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1. *Graphic Workshop Professional 15 Revision 2 * (additional notification)
2. *Announcing Animation Workshop 15*
3. *Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 15 *(second notification)
4. *Announcing e-Paint 15 *(additional notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 15 Revision 2
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html>
*Graphic Workshop Professional 15* has been updated.
*In this release:*
* *WebP:* The Graphic Workshop WebP library has been updated to
version 1.3.2 to address a security issue. 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.
* *Supercompressor:* The Graphic Workshop supercompressor, which will
interactively create the smallest possible JPG and WebP documents
while avoiding turning your source art into sand paintings, has been
updated. It now manages its deliberations without the use of
temporary disk files, making it substantially quicker and imposing
less stress on your storage devices.
* *MOZ JPEG:* The MOZ JPEG
<https://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html#MOZ> plugin for
Graphic Workshop, which creates way more compact JPG files than
conventional JPEG writers, has been updated. Among other things,
you'll need this if you use the new Supercompressor, as discussed
above, with the MOZ JPEG option. Please click on the foregoing link
to download it.
* *Matrix:* Addresses an issue with the image indexing logic.
* *Randomization: *The table randomization logic that appears
throughout Graphic Workshop and some of its ancillary applications
has been enhanced to create less predictable results for larger data
sets.
* *Up To Date: *Updates the Alchemy Mindworks notification agent. You
might see a prompt from Up To Date during installation as a result.
It's harmless.
* *Ahem...:* A number of first-release issues in the revision 1
software have been addressed.
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*From the initial release:*
We've added new functionality to the known universe's most popular image
management application, 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 Graphic Workshop Professional
15, you'll find:
* *Speed:* A quicker and more efficient architecture to make the most
of the latest releases of Windows.
* *Matrix:* Create picture matrices like the ones to your right with a
few clicks. The Graphic Workshop 15 Matrix window offers a rich
palette of matrix styles, at pretty much any resolution you need.
Select Matrix from the Graphic Workshop Image menu, select your
favorite photographs and Graphic Workshop will do all the complex
arithmetic for you.
Matrix graphics are an epic way to add multiple pictures to a web
page without having to devise the HTML to arrange them.
* *AXES:* Graphic Workshop 15 includes a downloadable no-cost plugin
that supports AXES, our encrypted graphic standard. With a suitably
robust pass phrase, an AXES graphic can resist attempts to crack its
encryption for approximately 26-trillion years.
* *JPEG XL:* The 64-bit edition of Graphic Workshop 15 supports JPEG
XL, a leading-edge enhancement of JPEG by the JPEG format's original
creators.
* *JPEG XR:* The 64-bit edition of Graphic Workshop 15 also supports
JPEG XR, Microsoft's putative replacement for JPEG.
* *JPEG 2000:* Graphic Workshop 15 includes full read and write
support for JPEG 2000 documents.
* *SVG: *The 64-bit edition of Graphic Workshop 15 includes SVG
support, to view and convert from scalable vector graphics.
* *ICNS: *Graphic Workshop 15 can read and create Macintosh ICNS icon
documents. If you like to collect icons, it opens up a huge library
of hitherto inaccessible pictures.
* *QR Codes:* Graphic Workshop 15 can create QR codes with any content
you need. Embed them in your graphics to include copyright
information or a link to your web page.
Print them as hard copy and affix them to walls — passers-by will
scan them to see what they're up to.
The 64-bit edition of Graphic Workshop can locate QR codes in your
pictures and tell you what they say. It will also provide you with
clickable links to any web page addresses it finds therein.
* *QOI:* Graphic Workshop 15 supports the Quite OK Image format, a
shockingly quick way to store pictures.
* *EXR: *The 64-bit edition of Graphic Workshop 15 includes support
for Industrial Light & Magic's EXR graphics.*
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* *PBM, PGM and PPM:* Graphic Workshop 15 supports the standard Linux
graphic formats.
* *XCF:* Graphic Workshop 15 will read and write GIMP XCF graphic
documents.
* *<http://gra.mindworkshop.com/1122-001.jpg>Mosaic:* Graphic Workshop
15's Mosaic window will build photographic mosaics - graphics
created from tiles derived from your library of pictures.
Click on the example to your right to see what it's really up to.
Zoom in to see how it was constructed.
We hasten to add that while mosaic graphics look cool on screen,
they're amazing printed as hard copy.
* *Photoshop Plugins: *The 64-bit edition of Graphic Workshop 15 can
import most third-party Photoshop-compatible plugins, and
subsequently apply the effects contained therein to your graphics.
Be sure to read the discussion of Photoshop plugins in the Reference
section of Graphic Workshop's documentation.
* *Status Bar:* The Graphic Workshop 15 status bar has been updated to
display the aggregate file size for selected objects... a hitherto
implemented feature that vanished some time ago when an unnoticed
bug crept into it.
