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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Contents:</font></h3>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b> </b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Announcing
GIF Construction Set Professional 10<br>
</b></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b> Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 Revision 2</b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b> </b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="-2">(second notification)</font></font><b>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b> </b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Announcing
e-Paint 10 </b></font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><font size="-2">(</font></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font size="-2"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="-2">additional</font></font>
notification)</font><b><br>
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<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b><b> </b></b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Announcing A</b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>lpha Paint +
Icon Editor 10</b></font><font face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><b><font size="-2"><b> </b></font></b><font
size="-2">(additional notification)</font><b><b><br>
</b> </b></font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b> </b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Replying to
this Message, List Removal and Details<br>
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<td valign="bottom"><font size="+1" face="Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif"><b><font color="#333333">Now
in the world — the third volume of
Dragonsbane.</font></b></font></td>
<td rowspan="2" style="padding: 7px 0px 0px 0px;"
valign="top"><a
href="http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/dragonsbane.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
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<td valign="top"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><b><font color="#333333">Click on
the book.</font></b></font></td>
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<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
color="#ffffff">Announcing GIF Construction Set
Professional 10</font></h2>
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<h2> </h2>
<h2> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part6.71C29BB4.FD764EB4@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="48" vspace="10"
hspace="10" height="48" align="right"></font></font></font></font></h2>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">We've added
new functionality to the world's most widely-used web
animator, 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.)<br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Among the new
features and enhancements to GIF Construction Set
Professional 10, you'll find that it:</font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
moz-do-not-send="true"
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/926-001.gif"
alt="" width="289" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="231" align="right">Adds a window to create
Photo Stack animations... an example of which can be
seen to your right. Photo stacks will let you add
your pictures, graphics, banners or other elements
to your web page or social media as an animation
that suggests a collection of paper photographs
being dropped onto a table. If it were any cooler,
it would be attracting polar bears... and you'd have
bears in your house, which isn't wholly desirable.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Fixes an
install issue that rendered the animation plugin
installers incapable of finding GIF Construction Set
after a major upgrade under some configurations of
windows.<br>
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</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Improves
the Crop window to make it more responsive, and to
fix several issues that caused its cursor to flash
and generally make a nuisance if themselves.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part8.CF601790.6CDE1C7E@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="25" vspace="5" hspace="10"
height="111" align="right">Updates the primary <b>JPEG
library</b> used by GIF Construction Set to the
latest release. This addresses several potential
security and image quality issues, and a few...
albeit very obscure... bugs. We'd like to take this
opportunity to stress the importance of keeping
whatever reads JPG files on your computer up to date
— there are unquestionably maliciously-crafted
graphics in the wild that can crash older JPEG
software and execute arbitrary, and potentially
nasty, code on your system.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the <b>WebP</b> libraries to the latest software
from Google, to create more attractive lossy files
and otherwise improve reality as we know it.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Further
enhances the sneakiness of the <b>validation logic</b>
to reduce the likelihood of GIF Construction Set
un-registering itself and thereafter deciding that
its key is already in use because Windows 10 has
silently updated something. Hopefully this one nails
the problem until the end of time. Yes, we said that
last year too, but Windows 10 proved to be sneakier
than we'd anticipated.<br>
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</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.<br>
