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Contents:
1. *Announcing Alpha Paint + Icon Editor 10
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2. *Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 10** (second
notification)**
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Announcing Alpha Paint + Icon Editor 10
Alpha Paint + Icon Editor 10 has been released.
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've added new functionality to Alpha Paint, improved its
performance and generally refined it to better get along with
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 Alpha Paint, you'll find
that it:
* Adds a Scrapbook window, to keep track of image fragments you
wight like to use again in the future.
* Addresses a problem that could cause Alpha Paint's drawing
cursors to blink or flash for no apparent reason under some
configurations of Windows.
* Updates the *WebP* libraries to the latest software from Google,
to create more attractive lossy files and otherwise improve
reality as we know it.
* Further enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to
reduce the likelihood of Alpha Paint 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. Yes, we said that last
year too, but Windows 10 proved to be sneakier than we'd
anticipated.
* 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>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 9
on or after April 1, 2019, you're welcome to a *no-cost
upgrade*Alpha Paint to 10.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Alpha Paint 9
prior to April 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade to Alpha Paint 10
for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run Alpha Paint 10, 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.
Announcing Graphic Workshop Professional 10
(second notification)
Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been released.
We've added new functionality to the known universe's most popular
image management application, improved its performance, included
several fresh ancillary applications and generally refined it to
better get along with 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 10, you'll find that it:
* Adds *Print Workshop*. Create hard copy of your pictures with
precise size and positioning, down to the nearest hundredth of
an inch (or of a centimeter). Effortless to configure, this is
the ideal tool for creating photographs suitable for framing,
flyers, handouts and other professional output on paper. It can
even be configured to include trim lines and pre-press marks.
Right-click on a graphic and select Print Workshop form the menu
that appears.
* Improves the speed of the Graphic Workshop browser windows
with*predictive thumbnail caching*. Once a browser window has
opened, Graphic Workshop will take its best guess at the
thumbnails you're likely to scroll into view next and fetch them
when you're not doing anything, pretty much eliminating any
visible delay when you do get to them. It's the sort of thing
only software developers could get excited about, but it works
really well.
* Adds a set of *CGI surface textures* to the Graphic Workshop
Fractals and Textures window. Create convincing real-world
surfaces, or build an exo-planet of your own devising. These
things also look breathtaking when they appear in the Matt and
Frame function of Graphic Workshop. A few examples of the
limitless capabilities of these textures appears to your
right... admittedly squeezed into some fairly restricted real
estate.
* Adds a batch mode to the *Identify Mystery Files* function of
Graphic Workshop. Hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and
select Identify Mystery Files from the File menu.
* Adds *The UltraLight Screen Clock*. A simplified version of our
immensely powerful and wildly popular Ultimate Screen Clock, The
UltraLight Screen Clock will add your choice of sophisticated
digital or analog clocks to your Windows desktop. It's cool
enough to shatter penguins and have PETA people protesting
outside your digs for a solid week.
* Addresses a problem in*Icon Editor UltraLight* that could cause
its drawing cursors to blink or flash for no apparent reason
under some configurations of Windows.
* <http://gra.mindworkshop.com/918-003.png>Adds a *Hexagon* filter
to the View mode Filters window. Render your favorite pictures
as a matrix of six-sided interlocking tiles. Channel your inner
bee-keeper, harken back to the days of retro floor coverings or
just do geometry because you can remember how. This one looks
really cool when it's applied to high-resolution digital camera
images. The example to your right is somewhat space-deprived —
click on it to see a larger picture.
* Adds the *Graphic Workshop Screen Saver*. Have your computer
display your choice of pictures in a dynamic, animated slide
show when your system is idle. Run in its native application
mode, the Graphic Workshop Screen Saver also make a quick,
accessible engine to display banners and advertisements on a
large flat-screen monitor for retail environments.
* Adds *Application Reset Blocker*. If you've been beset by
Windows 10 periodically flying into a panic and resetting most
of the applications you've selected to open documents to Edge,
Photos, Groove and so on, you can banish the "app caused a
problem" notification with this intuitive tool. Be sure to read
the Help for this application before you click on Go.
* Updates the primary *JPEG library* used by Graphic Workshop to
the latest release. This addresses several potential security
and image quality issues, and a few... albeit very obscure...
bugs. We'd like to take this opportunity to stress the
importance of keeping whatever reads JPG files on your computer
up to date — there are unquestionably maliciously-crafted
graphics in the wild that can crash older JPEG software and
execute arbitrary, and potentially nasty, code on your computer.
* Updates the *WebP* libraries to the latest software from Google,
to create more attractive lossy files and otherwise improve
reality as we know it.
* Recognizes the*.jpeg* file extension as being valid JPEG files.
* Adds a second *Pipes* style to the Textures and Filters window —
thanks to everyone who e-mailed about the initial plumber's
nightmare. Choose between the Industrial and Stainless Steel
styles.
* Updates the *TIFF* reader logic to correctly handle weird
sixteen-bit gray-scale images correctly. There's always one more
peculiar TIFF file.
* Fixes a bug in the *Search* window that could allow it to be
reduced in size sufficiently to obscure the Exit button under
some configurations of Windows.
* Further enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to
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. Yes, we said that last
year too, but Windows 10 proved to be sneakier than we'd
anticipated.
* 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 version10 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 10 software. Note that if you're currently using an
earlier version of Graphic Workshop and its attendant plugins:
* Be sure to uninstall the version 9 plugins before you install
Graphic Workshop Professional 10. Failing this, Graphic Workshop
Professional 10 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 10.
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 10 plugin — you won't have to buy it again.
As in years past, when you run Graphic Workshop Professional 10 for
the first time, it will look for a previous installation of Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 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 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html#download>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 on or after April 1, 2019, you're welcome to
a *no-cost upgrade* to Graphic Workshop Professional 10.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for Graphic
Workshop Professional 9 prior to April 1, 2018, we invite you to
upgrade to Graphic Workshop Professional 10 for *half the current
new-user price*.
The first time you run Graphic Workshop Professional 10, 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.
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