic Workshop
Professional 11 should prompt you to do so automatically the first
time you run it.
* You'll need to download and install the new plugin installers to run
under Graphic Workshop Professional 11.
If you're using a registered installation of the Graphic Workshop RAW
Digital Camera and Smartphone plugin for an earlier release of Graphic
Workshop, note that your existing registration key will work with the
version 11 plugin — you won't have to buy it again.
As in years past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 11 for the
first time, it will look for a previous installation of Graphic Workshop
Professional 10 and optionally *copy your existing configuration*, so
you won't have to set everything up by hand. Even your open browser
windows will be preserved.
Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 11.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 10 on or after April 1, 2020, you're welcome to a *no-cost
upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 11.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 10 prior to April 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to
Graphic Workshop Professional 11 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 11, it will
determine which upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Announcing e-Paint 11
We've added new functionality to e-Paint, improved its performance and
generally refined it to better get along with 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 11, you'll find that it:
* ***Adds Absolute Noise: *The CGI window now includes Absolute Noise,
a sophisticated, limitless fractal surface generator. Create surreal
photo backgrounds, draw with fractals from a higher-order dimension
or just lose yourself in an alternate universe. The animation to
your right illustrates a few of the effects available through the
Absolute Noise fractal generator.
* *Updates Image Libraries:* All the libraries that read and write
graphics for e-Paint have been reviewed to ensure that they're
secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really disagreeable
people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge all the
users of our software to keep its security elements up to date.
* *Toolbox:* Refines various elements of the toolbox and the
functionality associated with its drawing tools.
* *Performance:* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
As in years past, when you run e-Paint 10 for the first time, it will
look for a previous installation of e-Paint 9 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-Paint 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 10 on or
after April 1, 2020, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to e-Paint 11.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 10 prior
to April 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to e-Paint 11 for *half the
current new-user price*.
The first time you run e-Paint 11, it will determine which upgrade
option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/pntkey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Announcing Alpha Paint 11 (second notification)
Alpha Paint + Icon Editor 11 has been released.
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.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html>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've added new functionality to Alpha Paint, improved its performance
and generally refined it to better get along with 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 Alpha Paint, you'll find that it:
* *Updates Image Libraries:* All the libraries that read and write
graphics for Alpha Paint have been reviewed to ensure that they're
secure and totally bulletproof. There being some really disagreeable
people under many of the rocks of the Internet, we urge all the
users of our software to keep its security elements up to date.
* *Toolbox:* Refines various elements of the toolbox and the
functionality associated with its drawing tools.
* *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation: *Updates the documentation.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 10 on
or after April 1, 2020, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* Alpha
Paint to 11.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 10
prior to April 1, 2020, we invite you to upgrade to Alpha Paint 11 for
*half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Alpha Paint 11, it will determine which upgrade
option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Windows Speedup:
Disable Defender's Real Time Protection
(additional notification)
The Windows Defender security application that installs with Windows 10
is a redoubtable defense against the bottom feeders, script kiddies and
brain donors of the Internet. This said, it can prove to be somewhat
overprotective.
The Real Time Protection feature of Defender scans every file that gets
anywhere near your computer, in real time, to make sure that none of
them includes anything unexpected. While a laudable feature, it soaks up
a lot of processor time and system resources in doing so.
Unless you sprang for a really fast computer with enough memory to fully
occupy a modest suburban livingroom, having Defender’s real time
protection running will slow your system down… probably quite a lot.
The past summer, Real Time Protection appears to have mutated. Windows
would no longer allow it to be disabled through its Settings panel.
Windows and everything running under it dropped into neutral.
We've found a way around this issue — if you trust yourself not to click
on mysterious e-mail attachments or download software from peculiar web
sites with a lot of spelling errors, you might want to look at restoring
your system's performance
Click on the big blue button to see how this works.
<http://blog.mindworkshop.com/gif-construction-set/windows-speedup-disabling-defenders-real-time-protection/>
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