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1. *Graphic Workshop Professional 14 Revision 2 *(second notification)
2. *Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 14*
3. *Announcing e-Paint 14*(additional notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 14 Revision 2
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
*Graphic Workshop Professional 14* has been updated.
*In this release:*
* *One Drive:* The navigation panes of the 64-bit edition of Graphic
Workshop now include an item to directly access OneDrive. Reach for
the cloud.
* *MOV:* Several issues with Graphic Workshop's MOV functionality have
been addressed.
* *Pixels:* An obscure problem with our new optimized pixel-management
logic could cause sixteen-color graphics to have some of their
adjacent pixels interchanged. We frown on this — it's been fixed.
* *More Pixels:* The performance of the optimized low-level pixel
management logic in Graphic Workshop and its ancillary applications
has been further enhanced.
* *WebP: *The WebP interface has been improved.
*From the initial release:*
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
14, you'll find:
* <http://doc.mindworkshop.com/animatetransitions.html>*Animate
Transitions:* Create sophisticated animations and videos from your
favorite photographs. The example to your right doesn't get within a
light-year of the capabilities of this technology — click on it to
experience a much higher-resolution video, complete with a sound track.
Select Animate Objects from the Image menu of Graphic Workshop, and
then Animate Transitions from the sub-menu that appears. Add some of
your own pictures to the Animate Transitions window, click on
Preview and be amazed.
* *Speed:* The low-level pixel logic for Graphic Workshop and its
ancillary applications has been re-written in optimized machine
language. Since most of what Graphic Workshop does involves managing
pixels, it has become substantially quicker.
* *JPEG Security:* The Graphic Workshop JPEG library has been updated
to the latest release to address several potential security and
performance issues. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all
users of Graphic Workshop to update to this release, 'coz the
universe has a lot of really bad people in it.
* *WebP:* The WebP library has been updated to improve its performance.
* *TIFF:* Graphic Workshop's TIFF functionality has been updated to
support a much wider palette of TIFF files, and to address a number
of performance issues. While TIFF may in fact be something of a
revenant of the distant past, TIFF graphics don't think so, and they
still turn up.
* *Impact:* The new Impact filter in Graphic Workshop's View mode
Filter window will refine and nuance your photographs... or it will
rip a hole in space-time and make your pictures visible from low
Earth orbit. With awesome power comes awesome responsibility.
* *Animation:* A memory leak in the Graphic Workshop animation and
video logic that could shut down Graphic Workshop under some
configurations of Windows is now history.
* *Identify Mystery Files:* The batch mode of Graphic Workshop's
Identify Mystery Files window has been improved to correctly deal
with documents having no file extensions, and to speed up its
deliberations.
* *More Identify Mystery Files:* All Graphic Workshop's batch
processes will now apprise you of source documents having incorrect
extensions, and automatically rename them for you.
* *Filters:* A number of Graphic Workshop's image filters that rely on
lookup tables have been improved to remove inappropriate dark pixels
under some configurations of Windows.
* *Font Wrangler UltraLight: *Preview, install and remove fonts with
the font management tool that should have come with Windows.
* *Overrides:* An issue with the format override logic in the View
mode Save As window that caused the wrong format override window to
open under some configurations of Windows is history.
* *Shards: *The View mode Shards filter logic has been enhanced to
handle image edges more convincingly.
* *Textures:* A number of image instabilities in the Textures and
Fractals window have been addressed.
* *Colors:* The color selection window that appears whenever Graphic
Workshop prompts you to select a color has been enhanced with an
expanded palette of more contemporary colors — scroll to the bottom
of the list to see them. In addition, you can now re-arrange the
color list by dragging and dropping its items.
* *Video: *Conversion from animations to digital video under Graphic
Workshop will now preserve the original animation running time.
* *Social Media:* Two new background options have been added to the
Graphic Workshop Social Media window. A memory leak in Social media
has been stomped.
* *Browser Windows:* An issue that could cause Graphic Workshop's
browser windows to be positioned such that their scroll bars were
inaccessible under some configurations of Windows has been addressed.
* *AVI:* Several issues with the AVI Override window have been
addressed, and the AVI writer now correctly manages the length of
sound objects in documents converted to AVI.
* *Virtual Thumbnails:* Graphic Workshop's virtual thumbnail engine
will now access the Windows thumbnail database for its images,
making the virtual thumbnail mode shockingly quick.
* *Rotate Filter: *The Graphic Workshop View mode Rotate filter's
Preserve Original Size option now handles background colors correctly.
* *File Names: *Graphic Workshop now defaults to looking for exact
matches for file extensions. In previous editions, Windows'
ambiguity in dealing with extensions like .JPE and .JPEG could
persuade Graphic Workshop to duplicate some browser items, or not
show them at all.
The *Graphic Workshop*Click on this book
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsprint.html>*Printed Reference* has been
revised for the version 14 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
version 14. Note that if you're currently using an earlier version of
Graphic Workshop and its attendant plugins:
* Be sure to uninstall the version 12 plugins before you install
Graphic Workshop Professional 14. Failing this, Graphic Workshop
Professional 14 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 14.
* 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 14 plugin — you won't have to buy it again.
As in years past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 14 for the
first time, it will look for a previous installation of Graphic Workshop
Professional 12 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.
Note that if you installed both the 32- and 64-bit editions of Graphic
Workshop Professional 12 on the same computer, the automatic uninstall
will only remove one of them. You'll need to remove its sibling by hand.
Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 14.
Download <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 12 on or after June 1, 2022, you're welcome to a *no-cost
upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 14.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 12 prior to June 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to
Graphic Workshop Professional 14 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 14, it will
determine which upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
Upgrade <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.
