From alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com Sat Dec 3 09:33:48 2022 From: alchemyreply1753 at mindworkshop.com (alchemyreply1753) Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2022 09:33:48 -0500 Subject: [Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks Message-ID: <8e5a78e5-925f-aea7-1cdc-55f8e2e7913c@mindworkshop.com> ***This is an automatic posting ?from the Alchemy Mindworks Update Mailing List * Click here to UNSUBSCRIBE . ( http://mindworkshop.com/mailman/options/newsletter ) View this message in your web browser . ?Contents: 1. *Graphic Workshop Professional 14 Revision 2 *(additional notification) 2. *Announcing Animation Workshop 14* 3. *Announcing Alpha Paint 14 *(second notification) 4. *Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 14 *(additional notification) 5. *Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details* *This season, give the gift of words. **549,436 of them.*** *** **C**lick on the book*. Click on this book Graphic Workshop Professional 14 Revision 2 *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: * *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 *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 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 You can access the no-cost upgrade page 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 Animation Workshop 14 Animation Workshop 14 has been released. We've added new functionality to Animation Workshop, 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 Animation Workshop 14, you'll find... * *Speed:* The low-level pixel logic for Animation Workshop has been re-written in optimized machine language. Since most of what Animation Workshop does involves managing pixels, it has become substantially quicker.* **JPEG Security:* Animation Workshop's Turbo JPEG library has been updated to the latest release to address some security issues. We'd like to urge all users of Animation Workshop to update to this release as quickly as possible.* WebP:***The WebP library has been updated to improve its performance.* Rendering Engine:* Improves the performance of Animation Workshop's animation rendering engine.* Colors:* The color selection window that appears whenever Animation 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. * *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 Animation Workshop 14. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 12 on or after July 1, 2022, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to Animation Workshop 14. If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop 12 prior to July 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to Animation Workshop 14 for *half the current new-user price*. The first time you run Animation Workshop 14, 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. The background of the banner graphic above is used under license from Shutterstock. Announcing Alpha Paint 14 Alpha Paint 14 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 14, you'll find... * *Speed:* The low-level pixel logic for Alpha Paint has been re-written in optimized machine language. Since most of what Alpha Paint does involves managing pixels, it has become substantially quicker. * *WebP:***The WebP library has been updated to improve its performance.* * * *Drawing Engine:* Improves the performance of Alpha Paint's drawing engine. * *Colors:* The color selection window that appears whenever Alpha 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 Alpha Paint 14. Upgrades If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 12 on or after July 1, 2022, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to Alpha Paint 14. If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 12 prior to July 1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to Alpha Paint 14 for *half the current new-user price*. The first time you run Alpha Paint 14, 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. The banner graphic above, a detail from a picture by xoox xooxman, is used under license from freeimages.com. Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 14 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 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 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 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 You can access the no-cost upgrade page 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. 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 newsletter management page or click on the Unsubscribe button: Unsubscribe Removal requests will be processed instantly. If you have questions about this list or any Alchemy Mindworks products, please contact us or click on the button below: Contact Us You can also contact us by telephone at (705) 789-5238, and by snail-mail at Alchemy Mindworks, L10 C8 Brunel Box 3-11, Huntsville, ON P1H 2J3, CANADA. 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