<br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the documentation.</font></li>
</ul>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font></p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for GIF
Construction Set Professional 9 on or after April 1,
2019, you're welcome to a <b>no-cost upgrade</b> to
GIF Construction Set Professional 10. <br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for GIF
Construction Set Professional 9 prior to April 1,
2019, we invite you to upgrade to GIF Construction Set
Professional 10 for <b>half the current new-user
price</b>.<br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The first
time you run GIF Construction Set Professional 10, it
will determine which upgrade option applies to your
license.<br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page. <br>
</font><br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"
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<p><br>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">You can access
the <a href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gcskey.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">no-cost upgrade page</a>
directly by clicking on the foregoing link.<br>
</font><br>
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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Plugins</font></h3>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">All the
animation plugins for GIF Construction Set
Professional have been upgraded to run with GIF
Construction Set Professional 10.<br>
<br>
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 10 installers for
your plugins.<br>
</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">All the
animation plugins are at:</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></p>
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<p><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part12.AB76430D.B7813239@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="239" vspace="0"
hspace="0" height="46" border="0" align="left"></font></a></p>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> <br>
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<b><br>
</b></font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>IMPORTANT:</b>
If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction
Set 9 or PNG MNG Construction Set 9 and you plan to
uninstall GIF Construction Set 9 or PNG MNG
Construction Set 9 to replace them with the new
version 10 software, please be sure uninstall all your
version 9 plugins, and then uninstall GIF Construction
Set 9 and PNG MNG Construction Set 9. <br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">GIF
Construction Set 10 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.<br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> We've also
created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once
you've downloaded the version 10 installers. Please see
the <a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-qa.html#0032"
moz-do-not-send="true">the plugin help page</a> for
assistance.</font>
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<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
color="#ffffff">Graphic Workshop Professional 10
Revision 2<font size="-2"><br>
(second notification)</font></font></h2>
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<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
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alt="" class="" width="48" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="48" align="right"></font></h2>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Graphic
Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. This
release: <br>
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<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Accelerates
the preferred Graphic Workshop JPEG processor to
pretty much the speed of light. We were amazed...
huge megapixel JPG files open before the echos of
your mouse clicking have died away. You really have
to see this one at work to properly appreciate it.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a number of issues in the Filters window user
interface, most notably the cursors for the original
and processed image windows.<br>
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</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Speeds up
the WebP reader. It enjoys much the same performance
boost as JPG.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a number of user-interface and cosmetic issues in
the Crop window, including the demise of the dreaded
flash cursors under the latest release of Windows
10.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Improves
the appearance of the Halftone and Lightbox filters.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Fixes a
bug in the controls of the Matt filter.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a number of other issues in the initial version 10
release.<br>
</font> </li>
</ul>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<hr width="100%" size="2"><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><b><br>
From the Initial release of Graphic Workshop
Professional 10:</b><br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">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.)<br>
</font> </p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Among the new
features and enhancements to Graphic Workshop
Professional 10, you'll find that it:</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part16.7CCB4794.FBF1559D@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="301" vspace="10"
