[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
Alchemy Mindworks
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Sat May 17 08:42:20 EDT 2014
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Contents:
1. Announcing e-Paint 5
2. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 5 (Second Notification)
3. RAW Digital Camera Plugin patch 2 for Graphic Workshop
Professional 5
4. Replying to this Message and List Removal
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1. Announcing e-Paint 5
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e-Paint 5 has been released.
As with Graphic Workshop Professional 5, we've refined the internal
architecture of e-Paint to make it faster, more memory-efficient and
better able to take advantage of the functionality of Windows 7 and
Windows 8.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
e-Paint that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 4.
This release addresses a number of user interface issues that were
somewhat intransigent in version 4, especially several problems with
the tool palette window.
Users of e-Paint 5 should notice a degree of improvement in the
performance of its drawing tools.
Please see the discussion of version 5 enhancements at:
http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v5-upgrades/
You can e-Paint 5 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 4 on or after
May 1, 2013, youre welcome to a free upgrade to e-Paint 5.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 4 prior to
May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to e-Paint 5 for half the cost of a new
single-user license.
When you first run e-Paint 5, it will check to see if you have a
registration for e-Paint 4 on your system. If it finds one, it will
display a window to tell you which of the foregoing upgrade options is
applicable. Click on the Upgrade button to visit our web page and
request or order an upgrade.
The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help >
Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of e-Paint 5's
menu bar.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/pntkey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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2. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 5 (Second Notification)
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Graphic Workshop Professional 5 has been released.
We've refined the internal architecture of Graphic Workshop
Professional to make it faster, more memory-efficient and better able
to take advantage of the functionality of Windows 7 and Windows 8.
While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in Graphic Workshop
Professional 5 are "under the hood," users of the latest release will
notice that it's noticeable quicker, especially for functions that call
for significant system resources, such as thumbnail management.
The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to
Graphic Workshop that were impractical or genuinely impossible under
version 4.
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WHAT'S NEW
This release features some visible changes as well:
- Graphic Workshop Professional 5 now includes e-Paint UltraLight, a
simplified version of our popular painting and digital darkroom
application.
- The Crop window has been refined, with a better user interface and
the addition of a Properties window to allow the crop dimensions to
be set numerically.
- The aforementioned thumbnail manager for Graphic Workshop's browser
windows is considerably quicker.
- Most of the graphic file format readers are significantly faster.
- Graphic Workshop requires less memory to run, which will make it
and anything else running under Windows quite a bit speedier,
especially on systems with limited system resources.
Please see the discussion of version 5 enhancements at:
http://www.mindworkshop.info/gif-construction-set/v5-upgrades/
You can Graphic Workshop Professional 5 from:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download
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UPGRADES
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 4 on or after May 1, 2013, youre welcome to a free
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 5.
If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop
Professional 4 prior to May 1, 2013, you can upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 5 for half the cost of a new single-user license.
When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 5, it will check to see
if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 4 on your
system. If it finds one, it will display a window to tell you which of
the foregoing upgrade options is applicable. Click on the Upgrade button
to visit our web page and request or order an upgrade.
The upgrade window can subsequently be accessed through the Help >
Upgrade Manager > Upgrade from Previous Version item of Graphic Workshop
Professional 5's menu bar.
You can also visit the no-cost upgrade page directly at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwskey.html
and the upgrade order page at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html
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PLUGINS
Almost all the format plugins for Graphic Workshop Professional have
been upgraded to run with Graphic Workshop Professional 5 - the
exception is the JPEG 2000 plugin, which will probably be a few days
getting through the pipe.
If you have registered the RAW Digital Camera plugin for a previous
release of Graphic Workshop, your existing registration key is still
valid. You'll just need to download the version 5 installer for this
plugin.
All the Graphic Workshop plugins are at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html
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3. RAW Digital Camera Plugin patch 2 for Graphic Workshop
Professional 5
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The RAW plugin for Graphic Workshop Professional has been updated to
support several dozen new cameras, and to improve its image processing
speed.
The RAW Digital Camera Plugin currently supports 537 digital cameras.
We recommend that users of the RAW plugin set download and install
the current release.
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View and convert the native raw image files from many contemporary
Canon, Casio, Hasselblad, Kodak, Konica, Nikon, Leica, Minolta,
Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Sigma, Fuji and Sony high-end digital
cameras, plus Adobe Digital Negative files, to access the highest
possible image quality for your digital photography. The improved
detail resolution and color fidelity available with the Graphic
Workshop Professional RAW plugin compared to the default JPEG
configuration for most cameras is breathtaking.
This plugin costs $34.99 (US).
If you own a supported digital camera -- or if you're just thinking
about buying one -- you and your immediate descendants will thank you
for downloading this plugin. See the download link, below, for a
complete list of the cameras the plugin supports.
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You can download the plugin at:
http://www.mindworkshop.com/alchemy/gwsplugins.html#RAW
Please note that you must be running Graphic Workshop Professional 4 to
install this plugin.
(Alchemy Mindworks is not affiliated with Sony Corporation, Pentax
Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, Konica Minolta Holdings Inc.,
Eastman Kodak Company, Canon Inc., Hasselblad AB, Nikon Corporation or
Olympus Corporation, Casio Computer Company, Sigma Corporation of
America, Fuji Photo Film Company Ltd. or any of their affiliates,
subsidiaries or holdings.)
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