* ***Smart Thumbnails:* Graphic Workshop 15 includes a new smart
thumbnail mode that fetches its thumbnail images from the Windows
thumbnail cache. If you'll be looking at graphics in common formats,
such as JPG, PNG, WebP and GIF, smart thumbnails are quick,
uncomplicated and they don't require the creation of THN files. See
the discussion of Smart Thumbnail in the Thumbnails section of
Graphic Workshop's Reference document.
* *Favorites:* The Graphic Workshop Favorites window will now fetch
its thumbnails from the Windows thumbnail cache by default, making
it substantially quicker for common file formats.
* ***View:* Graphic Workshop 15's View window now includes jump
buttons to move to the previous or next graphic in a browser. Hover
your mouse cursor over the left or right edge of the View window to
summon a jump button.
Jump buttons can be disabled in the View mode Configuration window
if you aren't in a jumping mood.
The un-maximize button the title bar of Graphic Workshop's View
window is now disabled by default. It can be restored in Setup.
Users who found the View window being resized by other applications
can stop wondering what caused this phenomenon. We don't know
either, but it's history.
* *Plugin SDK:* If you'd like to see Graphic Workshop support formats
it currently doesn't, we invite you to download the Graphic Workshop
Plugin SDK, everything you'll need to create your own format
plugins... as long as you have a suitable language compiler and you
know how to use it.
* *WebP:* The WebP Override window has been updated to correctly apply
its parameters to animations.
* *Animation Workshop UltraLight: *Several issues in the application's
user interface have been addressed.
* *Themes:* An issue in the theme interface common to most Alchemy
Mindworks software that could leak resources and occasionally crash
the applications in question has been mercilessly stomped.
The *Graphic Workshop*Click on this book
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsprint.html>*Printed Reference* has been
revised for the version 15 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 15. Note that if you're currently using an earlier version of
Graphic Workshop and its attendant plugins:
* Be sure to uninstall the version 14 plugins before you install
Graphic Workshop Professional 15. Failing this, Graphic Workshop
Professional 15 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 15.
* 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 15 plugin — you won't have to buy it again.
As in years past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 15 for the
first time, it will look for a previous installation of Graphic Workshop
Professional 14 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 14 on the same computer, the automatic uninstall
will only remove one of them. You'll need to uninstall its sibling by hand.
Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 15.
If you haven't done so previously, we recommend that you install the
Alchemy Mindworks trusted certificate
<https://blog.mindworkshop.com/alchemy-mindworks/installing-the-alchemy-mindworks-certificate/>
and disable the Smart Screen blue window of doom
<https://blog.mindworkshop.com/windows/disabling-windows-smart-screen-for-downloads/>
prior to downloading Alchemy Mindworks software.
Download <http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 14 on or after May 1, 2023, you're welcome to a *no-cost
upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 15.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 14 prior to May 1, 2023, we invite you to upgrade to
Graphic Workshop Professional 15 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 15, 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. The people in the example graphics in
this section don't exist — their pictures were created by an AI at
This-Person-Does-not-Exist.com. Photoshop is a trademark of Adobe
Systems Incorporated. Alchemy Mindworks has no business relationship
with Adobe Systems Incorporated, and the name Photoshop is used herein
for descriptive purposes only.
Announcing Animation Workshop 15
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html>
Animation Workshop 15 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 15, you'll
find...
* *Speed:* A quicker and more efficient architecture to make the most
of the latest releases of Windows.
* *Animated PNG:* Animation Workshop will now import animated PNG
animations... even the really weird ones.*
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* *WebP Security:* Animation Workshop's WebP 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.
* *Rendering Engine:* A number of issues with the Animation Workshop
rendering engine's object removal logic have been addressed.
* *Themes:* An issue in the theme interface common to most Alchemy
Mindworks software that could leak resources and occasionally crash
the applications in question has been mercilessly stomped.
* *Animations on Background:* Animation Workshop will now
automatically enable its On Background option for imported
animations when it thinks they require this option. You can disabuse
it of doing so in Setup. See the discussion of Object Removal in the
Animation Workshop manual for more about this.
* *Click to Close:* Animation Workshop's View window can now be closed
by clicking outside it. This behavior can be disabled in Setup if
you find you don't like it.
* *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
If you haven't done so previously, we recommend that you install the
Alchemy Mindworks trusted certificate
<https://blog.mindworkshop.com/alchemy-mindworks/installing-the-alchemy-mindworks-certificate/>
and disable the Smart Screen blue window of doom
<https://blog.mindworkshop.com/windows/disabling-windows-smart-screen-for-downloads/>
prior to downloading Alchemy Mindworks software.
Click on the blue button to download Animation Workshop 15.
DownloadNow <http://www.mindworkshop.com/animwork.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop
14 on or after June 1, 2023, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to
Animation Workshop 15.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Animation Workshop
14 prior to June 1, 2023, we invite you to upgrade to Animation Workshop
15 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Animation Workshop 15, 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/anmkey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
The background of the banner graphic above is used under license from
Shutterstock.
Announcing The Ultimate Screen Clock 15
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html>
The Ultimate Screen Clock 15 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 15,
you'll find..
