[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
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1. *Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 9
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2. * Alpha Paint + Icon Editor*Revision 2 (Second notification)
3. **Blocked *E-Mail
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Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 9
Graphic Workshop Professional 9 has been released. We've further
refined its architecture to make it more memory-efficient, and to
better utilize the resources available under 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.)
Among the new features and enhancements to Graphic Workshop
professional 9, you'll find that it:
* Adds a *Print Photographs* function. Print your pictures two,
four, nine or sixteen to a page in eye-watering high resolution
— with margins and cut lines to trim them out so they look like
traditional paper photos. Load your color printer with glossy
paper to complete the effect. Sharing a stack of paper
photographs with your friends and family is /way/ less scary
than handing around an $800-dollar smartphone.
* Adds a *Print Posters* function. Have your best photographs — or
any other graphics you like look of — printed over multiple
pages. Cut along the included guides, stick the resulting tiles
together and you can create posters of pretty much any size you
like... at least until you run out of paper and sticky tape.
* Adds a *Print Cube* function. Yes, we did a lot with printers
this time. Select six pictures and Graphic Workshop will print
them such that they can be cut out and folded into a
three-dimensional photo-cube, complete with glue tabs.
Assembling one of these things entails about five minutes of
arts and crafts, but they look really cool.
* Adds a *Print Dodecahedron* function. Contrary to that which is
believed in some circles, a dodecahedron is twelve-sided
three-dimensional solid, not an experimental particle
accelerator in Switzerland powered by extinct flightless birds.
Select twelve photographs and Graphic Workshop will print them
out such that they can be cut and folded into a twelve-sided
desk ornament / yuletide tree decoration / reduced
attention-span cat toy. In fairness, this one takes a few
minutes longer to assemble than the aforementioned photo-cube,
but it's cooler still.
* Adds *Icon Editor* UltraLight. A simplified version of the
Windows icon editor feature of our Alpha Paint application, Icon
Editor UltraLight will create and modify icons with full alpha
transparency, and a rich selection of tools. Enhance your
Windows desktop with your own icons, build favicons for your web
page and generally own the universe... or at least, its
clickable shortcuts.
* Enhances the copyright of your photography — adds the option of
*watermarking* your photographs with *graphics* as well as text
through the batch mode and View window Watermark functions. The
graphic watermark functionality supports alpha transparency, so
you can arrange for fancy text and logos, translucent watermarks
and innumerable other effects.
* Adds a prompt to the *View* window to alert you to *unsaved
changes* made through the Filters function... so you don't
right-click your flawlessly-refined pictures into oblivion by
mistake. Note that this prompt can be disabled through the View
mode Configuration window if you prefer to live dangerously.
* Renames the *Picture* menu in the View and Crop windows to
*File*, for those of us with fingers that naturally Alt-F S and
Alt-F A to Save and Save As.
* Adds a *Pipes texture* to the Textures and Fractals window.
Pipes generates intricate, complex tangles of industrial
plumbing with a variety of color and style options. The
resulting graphics are wholly tile-able — they can be used as
Windows wallpaper, web page backgrounds and other repeating
media. While we'd be the first to agree that it would take
cleverer minds than ours to find a genuinely practical use for
Pipes, this is easily one of the most diverting features we've
added to Graphic Workshop in years.
* Improves the *File Open* window that appears in Montage
UltraLight, among others, to display pictures with alpha
transparency correctly in its preview pane.
* Adds more color options to the *Channels* filter in the View
mode Filters window.
* Fixes a memory leak in the View mode*Undo*.
* Fixes a bug in the*multiple-color gradient selector* that
appears at various places around Graphic Workshop itself and its
ancillary applications, such as Montage UltraLight. This was a
particularly insidious little menace, which could crash its
parent application if the Manage Library window were opened,
under some builds of Windows.
* Enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to further
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.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
The *Graphic
Workshop*<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwsprint.html>*Printed
Reference* has been revised for the version9 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.
All the *Graphic Workshop plugins* have been upgraded to install in
the version 9 software. Note that if you're currently using an
earlier version of Graphic Workshop and its attendant plugins:
* Be sure to uninstall the version 8 plugins before you install
Graphic Workshop Professional 9. Failing this, Graphic Workshop
Professional 9 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 9.
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 9 plugin — you won't have to buy it again.
As in years past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 9 for
the first time, it will look for a previous installation of Graphic
Workshop Professional 8 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.
Click on the blue button to download Graphic Workshop Professional 9.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 8 on or after April 1, 2018, you're welcome to
a *no-cost upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 9.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 8 prior to April 1, 2018, we invite you to
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 9 for *half the current
new-user price*.
The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 9, it will
determine which upgrade option applies to your license.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<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.
Alpha Paint + Icon Editor Revision 2 (second notification)
This release addresses a number of issues in the initial version,
including:
* Fixes the New window so it remembers the new image depth value
correctly.
* Resolves a number of issues with the Text tool.
* Addresses several problems in the Gradient window.
* Corrects the window size logic, so Alpha Paint can't get too
small to access all its tools.
* Plugs a few memory leaks.
* Addresses a somewhat troublesome crash caused by the Irregular
Selection tool under some builds of Windows.
* ... and several other nettlesome concerns.
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*From the first release posting:*
Alpha Paint is a sophisticated Windows paint application to draw and
manage graphics with full alpha transparency. It will create:
* Professional web page images
* Eye-catching effects for social media
* Killer graphics for PowerPoint presentations
* Titles for videos
...and pretty much anything else that requires leading-edge art and
transparency.
In addition, it can create and edit Windows icons.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html>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.
Anyone with sufficient eye-hand coordination to successfully operate
a web browser should be able to master Alpha Paint in under an hour.
We invite you to download an evaluation copy of Alpha Paint and try
it out. Click on the huge blue button.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html>
If you'd like to share your experience with Alpha Paint, or if you
have any suggestions or you encounter a problem with the initial
release, please click on this next huge blue button.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/email-alchemy.html>
Blocked E-Mail
It has come to our attention that several of the larger free e-mail
services appear to have been blocking or throttling our e-mail of
late. Our lawyers would probably prefer that we didn't name them here.
If this is the first posting to the Alchemy Mindworks mailing list
you've seen for a few weeks, yours might be among them.
The problem with e-mail is that it's really hard to know when you're
not receiving it.
We've theorized that these mail blocks happen because lots of
effectively identical messages appear in the IN boxes of users of
these mail providers, and the underlying software assumes they're
spam... rather than, say, postings from an opt-in newsletter like
the one you're reading now.
In the event that you've been left out of the loop due to a mail
block and you'd like to continue to be notified of our new software
releases — there will be quite a few new releases over the next two
months — you might want to add a backup path to stay in touch. We
suggest:
* Create a second e-mail account with another mail provider and
subscribe it to the Alchemy Mindworks update list. We've had
reasonably good results with live.com, gmail.com and mail.com,
among others. To add an address to our update list, just hit our
home page <http://www.mindworkshop.coml> and complete the pop-up
window.
* Enable the Up To Date notification agent that installs with all
Alchemy Mindworks software. Select Start → Programs (or All
Programs) → Alchemy Mindworks → Up To Date → Up To Date. Open
Startup Manager from the Up To Date File menu and select the
Automatic option. Click on Close and then exit Up To Date. Note
that the day after you do this, you'll probably see a
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you. You can safely skip these.
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