hspace="10" height="199" align="right">Adds <b>Print
Workshop</b>. Create hard copy of your pictures
with precise size and positioning, down to the
nearest hundredth of an inch (or of a centimeter).
Effortless to configure, this is the ideal tool for
creating photographs suitable for framing, flyers,
handouts and other professional output on paper. It
can even be configured to include trim lines and
pre-press marks. Right-click on a graphic and select
Print Workshop form the menu that appears.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Improves
the speed of the Graphic Workshop browser windows
with<b> predictive thumbnail caching</b>. Once a
browser window has opened, Graphic Workshop will
take its best guess at the thumbnails you're likely
to scroll into view next and fetch them when you're
not doing anything, pretty much eliminating any
visible delay when you do get to them. It's the sort
of thing only software developers could get excited
about, but it works really well.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/918-001.gif"
alt="" moz-do-not-send="true" width="143"
vspace="2" hspace="10" height="143" align="right">Adds
a set of <b>CGI surface textures</b> to the Graphic
Workshop Fractals and Textures window. Create
convincing real-world surfaces, or build an
exo-planet of your own devising. These things also
look breathtaking when they appear in the Matt and
Frame function of Graphic Workshop. A few examples
of the limitless capabilities of these textures
appears to your right... admittedly squeezed into
some fairly restricted real estate.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds a
batch mode to the <b>Identify Mystery Files</b>
function of Graphic Workshop. Hold down the Shift
key on your keyboard and select Identify Mystery
Files from the File menu.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part18.38F838C6.EB182076@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="271" vspace="10"
hspace="10" height="80" align="right">Adds <b>The
UltraLight Screen Clock</b>. A simplified version
of our immensely powerful and wildly popular
Ultimate Screen Clock, The UltraLight Screen Clock
will add your choice of sophisticated digital or
analog clocks to your Windows desktop. It's cool
enough to shatter penguins and have PETA people
protesting outside your digs for a solid week.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a problem in<b> Icon Editor UltraLight</b> that
could cause its drawing cursors to blink or flash
for no apparent reason under some configurations of
Windows.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/918-003.png"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part19.F3BB5523.512E9B60@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="179" vspace="10"
hspace="10" height="179" border="0"
align="right"></a>Adds a <b>Hexagon</b> filter
to the View mode Filters window. Render your
favorite pictures as a matrix of six-sided
interlocking tiles. Channel your inner bee-keeper,
harken back to the days of retro floor coverings or
just do geometry because you can remember how. This
one looks really cool when it's applied to
high-resolution digital camera images. The example
to your right is somewhat space-deprived — click on
it to see a larger picture.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds the <b>Graphic
Workshop Screen Saver</b>. Have your computer
display your choice of pictures in a dynamic,
animated slide show when your system is idle. Run in
its native application mode, the Graphic Workshop
Screen Saver also make a quick, accessible engine to
display banners and advertisements on a large
flat-screen monitor for retail environments.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part21.EB3819FF.A033577C@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="338" vspace="10"
hspace="10" height="122" align="right">Adds <b>Application
Reset Blocker</b>. If you've been beset by Windows
10 periodically flying into a panic and resetting
most of the applications you've selected to open
documents to Edge, Photos, Groove and so on, you can
banish the "app caused a problem" notification with
this intuitive tool. Be sure to read the Help for
this application before you click on Go.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part8.CF601790.6CDE1C7E@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="25" vspace="5" hspace="10"
height="111" align="right">Updates the primary <b>JPEG
library</b> used by Graphic Workshop to the latest
release. This addresses several potential security
and image quality issues, and a few... albeit very
obscure... bugs. We'd like to take this opportunity
to stress the importance of keeping whatever reads
JPG files on your computer up to date — there are
unquestionably maliciously-crafted graphics in the
wild that can crash older JPEG software and execute
arbitrary, and potentially nasty, code on your
system.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the <b>WebP</b> libraries to the latest software
from Google, to create more attractive lossy files
and otherwise improve reality as we know it.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Recognizes
the<b> .jpeg</b> file extension as being valid JPEG
files.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds a
second <b>Pipes</b> style to the Textures and
Filters window — thanks to everyone who e-mailed
about the initial plumber's nightmare. Choose
between the Industrial and Stainless Steel styles.
<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the <b>TIFF</b> reader logic to correctly handle
weird sixteen-bit gray-scale images correctly.
