[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
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Contents:
1. * Graphic Workshop Professional 12 Revision 4 *(additional
notification)*
*
2. * Announcing Alpha Paint 12 *
3. * Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 12 ***(second notification)
4. * GIF Construction Set Professional 12 Revision 2***(second
notification)
5. * Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details*
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Graphic Workshop Professional 12 Revision 2
Graphic Workshop Professional 12 has been released.
We've added new functionality to the known universe's most popular image
management application, improved its performance, included some fresh
ancillary software and generally refined it to better get along with
Windows 10 and 11. (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
12, you'll find...
In this release:
* *Web Gallery:* A number of issues in the Web Gallery web page
builder have been addressed. We've also added a few refinements to
the user interface. See the discussion of Web Gallery in the
Reference document of Graphic Workshop's manual
* *e-Paint UltraLight:* The BMP library called by several of Graphic
Workshop's ancillary functions hitherto didn't read or write BMP
documents correctly under some configurations of Windows. This
prevented Graphic Workshop from calling e-Paint UltraLight as an
alternate paint application. This has been resolved.
* *Windows 11:* Some installations of Windows 11 appear to be missing
a runtime library required by several of Graphic Workshop's
ancillary applications, preventing them from starting. This too has
been resolved.
From the initial release:
* *Quick 64-bit Architecture:* Graphic Workshop is now available in
both traditional 32-bit and leading-edge 64-bit editions. The 64-bit
software is fast, gets along more favorably with Windows and pretty
much never runsinto memory issues. We hasten to note that
registering or updating to Graphic Workshop Professional 12 will
avail you of a registration key that works with either edition... or
both, if you're feeling adventurous.
* *Windows 11 Compatible:* The version 11 software has been showing
some decidedly rough edges under Windows 11, and may stop installing
and/or running therein. Graphic Workshop Professional 12 rocks under
Windows 11.
* ***Animate Objects:* Create animated photo-dodecahedrons and
photo-cubes – like the one to your right – with a few clicks. These
animations are suitable for use with web pages, social media and for
attracting attention to your e-mails. Select Image → Animate Objects.
* *Animation Conversion:* Convert – and more to point – batch convert
and process videos and animations. See the discussion of Animations
in the Graphic Workshop Reference document.
* *Audio:* Convert among Graphic Workshop's supported audio formats.
* ***MP3:* Graphic Workshop now supports full MP3 reading and writing.
* *Ogg Vorbis:* Graphic Workshop now supports full Ogg Vorbis reading
and writing – Ogg Vorbis being a sophisticated MP3 alternative.
* *Web Gallery:* Graphic Workshop's Web Gallery window has been
completely re-written. Create sophisticated web pages for your
photographs with clickable thumbnails, paging and index and way
more... even if you've never been within a light-year of HTML
coding. Select some pictures, and then select Image → Catalog → Web
Gallery.
* ***JPEG Security:* Graphic Workshop's Turbo JPEG and IJG JPEG
libraries have been updated to the latest releases to address some
security issues.
We'd like to urge all users of Graphic Workshop to update to this
release as quickly as possible.
* *WebP:* Updates the library that imports WebP graphics for Graphic
Workshop to address several potential security issues and to improve
its image quality.
* *Archive Manager:* The Archive Manager application will now extract
files from archive formats other than ZIP. The 32-bit edition
supports RAR, and the 64-bit edition supports pretty much every
archive format in the known universe.
* *Archive Manager Open With:* The Archive Manager right-click menu
now includes access to Windows' Open With list, as it appears in
File Explorer.
* *Screen Capture:* The 64-bit edition of the GWS Camera screen
capture now correctly handles capturing screens that have been
adjusted with Windows' "make everything bigger" option.
* *Digital Camera RAW Plugin:* The Digital Camera plugin has been
updated to include a number of additional cameras.
* *Windows Open With:* In addition to Graphic Workshop's configurable
Open With function, accessible through the browser right-click
window. the Open With item now offers access to Windows' Open With
list, as it appears in File Explorer.
* *Calendar Wizard UltraLight:* Create printable wall calendars with
your photographs in this simplified edition of our popular Calendar
Wizard application.
* *Memory Leak:* A memory leak that beset the Paint functions of
Graphic Workshop has been addressed.