* ***WebP:* The WebP library has been updated to improve its performance.
*
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* *Smartwatch Analog:Analog Smartwatch:* The analog Smartwatch clock
style won’t check your blood pressure, notify you of new friends at
your Facebook account, text your stock broker or improve your sleep
patterns. This said, it never needs recharging and it won’t wear the
hair away on your wrist.
The analog Smartwatch comes in two sizes and five colors, and it
isn’t made of ethically-sourced rhodium. Adventurous users may want
to use The Ultimate Screen Clock's style override option to
experiment with different colors for its hands.
* *Smartwatch Digital**Digital Smartwatch:* The digital Smartwatch
offers all the leading-edge features of its analog sibling, above,
with a large digital display and no detectable hands.
It’s hundreds of dollars cheaper than a conventional smartwatch, and
rarely appears pretentious or vulgar.
The Digital Smartwatch style also comes in two sizes and five
colors. No one knows what the control on the right side of its case
actually does, so pretty much like a real smartwatch.
* *Octagon**Octagon:* The must-have accessory for any serious pirate
ship, trans-galactic yacht or trendy fish restaurant, the Octagon
clock style sings of the grey-green mantle of the endless seas
before the days of GPS, satellite telephones and ravening
environmental activists from upstate New York gluing themselves to
the forecastle.
Octagon comes in two sizes. A cutlass and a shoulder parrot are
optional.
* *Mercury <http://gra.mindworkshop.com/1135-006.webp>Mercury**:* It’s
the messenger of the gods, the only known metallic element to melt
at room temperature and the planet in our solar system where
sunblock is never optional.
More to the point, it’s a shockingly cool clock style.
Bright, fluid and transcendent, Mercury is available in three sizes
and four colors, with and without digital dissolve. The thumbnail
above hardly does it justice, but if you click on it, you'll see a
far better representation of its epic coolness.
* *Global Clocks**Global Clocks:* The Ultimate Screen Clock's Global
Clocks window will display 24 analog clock faces, one for each time
zone on Earth. It will look more or less like the window to your
right, if substantially larger – we hasten to add that you can
change the clock style it displays its many time zones with.
It can also be configured to display 27 time zones, including the
half-hour zones used in Newfoundland, India and Australia.
To access the Global Clocks window, right-click in The Ultimate
Screen Clock and select Global Clocks from the menu that appears.
The clock style used by the Global Clocks window can be configured
through the Styles sub-menu of The Ultimate Screen Clock.
* *Startup Window: *Users who need The Ultimate Screen Clock to open
one of its ancillary functions when it starts up can now configure
it to do so in its Setup window. Use the Startup Window field.
You could, for example, have the Global Clocks window appear, if you
wanted to be apprised of the time around the world.
Once you close a window opened by the Startup Window option, The
Ultimate Screen Clock will behave normally.
Hold down the left Ctrl key on your keyboard when you start The
Ultimate Screen Clock to bypass this setting.
* *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
If you haven't done so previously, we recommend that you install the
Alchemy Mindworks trusted certificate
<https://blog.mindworkshop.com/alchemy-mindworks/installing-the-alchemy-mindworks-certificate/>
and disable the Smart Screen blue window of doom
<https://blog.mindworkshop.com/windows/disabling-windows-smart-screen-for-downloads/>
prior to downloading Alchemy Mindworks software.
Click on the blue button to download The Ultimate Screen Clock 15.
Download <http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html>
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 the above big blue button.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate
Screen Clock 14 May 1, 2023, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to
The Ultimate Screen Clock 15.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for The Ultimate
Screen Clock 14 prior to May1, 2022, we invite you to upgrade to The
Ultimate Screen Clock 15 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run The Ultimate Screen Clock 15, 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.
Announcing e-Paint 15
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html>
*e-Paint 15* 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 15, you'll find...
* *WebP:* The e-Paint WebP library has been updated to version 1.3.2
to address a security issue. 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.
* *Speed:* A quicker and more efficient architecture to make the most
of the latest releases of Windows.*
*
* *Themes:* An issue in the theme interface common to most Alchemy
Mindworks software that could leak resources and occasionally crash
the applications in question has been mercilessly stomped.
* *Drawing Engine:* Improves the performance of e-Paint's drawing engine.
* *Performance: *Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that
software developers never really stop meddling with.
* *Documentation:* Updates the documentation.
If you haven't done so previously, we recommend that you install the
Alchemy Mindworks trusted certificate
<https://blog.mindworkshop.com/alchemy-mindworks/installing-the-alchemy-mindworks-certificate/>
and disable the Smart Screen blue window of doom
<https://blog.mindworkshop.com/windows/disabling-windows-smart-screen-for-downloads/>
prior to downloading Alchemy Mindworks software.
Click on the blue button to download e-Paint 15.
Download now <http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 14 on or
after May 1, 2023, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to e-Paint 15.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 14 prior
to May 1, 2023, we invite you to upgrade to e-Paint 15 for *half the
current new-user price*.
The first time you run e-Paint 15, 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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