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Contents:
1. * Alpha Paint + Icon Editor Revision 9
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2. * PNG MNG Construction Set 9 Revision 4 ******(second
notification******)*** * *
3. * GIF Construction Set Professional 9 Revision
4*****(***********additional ***notification******)*** *
4. ** Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 12 *****(additional
notification******)***
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Alpha Paint + Icon Editor 9 Revision 8
Alpha Paint 9 has been updated. This release:
* Adds WebP support — create, open and edit leading-edge WebP web
page graphics.
The WebP format was developed by Google. Supported by the
current versions of all the major web browsers, it replaces PNG
and JPEG with a twenty-first century graphics standard. It
allows for true-color imaging, alpha transparency and optional
lossy compression for those occasions when you really need your
graphic files to be smaller.
Best of all, WebP graphics can be added to a web page using the
same HTML coding as would be the case for a JPG file.
There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our blog
<http://blog.mindworkshop.com/animation/a-quick-introduction-to-webp-graphics-and-animations/>.
* Fixes a bug that caused Alpha Paint to misbehave when it was
called from another application under some builds of Windows.
This resolves the issue of it failing to open when it was
summoned by holding down the Ctrl key and using the Paint
functions of Graphic Workshop and PNG MNG Construction Set.
* Addresses several more of minor issues in the settings pane.
* Improves the drawing engine's performance.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/alphap.html>
PNG MNG Construction Set 9 Revision 4***(second notification)***
PNG MNG Construction Set 9 has been updated. This release:
* Adds WebP support to PNG MNG Construction Set — which changes
everything.
PNG MNG Construction Set can open and save WebP graphics and
animations. Because WebP files can be used directly in web pages
and other on-line media, you can now create web animations with
full 24-bit color, millisecond timing and true alpha
transparency, transcending the limitations of traditional GIF
animations.
It also supports both lossless and user-definable lossy
compression — the latter being comparable to what JPEG does — to
allow you to squeeze your animations into very small files if
you need to.
You can add WebP files to your web pages using the same coding
as would be used for GIF animations.
In that the user interface and functionality of PNG MNG
Construction Set is pretty much identical to that of GIF
Construction Set, current users of GIF Construction Set can be
up to speed with the state of the art in web page animation in
substantially less time than it's taken you to read this.
WebP animations totally blew us away when we started using them
— you need to experience them as well.
There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our blog
<http://blog.mindworkshop.com/animation/a-quick-introduction-to-webp-graphics-and-animations/>.
(To reduce unnecessary wear on the Help buttons in PNG MNG
Construction Set — and more to the point, to save you digging
through its manual — we hasten to note that you can create WebP
documents from your new or existing MNG animations by selecting
Save As from the File menu, and then Selecting WebP as the file
type in the Save As window that opens.)
* Adds WebP still image support to Animation Wizard, and various
other functions in PNG MNG Construction Set that open still
graphics.
* Adds *optional paint applications* to the Paint buttons in PNG
MNG Construction Set. Hold down the Ctrl key when you click on a
Paint button to have your graphic opened in Alpha Paint if it
has alpha transparency, or in e-Paint or the Graphic Workshop
e-Paint UltraLight if it doesn't. See the discussion of Paint in
the Reference document of PNG MNG Construction Set's manual for
more about this feature. It's all in the second blue box.
We hasten to add that Alpha Paint may misbehave in this capacity
under some versions of Windows — it's fixed in the next release
of Alpha Paint.
* Fixes several bugs in the document window Drag 'n Drop
functionality.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/pngpro.html>
Upgrades
If you have previously registered or upgraded to PNG MNG
Construction Set Professional 8, you can upgrade to PNG MNG
Construction Set Professional 9 for half the cost of a new
single-user license.
Click on the huge blue button below.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/upgrade.html>
GIF Construction Set Professional 9 Revision 4 ***(additional
notification)***
GIF Construction Set Professional 9 has been updated. This release:
* Adds an Export to WebP option to the GIF Construction Set File
menu. Wait 'til you see what this puppy can do.