The graphic of the woman with a digital camera is by Kurhan and is used
under license from StockFresh.
Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 14
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html>
The Ultimate Screen Clock 14 has been released.
We've added new functionality to The Ultimate Screen Clock, 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 The Ultimate Screen Clock 14,
you'll find...
* *Speed:* The low-level pixel logic for The Ultimate Screen Clock has
been re-written in optimized machine language. Since much of what
The Ultimate Screen Clock does involves managing pixels, it has
become substantially quicker.
* *JPEG Security:* The The Ultimate Screen Clock's JPEG library has
been updated to the latest release to address several potential
security and performance issues. We'd like to take this opportunity
to urge all users of The Ultimate Screen Clock to update to this
release, 'coz the universe has a lot of really bad people in it.*
*
* *WebP:* The WebP library has been updated to improve its performance.
*
*
* *Photoclock <http://gra.mindworkshop.com/1087-002.webp>Photoclock
Style:* Add your photographs to the Photoclock style to create
inspired personalized clocks. Enjoy friends, family and beloved pets
with clock mechanisms installed in their noses. We hasten to note
that the example to your right, shown here at a somewhat diminished
resolution, hardly does justice to the Photoclock — you can
double-click on it to see a life-size animated clock. Also, if your
beloved pet looks anything like the example here, you might need
some new friends and family the next time you forget to feed it.
* *Screen Saver Backgrounds:* The library of fractal screen saver
backgrounds included with The Ultimate Screen Clock has been
augmented with new universes of alternate reality.
* *Liquid Metal <http://gra.mindworkshop.com/1087-004.webp>Liquid
Metal**Style**:* Bright, shiny and visible from low Earth orbit, the
Liquid Metal style comes in two colors, two sizes and an optional
animated dissolve version. If it were any cooler, it would shatter
penguins. Double-click on the example here to see it at its full
epic resolution.
* *Populate Screen Saver:* The Welcome Wizard for The Ultimate Screen
Clock now includes an option to pre-populate and configure the
screen saver with a selection of styles and backgrounds, so it's
ready to rock without being configured by hand. You can activate
this feature retroactively by selecting the Welcome Wizard option
from The Ultimate Screen Clock's right-click menu — just step
through its screens, enable the Populate Your Screen Saver option
and then click through until the wizard finishes. You'll be prompted
to overwrite your existing screens aver configuration if one exists.
* *Recent Styles:* The Recent Styles sub-menus in The Ultimate Screen
Clock are now sorted by name, rather than the date each styles was
last selected.
* *Diode: *A bug in the digital dissolve versions of the Diode styles
has been addressed.
* *Sport Hands: *The appearance of the Sport hand style that appears
in a number of The Ultimate Screen Clock's analog styles has been
refined.
* *Colors:* The color selection window that appears whenever The
Ultimate Screen Clock prompts you to select a color has been
enhanced with an expanded palette of more contemporary colors —
scroll to the bottom of the list to see them. In addition, you can
now re-arrange the color list by dragging and dropping its items.
* *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 The Ultimate Screen Clock 14.
Note that in addition to installing The Ultimate Screen Clock, you'll
probably also want to install The Ultimate Screen Clock *Extra Styles
library*, which will augment it with wealth of additional clock styles,
including some of the ones mentioned herein. The Extra Styles library is
also accessible through this big blue button.
Download <http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate
Screen Clock 12 on or after June 1, 2022, you're welcome to a *no-cost
upgrade* to The Ultimate Screen Clock 14.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate
Screen Clock 12 prior to June 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to The
Ultimate Screen Clock 14 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run The Ultimate Screen Clock 14, it will determine
which upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
Upgrade <http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
You can access the no-cost upgrade page
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/clkkey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
The deck watch graphic at the beginning of this section is by Volodymyr
Horbovyy, licensed through Alamy Ltd. The leopard graphic used in the
example of the Photoclock style is by Alfred Hutter, used by permission
as per Wikimedia Commons.
Announcing e-Paint 14
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html>
e-Paint 14 has been released.
We've added new functionality to e-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 e-Paint 14, you'll find...
* *Blend Modes:* e-Paint now supports blend modes for many of its
drawing tools. In addition to simply pasting and drawing with color,
you can add, average, get vivid, become dark and go extreme. See the
discussion of Blend Modes in the Reference document of the e-Paint
manual.
* *Speed:* The low-level pixel logic for e-Paint has been re-written
in optimized machine language. Since most of what e-Paint does
involves managing pixels, it has become substantially quicker.
* *JPEG Security:* The e-Paint JPEG library has been updated to the
latest release to address several potential security and performance
issues. We'd like to take this opportunity to urge all users of
e-Paint to update to this release, 'coz the universe has a lot of
really bad people in it.
* *WebP:* The WebP library has been updated to improve its performance.
* *Impact:* The new Impact filter in e-Paint Filter window will refine
and nuance your photographs... or it will rip a hole in space-time
and make your pictures visible from low Earth orbit. With awesome
power comes awesome responsibility.
* *Textures:* A number of image instabilities in the CGI Textures
window have been addressed.*
*
* *Colors:* The color selection window that appears whenever e-Paint
prompts you to select a color has been enhanced with an expanded
palette of more contemporary colors — scroll to the bottom of the
list to see them. In addition, you can now re-arrange the color list
by dragging and dropping its items.
* *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 e-Paint 14.
Download now <http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 12 on or
after June 1, 2022, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to e-Paint 14.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 12 prior
to June 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to e-Paint 14 for *half the
current new-user price*.
The first time you run e-Paint 14, it will determine which upgrade
option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
Upgrade <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.
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