There's always one more peculiar TIFF file.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Fixes a
bug in the <b>Search</b> window that could allow it
to be reduced in size sufficiently to obscure the
Exit button under some configurations of Windows.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Further
enhances the sneakiness of the <b>validation logic</b>
to reduce the likelihood of Graphic Workshop
un-registering itself and thereafter deciding that
its key is already in use because Windows 10 has
silently updated something. Hopefully this one nails
the problem until the end of time. Yes, we said that
last year too, but Windows 10 proved to be sneakier
than we'd anticipated.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.<br>
<br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the documentation.</font></li>
</ul>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The <b>Graphic
Workshop</b><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsprint.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part23.44FE609E.871811FB@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="90" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="105" border="0" align="right"></a><b>
Printed Reference</b> has been revised for the
version 10 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.<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">All the <b>
Graphic Workshop plugins</b> have been upgraded to
install in the version 10 software. Note that if
you're currently using an earlier version of Graphic
Workshop and its attendant plugins:</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Be sure to
uninstall the version 9 plugins before you install
Graphic Workshop Professional 10. Failing this,
Graphic Workshop Professional 10 should prompt you
to do so automatically the first time you run it.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">You'll
need to download and install the new plugin
installers to run under Graphic Workshop
Professional 10.</font></li>
</ul>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you're
using a registered copy 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 10 plugin
— you won't have to buy it again.</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">As in years
past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 10
for the first time, it will look for a previous
installation of Graphic Workshop Professional 9 and
optionally <b>copy your existing configuration</b>,
so you won't have to set everything up by hand. Even
your open browser windows will be preserved.<br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click
on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop
Professional 10.</font>
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href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part25.C312546E.E5026099@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
border="0"></a></font></p>
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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 on or after April 1, 2019,
you're welcome to a <b>no-cost upgrade</b> to Graphic
Workshop Professional 10. <br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 prior to April 1, 2018, we
invite you to upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional
10 for <b>half the current new-user price</b>.<br>
</font> </p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The first
time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 10, it will
determine which upgrade option applies to your
license.<br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page. <br>
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<blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part9.BE694257.EFFDBBE4@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
border="0"></a></font></p>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
You can access the <a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">no-cost upgrade page</a>
directly by clicking on the foregoing link.<br>
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<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
color="#ffffff">Announcing e-Paint 10<font size="-2"><br>
(additional notification)</font></font></h2>
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<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
size="-1"> </font></font></h2>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">We</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part30.4B090162.5D68C634@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" moz-do-not-send="false" width="48"
vspace="10" hspace="10" height="48" align="right"></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">'ve added new
functionality to e-Paint, improved its performance and
genera</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">l</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">l</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">y refined it to
better get along with Windows 10. (We hasten to add
that it still </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif">performs admirably under earlier builds of
Windows, all the way back to Windows XP, if you're
feeling retro.)</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Among the new
features and enhancements to e-Paint 10, you'll find
that it:</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/921-001.gif"
alt="" moz-do-not-send="true" width="140"
vspace="2" hspace="10" height="143" align="right"></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds a set of <b>CGI
surface textures</b> to e-Paint. Create </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">convincing
real-world surfaces, or build an exo-planet of your
own devising. You can access the new textures
through the e-Paint Fill swatch — select CGI from
the menu that appears when you right-click on it. A
few examples of the limitless capabilities of these
textures appears to your right... admittedly
squeezed into some fairly restricted real estate.<br>
<br>
</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses a
problem in<b> </b>e-Paint that could cause its <b>drawing
cursors</b> to blink or flash for no apparent
reason under some configurations of Windows.<br>
<br>
</font> </font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"> </font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part8.CF601790.6CDE1C7E@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="25" vspace="5" hspace="10"
height="111" align="right">Updates the primary <b>JPEG
library</b> used by e-Paint to the latest release.
This addresses several potential security and image
quality issues, and a few... albeit very obscure...
bugs. We'd like to take this opportunity to stress
the importance of keeping whatever reads JPG files
on your computer up to date — there are
unquestionably maliciously-crafted graphics in the
wild that can crash older JPEG software and execute
arbitrary, and potentially nasty, code on your
computer.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the <b>WebP</b> libraries to the latest software
from Google, to create more attractive lossy files
and otherwise improve reality as we know it.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://gra.mindworkshop.com/921-002.jpg"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part33.DA77B82D.D62A2970@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="179" vspace="10"
hspace="10" height="179" border="0"
align="right"></a>Adds a <b>Hexagon</b> filter
