[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks

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     Contents:


      1. Announcing e-Paint 7

      2. Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 7 (Second Notification) 

      3. Replying to this Message and List Removal





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     1. Announcing e-Paint 7
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     e-Paint 7 has been released.


     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, 8 and 10.

     While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in e-Paint 6 are 
     "under the hood," users of the latest release will notice that it's 
     noticeably quicker, especially for functions that call for significant 
     system resources, such as filtering images.
     
     The updated architecture will also allow us to add new features to 
     e-Paint that were impractical or genuinely impossible under version 6.


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     WHAT'S NEW


     The changes in version 7 include:


     - Adds an Adjust window to let you quickly... and interactively... 
       fine-tune your photographs. It's in the Image menu.


     - Adds a Photography Workshop window to assist you with refining
       your pictures... or portions thereof... using e-Paint's enviable
       library of filters without having to understand a single adjustment
       or control. Click on the tiles for the effect you want and you're
       done. It's also in the Image menu.


     - e-Paint 7 uses an altered installation structure that's way more 
       resistant to being broken by malfunctioning and overly-paranoid 
       third-party security software. We're reasonably certain that the 
       "Can't create specified file" error is history.


     - The Image menu Filters window will now optimize itself to use most of 
       your desktop area, allowing for much larger sample panes. This 
       behavior can be disabled in Setup, should you prefer the classic 
       Filters interface.
 

     - Fixes a bug that prevented documents added to e-Paint through the 
       Filter window's Apply to Duplicate option from appearing in the 
       Window menu.


     - Fixes a resource leak in the drawing engine that could slow down 
       e-Paint over time when it was asked to work with large images under
       some builds of Windows.


     - Improves the file menu thumbnail management for quicker start-ups.


     - Improves the performance of the rendering engine.


     - Updates UpToDate.


     - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software 
       developers never really stop meddling with.      


     - Updates the documentation.



     You can download e-Paint 7 from:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html#download


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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 6 on or after 
     March 1, 2016, you’re welcome to a free upgrade to e-Paint 7. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 6 prior to 
     March 1, 2016, you can upgrade to e-Paint 7 for half the cost of a new 
     single-user license.

     When you first run e-Paint 7, it will check to see if you have a 
     registration for e-Paint 6 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 7'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 7 (Second Notification) 
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     Graphic Workshop Professional 7 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, 8 and 10.

     While most of the seriously cool changes embodied in Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 7 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 6.



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     WHAT'S NEW


     The changes in version 7 include:


     - Graphic Workshop now includes Scrapbook, a stand-alone clipboard 
       manager that will automatically store items pasted to the Windows 
       clipboard from any application, and allow you to browse and recall 
       them when you want to use them again.


     - Adds an Adjust window to let you quickly... and interactively... 
       fine-tune your photographs. Right-click on any picture and select 
       Adjust from the menu that appears.


     - Graphic Workshop Professional 7 uses an altered installation 
       structure that's way more resistant to being broken by 
       malfunctioning and overly-paranoid third-party security software. 
       We're reasonably certain that the "Can't create specified file" 
       error is history.


     - The GIF Construction Set UltraLight animation software that installs
       with Graphic Workshop Professional 7 has been completely rewritten, 
       and is now a simplified version of our GIF Construction Set 
       Professional application.


     - The View mode Filters window will now optimize itself to use most of 
       your desktop area, allowing for much larger sample panes. This 
       behavior can be disabled in Setup, should you prefer the classic 
       Filters interface.
     

     - The Save As window now includes the Graphic Workshop format selection 
       tiles, for quicker file saves.


     - Adds a history stack to the View window. Hold down the Shift key and 
       right-click to step back through your zoom and view events. See the 
       View section of the Reference document of the Manual for a compete 
       discussion of this feature.


     - Graphic Workshop Professional 7 now includes a stand-alone Archive 
       Manager to create, manage, extract and modify ZIP archives... really, 
       really quickly.


     - Fixes a bug in the EMF reader that could cause some metafiles to appear
       distorted.


     - Fixes a bug in the View window that prevented alpha-enabled images 
       from  displaying transparency correctly after the Filter window was 
       invoked and Undo was activated.


     - Fixes a bug in the Watermark function N macro that caused it to expand
       incorrectly under some builds of Windows.
       

     - Updates the View mode Configuration window with additional options.


     - Addresses several issues with the Photography Workshop window.


     - Fixes a bug that could crash Graphic Workshop if documents were 
       written to formats supported by plugins.


     - Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software 
       developers never really stop meddling with.      


     - Updates the documentation.



     You can Graphic Workshop Professional 7 from:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download



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     UPGRADES


     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 6 on or after March 1, 2016, you’re welcome to a no-cost
     upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 7. 

     If you registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic Workshop 
     Professional 6 prior to March 1, 2016, you can upgrade to Graphic 
     Workshop Professional 7 for half the cost of a new single-user license.

     When you first run Graphic Workshop Professional 7, it will check to see 
     if you have a registration for Graphic Workshop Professional 6 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 7's menu bar.

     The Graphic Workshop Professional no-cost upgrade key offer ends on 
     November 30, 2016.

     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


     All the format plugins for Graphic Workshop Professional have been 
     upgraded to run with Graphic Workshop Professional 7.

     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 7 installer for this
     plugin.

     All the Graphic Workshop plugins are at:

         http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsplugins.html

     IMPORTANT: If you have plugins installed under Graphic Workshop 6 and
     you plan to uninstall Graphic Workshop 6 to replace it with the new
     Graphic Workshop Professional 7, please be sure uninstall all your 
     version 6 plugins, and then uninstall Graphic Workshop 6.



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