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Contents:
1. ***Announcing GIF Construction Set Professional 10
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2. * Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 2***(second notification)**
3. ***Announcing e-Paint 10 *(additional notification)*
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4. *****Announcing A**lpha Paint + Icon Editor 10*****(additional
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Announcing GIF Construction Set Professional 10
We've added new functionality to the world's most widely-used web
animator, 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 GIF Construction Set
Professional 10, you'll find that it:
* Adds a window to create Photo Stack animations... an example of
which can be seen to your right. Photo stacks will let you add your
pictures, graphics, banners or other elements to your web page or
social media as an animation that suggests a collection of paper
photographs being dropped onto a table. If it were any cooler, it
would be attracting polar bears... and you'd have bears in your
house, which isn't wholly desirable.
* Fixes an install issue that rendered the animation plugin installers
incapable of finding GIF Construction Set after a major upgrade
under some configurations of windows.
* Improves the Crop window to make it more responsive, and to fix
several issues that caused its cursor to flash and generally make a
nuisance if themselves.
* Updates the primary *JPEG library* used by GIF Construction Set 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 system.
* 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 GIF Construction Set 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.
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction
Set Professional 9 on or after April 1, 2019, you're welcome to a
*no-cost upgrade* to GIF Construction Set Professional 10.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for GIF Construction
Set Professional 9 prior to April 1, 2019, we invite you to upgrade to
GIF Construction Set Professional 10 for *half the current new-user price*.
The first time you run GIF Construction Set 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/gcskey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
Plugins
All the animation plugins for GIF Construction Set Professional have
been upgraded to run with GIF Construction Set Professional 10.
If you have registered one or more plugins for a previous release of GIF
Construction Set, your existing registration keys are still valid.
You'll just need to download the version 10 installers for your plugins.
All the animation plugins are at:
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins.html>
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*IMPORTANT:* If you have plugins installed under GIF Construction Set 9
or PNG MNG Construction Set 9 and you plan to uninstall GIF Construction
Set 9 or PNG MNG Construction Set 9 to replace them with the new version
10 software, please be sure uninstall all your version 9 plugins, and
then uninstall GIF Construction Set 9 and PNG MNG Construction Set 9.
GIF Construction Set 10 will offer to automatically remove your old
plugins for you the first time it runs - go for it, as this will save
you lots of clicking later on.
We've also created a quick way to reinstall your plugins once you've
downloaded the version 10 installers. Please see the the plugin help
page <http://www.mindworkshop.com/animplugins-qa.html#0032> for assistance.
Graphic Workshop Professional 10 Revision 2
(second notification)
Graphic Workshop Professional 10 has been updated. This release:
* Accelerates the preferred Graphic Workshop JPEG processor to pretty
much the speed of light. We were amazed... huge megapixel JPG files
open before the echos of your mouse clicking have died away. You
really have to see this one at work to properly appreciate it.
* Addresses a number of issues in the Filters window user interface,
most notably the cursors for the original and processed image windows.
* Speeds up the WebP reader. It enjoys much the same performance boost
as JPG.
* Addresses a number of user-interface and cosmetic issues in the Crop
window, including the demise of the dreaded flash cursors under the
latest release of Windows 10.
* Improves the appearance of the Halftone and Lightbox filters.
* Fixes a bug in the controls of the Matt filter.
* Addresses a number of other issues in the initial version 10 release.
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From the Initial release of Graphic Workshop Professional 10:*
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 system.
* 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 version 10 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.
Announcing e-Paint 10
(additional notification)
We've added new functionality to e-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 e-Paint 10, you'll find that it:
* Adds a set of *CGI surface textures* to e-Paint. Create convincing
real-world surfaces, or build an exo-planet of your own devising.
You can access the new textures through the e-Paint Fill swatch —
select CGI from the menu that appears when you right-click on it. A
few examples of the limitless capabilities of these textures appears
to your right... admittedly squeezed into some fairly restricted
real estate.
* Addresses a problem in**e-Paint that could cause its *drawing
cursors* to blink or flash for no apparent reason under some
configurations of Windows.
* Updates the primary *JPEG library* used by e-Paint 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.
* <http://gra.mindworkshop.com/921-002.jpg>Adds a *Hexagon* filter to
the Image menu 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. *[1]*
* Further enhances the sneakiness of the *validation logic* to reduce
the likelihood of e-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.
As in years past, when you run e-Paint 10 for the first time, it will
look for a previous installation of e-Paint 9 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-Paint 10.
<http://www.mindworkshop.com/paint.html>
Upgrades
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 9 on or
after April 1, 2019, you're welcome to a *no-cost upgrade* to e-Paint 10.
If you have registered or upgraded a registration for e-Paint 9 prior to
April 1, 2018, we invite you to upgrade to e-Paint 10 for *half the
current new-user price*.
The first time you run e-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/pntkey.html> directly by clicking on the
foregoing link.
*[1]* The example Hexagon graphic, Girl with Tattoos, is by Sarah
Wissink, and is used under license from freeimages.com.
Announcing Alpha Paint + Icon Editor 10
(additional notification)
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.
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