* *Montage:* A bug that could crash Montage on occasion has been stomped.
* *ART Plugin:* An issue with the ART format plugin that could cause
it to report spurious errors from time to time under some
configurations of Windows has been addressed.
The *Graphic
Workshop*<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsprint.html>*Printed Reference*
has been revised for the version 12 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 12 software. Note that if you're currently using an earlier
version of Graphic Workshop and its attendant plugins:
* Be sure to uninstall the version 11 plugins before you install
Graphic Workshop Professional 12. Failing this, Graphic Workshop
Professional 12 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 12.
* The plugin installers will install plugins for both the 32- and
64-bit editions of Graphic Workshop as applicable — you don't have
to download separate 32- and 64-bit plugins.
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 12 plugin — you won't have to buy it again.
As in years past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 12 for the
first time, it will look for a previous installation of Graphic Workshop
Professional 11 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 12.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 11 on or after May 1, 2021, you're welcome to a *no-cost
upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 12.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 11 prior to May 1, 2021, we invite you to upgrade to
Graphic Workshop Professional 12 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 12, 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 Alpha Paint 12
Alpha Paint 12 has been released.
We've added new functionality to Alpha Paint, improved its performance
and generally refined it to better get along with Windows 10 and 11. (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 12, you'll find...
* ***Quick 64-bit Architecture:* Alpha Paint is now available in both
traditional 32-bit and leading-edge 64-bit editions. The 64-bit
software is fast, gets along more favorably with Windows and pretty
much never runs into memory issues. We hasten to note that
registering or updating to Alpha Paint 12 will avail you of a
registration key that works with either edition... or both, if
you're feeling adventurous.
* *Windows 11 Compatible:* The version 11 software has been showing
some decidedly rough edges under Windows 11, and may stop installing
and/or running therein. Alpha Paint 12 rocks under Windows 11.*
*
* *Drawing Engine:* Improves the performance of Alpha Paint's drawing
engine.
* *WebP:* Updates the library that imports WebP graphics for Alpha
Paint to address several potential security issues and to improve
its image quality.
* *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
Click on the blue button to download Alpha Paint 12.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 11 on
or after May 1, 2021, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to Alpha
Paint 12.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 11
prior to May 1, 2021, we invite you to upgrade to Alpha Paint 12 for
*half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Alpha Paint 12, 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/alphapkey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Announcing PNG MNG Construction Set 12
PNG MNG Construction Set 12 has been released.
We've added new functionality to PNG MNG Construction Set, improved its
performance and generally refined it to better get along with Windows 10
and 11. (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 PNG MNG Construction Set 12,
you'll find...
* ***Quick 64-bit Architecture:* PNG MNG Construction Set Professional
is now available in both traditional 32-bit and leading-edge 64-bit
editions. The 64-bit software is fast, gets along more favorably
with Windows and pretty much never runs into memory issues. We
hasten to note that registering or updating to PNG MNG Construction
Set Professional 12 will avail you of a registration key that works
with either edition... or both, if you're feeling adventurous.
* *Windows 11 Compatible:* The version 11 software has been showing
some decidedly rough edges under Windows 11, and may stop installing
and/or running therein. PNG MNG Construction Set 12 rocks under
Windows 11.*
*
* *Web Gallery:* PNG MNG Construction Set's new Web Gallery will
create sophisticated web pages for your animations with clickable
thumbnails, paging and index and way more... even if you've never
been within a light-year of HTML coding. Select Edit → Web Gallery.
* *****Animation Plugins:* PNG MNG Construction Set's plugins have
been revised and updated, with enhanced documentation, Open and Save
buttons for many of the plugins and improved performance. The 3D
Effects plugin set now includes a plugin to create animated
photo-dodecahedrons, like the one to your right.
* *JPEG Security:* PNG MNG Construction Set's Turbo JPEG and IJG JPEG
libraries have been updated to the latest releases to address some
security issues.
We'd like to urge all users of PNG MNG Construction Set Professional
to update to this release as quickly as possible.
* *WebP:* Updates the library that imports WebP graphics for PNG MNG
Construction Set to address several potential security issues and to
improve its image quality.
