[Newsletter] Announcements from Alchemy Mindworks
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Contents:
1. * Alpha Paint + Icon Editor Revision 5
*
2. * Announcing e-Paint 9***(second notification)**
3. * Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 4 *
(additional notification)
4. *The Ultimate Screen Clock Extra Styles*
5. * The Order is Back in Print *(additional notification)
6. * Replying to this Message, List Removal and Details *
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Alpha Paint + Icon Editor 9 Revision 5
Alpha Paint 9 has been updated. This release:
* Adds*interactive resizing* — select an area of a picture open in
Alpha Paint using the Rectangle Section tool, and you can grab
and drag the edges of the selection marquee to resize it. While
most of the interactive resize tools we've encountered have done
some serious damage to the images they were confronted with over
multiple adjustments, the one in Alpha Paint is diabolically
sneaky, and does a superb job of maintaining the quality of
resized image fragments.
* Updates all the *image import* libraries to improve their
performance and to deal with more weird-beard PNG and JPG files.
They're out there, lurking...
* Addresses a number of minor issues in the settings pane.
* Improves the drawing engine's performance.
* Improves support for weird and genuinely incorrectly-formed ICO
files.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
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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>
Announcing e-Paint 9
(second notification)
e-Paint 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 e-Paint 9, you'll find
that it:
* Adds*interactive resizing* — select an area of a picture open in
e-Paint using the Rectangle Section tool, and you can grab and
drag the edges of the selection marquee to resize it. While most
of the interactive resize tools we've encountered have done some
serious damage to the images they were confronted with over
multiple adjustments, the one in e-Paint is diabolically sneaky,
and does a superb job of maintaining the quality of resized
image fragments. We hasten to add that e-Paint 9's updated
internal architecture has made this one possible.
* Updates all the *image import* libraries to improve their
performance and to deal with more weird-beard PNG and JPG files.
They're out there, lurking...
* Adds a *Photo Fine-tune* filter. Adjust your pictures to enjoy
flawless exposure and lighting... even if you took them under
adverse circumstances that would have sent photographers of an
earlier epoch into a permanent coma.
* Adds a *Shards* filter. Apply some profoundly extreme special
effects to your graphics using this leading-edge bit of CGI.
Channel your inner extraterrestrial.
* Adds a *Lens Correction* filter to unbend the walls, roads and
other straight lines in wide-angle photographs.
* Enhances the copyright of your photography — adds the option of
*watermarking* your photographs with *graphics* as well as text
through the filter Watermark function. The graphic watermark
functionality supports alpha transparency, so you can arrange
for fancy text and logos, translucent watermarks and innumerable
other effects.
* Improves the logic for the application status bar so
e-Paint9doesn't go into vapor lock during long processes.
* Adjusts the *memory footprint* of e-Paint9. This allows it to
better get along with Windows' memory management logic, load a
bit quicker and run more effectively and reliably, especially if
it finds itself on a system that's a bit short of memory.
* Enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to further
reduce the likelihood of e-Paint9un-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.
As in years past, when you run e-Paint 9 for the first time, it will
look for a previous installation of e-Paint 8 and optionally *copy
your existing configuration*, so you won't have to set everything up
by hand.
Click on the blue button to download e-Paint9.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint8 on or
after June 1, 2018, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to e-Paint9.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint8 prior
to June 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade to e-Paint9 for *half the
current new-user price*.
The first time you run e-Paint9, 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/pntkey.html> directly by clicking on
the foregoing link.
Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 4
(additional notification)
Graphic Workshop Professional 9 has been updated. This release:
* Adds a *Photo Fine-tune* filter. Adjust your pictures to enjoy
flawless exposure and lighting... even if you took them under
adverse circumstances that would have sent photographers of an
earlier epoch into a permanent coma.
* Adds a *Shards* filter. Apply some profoundly weird special
effects to your graphics using this leading-edge bit of CGI.
Channel your inner extraterrestrial.
* Adds a *Lens Correction* filter to unbend the walls, roads and
other straight lines in wide-angle photographs.
* Adds an optimized view mode for the *Crop* window to better size
your pictures for the available screen real-estate. Please see
the discussion of display modes in the section of the Reference
document for Graphic Workshop that deals with Crop. Note that
you can revert to the earlier Exact display mode if you turn out
to prefer it.
* Adds an option in Graphic Workshop's browser windows to display
the *file type* of each graphic therein in their thumbnails.
This can be helpful if you like long file names and you store
your pictures in various formats. Select Thumbnails → Show File
Extensions from the browser right-click menu to toggle this feature.
* Adds a 12-percent zoom option to the *Filters* window, to allow
even honking big mega-pixel images to be viewed in their entirety.
* Updates the *JPG and PNG* image libraries for Graphic Workshop
to address several potential security issues.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 8, we invite you to upgrade to Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 for *half the current new-user price*.
Click on the blue button below to visit the upgrade page.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
The Ultimate Screen Clock Extra Styles
It has come to our attention that the installer for The Ultimate
Screen Clock 9's extra clock styles library was becoming confused by
some builds and configurations of Windows. If yours was one of them,
it might have refused to allow you to install the extra styles
library, being under the misapprehension that The Ultimate Screen
Clock 9 either wasn't installed or wasn't registered.
Oooops...
This issue has been addressed, and the installer has been disabused
of its misapprehension.
If you were able to install the extra styles library, read no further.
If you have in fact encountered one of the foregoing error messages
while trying to do so, please accept our apology. We ask that you
delete the extra styles installer you currently have — usually named
*UltimateScreenClockExtraStyles.msi* or *tusx90.msi* — and then
download and run the updated one from our web page. The big blue
button, below, will get you there.
Be sure to click on one of the DOWNLOAD buttons in the second group.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/clock.html#download>
The Order by Steven William Rimmer is Back in Print
<http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html>Steven William
Rimmer's legendary novel of power, madness, secret societies and
weird bits of alchemy is now available through Amazon's
print-on-demand book service.
Newly revised and printed on high-end paper with eye-friendly large
type, The Order is ready to outage readers who'd scarcely been born
when it was originally written.
The Amazon print edition is unabridged and undoes all manner of
iniquities wrought upon the earlier small-press versions of The Order.
It also has a really cool cover that the thumbnail graphic here
doesn't begin to do justice to.
Should you not have encountered this technology previously,
print-on-demand does pretty much what it says on the box. When you
order a copy of The Order through Amazon, a digital press will print
one book, just for you.
Remarkably, the production quality of print-on-demand books is if
anything better than that of commercial mass-market fiction. In
addition, your book will have been manufactured a few days before
you receive it, rather than having been stored for months in a
warehouse in Duluth.
Because these books are sold through Amazon, you can enjoy free
shipping with a Prime account, or if you buy enough other stuff to
reach your free shipping threshold.
Finally, print-on-demand means pretty much zero waste. Every copy of
The Order that gets printed will actually be sold. By comparison,
traditional publishing could see three quarters of the books that
were manufactured ultimately being "remaindered" and destroyed.
Please click on this big blue button:
<http://www.stevenwilliamrimmer.com/theorder.html>
The Order is also available in a newly-revised Amazon Kindle e-book
edition — same big blue button.
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