The WebP format was developed by Google. Supported by the
current versions of all the major web browsers, it replaces GIF
with a twenty-first century animation standard. It allows for
true-color imaging, alpha transparency, millisecond-resolution
timing and optional lossy compression for those occasions when
your animations just get out of control and you really need them
to be smaller.
Best of all, WebP animations can be added to a web page using
the same HTML coding as would be the case for a GIF file.
There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our blog
<http://blog.mindworkshop.com/animation/a-quick-introduction-to-webp-graphics-and-animations/>.
* Adds WebP still image support to Animation Wizard, and various
other functions in GIF Construction Set that open still graphics.
* Adds optional alpha image masking to Animation Wizard, so you
can import graphics with full alpha transparency and not have
their backgrounds look like salad.
* Fixes several bugs in the document window Drag 'n Drop
functionality.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
* Updates the documentation.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gifcon.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF
Construction Set 8, we invite you to upgrade to GIF Construction Set
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>
Graphic Workshop Professional 9 Revision 12 ***(additional
notification)***
Graphic Workshop Professional 9 has been updated. This release:
* Adds *WebP support* — Graphic Workshop can now open and write to
.webp graphics. Should you be unfamiliar with WebP, it's a
graphic and animation document format developed by Google. It
supplants JPEG, PNG and GIF on the web, enjoying better image
quality, compression, color depth and timing accuracy. It's
supported by the current releases of all the major web browsers.
It looks amazing in on-line content, such as web pages and
social media.
There's an extensive discussion of WebP at our blog
<http://blog.mindworkshop.com/animation/a-quick-introduction-to-webp-graphics-and-animations/>.
This one's cool enough to shatter penguins.
There's an overview of WebP in the Formats document of Graphic
Workshop's manual. WebP is available in all the functionality of
Graphic Workshop that opens, views, writes and processes graphic
files.
* Adds *WebP support* to the *e-Paint UltraLight*, *Presentation
Wizard UltraLight*, *GWS Camera* screen capture and *Montage*
applications that install with Graphic Workshop.
* Adds *optional paint applications* to the browser right-click
Paint and Paint and Save As items, and to the Paint item in the
File menu of the View window. Hold down the Ctrl key when you
select one of these options to have your graphic opened in Alpha
Paint if it has alpha transparency, or in e-Paint or e-Paint
UltraLight if it doesn't. See the discussion of Paint in the
Reference document of Graphic Workshop's manual for more about
this feature. It's all in the first blue box.
We hasten to add that Alpha Paint may misbehave in this capacity
under some versions of Windows — it's fixed in the next release
of Alpha Paint.
* Updates the *Save As* window for Graphic Workshop's *View *mode
to handle file type changes more intuitively.
* Fixes a bug in the file history list of the *GWS Camera* screen
capture.
* Addresses a number of issues in the Archive Manager associations
window.
* Fixes several bugs in *Icon Editor UltraLight* Transform filters
— Flip, Rotate and Resize — that could make selected elements
disappear under some builds of Windows. Needless to say, we
frown on them doing this.
* Adds an option to the Icon Editor UltraLight Rectangle Selection
tool to allow it to copy selected areas, rather than cutting
them. Hold down the Shift key when you click to dismiss the tool.
* Fixes a bug in the Icon Editor UltraLight Paste menu item that
caused it to enable and disable at inappropriate moments.
* Fixes a bug in the Icon Editor UltraLight Paste function that
saw it pasting paletted images with wildly incorrect colors
under some builds of Windows.
* Fixes a bug in the Graphic Workshop *animated GIF* view window
that caused the application to vanish momentarily when the
window closed... under some builds of Windows or in a room with
one or more large flightless birds. Mostly the former.
* Updates the documentation.
* Addresses a number of GDI and performance issues that software
developers never really stop meddling with.
<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>
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