* *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
Click on the blue button to download PNG MNG Construction Set
Professional 12.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set 11 on or after May 1, 2021, you're welcome to a
*no-cost upgrade* to PNG MNG Construction Set 12.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for PNG MNG
Construction Set 11 prior to May 1, 2021, we invite you to upgrade to
PNG MNG Construction Set 12 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run PNG MNG Construction Set 12, 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/pngkey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Plugins
All the animation plugins for PNG MNG Construction Set have been
upgraded to run with PNG MNG Construction Set 12.
If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of PNG
MNG Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid.
You'll just need to download the version 12 installers for your plugins.
All the animation plugins are at:
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html>
*
*
*
IMPORTANT:* If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 11
or PNG MNG Construction Set 11 and you plan to uninstall PNG MNG
Construction Set 11 or PNG MNG Construction Set 11 to replace them with
the new version 12 software, please be sure uninstall all your version
11 plugins, and then uninstall PNG MNG Construction Set 11 and PNG MNG
Construction Set 11.
PNG MNG Construction Set 12 will offer to automatically remove your old
plugins for you the first time it runs — go for it, as this will save
you lots of clicking later on.
We've also created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once you've
downloaded the version 12 installers. Please see the the plugin help
page <http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-qa.html#0032> for assistance.
GIF Construction Set Professional 12 Revision 2
GIF Construction Set Professional 12 has been released.
We've added new functionality to GIF Construction Set Professional,
improved its performance and generally refined it to better get along
with Windows 10 and 11. (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 GIF Construction Set
Professional 12, you'll find...
In this release:
* *Web Gallery: *Addresses a number of issues in the Web Gallery
window that crept into the revision one software.
From the initial release:
* ***Quick 64-bit Architecture:* GIF Construction Set Professional is
now available in both traditional 32-bit and leading-edge 64-bit
editions. The 64-bit software is fast, gets along more favorably
with Windows and pretty much never runs into memory issues. We
hasten to note that registering or updating to GIF Construction Set
Professional 12 will avail you of a registration key that works with
either edition... or both, if you're feeling adventurous.
* *Windows 11 Compatible:* The version 11 software has been showing
some decidedly rough edges under Windows 11, and may stop installing
and/or running therein. GIF Construction Set Professional 12 rocks
under Windows 11.*
*
* *Web Gallery:* GIF Construction Set Professional's new Web Gallery
will create sophisticated web pages for your animations with
clickable thumbnails, paging and index and way more... even if
you've never been within a light-year of HTML coding. Select Edit →
Web Gallery.
* *****Animation Plugins:* GIF Construction Set Professional's plugins
have been revised and updated, with enhanced documentation, Open and
Save buttons for many of the plugins and improved performance. The
3D Effects plugin set now includes a plugin to create animated
photo-dodecahedrons, like the one to your right.
* *JPEG Security:* GIF Construction Set Professional's Turbo JPEG and
IJG JPEG libraries have been updated to the latest releases to
address some security issues.
We'd like to urge all users of GIF Construction Set Professional to
update to this release as quickly as possible.
* *WebP:* Updates the library that imports WebP graphics for GIF
Construction Set Professional to address several potential security
issues and to improve its image quality.
* *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
Click on the blue button to download GIF Construction Set Professional 12.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction
Set Professional 11 on or after May 1, 2021, you're welcome to a
*no-cost upgrade* to GIF Construction Set Professional 12.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction
Set Professional 11 prior to May 1, 2021, we invite you to upgrade to
GIF Construction Set Professional 12 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run GIF Construction Set Professional 12, 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/gcskey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Plugins
All the animation plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional have
been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 12.
If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of GIF
Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid.
You'll just need to download the version 12 installers for your plugins.
All the animation plugins are at:
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html>
*
*
*
IMPORTANT:* If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 11
or PNG MNG Construction Set 11 and you plan to uninstall GIF
Construction Set 11 or PNG MNG Construction Set 11 to replace them with
the new version 12 software, please be sure uninstall all your version
11 plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction Set 11 and PNG MNG
Construction Set 11.
GIF Construction Set 12 will offer to automatically remove your old
plugins for you the first time it runs — go for it, as this will save
you lots of clicking later on.
We've also created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once you've
downloaded the version 12 installers. Please see the the plugin help
page <http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-qa.html#0032> for assistance.
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