to the Image menu Filters window. Render your
favorite pictures as a matrix of six-sided
interlocking tiles. Channel your inner bee-keeper,
harken back to the days of retro floor coverings or
just do geometry because you can remember how. This
one looks really cool when it's applied to
high-resolution digital camera images. The example
to your right is somewhat space-deprived — click on
it to see a larger picture. <font size="-2"><b>[1]</b></font><br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Further
enhances the sneakiness of the <b>validation logic</b>
to reduce the likelihood of e-Paint un-registering
itself and thereafter deciding that its key is
already in use because Windows 10 has silently
updated something. Hopefully this one nails the
problem until the end of time. Yes, we said that
last year too, but Windows 10 proved to be sneakier
than we'd anticipated.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.<br>
<br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the documentation.</font></li>
</ul>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">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 <b>copy your existing configuration</b>,
so you won't have to set everything up by hand. <br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click
on the blue button to download e-Paint 10. <br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part25.C312546E.E5026099@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
border="0"></a></font></p>
</blockquote>
<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </h3>
<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 9 on
or after April 1, 2019, you're welcome to a <b>no-cost
upgrade</b> to e-Paint 10. <br>
</font> </p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 9
prior to April 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade to
e-Paint 10 for <b>half the current new-user price</b>.<br>
</font> </p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The first
time you run e-Paint 10, it will determine which
upgrade option applies to your license.<br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page. <br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part9.BE694257.EFFDBBE4@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
border="0"></a></font></p>
</blockquote>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">You can
access the <a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/pntkey.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">no-cost upgrade page</a>
directly by clicking on the foregoing link.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> <font size="-2" face="Helvetica, Arial,
sans-serif"><b>[1]</b> The example Hexagon graphic, Girl
with Tattoos, is by Sarah Wissink, and is used under
license from freeimages.com.</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<h2><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"
color="#ffffff">Announcing Alpha Paint + Icon Editor
10 <font size="-2"><br>
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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Alpha Paint +
Icon Editor 10 has been released. <br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><img
src="cid:part40.B4E45E9A.0EE74B95@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="48" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="48" align="right">Alpha Paint is a
sophisticated Windows paint application to draw and
manage graphics with full alpha transparency. It will
create:<br>
</font>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Professional
web page images</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Eye-catching
effects for social media</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Killer
graphics for PowerPoint presentations</font></li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Titles for
videos</font></li>
</ul>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">...and pretty
much anything else that requires leading-edge art and
transparency.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
In addition, it can create and edit Windows icons.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part41.E54FA08D.7124047A@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="246" vspace="10" hspace="10"
height="205" border="0" align="right"></a>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. <br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
Anyone with sufficient eye-hand coordination to
successfully operate a web browser should be able to
master Alpha Paint in under an hour.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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.)<br>
</font>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Among the new
features and enhancements to Alpha Paint, you'll find
that it:</font></p>
<ul>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Adds a
Scrapbook window, to keep track of image fragments
you wight like to use again in the future.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a problem that could cause Alpha Paint's drawing
cursors to blink or flash for no apparent reason
under some configurations of Windows.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the <b>WebP</b> libraries to the latest software
from Google, to create more attractive lossy files
and otherwise improve reality as we know it.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Further
enhances the sneakiness of the <b>validation logic</b>
to reduce the likelihood of Alpha Paint
un-registering itself and thereafter deciding that
its key is already in use because Windows 10 has
silently updated something. Hopefully this one nails
the problem until the end of time. Yes, we said that
last year too, but Windows 10 proved to be sneakier
than we'd anticipated.<br>
</font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Addresses
a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.<br>
<br>
</font> </li>
<li><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Updates
the documentation.</font></li>
</ul>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html"
moz-do-not-send="true"><img
src="cid:part25.C312546E.E5026099@mindworkshop.com"
alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
border="0"></a></font></p>
</blockquote>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<h3><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Upgrades</font></h3>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint
9 on or after April 1, 2019, you're welcome to a <b>no-cost
upgrade</b> Alpha Paint to 10. <br>
</font> </p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">If you have
registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint
9 prior to April 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade
to Alpha Paint 10 for <b>half the current new-user
price</b>.<br>
</font> </p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The first
time you run Alpha Paint 10, it will determine which
upgrade option applies to your license.<br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Click on the
blue button below to visit the upgrade page. <br>
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alt="" class="" width="239" height="46"
border="0"></a></font></p>
</blockquote>
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href="http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html"
moz-do-not-send="true">no-cost upgrade page</a>
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